Arizona, i am Deborah Peters and my cohost is the Pulitzer Prize winning and distinguished Foreign Correspondent and columnt for the Washington Post and i am happy to say my friend james hoagland. Good to be here. Im delightedou could join us. I offered this evening, our copies are somewhere, the ckiest the luckiest man life with john mccain. I can say truthfully that we were fascinated with i i didnt expect to read every word, once i started i couldnt put it down. Thank you. Senator mccain in 2005, i am blanking, you did 7 books. Character assassination. We sold thousands of copies of it and his office staff. We find is a little strange. After spending time with him. Before i turn this over to jim, the mccain familys mississippi group. I assumed he had western roots. Im a carpetbagger in arizona and illinois. I didnt recognize john mccain how he was perceived as a carpetbagger. I asked john grisham, in mississippi, i read a little bit and i will read it again to get her reaction, the
And the purpose for this typically un cumbersome way of describing the position i think reflected the worry that the person that play the role of special rapporteur might exceed the inquiry into occupation and go more broadly into the relationship of israel and palestine and i think the Human Rights Council was trying to avoid that kind of free inquiry for under the limited inquiry it was a means of set up pretty when your freedom rather than expanding it. Yes curtailing it and also it preclude me from examining whether the palestinians were in some ways also violating human rights within the territory they administer. And i tried to change that way of thinking about the mandate but there was a strong pushback against that effort because who is a fear that if the men the description was changed the mandate itself might disappear your aunt you were at the time a prominent american scholar and International Law and yet as far as i know it was the United States on to the outgoing Bush Adm
After our Special Report on the torture and rape of uighur women in chinese camps, the us and British Governments promise serious consequences for beijing. A Hotel Quarantine scheme for uk residents returning from Coronavirus Hotspots is expected to come into force on the 15th of february. Hello and welcome whether youre watching in the uk or Around The World. We start in washington where President Joe Biden has made his first majorforeign President Joe Biden has made his first major Foreign Policy speech as president. Diplomacy is back he said. And america is back ready to work with others to solve global challenges once again. It was a huge shift in tone, and in direction from the last four years. The president said he was prepared to talk to americas adversaries and pointed to an early example the extension of a treaty with russia to limit Nuclear Weapons stocks. But he also had a warning for moscow. At the same time, i made it clear to President Putin in a manner very different fro
A cease fire deal in geneva the biggest step yet towards peace there after nearly a decade of war. I appealed to all stakeholders and regional actors to respect the provisions of the ceasefire agreement and ensured its implementation we dont delay. Foreign ministers from the media and azerbaijan meet separately with u. S. Secretary of state might. Try to defuse tensions over not going to cut about. In the past our u. S. President donald trump has announced that israel and sudan have agreed to normalize relations sudan becomes the 3rd to arab nation this year to do such a deal earlier donald trump also told congress he was removing sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism removal from bat list has been a top priority for sudans Transitional Government as it tries to revive a struggling economy. In sudan they wanted to do a deal and that was in particular nice because they essentially better war with israel for. A long time i dont know if it was fighting i dont know that but pr
Its about 50 minutes. Welcome to rnegie connects, a virtual series of conversations and on issues of critical iortance. Tays conversation on how the world sees america is especially timely. We are on the cusp of one of the most consequenti elections in American History and even though the nation is preoccupied with covid and economic recovery and Foreign Policy tends to be an inside the beltway issue, its likely not to figure prominently in Voter Preferences and choices in this electction the resultof , that election will have a decisive impact on how america acts in the world and how the world evaluates the consequences of those actions. I ththink its clear that we are at a crossroads. Donald trump has played the role of disruptor, fundamentally altering the policies ofis for postwar, postcold war predecsors, embracing auoritarians, rejecting alliances and multilateral diplplomacy and embarking on wht caonly be described as a wholesale withdrawal or to or a threat to withdraw from so