Studies. Welcome to our viewers online. My name is jacob kurtzer, im the acting director of the humanitarian agenda here, a project that we seek to leverage the expertise of our scholars and programs to offer policy solutions to humanitarian problems in the world today. I would like to direct everyones attention to our emergency exits, its part of our safety and security plan, and encourage you also to take this opportunity to turn your phones to mute. I want to acknowledge before we begin the partnership that our program has with the agency for International Development office of foreign Disaster Assistance, whose support allows us to put on event, such as todays discussion. We have a short time today so ill be brief. All of us here today are keenly aware of the immense human suffering taking place in idlib and across syria right now. Families and individuals have been forced into multiple displacements, with targeted attacks ongoing on innocent civilians and on hospitals and clinics
Good afternoon. Welcome to the center for strategic and international studies. Welcome as well to our viewers online. My name is jacob kurtzer, im the acting director of the humanitarian agenda here, a project that we seek to leverage the expertise of our scholars and programs to offer policy solutions to humanitarian problems in the world today. I would like to direct everyones attention too our emergency exits, its part of our safety and security plan, and encourage you also to take this opportunity to turn your phones to mute. I want to acknowledge before we begin the partnership that our program has with the agency for International Development whose support allows us to put on events such as todays discussion. We have a short time today so ill be brief. All of us here today are keenly aware of the immense human suffering taking place in idlib and across syria right now. Families and individuals have been forced into multiple displacements, with targeted attacks ongoing on innocent
Nuclear ambitions. Is see the man to bring peace to the peninsula . In jakarta, a court finds a Christian Governor guilty of blasphemy, making it a test of religious tolerance in a muslim majority country, indonesia. I am brent goff, it is good to have you with us. He was responsible for the hit list of people to be murdered. That is why police in germany are claiming tonight, following the latest arrest in the case of a suspected far right terror cell inside the german army. Authorities suspect the lieutenant helped another officer in a plot to assassinate top politicians and then blame refugees. This is the third arrest in the investigation so far. Prosecutors say the names on that hit listncluded geanys president. Their sites were sent on a former german president , and Justice Minister. Investigators found their names on the list of potential targets. According to what we have discovered so far, the three suspects were planning an attack on the life of the senior politicians and pu
And turkey . Our question here on quadriga, this week is germanys satire affair, who will have the last laugh . And to discuss that this week, i am joined here by excellent commentators and observers. Let me introduce them to you. Beginning with andreas kluth, from the economist, magazine, who says this latest clash between germany and turkey is childish and irresponsible. Merkel and erdogan need to start acting like adults. Meanwhile, malte lehming from berlin der tagesspiegel says, any good satirist will be put on trial at least once in his lifetime. Jan bohmermann will have the last laugh here. And deger akal also joins us. She works for dws turkish desk, and has just returned from turkey. She says politicians should not , define the limits of satire , because if they did, an entire nation might forget what satire is. Andreas kluth, i would like to begin with you if i might, and earlier this week, i opened up one of my favorite early newspapers. Berlin newspapers. I was reading an a
Our question here on quadriga, this week is germanys satire affair, who will have the last laugh . And to discuss that this week, i am joined here by excellent commentators and observers. Let me introduce them to you. Beginning with andreas kluth, from the economist, magazine, who says this latest clash between germany and turkey is childish and irresponsible. Merkel and erdogan need to start acting like adults. Meanwhile, malte lehming from berlin der tagesspiegel says, any good satirist will be put on trial at least once in his lifetime. Jan bohmermann will have the last laugh here. And deger akal also joins us. She works for dws turkish desk, and has just returned from turkey. She says politicians should not , define the limits of satire , because if they did, an entire nation might forget what satire is. Andreas kluth, i would like to begin with you if i might, and earlier this week, i opened up one of my favorite early newspapers. Berlin newspapers. I was reading an article about