[applause]. Good evening. How is everybody feeling great. Happy friday. Just making sure you guys are paying attention. Well welcome, i am the new executive director chicago ideas. Having been born and raised in this amazing city, and now raising my own family just down the street. I feel incredibly proud to call myself a true blue chicagoan anybody else for that way. Thank you. It makes me w even prouder to be part of this ideas team. Each and every day, to challenge her city in the world beyond to share ideas and inspire action and ignite change. Chicago ideas is all about curiosity and pursuing connectivity. So in the spirit, because it is like a good friday night icebreaker i would like you to take a moment to turn to a person they do not know and introduce yourself and share wire here tonight and share what your most trusted source of political lives might be. [laughter]. Might be a little bit of a run. Ill give you 60 seconds. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. Is going to
Custom silly money firing 22. 00 missiles on iraqi bases his team u. S. And coalition forces. A ukrainian plane crashes moments after takeoff from irans capital tehran killing all 176 people on board. And im far as smile have all the days sports including the English Football Association is set to review its decision to allow betting cap anees to broadcast as they kept games online. The us president says iran appears to be standing down after it launched a series of missiles on american bases in iraq the attacks were in response to the u. S. Killing of iranian general sort of money donald trump flanked by his Vice President secretaries of state and defense as well as military leaders warned iran that u. S. Military missiles were quote big and powerful and accurate and lethal he said hed be imposing further economic sanctions on tehran iran appears to be standing down. Which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world no american or iraqi lives were los
Direction of bricks in the u. K. Votes in what Party Leaders are calling the most important election in a generation. Sport tiger woods captains the usa so they will start at the president s cup in. The u. S. House of representatives is moving closer to impeaching President Donald Trump as the House Judiciary Committee holds its final debate now House Democrats are leading efforts to formally charge the president of the beauties of power and obstruction of Congress Trumps accused of withholding aid to pressure you crave into investigating potential white house rival joe biden said right now the House Judiciary Committee is debating the precise language of the 2 charges against President Trump. 2 votes will be held one for each article they are expected to pass since democrats have a 1424. 00 rather to 17 majority in the committee then its up to the democrat controlled house of representatives to give its approval and a simple majority of 218 is needed for the articles to pass the house
Really understands. Its a great combination of things. This is the fourth position secretary bunch has had at the smithsonian. Something i dont believe any of your predecessors could claim in 1978 secretary bunch began his smithsonian career at the national air and space museum as an Education Specialist 11 years later he joined the National Museum of American History. He most recently served as the founding director of the National Museum of African American history and culture. As the founding director he led an 11 year effort in constructing the 400,000 squarefoot museum and helping raise the matching publicprivate private funds that match public funds and came up with the museum that tells an incredibly powerful story of that part of our history. And a lot of our history. Congress established the smithsonian in 1846 through uppercrust by a british scientist James Smithson who never visited the United States but he generously left his estate to the United States government to found
Amnesty International Says more than 100 people have been killed across iran during days of protests. Security forces are accused of firing directly on protestors. The leaders of britains two biggest parties trade blows, ahead of next months election amid claims the conservatives are misleading voters. Good morning. Its 1 00am in london, 9 00am in singapore and in hong kong, where almost all of the protesters whod been barricaded inside a university have now left, with more than a thousand people arrested. Police and pro democracy activists have clashed over the past few days using tear gas and rubber bullets, and petrol bombs and bricks. The United Nations have urged the authorities to end the standoff peacefully. Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports from the campus. They came out looking more like prisoners of war hands on each others shoulders, forlorn, humiliated and exhausted. Family members looked on anxiously, hoping to catch a glimpse of a missing child. This man saw his brother, a m