Welcome to the first monday in august, august 5, our first monthly program. These programs are a partnership of three organizations. The university of Southern California Annenberg Center for leadership and policy, the Public Policy the publicd Diplomacy Association of america , whose president is also here. Our speaker today is has many us. Gs to tell i know she has been trying to figure out how to cut it down, so i will cut my introduction short. Libby liu is the longest serving, by far, head of a network of u. S. International broadcasting. She goes back to the bush administration, which no one else i think can claim. Radio free asia, which is what she heads, brings journalism from the denied areas of china,orth korea, and other areas winning awards, and then, of course, turns around and sends journalism back to denied areas. Libby, in addition to being the longest serving network head in u. S. International broadcasting, i believe is the only one who has both an mba and a law degre
The usc center on communication leadership and policy. [chatter] welcome to the first monday in august, august 5, our first monthly program. These programs are a partnership of three organizations. The university of Southern California Annenberg Center for leadership and policy, the Public Policy the publicd Diplomacy Association of america , whose president is also here. Our speaker today is has many us. Gs to tell i know she has been trying to figure out how to cut it down, so i will cut my introduction short. Libby liu is the longest serving, by far, head of a network of u. S. International broadcasting. She goes back to the bush administration, which no one else i think can claim. Radio free asia, which is what she heads, brings journalism from the denied areas of china,orth korea, and other areas winning awards, and then, of course, turns around and sends journalism back to denied areas. Libby, in addition to being the longest serving network head in u. S. International broadcasti
Welcome to the first monday in august, august 5, our first monthly program. These programs are a partnership of three organizations. The university of Southern California Annenberg Center for leadership and policy, the Public Policy the publicd Diplomacy Association of america , whose president is also here. Our speaker today is has many us. Gs to tell i know she has been trying to figure out how to cut it down, so i will cut my introduction short. Libby liu is the longest serving, by far, head of a network of u. S. International broadcasting. She goes back to the bush administration, which no one else i think can claim. Radio free asia, which is what she heads, brings journalism from the denied areas of china,orth korea, and other areas winning awards, and then, of course, turns around and sends journalism back to denied areas. Libby, in addition to being the longest serving network head in u. S. International broadcasting, i believe is the only one who has both an mba and a law degre
Situation in the gulf and how to ensure safe passage for ships off the coast of yemen and iran let me just emphasize that we dont believe war with iran is inevitable and we dont seek war with iran. What we seek is to terrorism from destabilizing and malign activities across the region and we believe the recent adjustments that weve made to our force posture have had some effect toward that end i still acknowledge that attacks by iranian proxies are occurring against the kingdom of saudi arabia from yemen and thats a problem that needs to be addressed. Well the United Nations has called outside the arabia and the United Arab Emirates for failing to honor their aid pledges to yemen both countries promised to give 750000000. 00 of humanitarian assistance at the u. N. A fundraiser in february but the u. N. Aid chief says only a small proportion of the money has been handed over in the past 6 months saudi arabia has given just over 120000000. 00 while the u. A. E. Paid nearly 200000000. 00
Instead of big tech we should be thinking about small tech how do we fund say acknowledges that are just tools for people not surveillance devices we need to start having these conversations and not just in reaction to the latest leak or the latest app that has a privacy issue that you know blows up on twitter we Start Talking about this is a systemic issue. Judge in new york has decided to finance here Jeffrey Epstein must stay in jail while awaiting trial the 66 year old is charged with sex trafficking dobsons of underage girls the judge said epstein who is who was once close to to donald trump is a flight risk now to his ownership of a jet and 2 private islands. Argentina has designated hezbollah as a terrorist organization and blames a Lebanese Movement for 2 attacks on its soil and the announcement coincided with a visit by the u. S. Secretary of state like. Well as ours is marking the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Jewish Center that killed 85 people there as a bow has th