In the uk. In terms of my human rights, to freely express myself and stand in solidarity with those who are oppressed, in gaza and beyond. But it came to me as a shocking realisation that, no, there is systemic discrimination here in the uk and this country that takes pride in itself for being a beacon of human rights, for being a beacon of democracy, does not act in that manner towards ethnic minorities and towards ethnic minorities and towards people of colour like myself. Myself. Yeah, yeah, thats right. Its freedom of speech. But its freedom of speech. But there are consequences for your words, my love. Also on the show, my outside guests will join me. Ill give you a clue. She was the first, elected as a london based councillor in 2006, i cant give you any more than that, because actually, youll work out who she is, but shes the. Shes a conservative councillor. For the london area right now. Before we get started, though, lets get your latest News Headlines with sophia wenzler. Nan
Good a after noofternoon. We are going to get started. Im Shannon Green, the director of the human rights here, and it is my distinct distinct pleasur present diplomacy on National Security. I thought we would go over the agenda before the speakers up on stage. We have Catherine Brown and jay wong. Building alliances, fighting extremism. Catherine is a visiting fellow with my program here at csis and have been very fortunate having her lead this work on Public Diplomacy. She served as the executive director of Public Diplomacy. Jay wong, director of the ucs center on Public Diplomacy. The paper emerged from a workshop held jointly with jay center back in november. It conducts an assessment of where weve been with Public Diplomacy and what are the main successes under the Obama Administration and we suggest ways that we can strengthen Public Diplomacy going forward. Following that brief parensatiopr prepresentation wiben crawley. Bush administrations respecti respectively. During this t
They were addment and they were une adamant and they were unequivocal. We cant have moments of silence when we see americans perish. As robin kelly, republican from illinois, said we cant just think about americans lives that are lost when its Mass Shootings. Every day there is an american that is killed 30 people, 30 americans killed every day as a result of the use of weapons. And we need to stand up and the message was very clear in todays caurks. Members will stand todays caucus. Members will stand. We understand its important to express to the people of this country this moment of silence to let the families of the victims know we are thinking of them. By god, this is the peoples house, and if we cant stand up and then do something, then were in trouble. There are any number of things that could be done. Must do a better job identifying and checking the background of those who seek to buy weapons, especially assault weapons. We could ask people to pass the legislation that Mike Th
For example, should everyone who ever gets questioned by the fbi be on some sort of watchlist . We dont want to go that far. But we have to ask those sorts of questions. For me, you have to Pay Attention to the authorities that Law Enforcement and thelligence folsks have, resources they have. Part of the reason they close investigations is because they have to use those resources for a higher priority. Back to my daily week, and is important to tarnish isiss by defeating them there. And combating their ideology. Thoset it is harder for people who may have grievances, or anger, to plug into this ideology and think they are accomplishing something great. All of that has to be on our radar screen. With regard to the fbi investigation, d do you feel mr. Thornberry obviously, the fbi will go back and see if it could of been improved. My point is, there are a number of people who traveled back and forth to iraq and syria. That, there are those were radicalizing on the internet. There are onl
Super bowl fans. President trumps spending his day weighing his options. Here arrived at maralago florida after a judge overturned the white house executive order to nine refugees in seven muslim country. Plus, security airports across the globe try to sort out what is on and what is off when it comes to the most recent travel ban. President trump sorry, we are dealing with some issues. President trump signed an executive order on Cyber Security and they looked into russias alleged hacking. It happens, right now President Trump is spending the weekend in maralago florida. Early early this morning he hit twitter, tech in a judge who overturned his controversy travel ban. Despite the ruling, protesters plan to take to palm beach to the white house winter home to a fundraiser tonight. We followed the proverbial bouncing ball. Cleveland, good afternoon tea. This money. This money President Trump started his day as he often does on twitter. In a series of tweets he went after the federal ju