Okay. Good morning. Good late morning, everyone. This is im going venture to be bold and say this is going to be the most exciting panel of the day. Because were all about solving the problems that you guys have been hearing about this morning. Im very happy to have an International Panel. It sh rufrpg by one individual because the professor is ill. So she couldnt join us. Ill try to channel her as best i can with my own personal twist. We have an International Panel that im excited about. Though thought long and hard about lou to counter disinformation especially in the context of dealing with russia. To my right, to my reed right, i have ambassador renee niberg. He is a distinguished former finnish ambassador to russia which is relevant here. And former chief executive of east consulting. He is also served as ambassador to germany for four years, actually, from 20042008. He also was head of finlands delegation to the ose which obviously also deals a lot with these types of issues. An
Prevent that action from actually putting their hands on the old reserves that is there so i dont think they will succeed here i have a lot of. Information saying that the next stage could be actually their war against American Forces in syria and also in iraq so if this happened like what happened after the American Occupation of iraq in two thousand and three i think this would be the first stating to United States i believe russia wouldnt sacrifice its second if i says actually that heavy price which they paid in syria since two thousand and fifteen they. Let me know that they wouldnt leave when we live in jeopardy were going to go to a short break and id like to point out to everyone since the pentagon can do anything it wants because it has more money than god right now it is no longer a political issue in the United States thats a tragedy were going to go to a short break and after that short break well continue with this. You know whats next for syria state to. Join me every thu
Opec the catalonian deadlock intensifies as the regions government moves to declare independence on monday i investors take a dim view of osram sending shares lower, as siemens sells its remaining stake at a discount of 1. 2 billion euros. Rex tillerson said he never considered resigning, but he does not as an nbc report that he called President Trump a moron. Good morning lets look at the european markets this morning looking at stocks across the continent. Slightly more red on the board there than green the stoxx 600 down 0. 15 right now. Looking across europe, the specific bourses, well look at the ftse 100 first, up almost 0. 25 . Dax down 0. 10 the cac flat the ftse mib down 0. 5 looking at specific sectors across europe, utilities looking positive as are autos. Telecoms are up a third of percent. Food and beverages up almost a third of a percent Real Estate Companies are down half of a percent. Now the big story, saudi Arabias King Salman arrived in moscow for talks with vladimir
Her book enabled social change activism in the internet age. First of all, professor, what do you do here at the university . Guest sociology and Public Policy where i teach and research about social movements particularly digital activism and the study of rape russian with private actors to try to control and constrain protest. Host lets start with a digital half. What is and econtact . Guest what katrina and i were trying to do in the book is highlight the way that people use Digital Tools for activism. A lot of times we think about digitally enabled social change as using Digital Media to turn people out to offline events to think about the kind of Online Support that happens for instance in the womens march. Thats one way of thinking about the impact of digital activism or Digital Media on activism but in the book we wanted to look at a different way people use the tools which is to try to actually engage in activism online so thinking about online petitions or we might think about
Donald trump on becoming president , and expressing the hope that both countries would take their relationship to a whole new level. Now, moscows relations with the us and the west are so bad that the russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev talks of them as ruined. That was after americas response to the recent Chemical Attack in syria. But even before that, there was the stand off in ukraine, and accusations of russian interference in american elections. Now there are fears the russians could meddle in the French Elections and other european votes this year. My guest is vladimir chizhov, russias ambassador to the eu. Will russia promise not to pervert democracy in europe . Vladimir chizhov, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Frances Foreign Ministerjean marc ayrault has accused russia of meddling in french democratic life. Is that true . Of course its not. Well, im afraid that this wave of anti russian rhetoric has become contagious, and has spread across the atlantic ocean. Thats very ba