I think we can go ahead and get started. I have a couple things to discuss before introduced our steam speaker. Forceful and introduce myself. My name is deanna lee. I am part of the Digital Communications team here at a nonprofit and nonpartisan Global Research organization that tackles the Worlds Toughest problems. I am very happy to welcome you all to todays policy on very important topics addressing violent extremism in the u. S. Our policy lab series is designed to give you an opportunity to hear directly from experts about the most important policy issues. Im really pleased to see so many folks have joined our zoom webinar. Additionally i want to welcome those of you are watching and listening on cspan radio and shes been 1. Both are testing to go live today. For those of you who have joined us on zoom i have a couple housekeeping items. We will have some time at the end of the presentation for a short q a session. If you do have questions please post those in the q a forum, not
I am happy to welcome you to todays policy lab on very important topics, addressing violent extremism in the United States. Our policy lab theory is designed to give an opportunity to hear directly from rand experts about todays policy issues. I am pleased to see so many folks have joined our webinar. And seeing so many folks watching and listening on sees than one and cspan radio, both broadcasting live. For those who are joining on zoom, we will have time at the end of the presentation for a short q a. If you have questions, post them in the q a forum on zoom, not in the chat. However, you can check the chat with additional information. We posted links relevant to todays information. Finally, quote captioning is enabled. You can display it by selecting the option in the menu at the bottom of the window. We are recording this session and will make it Available Online at a later date. I think we are ready to get going. I will tell you a little more about hours acres tom hom is an rind
Morning. You can see right now, that line is gone. United says in all, the total number, 3500 flights, were affected when their system went down this morning. They are blaming it on a Network Connectivity issue. The faa blamed the ground stop on automation issues. Workers started handing out water and snacks to travelers who showed up with no idea what happened. I got here around 8 20 and they told me the systems were down and no planes would take off and we would be waiting in line until they got started moving and it just got started moving now. Reporter again, all those flights are back up and running right now. Ive watched social immediate, yeah a lot of angry customers wanting answers as to what happened. That computer Automation System im told is down for about two hours. Went back online just before 9 30. Again, to repeat that ground stop for united has been listed. Matt delucia, nbc10 news. Thank you. Right now at 11 00, another steamy day throughout our area. Some places are a
Crimes against humanity. Violence erupt it six years ago that left more than 3000 dead. Also coming up this hour, when angola was booming when investors poured in. With the collapse in oil prices, many are struggling. Of aay be just side shy of 74, the Paul Mccartney still knows how to put on a show. First, our top story, live from paris. There are more headaches for travelers here in france today, and what could be several days to come. Most of the train and plane strikes are linked to the controversial labor reform the french government is trying to push through, and the timing could not be worse. Football hosting the tournament in 10 days time. Our correspondent has more a war of wills between the french Prime Minister and the head of the french labor union. Both are vowing they will not back down. The governments vowing to put in place what looks like a strategy it has been negotiating when in one oneonone with different sectors. On tuesday, the countrys petition minister described
As the turkish leader has threatened to scrap a deal about migrants. The topic, is erdogan our friend . To discuss the question, i am excellentthree observers. Beginning with Maximilian Popp who is a turkey expert. He says the refefugee deaeal is wrong. Refugees of their rights. Also with us is Andreas Kluth of the economist and he believes the only thing worse than sticking to the deal is not sticking with the deal. Turkish journalist. Id like to be in with you. Id like to begin with ongoing merkels visit to istanbul Angela Merkels visit to the stumble. She spoke to members of Civil Society. I wonder what impact those kind of initiatives have in turkey . Is anybody listening . Deger i have seen almost no article on the meeting about Civil Society. Host censorship . Deger i guess the press wasnt invited to the press conference. She wanted to get the message to the german media. A colleague of ours wrote an article where merkel said it is not up to her to fight for democracy in turkey.