They are ready for that, were they are ready for that, were just going to talk about just going to talk about the Press Conference injerusalem. The israel prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned the foreign Press Core this evening not something he does often to make a forceful defence of his position in the ongoing ceasefire talks. Currently, those talks are at an impasse over this is what he had to say. That philadelphi corridor. Became completely porous. The other borders controlled by us. I but once this was perforated, even though the policy a terrorist enclave. Hold that thought. Returning a second, few can see the microphones in winder, georgia. Here we go. The microphones in winder, georgia. Here we 90 here we go. The timeline of the events that here we go. The timeline of the events that have here we go. The timeline of the events that have taken here we go. The timeline of the events that have taken place. Events that have taken place here today and from what we know at thi
I have meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and furthers later today. Last week saw the eightieth anniversary of the beginning of the battle of britain. Employs 10,000 people across lancashire, taking on 250 apprentices. Will the Prime Minister come to meet these apprentices and commit to doing all he can to secure key jobs for defense exports and the program. Already, there are 1800 skilled engineers in program, 2500 next year, 800 of those in his constituency and i look forward to his constituencies at the epicenter of the development of the next air program. Thank you. Over the last fume and, measures announced by the government, the decision last week not to provide sector specific support to those most at risk could end up costing, one of the sectors, aviation has seen huge redundancies announcing 12,000 redundancies verging on 3000. If the governments priority is to protect jobs, why did the chancellor not bring forward sector specific deals that could have done precis
Status of u. S. , u. K. Relations. This is about a half an hour. Thank you so much for joining us. If you havent already signed up to my weekly newsletter, its free and you can sign up at mrpolitico. Com, global. And its my pleasure to introduce the new British Ambassador to the United States, karen pierce. Welcome, ambassador. Thank you very much. Its such a pleasure to have you here. Weve got about 30 minutes of a chat now and well get to our questions as well during the conversation. If you havent sent them already, post them on twitter u. S. Ing askpolitico. Weve got great ones rolling in. And ambassador, i wont spend most time about policy, but were in such strange times i thought maybe we could ask questions about how your job is actually unfolding before we get into the meaty stuff. Maybe lets start with the border stuff first. Youve got experience in the u. N. And conflict zones. Thinking about to all of those eras, whats changed from when you start you had out in diplomacy . W
Its political. Everything is political nowadays, right . It is so easy to say, thats just political. That was the fear. If new yorkers did that, governmentally, they had no ability to enforce 19 billion homes. Staying in their that is why the communication was so important. Give them the facts, give them the facts, give them the facts so they understand why. That worked. The second nightmare was what if the central workers dont show ssentiale e workers dont show up . Someone has to pick up the garbage, the hospitals halfs to run have to run. What if the e central workers said im not going to show up . You communicated so effectively, the fear of the virus, that would be and then the essential workers say if everyone is staying home, im staying home too. It could have happened. I went through the hiv virus, when hiv started. People were petrified. Nobody knew what it was. Nobody knew how it lived, how it was transferred, how long it lived. People were petrified. Nobody wanted to go near
And actually like jacksons founder, john jackson who is joining us today, secretary kerry, john kerry at the time, left new haven to serve in vietnam. He then served more than two decades in the u. S. Senate before becoming the 68th secretary of state under president obama. You probably know all of that, but what you might not know is that secretary kerry continues to pay it forward, helping to train the next generation of leaders here at the Jackson Institute and across yale and in many schools. Its my pleasure to welcome secretary kerry at this time. Sector, rapture might offer some initial perspectives on how you assess the global ramifications of covid19 and then introduce our panelists. Thanks. Thank you very, very much, and ted, both of you, thank you for organizing this event, particularly gym in the Jackson Institute, the jackson school. Its really the underwriter of what were doing here today and its a privilege for me to take part in this with a very distinguished group of di