More than 1,000 palestinians, including many children, have been killed. My guest is former israeli Prime Minister ehud barak. Unimaginable horror has been unleashed. Where will it end . Ehud barak, in tel aviv, welcome to hardtalk. You have fought in many of israels wars. Youve led the country as Prime Minister. Have you ever experienced a mood in the country as you see it and feel it right now . This is the most severe blow that israel suffered since its establishment some 75 years ago. And the death toll of a devastating 1,200 within the first 2a, 30 hours, its something that never happened in our history. And in this case, its not a war. These are notjust soldiers. There are many citizens, many civilians, women, young babies, elderly people, even some holocaust survivors. And we still have 150, so to speak, in their hands. So its very tough. Great, huge failure of our Early Warning system, of our operational system. But we, the israelis, we are a defiant kind of species. We know ho
Moderates. Welcome, everybody. Thank you for skipping lunch and coming to our panel. The subject today is finding a new equilibrium in the middle east and we have a terrific panel representatives of the region and try left, foreign minister of saudi arabia, deputy Prime Minister from turkey, administer secretary defense minister from germany, Prime Minister of bahrain and foreign minister from the uae. I thought i would begin by taking a couple minutes to talk about what i think are the forces of disequilibrium that are impacted in the middle east or impacting the whole world and give each of the ministers a chance to talk about what they see as things that created a disequilibrium but how we stabilize the region. My very short take on the world is we are in the middle of three Climate Changes at once and we are in the middle of the change of requirement of the climate and were going for what i call later to now and i was growing up in america in the 60s and 70s later was when you can
Mr. Friedman welcome, everybody. Thank you for skipping lunch. The subject today is finding a new equilibrium in the middle east. We have a terrific panel of representatives from the region. I thought it would begin by taking a couple minutes and talk about what i think are the forces of disequilibrium that are impacting the middle east, actually impacting the whole world, and i want to give each of the ministers a chance to talk about what they see is creating disequilibrium, but also how we stabilize the region. My short take on the world is i think we are in the middle of three Climate Changes at once. We are in the middle of the change of the claimant of the climate. Were going from what i call later to now. When i was growing up in america in the 1960s and 1970s, later was when you could fix that river, clean that lake, save that orangutan. You could say it now or save it later. Today, later is officially over. Later now will be too late. That is Climate Change. We see it in the m
The subject today is finding a new equilibrium in the middle east. We have a terrific panel of representatives from the region. To my left, the foreign minister of saudi arabia. The deputy Prime Minister from turkey. Defense minister from germany. Mourad nister andign minister of bahrain the foreign minister of affairs from the uae. I thought i would begin by what i think are the forces of disequilibrium that are impacting the middle east, actually impacting the whole world, and i want to give each of the ministers a chance to talk about what they see is creating disequilibrium, but also how we stabilize the region. My short take on the world is i think we are in the middle of three Climate Changes at once. We are in the middle of the change of the climate of the climate. Were going from what i call. Ater to now when i was growing up in america in the 1960s and 1970s, later was when you could fix that river, clean that lake, save that orangutan. You could say it now or save it later. T
Today when we invented a more kind of lets say easier more accessible way to use morphine through prescription opioids in the early 2000 he let lead pharmaceutical Companies Marketing those drugs quite strongly to doctors and hospitals, and anyone who goes into hospital today, whats the first thing as you how much, whatever albeit you want to only get your pain. That has contributed to an increase in opioid addiction which is what you more of an increasing heroin addiction. Air went addiction actually, the heroin problem quoteunquote has been a result of pure, cheaper heroin your not from heroin that is actually cagey kind of some type of side effect. Do you discern a question in that . Go ahead. The problem youve put your finger on, which is missed prescribing doctors and the excesses of the pharmaceutical enterprise the opioids, i think in many cases is correct. The fact that we have prohibition means is those folks become medically addicted are then stigmatized. They dont have acces