Fidelity or granularity during the q a period. During the war game, russia was able to operate with more flexibility and options. The russian team had a lot more options. They were less constrained by international norms, laws, alliances. For instance, during one of our turns, russia was able to delay armor and troops along the border, and this was cast as a defensive move or posture, and what it was was an overly aggressive move. Which leads me to the second point. Russia operates with a far more robust informational operations campaign. Their io was remarked by one of the participants as they more or less recognized propaganda. Oftentimes, russia was able to spin a particular narrative that the west could not easily counter, or if they did attempt to counter, it took a bit of lead time in order to gather the facts and figures in order to put forth more of a truthful message. Again, alluding to the first point, the russian team was more flexible in how they reacted to most of the scen
Im andrew similar months in simmons in nepal. Well have the details of what happened here. In iran, Iranbacked Houthi rebels for the first time have fired shells targing targeting saudi arabiasaudi coalition. The war in yemen was high on the agenda in a meeting of gulf leaders in riyadh along with iran whose global talks for Nuclear Talks with global powers begins on tuesday. This meeting comes during one of the most crucial moments for the region. The war in yemen enters its sixth eat without clear results. Instead of being pushed out of aden and sanaa the houthis are attacking the border forcing schools to shut down and canceling flights. The humanitarian efforts. We hope that the United Nations will participate effectively with what this center will hold, including coordinating all humanitarian and relief works for the yemeny people. French president Francois Hollande is the First Western leader to attend the summit. Hes here to reassure leaders that france is a reliable friend. You
Dramatic images of migrants rescued after taking a dangerous journey on the high seas. Nuclear deterrence. I disagree with the Trident Nuclear Missile System on principle a conservant government would order four submarines a difference of opinion for nukes in britain heats up the race n good evening. This is Al Jazeera America im antonio mora. Im libby casey. We begin in paris. Longheld french ideals of liberty and security are turned on their head. The French Parliament approved a bill expanding abilities to conduct surveillance on civilians. The measures set off protests in the streets but not the assembly. The final vote was 438 in favour. The bill was drafted in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo massacre. A french lawmaker likened it to what the u. S. Congress did after the seven attacks. Translation its a french patriot act. We may have more Legal Protection than the west. Its a law that enables a massive uptake of data. Allowing the expanse of individuals that have nothing to do with
System and the industries that are so much part of the United States economy. Thank you for doing that. And i apologize, mr. Chairman, for going so far over my time. No thats fine. Senator murray do you have any closing remarks. Dr. Murray, well stated. Thank you for both of your testimony. This was a good hearing. Senator alexander, i look forward to working with you on that. Thank you. And dr. Collins, do you know off hand, you mentioned the success rate has declined over the years. What about the absolute number of grants . Has that gone up . The absolute number of grants that we fund versus that we receive. It has bounced around, it was 10,000 30 years ago it was id have to get you the number. I was trying to compare that to the success rate. But the biomedical community has grown. It would be interested to see that. Thank you to both of you. Thank you for being here. Very important that you were here and we thank you for your six years of service at fda. And i hope youll accept ou
All the elements of russian power, the dime concept i think were all familiar with as an acronym, in order to bring about that restoration and preservation of his power, and the point of this whole operation, therefore is not to achieve some final state but to develop these tools as you have called them, instruments of power, others would say. In order to keep the game going because that is how russia sees the world as being in any case. And second, this is the the only way that it can maximize what is the condition of its great power and the regime at home that is a fully independent, sovereign great power, which is what it says it is and wants to be recognized as. But that doesnt have to answer to anybody either at home or abroad. And thats the strategic objective. I think that things thus become much more clear to the analysts, and i think theyll become clearer to you and you can overcome the clim ma of whether hes a tactician or a strategist. The tactics serve the objective and the