Moving across the tokyo area, some areas have seen some flood warnings put in place already. Were still looking at the threat of more rainfall throughout thursday and these large waves cascading ahead of the storm system. Some video coming out of the shizuoka area the rain and the waves are already coming on shore, as much as 12 to 13 meters high. The tomi expressway has been shut down. 40 flights have been canceled for honshu and shuk oaku. So if you have travel plans for western or central japan, be ready for delays and cancellations. You may want to postpone them until the storm passes by the time we go into friday and saturday. But this is expected to come on shore during the overnight hours. Winds gusting about 216 kilometers per hour. Its expected to weaken slightly before landfall. Dry air interacting with the storm in the western flank, baugh all that moisture is still wrapping around the eastern periphery. 162 kph winds. You have mounds out here and all the moisture, the storm
System we have this rain band moving across the tokyo area, some areas have seen some flood warnings put in place already. Were still looking at the threat of more rainfall throughout thursday and these large waves cascading ahead of the storm system. Some video coming out of the shizuoka area the rain and the waves are already coming on shore, as much as 12 to 13 meters high. The tomi expressway has been shut down. 40 flights have been canceled for honshu and shuk oaku. So if you have travel plans for western or central japan, be ready for delays and cancellations. You may want to postpone them until the storm passes by the time we go into friday and saturday. But this is expected to come on shore during the overnight hours. Winds gusting about 216 kilometers per hour. Its expected to weaken slightly before landfall. Dry air interacting with the storm in the western flank, baugh all that moisture is still wrapping around the eastern periphery. 162 kph winds. You have mounds out here a
Linked into current events. If reagan, by the way something we havent gotten into his detail on how to think about the future of ukraine brewery have different points of view. In terms of thinking how we handle you cant ukraine crisis and what kind of Security Strategy we think about to the extent we can steer the russians towards a reagan model i think theres utility for that. Thats a different conversation for a different day. My last comment however is on afghanistan and i dont think that we are trying to encourage our enemy to move northward and ultimately put pressure on the russian or parts of the soviet union. What we saw in kunduz and by the way quite the tragedy and there have been a lot of them in last week including most recently the hospital bombing. Thats something ive criticized and the tragic loss of 10 americans and jalalabad of the c130 crash. Despite that we are seeing the afghan start to take back a good chunk of kunduz so dont give up yet. Theres room to be at least
They will still aspire to be in all european state. They would like to be a member of the European Union, understand that it will be very reluctant. For the 1st time ever you now have a majority of ukrainians saying they would like to be a member of nato which is something that is not going to happen for the foreseeable future. Not prepared to put them on a membership track. You have polls showing 50 percent saying we want to be a nato. Being invaded by another country will do that. Aside from that they do not have the aspirations you have the kremlin to be a major player on the international stage. Designing a set ofa set of security paradigms, you rule out the more and versus and turning once. This question please. Lets take two at a time. One behind the other. On my right right there. Then behind also. Good afternoon, gentlemen. Thank you for an interesting discussion. My question is on something that many people in this room probably are thinking about because it is not the hot new
Are all follows at the kennan institu institute, so we wanted to get them all together. Alan cull son, the moscow correspondent for the wall street journal for a decade and a half, sergei, who has a show and elena, a special investigative correspondent. So its a really, really good group of journalists. I encourage you to join us on thursday mortganing. Let me start todays event, russias war against terror. Elena had just published this book. The evolution of terrorism in russias north caucuses and we have copies for sale up front and she will inscribe it for you and write a comprehensive plan for dealing with terrorism on the front cover. Im kidding. Thats chapt ir 3. So, elena is associate professor of International Security studies in the college of International Security affairs at the National Defense university. Thats a Government Security Oriented University in case that didnt make it clear. Her publications including this latest book have appeared foreign wide including in jour