Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I am isabella, welcome to the Wilson Center. Toill use the moment advertise our Upcoming Event that will happen next week on friday, january 19th, 10 30 to 12 00. We will have a book talk, the ukrainian night and intimate history of revolution. Speaking will be the author of the book, associate professor of history at Yale University as well as a former Wilson Center as during i will also well as a former Wilson Center fellow. I will also take the opportunity to ask you to follow us on twitter and facebook. Read our twoure to excellent blogs. And theses on russia other focuses on ukraine. Todays event, all you need to know about Russian Hackers. We are pleased to have a speaker who is here with us for a few months as an expert at the Canon Institute and an eight investigative journalist and an investigative journalist based in moscow, russia. At theted his career biggest russian news website at the time. After the editor in chief was fired by the pub
The story that those journalists were working on a detailed investigation into a mass execution in a village in eastern myanmar. And weve seen their report. Our reporter, James Clayton, is across the story and is with me now. What has just happened tonight . Reuters have tonight decided to publish a story that it claims is in the International Public interest, why they have published now is they have been working on the story for weeks been in touch with those journalists in myanmar, in a prison there, and they say they have their consent to publish this story now. What were they investigating . Well, reuters say that their investigation is the first to obtain evidence from some of the perpetrators of this horrific violence, so they spoke to Police Officers in myanmar and members of a paramilitary group, and spoke to local villagers in inn din, and what they managed to amass was testimony of really quite nasty crimes and they implicate the military, they found pictures or were given pi
150,000 affected dozens have died. Im lee wellington with the sports news including athletition accused. World doping federation arrived for a report that a third of Medal Winners could have been using drugs. Claim and counterclaim over casualties said to be caused by turkeys air campaign in the border regions, some say 10 were killed. Some insist that shells hit turkish p. K. K. Fighters shelter. Tensions rise. Demonstrations in kurdish areas in turkey and in iraq. Turkey appearing determined to maintain its attacks on i. S. I. L. In syria and the p. K. K. Ankara blaming that group, p. K. K. For a Suicide Attack in which two turkish soldiers were killed. Zeina khodr sends this report. Reporter another attack against Turkish Security personnel. This time it involved a suicide truck bomb. At least two soldiers were killed 20 injured. Authorities are blaming the outlawed Kurdish Workers Party or the p. K. K. Sundays bombing is seen as an escall eights in the conflict between turkey and t
So welcome to this very special event. Welcome to the World Jewish Congress. On behalf of the president and the ceo cant be here today unfortunately but theyre definitely here in spirit. We want to thank you for attending. I want to acknowledge our chief program officer. Thank you. Tonights event is a very special event with a very special guest as well. Its under the the World Jewish Congress and young professionals, many of those anybody members here are port or that nutwork network and its in the field of Public Policy and diplomacy on behalf of the World Jewish Congress and we are all passionate about the causes to represent the causes of the jew eu people and to speak up on behalf of the causes and represent them. Im a member of the jd corps myself. Tonights event is organized under the tiedle the antiisrael agent and well analyze the global efforts to delegitimize israel and how to combat these ugly initiatives, and we of very happy we have a special guest speaker here today. We
The offeree Smith Memorial foundation has a fantastic new vice chair in mary erdos. [applause] yes. Erdos is the ceo of jpmorgans Asset Management and wealth division. She knows her way around money. But like all her best leaders, she is not interested in money for moneys sake, but the good it can do in the world. In her 20 plus years in new york, mary has watched the archdioceses works out the needy and has seen how effective the often east myth Memorial Foundation is in getting funds to a wide range of charitable organizations. Mary, im sure, is sought after for all manner of where the causes. Two timid so strongly to the foundation says a lot. So sternly toit the foundation says a lot. N in theth generatio family to attend sacred heart schools. Mary can tell you more about the work of the foundation. Ladies and gentlemen, i present to you the vice chair, mary erdos. [applause] thank you, everybody. On behalf of the entire board, we want to thank you for coming out for this historica