Good afternoon. Im Karen Greenberg and im the director of the center on National Security at fordham law school. Insulated today to be joined by allie phon by the new book the black standard declassified how tortured the war on terror after 911. I thank you probably know olley from some events weve done together, former supervisory special agent with the fbi, investigated highprofile terrorism cases before, during and after the 911 attack and in recent years he is brought his investigative skills to the private sector and is ceo of the soup on center and specialty is Global Security affairs in everything from governance culture to state actors to nonstate actors and i will try to put as much of that today as we can. One thing i want to point out is each day the Soufan Center publishes a soufan brief which is something you should read every day. It is a wonderful deep dive into a timely issue that goes to the heart of what we should be thinking about even if its not in the headlines. An
Provisions of the ceasefire agreement and ensured its implementation. Also on these Foreign Ministers from a media and azerbaijan meet separately with the u. S. Secretary of state to defuse tensions are going to going to cut about spains Prime Minister says his countrys real total of coronavirus cases could exceed 3000000 triple the official count. Starting with that breaking news from the white house where u. S. President donald trump has announced that israel and sudan have now agreed to normalize their relations sudan now becoming the 3rd arab nation this year to such a deal this was after donald trump and told congress that he will remove sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism that removal from the list has been a top priority for sudans Transitional Government as it tries to revive its. So lets start with alan fischer whos at the white house for us this friday hi alan take us through this while one by one will do the will do the peace peace deal the normalizing of rela
The Prime Minister of armenia and the president of the Russian Federation signed a statement which declares a complete cease fire and of military action in the nagornokarabakh war zone starting from midnight on november 10th moscow time armenias Prime Minister described the deal as unbelievably painful. The backlash was immediate moments after the announcement furious summons traders stormed into parliament in your avant to protest the move the conflict they argue is about much more than land. But armenia had undergone a number of defeats azeri forces overran nagornokarabakh 2nd city shoe shop and they were on their way to the capital when the deal was signed some analysts say armenia didnt have much choice the prospect of conflict and its costs could be so much worse for the armenians given the current rate of momentum. So hes in a difficult position to be sure and it remains to be seen what the future holds for him more than a 1000 people on both sides have died tens of thousands are
The United States would do the same thing and then we would use that as a platform to build with our allies and partners what we call the longer and stronger agreement and to deal with a number of other issues that are deeply problematic in the relationship with iran but we are a long ways from that point around it is out of compliance on a number of fronts and it would take some time should it make the decision to do so for it to come back into compliance in time for us then to assess whether it was meeting its obligations so were not were not there yet to say the least. Chaper townsend has more now from washington d. C. It just isnt clear what the buy did ministrations actually saying because what they had promised on the campaign trail and even said during the transition period was we will go into compliance when iran goes into compliance and robertos the us off draw that broke the terms of the deal broke International Law or by breaking a un ratified treaty or bugs the us and the u