Russia, china, iran and turkey. And first of all at the outset we will say that we are very proud with the cooperation of the Italian Ministry of the Foreign Affairs and the Atlantic Council that is our partner into the med dialogue. I am happy to be here for the second time, the second year with all of the distinguished guests, and these distinguished speakers. As the italian ambassador already said, this meeting is a part of a series of meetings, and regional, and we called regional meeting around the world. We have already hosted two regional immediatings in dohdoh brussels, rome, moscow, and abu dhabi and in new york tomorrow at the end of the month in riyadh. So coming to the panel, why old actor, because these International Players have always been present and active in the region, but new policies, because the International Context has changed and these actors have achieved a new rein on the rule in the region, so the order has come to question in recent years. Such a phenomenon
Assistant secretary of state for middle Eastern Affairs discusses u. S. Middle east strategy and he talks about u. S. Relations in the region. Secretary of state, mike pompeos recent trip to italy and chinas expansion in the middle east. From earlier this week at the Atlantic Council in washington, its an hour and 50 minutes. Okay, everyone. Were ready to commence. Okay. We are joined with us here today to kick off the programming, a discussion of the u. S. Role in the middle east given all of the very exciting news that seems to happen every single day. We are here. David shanker, a good, old friend of mine will share with us his great and unmatched wisdom about the u. S. Policy in the region. Let me give you a little background on david. He was sworn in as the assistant secretary of state for near Eastern Affairs. June 14th of this year. Prior to joining the department of state, he was director of the program on arab politics at the Washington Institute for near east policy from 2000
I want to give you a quick check on how the markets are trading. Stocks are pretty choppy this whole session. We are well off the lows of the day. Stocks were essentially down right out of the gate this morning at the opening bell. Data showing another month a weakening chinese trade. A slump in Global Demand has driven the declines in energy and Commodity Prices this year. As we heard overnight, chinas imports declined for a 13th straight month, a record. The dow was down as much as 245 points early in the day. But it rallied within 25 points of being pretty much unchanged. They ledted health, some of the comeback in stocks. A second straight down day for major averages. Oil is little changed after touching the lowest level in seven years, following a petition by opec to essentially abandon their production target. Output target the of 30 Million Barrels a day and endorsed 31. 5 million at its december 4 meeting in vienna. Before the nasdaq has led that come back, the main stock respo
And helmand. As far as advocacy for the corps there. Before they had the advisers to do this. Because we were going liftoff we wanted to make sure they had some kind of advocacy. We built a cell of four or five Coalition Members and some function that we thought they needed to continue to mature in our absence and put them up in kabul in september and they were foc in october before we left. Two interpreters were up there and all these individuals had served as advisers with the corps and the police. The leadership knew them. They knew the interpreters. So they would have a means of communication via cell phone, tactical means that was in proximity of headquarters and they were the advocate. Make sure the process was working. We knew at the tactical level they could fight bp we just need to make sure they could sustain themselves and resource themselves from kabul. So we built the cell and it those where the theater was. Where it went to right now. I think the one and four you see righ
Prepping for a White House Run in 2016 . What the hell are we talking about . A shocking celebrity scandal that could affect you. A hacker posts sensitive photos of celebrities, and the internet world is up in arm. Some say its their own fault. Well have a factor investigation. Caution, you are about to enter the nospin zone. The factor begins right now. Hi, im laura ingram in for bill oreilly. Thanks for watching tonight. Lets get straight to our top story. Of course, news reports say that a second american journalist, Steven Sotloff, who had been threatened with death at the hands of isis thugs, has in fact been beheaded. His death follows that was james foley who was killed just last month. Today fox news james rosen asked the state Department Spokeswoman if this reported second beheading will escalate the administrations approach to isis. Does the Obama Administration consider this an act of war . We certainly im not going to put new labels on it, james. I would say we certainly co