Welcome to the Washington Institute for near east policy. I have the pleasure of directing the institutes rinehart pergamon counterterrorism intelligence and i am very pleased to be joined here today by the acting director of the National Counterterrorism center, russell travis. Todays conversation is part of the ongoing counterterrorism lecture series. Russell took office as the acting director in august but its not his first, second or third time in the building. He told many other leadership positions in ctc including a director at the office of Data Strategy and innovation, chief data officer among others. Hes held positions at the office for Defense Intelligence agencies, National Security council, the u. S. Army, joint chiefs of staff so we are very thrilled that he has been able to carve time out of his busy schedule and spend some time with us today to talk about counterterrorism in the era of competing priorities. One russell will deliver some remarks from the podium and then
We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from london to brussels, istanbul and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to begin in turkey. The country has agreed to tip a rarely halt its military offensive in northern syria, but it is not withdrawing its forces. The lifting of sanctions may come with a permanent ceasefire. Theence with implementation of a ceasefire, the United States will not impose any further sanctions on turkeys, and once a permanent ceasefire is in effect, the president has agreed to withdraw the economic sanctions that were imposed. Joins usimin demokan from istanbul. How does this play out over the next 24 hours . Simikin turkey is expecting the kurdish fighters to withdraw from the areas. President erdogan said he expects to create a safe zone once those kurdish militants have left the area, and the safe zone will be 444 kalama theres long. 444 kilometers we also expect turk
In beirut in support south africas world cup winning rugby team arrived home to a heros welcome led by captain. The squad is set for a 5 day victory parade around the country. Irans taking more steps away from the 2050 nuclear deal and will soon start activating its uranium enrichment facility now some time on weapons day its expected to start pumping gas into centrifuges at an underground area near the city of qom the u. S. Has called the move a quote big step in the wrong direction and the e. U. Says its concerned too lets go live now to aljazeera store such a body whos in toronto also any clarity on when this will actually start happening today. Well peter weve just been hearing from the spokesperson of Irans Atomic Energy Organization whos camel of andy has been speaking on state t. V. He said that as of midnight teheran time iran will start injecting this uranium gas into the centrifuges ad for joe Nuclear Facility over a 1000 centrifuges will become operational this facility has
Department. Amy california has declared a state of emergency as fires rage. Gunmen shotere mass at 18 protesters overnight and people. Ured over 800 the latest bloody crack on and nationwide protest against corruption and austerity, which has killed 220 people overall. Youth are not asking for jobs or services. They want radical and real change of power. They have offered is nothing. We are fed up with them. Amy then mass protest against neoliberalism continues in chile , despite a reshuffling of pablo cabinet. Pineras chile has changed and the government must change with it and these two challenges and times. Amy we will go o to santiago. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United Nations special envoy for syria is meeting with the Foreign Ministers of turkey, iran, and russia in geneva today, where hes arguing for the fragile ceasefire in Northern Syria to be respected. We are strongly appealing for
Fires rage. Gunmen shotere mass at 18 protesters overnight and people. Ured over 800 the latest bloody crack on and nationwide protest against corruption and austerity, which has killed 220 people overall. Youth are not asking for jobs or services. They want radical and real change of power. They have offered is nothing. We are fed up with them. Amy then mass protest against neoliberalism continues in chile , despite a reshuffling of pablo cabinet. Pineras chile has changed and the government must change with it and these two challenges and times. Amy we will go toto santiago. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The United Nations special envoy for syria is meeting with the Foreign Ministers of turkey, iran, and russia in geneva today, where hes arguing for the fragile ceasefire in Northern Syria to be respected. We are strongly appealing for the ceasefires to be respected and that we have also been appea