One cia director, george h. W. Bush, later became president himself. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this program. Good evening, everyone. My name is ruth robbins. Its a pleasure to welcome you here tonight for our program. A couple of quick things first. One is, if you could, please put away your cell phones, turn them off, silence them, any electronic devices, we would appreciate it. If youre wondering why bright lights in here, because youre all going to be on tv. Cspan is taping tonight. Im kidding, youre not going to be on cspan, the speaker will be on cspan. When we get to the q a, they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. So if you have a question, just try to wait until they bring the mic to you so we dont have to repeat it. The speaker will repeat the questions so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it or however they work it. Our speaker tonight is david robarge, received a phd at columbia university. After teaching at columbia, working for banker
A collision course with china as its Pro Independence president wins a 2nd term. In 2 countries ravaged by war 2 separate cease fire agreements are now in effect warring sides in syria and libya have agreed to put down their arms after negotiations brokered by russia and turkey the 2 countries support opposing sides in each conflicts more in syria in just a moment but 1st to libya where warlord tiny for have ta had initially rejected calls for a ceasefire aljazeera. Reports from tripoli. Still rejecting a ceasefire. In the russia last week. Have sort of changed his mind a few before it was due to go into effect. The general command of the libyan ira bomb forces announces a cease fire in the western side of libya the ceasefire starts from one minute past midnight on the 12th of january 2020 the other party should stop any type of military operation at the same time we will respond harshly to any violation of the cease fire. In a joint press conference earlier putin angular merkel made t
Agreeing to calls from both russia and turkey for a cease fire. And with all your sports veteran. Died after a crash during sunday 7 stage of the race in saudi arabia. Irans government is facing growing anger over its initial failure to admit responsibility for the downing of the ukrainian airliner on wednesday protests have been held across the country after the revolutionary guard said it mistakenly shot down the jet killing 176 people now the Iranian Parliament is denying a cover up that has told the military precautions to avoid further disasters it follows a briefing by military leaders on the crash the recent crisis with the u. S. Was prompted by the assassination of iranian commander customs. All the money in iraq that has amir is interested in a push to ease those tensions hes the 1st leader to visit the iranian capital since all the money was killed in the u. S. Attack on january 1st 2. Walked has this visit comes as a very critical time in the region weve agreed that the only
A decisive response that makes clear what President Trump has said for months and months and months which is that we will not stand for this law of the republic of iran to take actions to put american men and women in jeopardy that type hezbollah is part of the Popular Mobilization forces a Paramilitary Group set up to fight eisel its integrated into iraqs armed forces both the u. S. Has accused some factions in the pm of taking orders from to hand rather than baghdad until recently if the u. S. And the p. M. S. Fought side by side against isiah following eisel territorial defeat 2 years ago the u. S. Retained around 5000 troops in country to support Iraqi Security forces as they search for i saw sleeper cells hiding in deserts one of those clearing operations coincided with a u. S. Mission against the type hizbullah that i know as an air base here in western Anbar Province is an important launching pad for operations against beisel but recent rocket attacks against bases where u. S. P
Torturing and killing a protester. From impeachment to immigration we take a look at issues that divide americans months before they decide if President Trump should get a 2nd. Thousands of people are trapped on a beach in an australian town as the bush fires raging across the states victoria New South Wales get even worse its now early afternoon just cars off from any help the motions the services are making preparations for a possible sea or air evacuation homes on the edge of monaco are already burning residents were told to head to the waterfront several hours ago the town is a popular holiday destination in the past few days authorities are urged tens of thousands of holidaymakers and residents to leave the area. With. Community meetings so Everybody Knows that im so this is the system was that we activated storen into that community once we were aware that that far i was about to hit the town about early this morning and with that i oclock this morning the saw arms were activated