Please take a moment to silence your cell phones and take pictures under any social media. Do that silently you dont want to be the first one when your phone rings on national television. At the q a portion i will pass around a wireless microphone. Please raise your hand i will get over to you then speak into it. If you have not yet purchased a copy they are available you can buy a copy or two or however many you decide that you need . After the event we are happy to send books and now why we are all here to talk about the new book the russia trap. So with that former analysis of caa informer analysis advisor the now director National Security draws nearly 25 years of experience to warn russia and us are on a collision course. He shows how factors including new strategic weapons and settle the conflicts and the advantages over cyberattacks too high in the competition between the two countries where here to talk about it help me welcome george. [applause]. Thank you very much for that i
A deeply political question and with next months general elections ahead all sides will be vying for voters rather than resulting the cattle in question sony vaio aljazeera barcelona. The u. S. Ambassador to the European Union is next in line to testify in the ongoing impeachment inquiry against donald trump and 6 pecked at the Gordon Sunderland will be questioned about Text Messages from the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine discussing trumps effort to pressure ukraine to investigate his rival joe biden on tuesday a former Senior Adviser to u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or was the latest person to testify Michael Mckinley was quizzed for 5 hours by house committees after abruptly resigning last week meanwhile donald trump has been asked about whether hes concerned that his former National Security adviser could testify at that impeachment inquiry its been revealed that john bolton described trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani as quote a hand grenade whos going to blow everybody up i
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Dynamics on the middle east and its important to recognize that everything here is on the record. Before we begin id like to highlight the Atlantic Councils collaboration with ifpi, which is the Italian Institute for International Political studies. This is the second year that our two organizations have partners produced an outstanding work on the changing landscape in the middle east. Today we are pleased to release our new collected volume, the mino region, and its now available for download online. A special thanks goes out to the president of ifpi, ambassador monsolo for his continuous collaboration in our joint ventures and indebted to the Italian Foreign ministry, in particular to the italian ambassador for his unwavering drive to see our two institutions partnering for not only the two countries they represent, but for the entire community. Ambassador monsolo couldnt be here at the last minute, but asked me to read this note. Its great regret i address you all in writing when i
Forward in order to make that arrangement democratic Boris Johnson has said well there will be a vote here at the Northern Irish parliament to make sure that people here want it but that will be based upon a simple majority and the d. P. s just really worried that the nationalists through their locks in a power sharing government with will do Everything Possible to push for more economic integration with the republic of ireland as opposed to allowing for the Current Situation to continue which is a situation that allows 30 members of the Northern Ireland assembly to complain get together and potentially veto anything any legislation they dont like coming out of westminster so in all the d. P. I just would be worried about a 37. 00 from their hands and about what they feel is something of a creeping an exception from the public or violent when it comes to the future here for the Northern Ireland. Lets turn now to the situation with turkey and syria a high level u. S. Delegation is in an