Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming for this working with lunch council of Foreign Relations you all know mr. Ashford ash carter we will open up to all of you for questions so take notes and keep thinking of questions and i will come to you in a bit. I do want to tell you that during the qanda portion later on and i will remind you of this at the time, this will be on the record. Good to see you. Thank you, margaret. I appreciate that. The last time i interviewed you we were on some kind of vessel off estonia and you are carrying out a military buildup in response to russia. It was part of after a quartercentury we didnt have a war plan. Its kind of interesting to reflect on all the plans when i started that i worked on conventional and nuclear then we didnt do that anymore for about 25 years and then it became apparent to me whatever six years or so ago that we needed to plan. Thats when we began positioning the forces in different ways in europe, but the particular reason
Going on the ground is off to crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon admits his country Washington Post john this Jamal Khashoggi one year ago today the u. S. And britain continue to sell billions of dollars of weapons to saudi arabia coming up in the show irans ambassador to the United Nations fights back against nato nations accusations that its drone attacks saudi arabia causing oil prices to spike 5 percent and he warns britain against following the United States into all out war with the Islamic Republic on the 150th anniversary of his birth what would former british detainee make of the current. Simmering between india and pakistan over kashmir the United Nations former general indian. And as a sex scandal hits a conservative conference and says its final day tories attack germany corporate sponsors scrap welfare changes accused of killing 17000 people we speak to a former minister voted for. Universal credit and ask what twitter has to do with the 77th brigade of the british army the
Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming for this working with lunch council of Foreign Relations you all know mr. Ashford ash carter we will open up to all of you for questions so take notes and keep thinking of questions and i will come to you in a bit. I do want to tell you that during the qanda portion later on and i will remind you of this at the time, this will be on the record. Good to see you. Thank you, margaret. I appreciate that. The last time i interviewed you we were on some kind of vessel off estonia and you are carrying out a military buildup in response to russia. It was part of after a quartercentury we didnt have a war plan. Its kind of interesting to reflect on all the plans when i started that i worked on conventional and nuclear then we didnt do that anymore for about 25 years and then it became apparent to me whatever six years or so ago that we needed to plan. Thats when we began positioning the forces in different ways in europe, but the particular reason
About extremist unilateralist approach by the United States administration i think our. Country is isolated and thats a very telling our situation do you think the instep system of trying to avoid u. S. Sanctions is going to work i noticed more countries joined in russia this week many conversations in new york about the europeans have been trying to show that they have done what they read the quote to salvage the d. C. P. Way but unfortunately in practice our nothing has moved so far so were just the live aid thing to see what concrete actions and measures by europeans of course the New York Times is or theyre doing that your president left strumpet hanging when a call was set up between between them through president of france why did he not come out of his room at the new york when the. Last week they were talking about the new deal and that or what they are trying to achieve but you see the states do not conclude deal out of where we more on any ports any agreement is supposed to b
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