Guests of our speaker at the head table and in the audience. I would like to remind you that our head table includes guests of our speaker as well as working journalists who are club members. If you hear applause and our audience, i note the members of the general public who are , it is not from a lack of journalistic objectivity. Also want to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. You can follow the action on ander using the hashtag pclunch. Npclunch. Now its time to introduce our head table guests. Will standeach one briefly as their names are announced. From your right, one minute, please. From your right, retired former managing Editor National geographic magazine. Please hold your applause. Etti. En loreng [applause] boussa founder and president of africa today which launches its operations on tuesday, august 5. I am also pleased to introduce mr. Moussa as a new National Press club member. A. Jeanjacques bui minister of infrastructures. Margaret ryan, north american course
Pulling out of ferguson, missouri as the calm seems to be taking hold, there are new calls for justice. It started with the weekend and the Biggest Bands in the world, hee mormon and he Just Announced hes gay. Well hear from tyler glen of neotrees. Neon trees. After two years of saying the United States military would not get drawn into the civil war in syria the white house indicated today the calculus may be changing. This afternoon president obamas Deputy National security advisor addressed a growing threat from the Islamic State group and said the United States will not be restricted by borders. That comment came just a day after the highest ranking u. S. Military officer the chairman of the joint chiefs said the only way to defeat Islamic State is to fight the group inside syria. The Islamic State is responsible for the gruesome beheading of u. S. Journalist james foley which the white house calls a terrorist attack. More air strikes against the i. S. In iraq, threats the Islamic
That is good news from the director general of the hospital in france. She is saying that Michael Schumacher had to unger go more surgery last night and that his condition has improved just slightly. This is the second operation he has been put through since this accident. Yesterday we were not given a prognosis. It was an hour by hour situation as far as the doctors were concerned and certainly they said, well, he is a very fit 44yearold. But so he might be able to deal with this sort of injury much better than a 70yearold but then again a 25yearold would of course deal with it much better than a 44yearold and they were not giving any sort of prognosis. Its absolutely brilliant news he is reacting to the treatment he is being given and. We are running out of time. It could take months especially if you have some sort of injury. Remind us of what happened. He was skiing with his son in the french resort in the french alps and he fell. It was about 11 00 in the morning. The conditions w
We begin in iraq where the sectarian conflict between sunni and shia muslims appear to be worsening. Dozens of sunni mps have resigned. 20 people have been killed between protesters and Security Forces. These are the latest pictures from ramadi. Police removed tents put up by the protesters. Violence in fallujah killed another 10. Iraqi sunnis say they have enough of what they call marginalisation by the shia led government. In the city of fallujah, armed men burnt a military vehicle, taking control of government and security officers. Other gunmen blocked a highway into the city to stop Government Forces from approaching. All this happened as 44 iraqi members of parliament announced theyd resign. They are demanding the army get out of ramadi, the largest city here, and that a prominent sunni politician be released. I received the resignation from members of parliament. Ill do my best with the government institutions and international community. We are asking the government to answer t
Appearing as a regular kid. This young man was allegedly plotting to kill each and every one of them in this elaborate scheme involving a move to distract First Responders. I think its fair to say that we all have that same sick feeling. I do think that people are quite disturbed and shocked. I know the staff is, i know that im sure students are, as well. An affidavit shows ladue had a huge stash of bombmaking supplies, including some 60 pounds of ball bearings. He had practiced setting bombs off, he had apparently experimented with how to even make them deadlier. He allegedly told police he first wanted to murder his sister and his mother and father to begin. Start a diversionary fire to distract First Responders and travel to the junior senior high school. Once there, he intended to set off numerous bombs during the lunch hour, kill the School Resource officer as he responded to help, set fires and shoot students and staff. He planned to be killed by responding Law Enforcement office