Effectiveness of us communication with others, other republics and other countries. We have with us today im speaker will be assistant secretary of state and senior artificial in a euro of Public Affairs, and were glad you could joinus today. We look forward to this event. She joins the state department in every third 2018. But in the year later she became, she was already assistant secretary but took on the responsibility of the undersecretary ofstate. For Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. Two of which were united under the nine, she has led one of the largest restructurings in 20 years so this is a very ambitious, interesting effort which is not created the bureau of Global Public affairs which she is the head. Welcome, she was Global Corporate Communications Senior Vice President for the waiver set of new york and she has also previously in washington worked for Newt Gingrich and as a lead member of his medications team. And communications survey. She holds a masters degree in po
A wedding celebration by mistake well our correspondent rob mcbride has more now from kabul. This seems to have been a Major Military operation in the mussa color district of Helmand Province this is a known taliban stronghold involving both it seems Ground Forces and also an airstrike now the ministry of defense here in kabul is talking about this in terms of being a successful military operation saying a number of foreign taliban fighters as it describes them were killed in this attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do kno
A new name the supertankers sailing up to the iranian flag after its registration was switched from panama as a result or simmons is in gibraltar. Heading towards this renames we registered ship 44. 00 days after she was seized off the coast of gibraltar for Identification Systems still saying grace wong destination the mediterranean. As you can see theres nothing on the flagpole now the problem am flag has been removed apparently iranian flag will eventually arrive and down below theres no signage whatsoever to indicate what name this vessel has it is the adrian daria it was grazed long but no sign of it now and the Navigation Systems all of them indicates that its still grace wong so in terms of maritime law this vessel really has no visible identity i think its going to be easy to believe the media. If they look at the it then midway through friday afternoon came and i looked there was a transmission from the radio system on the bridge here to the Port Authority is asking for permis
Shutdown of hong kong airport as well its actually been 2 days now without any tear gas fired in hong kong that is something of a record in recent weeks but well see what happens later on saturday richelle so enter across the border and mentions and thats when theres been this this build up of. Chinese military what is the reaction been to that in the last few days and hong kong. Well weve seen new video of that troop build up in a stadium in shenzhen overnight into saturday hong kong time weve known about this troop build up in that stadium in shenzhen here in hong kong for about a week now and people here think its scare tactics by beijing they dont really expect that china is about to send in the military over the border into hong kong that would be a very very radical step hong kong has essentially a mini constitution the basic law now there are 2 relevant clauses in that one of which they explicitly say that the home clones government is responsible for public order and hong kongs
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