Having as our special guest ben rhodes. He will speak and then he will speak and then. He and i will have a conversation. To postrage you all questions through the q a feature. Limited to the second half, i will begin to wrap up our discussion and i will start posing some of your questions. This will run about one hour. I want to mention next week, next wednesday we will have our last webinar for the seminar partnerll be with our novelg about his new which is a look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare. He is a fantastic thinker and writer. Rhodes. Y, ben he is the former National Security deputy National Security advisor. Of pensee the world and ae the world, friend of ucla. Take it away. Mr. Rhodes thank you everyone for joining us for this. Commentske some open summarizing the argument i was and that this piece can set up the directions we go when in our conversation. Me, the genesis of this idea about the end of the 9 11 era is like anyone else, the extremity of the lockdow
I want to mention next week, next wednesday we will have our last webinar for the seminar partnerll be with our novelg about his new which is a look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare. He is a fantastic thinker and writer. Rhodes. Y, ben he is the former National Security deputy National Security advisor. Of pensee the world and ae the world, friend of ucla. Take it away. Mr. Rhodes thank you everyone for joining us for this. Commentske some open summarizing the argument i was and that this piece can set up the directions we go when in our conversation. Me, the genesis of this idea about the end of the 9 11 era is like anyone else, the extremity of the lockdown hit me in early march and for me, i was taking a walk with my daughters. We went down to venice beach which was completely empty, desolate. I had never seen it before. My daughter picks up a dandelion and i said make a wish. She said to make the coronavirus galway. Go away. For someone who worked in the white house, wh
Watch our live coverage starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Former Deputy National security adviser ben rhodes on the rise of chinas global influence. He joined the ucla center for International Relations for a broad discussion on Foreign Policy and National Security. Everyone. Rning, it is a pleasure to have you back for one of our webinars. Today, we have the pleasure of bening as our special guest he will speak and then he and i will have a conversation. To postrage you all questions through the q a feature. Limited to the second half, i will begin to wrap up our discussion and i will start posing some of your questions. This will run about one hour. I want to mention next week, next wednesday we will have our last webinar for the seminar partnerll be with our novelg about his new which is a look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare. He is a fantastic thinker and writer. Rhodes. Y, ben he is the former National Security Deputy National security advisor. Of pensee the world and a
Scholz. The joint venture was formed by the rein metal concern and the Ukrainian Defense industry, its appearance is, without exaggeration , a landmark event that takes the relations between kyiv and berlin to a new level, the Prime Minister said. We are actively working with the german business and i am happy to announce that on october 18th a joint venture, tezovmel Ukrainian Defense industry, was registered, which was created by the leaders of the Defense Industries of germany and ukraine. It is probably no coincidence that despite the war , more than 2,000 German Companies are actively operating in ukraine, everyone who invests in ukraine now, invests in the future state, a member of the eu, which will be part of our legal order and our internal market. Full fire control over the temporarily occupied crimea and adjacent water areas is a matter of time, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is about it said during an online speech at the second parliamentary summit. International crimean platform. Th
Proposal is that hamas would agree to the release of 33 hostages from the socalled humanitarian category. So that is women, it is children, it is the elderly, people with serious medical conditions. And in return, israel would agree to a 40day ceasefire and the release of potentially thousands of Palestinian Prisoners. We should stress at this point all we have is this statement from the political wing of hamas. We do not have the detail of what exactly it is that they have agreed to, and there has been pretty frenetic diplomacy over the weekend involving cia director bill burns who started in egypt, flying to qatar, coming here to israel. It is possible that the framework of that deal has changed over the weekend. It is also worth saying that these deals are often structured in terms of first an agreement on a broad framework and then hammering out of the details. As you know, chris, the devil is often in the detail, but there is positive indication for the First Time Since that last