To this conference. The topic today is the saudi arabia United States relationship. Many of us have supported this relationship from deepening counterterrorism cooperation to championing womens rights. The challenge for each side is to reconcile cooperation, National Security issues, while valueing very different systems. Under the current leadership of both countries, these tensions have been brought into sharp focus. The nature of our military operation, human rights violations, addressing regional bad actors and more demand attention and likely change. These issues are ripe for review, and we are fortunate to have an experienced group of panelists today to delve into factors at play affecting the u. S. Approach to saudi arabia, i relationship, and its future. Todays turn to program, i would like to say a few words about the middle east policy council. It was established in 1981 to promote dialogue and education between the United States and countries of the middle east. We have thre
Tension and change. Tose issues are from form dispassionate view and we are fortunate to have an experienced group of panelists today. They affect the approach to saudi arabia, its relationship and future. Before i turn to todays program, i want to say a few words about the council. The council was established in 1981 for the purpose of promoting dialogue and education. We have three flagship programs. Our quarterly, capitol hill conference, a quarterly journal, middle east policy which jesses wrong reputation and can be found in 15 dozen libraries worldwide. Our education outreach program. It provides Educational Resources in the middle east, targeted to students and teachers. Visit us on our website. At teacheach program mideast. Org. Todays event. To this program is being live streamed on a website. I welcome all of you who have joined us on mine. Proceedings will be posted on video and transcript form will be posted. An edited transcript will be published in the next issue of our j
Just as a quick disclaimer is a nonpartisan educational organization. The institute takes no position on any issues. The views expressed in this report are mine and mine alone. Im going to make some brief comments on the report. And we will invite our two distinguished discussants up to the stage. Then i will sit with them and will ask a few questions and we chat about this topic of dismantling the corruption nexus until about 4 pm. Then we will take questions from the audience. And we were dismissed promptly at 430. What is this all about . I am a political scientist. This means our study and explain how the political world works. Not my job to offer my opinion. It is my job to explain how things work. My work stems from actual personal frustration. Letting you know my opinion. I have been frustrated with being able to predict terrible outcomes in the worlds authoritative regime. Looking around and seeing terrible things that are going to happen. Then being frustrated by the fact that
To share what this means for many members of our audience in libya this is no one who says this war penetrates into everyones life no matter how much we resist succumbing to its form it ability she goes on to say where i live its not considered close to the heavy fighting but they make sure to remind me of the war every now and then by those loud rumbles and the sound of sirens never fails to make your heart cringe as you realize that your fellow libyans are losing their lives for no good reason the smell of death is sorted to the tolls hes getting higher as the stakes do to what has this conflict in this push towards libya towards tripoli rather of them that are meant for your average resident. Actually did the residents are directly impacted by this you know fighting because water caught our cars and everything but lets talk about the displacement and the 1st place this hiding since april 3rd has displaced so far over 100000 people more of course and these people are spread around tr
Harvey proctor breaks down in court as he gives evidence in the trial of the man who accused him of being a paedophile. And marvellous murray delights the crowd as he makes a winning comeback after hip surgery at queens. Coming up on bbc news, we will let you know if defending champions usa could maintain their 100 record at the womens world cup. They started well against sweden. Good evening. Boris johnson and jeremy hunt are the final two in the race to be our next Prime Minister after michael gove was knocked out of the contest in a day of drama at westminster. The day started with four men in the running for the top job. At one oclock, after another vote by conservative mps, borisjohnson increased his lead. And the home secretary, sajid javid, was eliminated from the race. Then, this evening, another ballot, the last by tory mps. Michael gove was knocked out of the contest by just two votes. Now its down to conservative Party Members, around 160,000 of them, to decide who becomes p