A new Government Plus the u. S. Government reopens after a three day Shutdown Senate Democrats and the standoff after republicans promise to hold an immigration vote setting the stage for another partisan battle. Also ahead of the World Economic forum gets underway today our Senior Business correspondent is on. The forefront of this years forum but trump is also invited. Business will have live coverage throughout the day and all week from davos. And the threat level goes up in russia as hundreds of socalled Islamic State fighters head home from the conflict in syria and iraq t w reports from chechnya. Hello im terry Martin Thanks for joining us turkey has intensified its offensive all of breads against Kurdish Militias in Northern Syria the turkish army and syrian rebel fighters crossed into the turkish freen in Northern Syria on saturday. Is controlled by the Kurdish Militia which has been a key u. S. Ally in the fight against us but turkey sees the wife as a Terror Organization and
Anniversary of the tett offensive, which is if youre a milli millennial, ill explain it to you. A coordinated offensive between the vietcong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns and cities and american and south vietnamese facilities. It began on the night of january 30th, 1968, and i remember it well because i was an intelligence clerk with mack v. At the time. Our new exhibit showcases the work of john olson, who like me was a young army draftee. John was a photographer for stars and stripes, the militarys daily newspaper, and he spent three days in february with the marines as they took back the city of hue in what turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the vietnam war. This innovative exhibit features 20 large format photographs and ten tactile versions of these photos with touch activated sensors that trigger audio interviews. This enables blind and lowvision visitors to experience the images through touch and sound and the museum is the first museum in the United
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the newseums theater. Im chair of the moo newseum. Were here to mark the marines in tet, the battle that changed the vietnam war. This is almost the 50th anniversary of the tet offensive, which, if youre a millennial, ill explain it to you, was a coordinated offensive by vietcong and north vietnamese troops on more than 100 towns, cities and american and south vietnamese military facilities. It began on the night of january 30th, 1968. And i remember it well, because i was an intelligence clerk with mac fee at the time. Our exhibit showcases the work of john olson who, like me, was a young army draftee. He was a photographer for Stars Stripes, the militarys daily newspaper. And he spent three days in february with the marines as they took back the city of hue, in what turned out to be the bloodiest battle of the vietnam war. This innovative exhibit features 20 large format photographs and ten tactile versions of these photos with touch activated senso
Multilaterally thats why i am pleased of course that britain has signed the arms trade treaty something russia hasnt and we need to persuade russia and coerce russia to do that and we need to make sure that we do that in a diplomatic way not in a aggressive way but the danger is that if we keep watering down our requirements we will become no better than russia no better than iran and that is not what we should do. They have been selling arms to going to try to defeat us in our guidance or yes but what i mean in terms of arms sales we become no better in the sense that we dont have an independent body monitoring the russian around sell weapons according to political decisions rather than looking at the whole humanitarian issue you can make sure those weapons are not going to be used to breach International Humanitarian law you can make sure that those weapons we know that britain is really the center arguably over whether it be destroying africas. Respect half of the country of libya w
Britain is really the center arguably over whether it be destroying africas respect you have a country of libya whether really iraq war or to your partys leadership of this country or trying to attack iran because only exactions or afghanistan are totally wrong those actions thats why we need to start speaking up now we need to realize the awful atrocities that this country over generations and over hundreds of years has committed in its International Foreign policy and its policy of exporting weapons and it is now is the time we need to realize that jeremy to me in the iraq war and in the syrian discussions we were on the streets arguing are case now we are in parliament and now he is the leader of our party we now need to start making sure that no longer do we have to have people out on the streets protesting to try and stop these kinds of things but that we create laws and we create scrutiny so that never again we learned as human beings we must learn from our mistakes and if we we