it s been around for a long time and computers didn t cause it. but when people die because of a tweet, there has to be a tech solution. expanding the marketplace of ideas is all well and good to welcome you to brookings this morning. i see lots of old friends in the audience and it s a pleasure to invite you to the event with randall schriver. we ve been fortunate to engage him over the past decade. while he s been serving in the administration since 2017, and, randy, thank you for your service to our country and the important role you play in this administration. randall schriver was appointed as assistant secretary of defense on january 8, 2018. previously having served as deputy assistant secretary for east asian and pacific affairs under which portfolio he covered, china, taiwan, hong kong, and australia, all the easy stuff. earlier he held the role of chief of staff to the deputy secretary of state and also served as an active duty naval intelligence officer. beyond
project. and we heard mixed reviews overall we got support for the project and why we re bringing it to you, the board. the second question about loading zones. loading areas and meters and areas where we re reducing park. can we put in shorter trim meters to encourage turnover. we ll talk with the supervisor s office and businesses. we can put in one or two of the spaces can become a 30-minute green zone to increase the turnover. there are loading zones and we do feel they serve business loading needs but we can continue to work to add more if that s necessary and if it s something businesses want. are these biking protected bike lanes? they re buffered bike lanes. two-foot buffer in a bike lane. can we go back to the parking i m not an engineer but we have talked a lot about parking and i feel i ve learned a lot and a feel it s not the number of parking spots that dictate the success or failure of a commercial area it s our ability to manage. i don t want to let the
a few hundred of them but they re ready to leave but what is clear is that the government wants all rebels to leave including. people who are from they don t want to leave with their families but clearly the government is going to push ahead with this bombing campaign as one objective and that is to recapture. senior political analyst joining us from london the moment it was interesting was listening to this valedictory speech. human rights commission and hussein he listed a series of of events and listed a number of places where he s a human rights but definitely on the threat be saved his greatest frustration for the events in syria he s railed at it calling it a amongst campaign of annihilation. yes absolutely and i think in so many ways whether it is a question of syria or more importantly and more globally the question of the united nations security council the responsibility for the deterioration of an escalation of situation like that in syria or human rights in genera
an unprecedented food crisis in south sudan west sixty percent of the population is at risk of starvation. it may one day say the world the global seed vault home to nearly a million samples has its tenth anniversary. in sports files use of. a boy called clubs or a home game german football supporters may keep their feelings clear about much is being moved to monday s. to syria where it looks like the army has agreed to suspend as strikes and rebel held east and a daily five hour long truce russia s defense ministry says syria s military will now halt its bombardment so that the injured can leave the agreement comes forty eight hours after the u.n. passed a resolution for a thirty day cease fire in the area but that was ignored and russia has now set the terms of this new deal will be live at the u.n. in a moment with reaction to that first though a look at the situation inside eastern ghouta zain hodder has this report. one of the front lines in eastern opposition fighters s
saber with regard to korea, not because they have an atomic bomb but he wants to get this war over with but it s never it wasn t really a real threat but he rattles the saber a little bit. i haven t seen anything in my research that would suggest that. other questions? i ve talked enough about one of my favorite topics and i appreciate your patience and letting me indulge myself. thank you very much. [ applause ] thank you very much. and the doctor will be out in the hallway with copies of his new book that came out last week in january. a few months behind. and i know he would be happy to chat with you more if you have additional questions. thanks for being us at the national archives. come back and see us again soon. in just a few minutes we ll bring a live discussion from philadelphia about house and senate races this fall and the possible makeup of the new congress. members of congress pollsters and election specialists will trade views at this atlantic event.