On bauers take it to the chancellor shipped to us inside the russian fake news factory it was a lower tells you know you news that the people indicted for alleged meddling in the u. S. President ial election are just the tip of the iceberg. Also coming up in the next sixty minutes and they tend n. P. R. Chatting sees a Winter Olympics debut as new warnings of big air competition wows the crowds in south korea and. Then were live at the red carpet for the hot wind bark at the twenty eighteen Berlin International Film Festival well give you our picks so i thought that coveted gold and that. Laid a hallmark thanks very much for your company every. On human rights monitors say the Syrian Government has stepped up its bombardment of a rebel held area close to the syrian capital damascus killing scores of people the syrian observatory for human rights says the Government Air raids on Eastern Ghouta have killed seventy one people over the past twenty four hours and injured three hundred twent
Announcer earlier today, former Vice President joe biden discusses the article he recently cowrote on russia and look at current relations with the kremlin, russias interference in the middle east and the foreignpolicy approach of the Obama Administration. From the council of Foreign Relations, this is one hour and 20 minutes. Good afternoon. I want to welcome one and all to odays council on Foreign Relations meeting. Liek al iron ridge you to read thisurge you to read issue. Havelk about how countries failed or either dealt with the legacies of their own past. This deals with countries like south africa and also the United States, given our complicated legacy. As well as russia, china and others. I would invite people to look at it. The subject of today is another article in the magazine. I should probably introduce myself. My name is richard hoss, i work here at the council on Foreign Relations. [applause] richard we are joined today by the gentleman on my right, joe biden who served
A protest leader now hes been deported to poland we are at kiev to find out why. And the second in command of British Charity oxfam resigned after it emerged that oxfam aid workers paid for prostitutes while working in haiti. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program the leaders of south africas ruling party the African National congress are meeting to decide the future of the countrys embattled president pressure on jacob zuma has been growing since december when he was replaced as a. N. C. Leader by the countrys Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa the seventy five year old zuma has been dogged by scandal since coming to power in two thousand and nine he is currently fighting the reinstatement of seven hundred and eighty three corruption charges and if he refuses to step down the president could face another no confidence vote in parliament or impeachment. For more lets bring in jacki sailors executive director of the institute for Security Studies at the tory i thank you so much for joining
Jefferson and friends divided. Look for these titles and bookstores this coming week and watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on cspan2. He is also the director or International Institution and Global Governance program. Known in shorthand as the iigg. Stewart is a quintessential policy practitioner at the rockefeller studies program. As a doctorate in International Relations from Oxford University where he was a rhodes scholar. He served on the state Department Policy and planning staff for the george w. Bush of administration and he has been with us here at cfr since 2008. As you might have gathered from stewarts very long title that he is an expert in multilateral cooperation and International Institutions. He has written widely as well on topics ranging from fragile states to u. N. Security Council Reform to the merits of Ad Hoc Coalitions of the willing. I will refer you to the internationalist available here on cfr. Org but tonight we are not here to talk ab
Spains attempt to take control of catalonia. Im not matheson this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the polls are open in japan where Prime Minister shinzo seeks to become the countrys longest serving leaders since the second world war. Not giving up u. S. Secretary of state rex tell us ins in saudi arabia for another bid to end the blockade against qatar. And we meet the families who set up home in deescalation zones seeking sanctuary from the war in syria. Got only as regional president has denounced moves by the Spanish Government to take control of the region. Among says its an attack on democracy and the rule of law i drew simmons has more from barcelona. An extraordinary day most would say for all the wrong reasons Mariano Rajoy said he had no alternative but to trigger article one five five which some say means repression catalonia. Is one description he said what can he do when people in government here were breaking the law not engaging in any dialogue earlier on and