Around thees it mean world . To help us examine these thorny issues, please welcome the moderator for this panel, chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for nbc news andrea mitchell. [applause] ms. Mitchell thank also much. It is wonderful to be back in williamsburg. A dozen years at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation as a trustee. Let me tell you how proud and happy i am to be here today. Commemorating this important anniversary. Panelists. Th these i want you to welcome place former United States secretary defense in both the bush and obama administrations, the chancellor of william and mary, robert gates. Bob gates. [applause] and also distinguished journalist, my colleague, my , robin wright. Or [applause] all, i want to say how pleased i am to be here today with both of you. And how important this is, this conversation to be part of the challenges tothe democracy globally. I do have my iphone with me. It is turned off. The last time i went on stage at a Foreign Policy panel without
Globalization and populist movements rated these and other new developments are affecting americas democracy and any others. Democracy itself faces new forms of attack through the manipulation of social media. While collaboration among free nations is more important than ever, with it also seems more difficult than ever. What does this all mean for the future of the democratic experiment . America 400ere in years ago. Around thees it mean world . To help us examine these thorny issues, please welcome the moderator for this panel, chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for nbc news andrea mitchell. [applause] ms. Mitchell thank also much. It is wonderful to be back in williamsburg. A dozen years at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation as a trustee. Let me tell you how proud and happy i am to be here today. Commemorating this important anniversary. Panelists. Th these i want you to welcome place former United States secretary defense in both the bush and obama administrations, the chancello
Welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and Around The World. We begin in cyprus, where a Spanish Charity ship carrying vital supplies is preparing to set sail for gaza, along a new maritime aid corridor. Its been loaded with around 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies. But, without a working port, its not clear yet where the ship will actually dock or how its cargo will be distributed inside gaza. 0ur middle east correspondent Quentin Somerville is in the Port City Of Larnaca in cyprus and sent us this report. Its a drop in the ocean of gazas need, but this is the first direct aid shipment by sea about to leave cyprus. The spanish ship the open arms, seen here in larnaca port, getting ready to set sail. It has a long journey ahead of it. The barge has 200 tonnes of desperately needed essentials rice, flour and pre prepared meals. This has taken months in planning. The cargo was loaded all weekend. The final Security Clearances from israel came through in the last few
Welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and Around The World. We begin in cyprus, where a Spanish Charity ship carrying vital supplies is preparing to set sailfor gaza along a new maritime aid corridor. Its been loaded with around 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies. But, without a working port, its not clear yet where the ship will actually dock or how its cargo will be distributed inside gaza. 0ur middle east correspondent Quentin Somerville is in the Port City Of Larnaca in cyprus and sent us this report. Its a drop in the ocean of gazas need, but this is the first direct aid shipment by sea about to leave cyprus. The spanish ship The Open Arms, seen here in larnaca port, getting ready to set sail. It has a long journey ahead of it. The barge has 200 tonnes of desperately needed essentials rice, flour and pre prepared meals. This has taken months in planning. The cargo was loaded all weekend. The final Security Clearances from israel came through in the last few ho
It is now my great pleasure to introduce our guest tonight, chris hedges. Hes a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has reported on wars and insurgencies in central the persian gulf and the balkans. He became, the New York Times middle east bureau chief in 1991, and then the Balkan Bureau chief for the times in 1995. And because war is our topic tonight, its worth saying that chris has been held captive, has experienced the full force of war firsthand. What maybe fewer people know is that he is also an ordained presbyterian minister who, for many years now has been teaching inmates in new jersey prisons and who works tirelessly, tirelessly on behalf of those inmates in and when they are released released. His recent book, our class and transformation in an american prison, which you can see in the back there, comes out of that experience. Chris is the author of, many other bestselling and often prescient books. These include american fascists, the christian right and the war on ameri