Former director of the Central Intelligence agency, former member of congress, former u. S. Army officer, finished first in his class at west point, Harvard Law School graduate, and of course, much more. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the Atlantic Council and mr. Secretary, this is a heroic day. The uae, israel, and bahrain are set to sign an accord, first theigned abraham accord, first such agreement between israel and an agreement in more than a quarter century. The leaders will sign with the foreign ministers. We have a lot to discuss and half hour. In half hour. The china issues, but lets start with the middle east, although i know you have a few prepared comments. My first question would be, looking at the longterm implications for the u. S. And the region of this accord. How does the u. S. Alliance structure look longer term . Then dig into the middle east. First, thank you for having me, it is a big day, as soon as we wrap up here, literally, ill ahead to the white house for
Front page, the hash tag for the twitterratti among you. Its our honor to host the 70th secretary of state, mike pompeo, former director of the Central Intelligence agency, former member of congress, former u. S. Army officer, finished first in his class at west point, Harvard Law School graduate, and of course, much more. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the Atlantic Council and mr. Secretary, this is a heroic day. The uae, israel, and bahrain are set to sign an accord, first theigned abraham accord, first such agreement between israel and an agreement in more than a quarter century. The leaders will sign with the foreign ministers. We have a lot to discuss and half hour. In half hour. The china issues, but lets start with the middle east, although i know you have a few prepared comments. My first question would be, looking at the longterm implications for the u. S. And the region of this accord. How does the u. S. Alliance structure look longer term . Then dig into the middle east.
Welcome, everyone across myriad platforms and around the world and live on cspan2 to Atlantic Council front page 4 the hash tag for the twitterratti among you. Its our honor to host the 70th secretary of state mike pompeo, former director of the Central Intelligence agency, former member of congress, former u. S. Army officer, finished first in his class at west point, Harvard Law School graduate and of course, much more. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the Atlantic Council and mr. Secretary, this is a heroic day. Israel and bahrain are set to sign an accord, first such agreement between israel and an agreement in more than a quarter century. And theyll sign with the u. N. And ba bahrainy foreign ministe. We have a lot to discuss in the half hour. The china issues, but lets start with the middle east although i know you have a few prepared comments. My first question would be, looking at the longterm implications for the u. S. And the region of this accord. How does the u. S. Allian
A super tanker carrying 2000000 barrels of oil off the coast of sri lanka. Hours after they stormed the city in democratic republic of congo and surrounded a prison dozens of armed fighters thanks for. Starting in lebanon where in about an hours time there will be a moment of silence marking the exact moment a huge blast tore through part of beirut a month ago a sad day for so many but still there is this one small glimmer of hope for the past day teams have been digging through the rubble of a collapsed building after theyre scanning a clip and picked up indications of breathing. What we have seen so far is unfortunately no trace of any big team of body we have been conducting to scans into the front room holding the scanner on the poor we just need a 4 d inch fence and commit the horse so we did that so far we can see nothing. But we are going to conduct again im sure another scan thing hes done we work in phase the call the nation is quite cheap him together with the military. 11 is
A super tanker off the coast of sri lanka its carrying 2000000. 00 barrels of oil. And it has one of the worlds lowest ages of consent to look at the fight to protect girls in the philippines. Commemorations have been held in lebanon marking the exact moment one month ago that a catastrophic explosion tore through the capital beirut people paused in a moment of remembrance at 6 o 8 pm thats the time almost 3000 tons of Ammonium Nitrate ignited in the citys ports sending a devastating blast wave across the city more than 200 people died and thousands were wounded lets go live now to beirut aljazeera is zenyatta is the senate will talk more about that ongoing rest. Behind you in just a few minutes but 1st talk us through what happened an hour ago during that commemoration. Lebanese that marked the one month since that explosion at beirut ports which really changed the lives of so many people in this city damaged and destroyed neighborhoods some 191 People Killed 7 people remain missing 6