Politics and prose bookstore and we live in muscatine. Bit of a Great Program for you this evening. For those of you not familiar with how this virtual format works, just to be able to ask a question of the author if you would like. To do so, just click on the q a icon at the bottom of your screen. Bob has been observing in washington or half a century. Decades with Washington Post, hes shared pulitzer prizewinning first of the watergate scandal and second in 2003, is a leap reported for coverage of the 911 terrorist attacks. s books also a big news and run any readers. His latest book rage is his 20th book, and all have been national bestsellers. We are accustomed to bobs books taking us behind the scenes of highlevel meetings and into the mind is of those making critical u. S. Policy decisions. This extraordinary are what is extraordinary about rage, but 17 times, while the book was being written, providing a remarkable series of glimpses into the presence thinking at key moments. It
Liberation is not appropriate to me its a mistake halloween has become a good holiday here in italy these are useless holidays honestly im not sorry for it. Even just going to 8 oclock here in moscow you with r. T. International now raids on suspected islamist militants have been carried out across france in the wake of fridays brutal beheading of a teacher in this part of a crackdown promised by the interior minister 80 investigations have been opened into online hatred arrests have already been made since this morning 3 separate have taken place and more will take place 50 associative structures will be assessed some will be shut down. Meanwhile thousands gathered in paris on sunday in tribute to the teacher and to denounce the incident as an attack on the country secular values that yours have been taking place to across france hundreds gathered into losing little to crying violence and supporting free speech a National Tribute to the teacher is also planned for wednesday heres how
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the government of thailand has announced it will cancel the countrys state of emergency and in an attempt to call the ongoing student led protests since last week democracy protesters have assembled daily in bangkok demanding the Prime Ministers resignation the redrafting of the constitution and a reform of thailands monarchy Prime Minister prime you know it just said on wednesday it was time for people to stop taking to the streets there up with the protestors have made their voices and views heard why it is now time for them to reconcile their views with those of other segments of thais society or through their representatives in parliament. But demonstrators have pledged to. New gathering they want the Prime Minister to step down in the next 3 days they say the protests have been steadily gaining momentum since mid july echoing last summers protests in hong kong and that parallel has not been lost on activists from both p
Hello im christine one day its good to have your company tensions are high in guinea following sundays general election official results all but the opposition candidate has declared himself the wind up 4 days chill. Supporters have been involved with clashes with Security Forces. And a cream is burning although the outcome of dannys president ial election is still days away. The prospect of a 3rd president ial term for incumbent alpha conde is fueling desperation and fury among supporters of the opposition. I am speaking to the Election Commission alpha conde has been in power since 2010 instead of. Wheat all of guinea chose the union of Democratic Forces of guinea thats what guinea wants if the us d. G. Is not elected guinea will not become. But guinea is already far from calm. The current bout of violence started the day after the election when opposition candidate below declared himself the winner of the ballot before the release of official results. I dont like tourists and this e
Suzanne it is a pleasure to welcome you all here to do to our conversation on Foreign Policy and the u. S. President ial election. This event is part of the brookings policy 2020 series which seeks to empower voters ,ith factbased, datadriven nonpartisan information to better understand the policy matters discussed by candidates running for office this year. Thank you all for joining us. We are 29 days away from november 3. Americans will cast their ballots for the next president , but the future of americas global role is also at the ballot. Election,ward the todays conversation will focus in particular on its implications for the transatlantic relationship and u. S. Foreign policy toward europe. Many of leaders and their counterparts around the world are watching the election closely. While there are differing views about how the upcoming november election will shape the relationship, few in europe or it will revert to its previous form. The europeanfrom council on Foreign Relations