Be no strike for several months hospitals and Emergency Services. Nothing has been the problem. Also ahead on the Program Media nations. U. K. Government documents reveal the intelligence services. British news spreading. Propaganda during the cold war. May be tuning in from right across the world this hour a welcome to our 2 international my names you know in the in. The u. S. Secretary of state painted the assassination of irans top general. As part of a Bigger Campaign of the terence is word he says it will also be applied to russia china picking up the story for us. Mike pompei oh the u. S. Secretary of state seems to be highlighting the term deterrence as the new buzz word defining u. S. Foreign policy reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to lose now the killing of a top foreign general by the United States in a different country is considered now to be an act of deterrence intended to deter behavior on the part of t
The committee will come to order. Thank you all for coming today and to the witnesses for joining us today as we examine the current state of the u. S. Russia relationship and the strategy to deal with the Russian Federation. Its timely to assess the relationship with russia and as weve recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of the events that led to the collapse of the soviet union, the fall of the berlin wall, solidarity, selection, victory in poland and the baltic demonstrations among others. Many former soviet states had become prosperous democracies with memberships in nato and the eu. Mr. Putin has taken russia down a much darker path. Today Many Russians suffer with oligarchs enriching themselves to control the major industries. Russia rates its elections to ensure onlensure a week from und politician speak the cut. Russia is targeted and expelled humanitarian organizations and three Media Outlets labeling them as foreign agents. The russian people are in humanity imprisoned a
D if they are working. Y are this is about two hours 20 minutes. s. [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Thank you, all for coming today and thank you to our witnesses for joining us today as we examine the current relationship with russia. To assess our relationship with russia as we have recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of events that led to the collapse of the soviet union, the fall of the berlin wall, the election victory of solidarity in poland. Among others. Many former soviet states have become prosperous democracies with memberships in nato and the eu. Mr. Vladimir putin has taken russia down a darker pass. Any russians suffered today. Tosia rates its elections make sure that only kremlin approved politicians make the cut. The russian people are inhumanely imprisoned and tortured for daring to disagree with the government. Not only does the Russia Federation make life at home painful for the average russian, but Vladimir Putin is making life hard
We appreciate your spending your time with us. My name is dan hamilton, im a professor here at Johns Hopkins, Foreign Policy institute fellow. We have a post doctoral fellows. We are delighted today help publicize it in the first public release of the book. So shes here as a post doc fellow has this new book. Pretty timely. And shes been working on it with her colleagues in europe on those questions. We thought the context of the book would be good to talk about very timely issue now, which is whats going on with brexit. What does it mean, not only for the uk and the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues, which will start to affect, of course, the u. S. Interests quite intensely. So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. Youve had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds. But just to keep it brief, ive got cornelia to tell us briefly about the book. Then were going to go to two colleagues, the assistant professor here who does work
Will u. S. Troop it is be forced to stay even longer in americas longest war . Secretary of state mike pompeo is here. Well break down the politics, smoke out the spin, the facts that matter this week. Announcer from abc news its this week. Here now chief anchor george stephanopoulos. Good morning. Welcome to this week. Our brand new poll with the Washington Post is just out. Heres what it says about the democratic race ahead of our abc debate thursday night. Joe biden Holding Steady in the lead with 27 of the vote. Bernie standers second with 19 and a rising Elizabeth Warren on his heels at 17 . Thats a 6 oint jump since july. Losing ground is Kamala Harris. Shes at 7 . Buttigieg, orourke under 6 . Thele the rest of the pack at 1 or less. Biden has a narrow edge of warren and sanders over who voters think would be the best president for the country. Defeating the President Trump is what most voters care about most right now. 50 are voting on who is most likely to beat trump. This far