Good morning from moscow its friday the 13th of december its 9 am here in the russian capital it is 6 am in the u. K. Which is waking up to. Election results which weve seen shocks and celebrations quite Seismic Shift in those results too Boris Johnsons conservative party has won a majority in parliament after a strong showing in that election the Prime Minister says that it gives him a powerful mandate to bring home in the new year as for the Opposition Labor Party suffered a series of humiliating defeat with its leader Jeremy Corbyn saying that he will not lead labor into the next election its been a night of scalps being claimed in some key seats arguably the biggest humiliation for the labor leader Jeremy Corbyn is the loss of veteran Denis Skinner not only a character in parliament but an arch labor. Veteran he has lost of all people to the conservatives lets go live now to our to u. K. And westminster for our special election coverage going Boris Johnsons way as he wins a lot of
Good afternoon i hope everybody had a good thanksgiving break. Welcome back to washington, welcome to brookings im bruce jones the director of the policy program at brookings and its my pleasure to welcome you to our event for east Asian Pacific affairs. David stillwell is appointed as assistant secretary of state by President Trump of the 20th of june he served in the air force for 35 years beginning as a Korean League west in 1980 and retiring in 2015 as a Brigadier General he was the asia adviser to the chairman of the joint death of staff from 21 to 2013 you also recently served as the director of the u. S. Focus group. He was also an adjunct fellow thank you to your service to this country. As you can see from his background the david has been at the forefront of managing the policy questions the shape the u. S. And china friendship. Working tirelessly behind the scenes to build policy with china is also then keeping our wider focus on the region as a whole. Where we have a huge n
Go against some peoples religious beliefs. Are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our Team International thomas certainly got. The International Olympic committee has stated that russias Sports Movement is clear of any wrongdoing in the latest antidoping scandal the i. O. C. However says that it will support tough sanctions on russian authorities which have been accused of manipulating antidoping data bases this comes after a World Antidoping Agency Committee Recommended a 4 year ban be applied to russia for all major sporting events are trying to give us more. So just a day after the World Antidoping Agency came out with their accommodation for a 4 year ban on the russian side consisting of many elements the International Olympic Committee Said that it would support the toughest measures against those responsible for the manipulations with the databases but they pointed out that they believe the russian athletes and also the Russian National Olympic Committee
Successful meeting. 70 years after its foundation here in london it is true to say nato is the most successful alliance in history and guarantees for peace and prosperity of the billion people around the world in 29 countries shortly 30 of course. Everybody also attested to the fundamental reason that the success and its based on the idea of solidarity and the values of freedom and democracy and fun for all encapsulated in article five of the north atlantic treaty that we come to each others mutual defense. Thats why nato works and is so powerful and successful and of course theyve argued you cant be complacent about that or remotely. Youve got to ensure that we continue to spend on the collective defense and thats why weve made the case that it is what nato will spend for any member and we have been successful in that campaign since the summit in 2014. Actually, there has been a substantial increase in spending by our european friends of 130 billion. It will rise to 400 million by 202
Level russia has expelled 2 german diplomats it comes in response to a similar move by berlin all amid a spout or a murder probe tell a quarter picks up the story. The Russian Foreign minister has given the diplomats and question 7 days to leave the country in a tit for tat response to the German Governments decision when they themselves decided to expel 2 Russian Diplomats the german and busta has received a note of protest over the groundless decision to expelled 2 Russian Diplomats from berlin as a mere response to german diplomats must leave russia within the next 7 days now it was just last week that the German Government made this decision to expel 2 Russian Diplomats for the cut from the country and the official report said that russia was not being active enough in cooperating within vesta geisha into the murder of a Georgian National named still in can congress feeley now the german prosecutors even say that russia moscow may have ordered the murder itself but russia denies th