We have a special guest with us tonight my friend and a wonderful writer and author. Ian toll doesnt really need an introduction it should be very long and to be extremely accomplished the author of six books as well the pacific war the third volume has been released 19441945 from the naval of the United States will writing the writers award so those anymore Samuel Eliot Morrison was out there that thank you so much with the twilight of the gods. Its my pleasure. I am struck by the book this is a big story of the western pacific but you began this book in an interesting way of looking at fdr and douglas macarthur. I will expand on my question. Military history there is the expectation and in this case almost 100 pages into the book. And the unconventional way to begin work of military history i thought it had a little bit of latitude in the case that they are committed to read it or not and with that observation with the pacific war there is a lot of literature and i went to say there
A sovereign territory thats point 1. 2 it highlights it for me yet again that there is a border area on the gaza site that gazans are not supposed to go into you know and that makes gaza even smaller than it is and that is of serious concern and number 3 and perhaps the most important point the miss some of this border area including where the tanks went in is actually actually some of the most fertile Agricultural Land and so the people that get most affected by this are the small scale agriculturalists that produce the food for gaza and that that is just not acceptable and i am not aware of a credible military or political reason for doing this. Well arguably the world doesnt know about what youre talking about it certainly wasnt much reported in the apparent scores of people dying in syria in the past few days from israeli airstrikes let alone the ones in iraq when if donald trump is watching from florida he might even be surprised that your there the aim of the Trump Administration
Said a court in south africa 2 black men appear in court charged with killing a white foam worker. We begin with a clash between police and antigovernment protesters in thailand water cannon was used to break through a barricade set up by protesters in the center of bangkok i will show you live pictures now of the scene as you can see thousands of antigovernment protesters have been on the streets defying a government ban on gatherings for a 2nd night in a row and those protesters have been calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and calling for reforms to the monarchy but spread minister preludes is refusing to stand down scott heiler reports from bangkok. There was that major confrontation at. A barrier that the protesters makeshift ferry the protesters had used even using Police Barricades and thats resell the water cannon use there was another a secondary barrier built by the protesters just here again these water cannon but there were barely any protesters on the other side so
Suzanne it is a pleasure to welcome you all here to do to our conversation on Foreign Policy and the u. S. President ial election. This event is part of the brookings policy 2020 series which seeks to empower voters ,ith factbased, datadriven nonpartisan information to better understand the policy matters discussed by candidates running for office this year. Thank you all for joining us. We are 29 days away from november 3. Americans will cast their ballots for the next president , but the future of americas global role is also at the ballot. Election,ward the todays conversation will focus in particular on its implications for the transatlantic relationship and u. S. Foreign policy toward europe. Many of leaders and their counterparts around the world are watching the election closely. While there are differing views about how the upcoming november election will shape the relationship, few in europe or it will revert to its previous form. The europeanfrom council on Foreign Relations
Promoted be it a felt robert leavened off key and thomas millet give the newcomers double trouble. Im rebecca races welcome to the Program Countries across europe are imposing tighter restrictions in the hope of slowing the spread of the corona virus as cases continue to rise france has recorded a new high of 32000 cases in a single day or thora hes there have brought in a curfew in major cities or quine all public spaces to be shot by 9 pm not everyone has welcomed the new rules. More chairs for more guests jaffa saloon has his hands full his parisian restaurant liaison a mob is packed and his guests all want to be looked after before the curfew takes effect. We have changed everything we now begin serving dinner at 5 pm. The bartender and servers struggle to keep up with orders jeff as guests have arrived much earlier than usual. Its a little stressful we have to be hyper efficient in order to have a drink and be home on time. Even though no one looks ready to go home most of the pat