Good afternoon. Everyone seated . All right, can everyone hear me okay . All right, good afternoon, thank you so much, sean, for the introduction. If youre like me youre fascinated by all of the panelists that are here today that have such incredible perspectives on the world and where their jobs have taken them, my goal today and my hope for you is that we are able to take a transcribe trip around the world through their experiences, able to understand the world and which may be pretty complicated and americas role in that, where do we go from here, so lets just sort of do an overview of where we are today. I work in the news world so if you guys think youre being bombarded by headlines, welcome. [laughter] but we have a lot going on, right . I was in venezuela where i covered the conflict there, not easy to see or understand much less explain, we have conflicts in syria, we have conflicts in yemen, and here is whats heartbreaking, we had nearly 70 million displaced people in the worl
The lowest Unemployment Rate in over one decade and wages rising. This morning, i had meetings others inagues and addition to my duties in this house i shall have further meetings later today, this afternoon, i will travel to berlin to be chancellor merkel to discuss how we implement the decision the british people took any referendum and i expect we will cover a number of other pressing International Issues and tomorrow i will visit paris with similar discussions with their president. Can i warmly welcome the Prime Minister . Minister,the prime given her unwavering commitment to deliver economic stability and National Security in our United Kingdoms interest, that she welcome mondays vote in this house for the program . That ensures economic stability and National Security remain the Guiding Principles of her tenure ship tenure ship . Can i think my honorable friend for his kind remarks and can i join them in enthusiastically welcoming the vote that was taken in this house to renew ou
Nervously negotiating a relationship next door. They took the lead only in military and diplomatic fathers, hong kong was going to remain what it has always been, a home to freewheeling capitalism, with law and currency, and now the young people filling the streets are testing just how much dissent hong kongs government and the government in beijing are willing to tolerate. Protests in hong kong are not unusual. But this is different. And may be dangerous. Police fired volleys of teargas in the thousands on sunday, and what authorities said are necessary but restrained response. Demonstrators used umbrellas and goggles to protect themselves and vowed to keep up the pressure. Well, its very encouraging that so many people tal took toe streets today to demand democracy, and many people chanted the slogan, went true democracy, and its exactly the movement. And were very happy to see what happened today. These demonstrations are all about elections to be held in three years, and chinas ass
It to china, hong kong has been nervously negotiating a relationship next door. They took the lead only in military and diplomatic fathers, hong kong was going to remain what it has always been, a home to freewheeling capitalism, with law and currency, and now the young people filling the streets are testing just how much dissent hong kongs government and the government in beijing are willing to tolerate. Protests in hong kong are not unusual. But this is different. And may be dangerous. Police fired volleys of teargas in the thousands on sunday, and what authorities said are necessary but restrained response. Demonstrators used umbrellas and goggles to protect themselves and vowed to keep up the pressure. Well, its very encouraging that so many people tal took to the streets today to demand democracy, and many people chanted the slogan, went true democracy, and its exactly the movement. And were very happy to see what happened today. These demonstrations are all about elections to be
Personnel are taking part in the rescue. Theyre trying to reach 24 climbers found with cardiac and respiratory arrest near the summit. A hiker on the mountain posted this video on the internet. It shows rocks and ash raining down. The hiker hid behind some boulders then took shelter in a nearby hut. One of the victims, 23yearold asi took this picture two hours before the eruption. He was severely injured by flying rocks and later died from his injuries. His friend is still missing. His father has been calling his mobile phone. He has hope his son will be found alive. Translator i dont mind even if hes seriously injured. I just hope he survived. Rescuers believe some people are still unaccounted for on the mountain. Prodemocracy demonstrators in hong kong are refusing to leave the streets. They spent the night blockading the citys financial district. Theyre protesting a plan by leaders in beijing to screen candidates for the citys next chief executive. Clashes between protesters and pol