Good afternoon and welcome to is newly renovated headquarters. I am the Senior Vice President at the middle east institute. I am pleased to welcome you to todays important and timely commsby examining cent approach to the middle east. We will explore prospects for an effective u. S. Military role in the region, especially given current news from northeast syria. Great panel of experts to discuss this with you today. Ken pollock, we are also pleased to welcome back senior fellow and director of the defense and Security Program after a oneyear fellowship at the department of defense. We are happy to have him back and look forward to hearing his insights from his upcoming article in the 2019 fall issue quarterlyhington entitled broken partnerships can washington get security . Eric schmidtht is a writer for the new york times. Since 2007, he has reported on terrorism issues with assignments to pakistan, afghanistan, Southeast Asia among others. Is a coauthor of counterstrike the untold st
Over austerity measures that cut fuel subsidies. Brazil says 100 tons of oil spilled along its northeastern coast has affected dozens of cities. And the u. S. Politicians are accused but accusing basketball body n. B. A. Of full say King Hong Kong protesters for the lure of the chinese market. U. S. President donald trump says he is fulfilling a Campaign Promise to get out of endless wars by withdrawing u. S. Troops from North Eastern syria but democrats as well the Senior Republicans say hes undermining americas credibility by abandoning the codes to a potential turkish attack well encore of a god syrias kurdish fighters as an extension of the kurdish separatists back home a White House Correspondent kimberly how it has the reaction from the u. S. But 1st lets begin with sin and in istanbul. U. S. Forces have begun to withdrawing from their positions along syrias border with turkey it follows a sudden statement from the white house overnight where it announced that turkey would be mov
Content standards, the social media giant Ceo Mark Zuckerberg is grilled by lawmakers over his policy allowing politicians to lighten political ads. We will play highlights from more than five hours hearings were he e was blasted by members of the House Financial Service committee. Among those, Rashida Tlaib and alexandria ocasiocortez. Then as rising inequality and staggering housing insecurity leave a Record Number of americans out on the street, we go to ground zero of the homelessness crisis oakland, california. This is a disaster. Anit was a fire or it was earthquake, the response would be so quick. But this is an economic disaster. This is a cultural disaster. This is a housing disaster, but they are not treating it like all of the other natural disasters. Amy we will bring you a special democracy now report from a sprawling encampment of 100 people in east oakland that the city just cracked down on this week. Unhoused people there say the city has failed them. Like theyy, it see
Content standards, the social media giant Ceo Mark Zuckerberg is grilled by lawmakers over his policy allowing politicians to lighten political ads. We will play highlights from more than five hours hearings were he e was blasted by members of the House Financial Service committee. Among those, Rashida Tlaib and alexandria ocasiocortez. Then as rising inequality and staggering housing insecurity leave a Record Number of americans out on the street, we go to ground zero of the homelessness crisis oakland, california. This is a disaster. Anit was a fire or it was earthquake, the response would be so quick. But this is an economic disaster. This is a cultural disaster. This is a housing disaster, but they are not treating it like all of the other natural disasters. Amy we will bring you a special democracy now report from a sprawling encampment of 100 people in east oakland that the city just cracked down on this week. Unhoused people there say the city has failed them. Like theyy, it see
Is at stake according to the United States Geological Survey the Eastern Mediterranean holds 350 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 3 and a half 1000000000 barrels of oil that alone is enough to power the entire European Union for 20 years at the moment cyprus egypt and israel stand to most of those resources and turkey has none of them. The overarching question is whether turkey will demarcate its maritime interests according to the International Law of the sea like its neighbors or raise the temperature further jumps are up or loss al jazeera athens still to come here on the news and sports with island back to winning ways a broad based world cup. Oh and. Get a team of divers has been descending into the unknown off the coast of south america pluck join the unique expedition chancing the recently discovered amazon reef. Here on the northeastern edge of south america lies an outpost of france where in the cooler tropical evenings they relax as they might do in paris or not but thi