It is my great honor to welcome our guests, too many of you here and i am proud to introduce our keynote speaker for today, our 24th chancellor, the honorable robert m gates. Chancellor gates is the model for statesmanship that we look to now and for the future. He has dedicated his career to Public Service, serving eight u. S. President s. He leads with a restless and compassionate intelligence, his unwavering dedication to our nation earned him the trust and devotion of our Armed Services his career of Service Began early at william and mary, not many know that he drove a school bus while he was a student, and that he was an assistant troop leader for local boy scouts and that he had a senator as one of boy scouts as we discovered last night. After graduating in 1965, he joined the cia and was the first career officer to scale the ranks to become this irector. He served as president of texas a m from 2002 to 2006. When president bush called him to washington to serve a, as secretary
Chancellor gates is the model for statesmanship we look to now and for the future. He had dedicated his career to Public Service, serving eight u. S. President s. He leads with a restless monster his unwavering dedication earned him the trust and devotion of our armed services. His career of Service Began early at william and mary. Not many know that he drove the and countiess city gold is when he was a student and he was assistant troop leader for our local boy scouts in that senator norman was one of his wife scouts as we discovered last night. After graduating from william 1960 five, he joined the cia as an Intelligence Officer and was the first career officer to scale the agencys director. Ecome he served as president of texas a m university from 2002 through 2006. When president bush called him back to washington to serve as secretary of defense, as secretary, he led our armed forces at a time when the country was in the midst of two wars and a global fight against terrorism. He a
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Hello and welcome. Temperature records have been broken across europe. The highest temperature recorded today was in paris, 42. 6 degrees celsius, breaking a seventy year old record in the french capital. The netherlands recorded its highest ever temperature, at 40. 7 degrees. And in the belgian village of Kleine Brogel temperatures hit 40. 6 degrees. Lets look at some of those countries in more detail. In belgium theyve been taking extreme measures to cope with the heat. This is a nursing home in dilbeek where care staff have been cooling down residents by spraying them with water. Belgium is one of four countries to have declared a severe heat alert, urging people to avoid prolonged exposure to direct sunlight. Gavin lee reports from Kleine Brogel. This is the village, one of the many villages in the past 24 hours that have broken the record setting temperature, and the town in the west of the country has beaten them so west of the country has beaten them so far but we expect the tem
A major Global Survey has found that Public Confidence in life saving vaccines is now at an all time low. And, Financial Markets worldwide keep a close eye on the fed, to see if the Us Central Bank is poised to cut interest rates. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. There is so much to talk about today. And you can be part of the conversation. Did you tune in to the latest tv debate between the tory leadership candidates . If so, tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. President trump has taken to the stage in orlando in florida to officially launch his bid for re election in 2020. With the new slogan keep America Great he claimed the us economy was the envy of the world and he prompted his 20,000 supporters to boo what he said was the fake news media. Gary 0donoghue reports from orlando. 503 days to go into americas next president selection, but donald trump is already heading off to do what he