Assistant secretary of state for middle Eastern Affairs discusses u. S. Middle east strategy and he talks about u. S. Relations in the region. Secretary of state, mike pompeos recent trip to italy and chinas expansion in the middle east. From earlier this week at the Atlantic Council in washington, its an hour and 50 minutes. Okay, everyone. Were ready to commence. Okay. We are joined with us here today to kick off the programming, a discussion of the u. S. Role in the middle east given all of the very exciting news that seems to happen every single day. We are here. David shanker, a good, old friend of mine will share with us his great and unmatched wisdom about the u. S. Policy in the region. Let me give you a little background on david. He was sworn in as the assistant secretary of state for near Eastern Affairs. June 14th of this year. Prior to joining the department of state, he was director of the program on arab politics at the Washington Institute for near east policy from 2000
Iraq when we come back a difficult and dangerous business with the people making palestine its a battle to independence has killed thousands but now theres fresh hopes of ending the conflict in cameroon more that. Hello there still some very warm weather across the southeast and pin to the mid Atlantic States in United States we have got this a clear area here this is where the heat is in place and then this line of cloud is where weve got the dividing line between the much cooler air to the northwest and this warm moist air across much of the south as he had through friday the temperatures beginning to come down so washington d. C. 24 degrees 18 celsius in new york but atlanta 35 that is still more than 10 degrees above the average for this time of year cooling kansas city at 15 degrees and as well here weve got more snow to the rockies as we head through friday by saturday that clears it means fairly swiftly eastwards and then weve got some fairly heavy rain across the upper midwest
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Going to do that weve also heard from the main breaks in the goetia to Michel Barnier who said look there is progress but there is still a lot of work to be done and what will happen now is bonnie will discuss the u. K. Proposals with e. U. Officials and we understand that in the coming days there will be talks between u. K. And e. U. Officials but time is running out of course theres a summit and a you summit on october the 17th and by then that is when anything any new deal would have to be signed so any talks on negotiations that do take place would have to take place very rapidly indeed ok natasha thank you. So had. A day after a student was shot by Hong Kong Police anti beijing protests show no sign of letting up as Benjamin Netanyahu works to build a Coalition Legal hearings begin to decide whether hell face trial for corruption. We might see a shower or 2 again in the southern part of iran or pakistan as the monsoon trough that really threw it out there disappears one small litt
How the rain is pretty well scattered throughout Southeast Asia at the moment the rain band should be moving south and i would the sun the sun the evidence of that but equally just look at the satellite picture showers all over the place some concentration recently in thailand and that could intensify the evening cambodia you could well see by tuesday a green cent which means heavy rain but shasta larkins no well have to sumatra mention lazy down towards singapore and particularly in borneo as yet java looks fairly dry and still a ways hes got a couple of days off as well having seen some pretty wet weather in the last few days in australia and a change of seasons become very apparent reason to temper his almost record high now on their way down again once more this is a fairly typical scene of a front this got on top to care mix it so the cold potential is there its not that bad on monday 80 degrees in the sunshine in melbourne adelaide bit less in hobart and its larger rain or tasman