Countrys highly controversial policies. And the brought. To britain callin welcome to comfort zone thank you lets start with mr ones trip to washington a couple of weeks ago. He went to change minds to change influential minds in the United States to talk about the justification for your military action in syria but he appears to have failed to change those minds comprehensively why did that happen do you think but for us to visit went well actually we have a Good Relationship with a trumpet ministrations some people that the congress will be with trump rather than movement a strange well if you want to make that distinction thats for domestic american politics. To comment about but obviously some people in the congress have a different view the ones he hoped to influence had a different in our president made a very clear case actually for why we went in there because our goal has been to clear our border with syria from more terrorists elements for a better isis or related groups but
On the outskirts of edinburgh. This is quite nice. Adam, by your side. Right, the big story. We are altogether. You are here in spirit and in van. The big story of the Election Campaign today is that borisjohnson Election Campaign today is that Boris Johnson wants Election Campaign today is that borisjohnson wants the Election Campaign today is that Boris Johnson wants the free movement, who will do what after brexit and i think it was summed up with the conservative position in the brexit secretary was talking about football. How many people put foot ball about football. How many people put football and the new brexit deal together. One of rather to the field of, a week into the campaign, we must do some social media, i know he has his phone and hes in the Constituency Office and talking about the premier league, i am not sure if i was wiser than i was at the beginning of it and in terms of both what the conservatives ofan terms of both what the conservatives of an singlet immigration
Dynamics on the middle east and its important to recognize that everything here is on the record. Before we begin id like to highlight the Atlantic Councils collaboration with ifpi, which is the Italian Institute for International Political studies. This is the second year that our two organizations have partners produced an outstanding work on the changing landscape in the middle east. Today we are pleased to release our new collected volume, the mino region, and its now available for download online. A special thanks goes out to the president of ifpi, ambassador monsolo for his continuous collaboration in our joint ventures and indebted to the Italian Foreign ministry, in particular to the italian ambassador for his unwavering drive to see our two institutions partnering for not only the two countries they represent, but for the entire community. Ambassador monsolo couldnt be here at the last minute, but asked me to read this note. Its great regret i address you all in writing when i
And ask again for the woman involved in the crash that killed their son to return to the uk. Doctors in italy who are caring for a seriously brain damaged girl from london say they hope that eventually she will be able to return home and be cared for by her family. The government takes the First Step Towards potentially stripping the north of englands main train operator of its franchise. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with sarah mulkerins. I will have more on at the events from bulgaria on monday night were buggy and police have arrested six fa ns buggy and police have arrested six fans following up that racist abuse of english players. Thanks, sarah. Chris fawkes has all the weather. Still no sign of any prolonged dry weather. Showers are the key word over the next few days, plenty of those. I will bring you the feel update later on. This thanks, chris. Also coming up the camera chain jessops plans to call in administrators. Good aftermoon and welcome to bbc news, live fro
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