The lunch epicenter for the National Interests, better than the atlantic council. To top off the excellent lunch we have a great dessert, ambassador john herbst is with us today. The future of ukraine, Ukraine Russia relations. We couldnt have a better speaker to address this issue. John has not only served as the Us Ambassador to ukraine but followed ukraine, the ukraine related issue for many years in his current capacity, running his European Program at the Atlanta Council and having a real in depth understanding for, lets call it eastern priority and Central Asian affairs not only served in ukraine but is pakistan if i am not mistaken but he told me one of his first jobs after leaving the state department was running a program called dealing with complex problems at the National Defense the state department trains you for dealing with complex problems. Without further a do im going to ask john to begin. As traditionally the case, this is being filmed by cspan, we are not following
Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the new president of the European Commission it was about funded line as promised to strive for a quote united and strong europe saying she will work constructively and pragmatically to achieve it she is germanys former defense minister and is the 1st woman to be elected to the top job of all the vote by members of the European Parliament in her favor was a narrow. Uncertainty until the very last minute. The members of the European Parliament knew the vote on the next Commission President was going to be close but not even the candidate herself was enough on the line would have thought it was going to be that close. Vote the 5 votes in favor 383. Things are on the line secured the majority by just 9 votes a week results in the end still enough to celebrate. My message so all of you is let us Work Together constructively because the endevor is a united a strong year old. The former German Defense minister spent the last 2 weeks building
House of representatives voted to denounce President Donald Trump for racist comments to form minority congressman on twitter again trump tonight says hes racist. And will the families of those killed on flight m. H. 17 receive justice the Malaysia Airlines flight was shot down over Eastern Ukraine 5 years ago today we look at where the investigation stands. Im sorry so much going to thank you for joining us members of the European Parliament have made history by electing the 1st woman asked Commission President germanys outgoing defense minister over the last underlined one lawmaker support for the role shes promised a quote if united and strong europe saying she would work constructively and pragmatically to achieve it she was voted in by a narrow majority. Uncertainty until the very last minute. The members of the European Parliament here install spoke new with a vote on the next Commission President was going to be close but not even the candidate herself was off on the line would
A will by the International Community the species of the of the European Union as a broke and other countries of democracies this should really push for a thought up comprehensive in the deep end of the of the suggestion is that was the last and its not out of our sorry to interrupt you if there were to be an International Investigation into the matter of jamal how shoji there would have to be some sort of Corporation Compliance from the saudis would it would there not to be. Well they would be given the chance in the if the refrain from copulation the vote will imply that they were involved or they have something to her if Everybody Knows that the saudis is them is not a lot of states you have one or 2 people who are arm of our country there is no way in the saudi system doubt if such a crime was committed where the private jets were provided the doctors were of of the military were provided top top officials were implicated no one could believe that but it is 170 to know about this s
An International Body like the Un Human Rights Council i think probably not just the case forward and put some more spot light on on the saudi leaders and demands of course more answers now or whether the saudis will comply doesnt seem like it but whether they will also try to shift the focus on Something Else within the kingdom like today theyre trying to. You know stop the religious police from exercising what used to be controversial activity within the kingdom or as weve heard earlier maybe something on the yemeni side or something on the bahraini side for the good of the century certainly the saudis would try to refocus their attention elsewhere but i think this is an important day in this accountability a process for the killing of us with the Saudi Crown Prince monod bin salman has claimed that the matter of Jamal Khashoggi is being exploited for political gain d. Think that is resonating anywhere at all in the world right now he is expected to be at the g 20 summit of course in