Gives that ability to change. [inaudible conversations] good morning everyone. Welcome to the council of Foreign Relations its a pleasure to have george here for the belated lunch i am sure most of you know the byline very well in his new yorker articles and his most recent books and the most important chronicle of the iraq war winning the National Book award in 2014. And now his new book our man Richard Holbrook. We were thrilled to have an excerpt to focus on two pieces in afghanistan which we will talk about in this conversation i recommend the piece not as a substitute but a teaser then you will go on to read the entire 500 pages of the hardcover edition. It really is an extraordinary and fascinating book both as a chronicle and a reflection on American Foreign policy and diplomacy over that halfcentury that Richard Holbrook was a central player but also with this individual it is a really complicated rich portrait of holbrook as many of you know. I want to start not with Foreign P
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Gold cup are over and were going to talk about it then yeah are you ready. So lets start with the womens world cup of course because it was the biggest tournament this summer it was a welcome after all. The winner United States not really the Biggest Surprise is well i mean we saw the u. S. Come out strong and absolutely destroyed thailand but then i dont think a lot of people there to 13 know why but i dont think a lot of people were expecting i dont think it was as easy for them as people thought it was going to be which is good because the level of World Football in general i mean we saw spain really challenge them france england it was not a walk in the park any of those games were not easy so its good to talk about the final against the netherlands you know the defending like their kind european champions a bit of an unexpected final maybe or do you think it was kind of one could expect that holland would go so far in the tournament well the netherlands like you said are the reign
Was. Plus this german politician was allegedly shot in the head at close range by in right wing extremist police are investigating whether the suspect acted alone or was part of into looked into network and at the womens world cup the stamp carries force for goals as the australian and waltz into the tournament left their last 16 with a comprehensive victory over jamaica. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program new figures out from the United Nations Refugee Agency have revealed record numbers of people were forced to flee their homes last year because of war or persecute. And the figures are staggering more than 70000000 people were displaced now most refugees come from syria the war there has forced nearly 7000000 people to leave the country afghanistan south sudan myanmar and somalia also saw millions leaving because of conflict and persecution now where are they going what turkey tops the list of host countries with 3700000 people followed by pakistan uganda and sudan germany is 5th