Happening in our world today. And finally, we will highlight some other big events coming up, including the big indian festival diwali, all on our show today. Well, ive had the pleasure of attending the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival. I have hosted some q a sessions with filmmakers. The event is a project of cats, contemporary asian theater scene, and is still growing and evolving. Joining me now is an old friend, he is cofounder of cats and the cochair of the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival, steve yamaguma. And also with us, i have the privilege of welcoming filmmaker andrea yuchieh chung. Born in taipei, she is a trained classical musician who found she had a passion for documentary filmmaking and on a global scale. She is presenting her latest work, finding nasseebi, a film where she turns the camera on herself and her journey to understand islam. Welcome to the show. Andrea yuchieh chung thank you for having us. Robert good to see you again. Steve yamaguma go
Is given turkey the capacity to take greater action both inside turkey and outside. The point that needs to be made, the first line of defense against foreign fighters entering syria isnt the turkish border. The first line occurs back in the homelands with everything they be within the coalition. This is preventive measures that are necessary but also the legal measures taken for accountability that must be closed as well. So foreign fighter, stopping before fire flow isnt what happens at the turkish border. It is what happens back in homeless make every effort possible to do with the issue of radicalization at the measures, legal measures taken to make it difficult to move from source countries to transit countries. You describe isis as being in pretty good financial shape the what did the u. S. Government learn from a special operations raid that either gidget even greater pause about this, what with the pricey coming out of that, and what can you tell us about some of the things you
Departmenthe defense may underestimate the critical nature of the refugee crisis. This is not like iran, iraq, a war that went on for many years. This is impacting europe right now. It is a humanitarian crisis. It is being exploited by everyone else in the middle east that would like to come to europe. Europe is facing what one top diplomat told me was the greatest crisis since world war ii. I think weve got to think about get, these safe sounds, and busy these safe zones, and get busy on it. It may have to have some of our people at risk to try to protect those areas, but it wouldnt take a lot. You and i talked about it. Can we get moving on this . How many more millions have to lineup in areas before we act . Just morally, my judgment is that europe needs to know there is a place for these refugees to go other than to flee the entire region. That will strengthen them. Can we not do that . Quickly. Well, in sorter far as the refugees are coming from syria, they are actually coming to
Today secretary of state john kerry talked about u. S. Policy in the middle east. He focused on the israelipalestinian conflict and the syrian civil war. From the carting the endowment washington d. C. This is 45 minutes. Thank you all, very much. [applause]. Bill, thanks. Thanks so much for welcoming me to your new home. I very touched to hear the comments from bills caliber because as you know, he really was the state department premier career diplomat. Now that you have been away almost a year i know you are missing all of the travel, the Early Morning meetings, the latenight calls, and you are just dying to return, right . But all kidding aside, ladies and gentlemen, the door to the state department for bill burns is always open. From pres. Obama to the entire security team, to me, to the secretary of state there is no better diplomat, no one who could be better led by then the Carnegie Foundation of peace then by bill burns. Please join me everybody for same thank you for a remark
We are not making any assumptions about irans future policies because we base our process approach on observable facts. What we we see is that iran continues to engage in play and the secretary and division in the region and it continues to detain several american citizens, and our estimation without justification, and to ransom policies are one reason why we are working so closely and supportively with our partners in the region, including the gulf states and israel. In fact, we have established an unprecedented level of cooperation with israel on military issues, we are correlating in forcing sanctions and in trying to stop the Tears Organization such as has months and has below from getting financing and weapons that they seek. We also support israels right to defend itself and its citizens, we do that in many ways. We also support all of the gcc countries in the work we did in camp david and we will continue to do, and i even reaffirmed when i was out in the region a couple of days