Grateful. Please join me in thanking john and christine. applause i dont think that will be a problem but i will direct you. Also thank you for those who have supported todays activity. They have done it in a way that is exemplary for the way a policy discussion should do so to set up a conference so there is no responsibility for what we say but but it is an issue of significant broad interest we are grateful for the support. Looking at what has happened in the gulf there is a broader National Debate if the us should be digging in or pulling out. Iran is perceived to be a threat. Even within the chump Administration Even how the us should deal with that threat the us increasingly has been facing asymmetrical threats and responding with conventional tools that has been expensive and affected limited effectiveness quite delighted to have everyone on the stage tonight. It seems to me, the last panel kind of kicked it all to you guys. So this is a fundamentally diplomatic problem. One of
A legal by. The u. S. Secretary of state pay launches a blistering attack against the International Criminal court gives the green light to an investigation into possible war crimes in afghanistan. Free speech advocates in the United Kingdom condemned the oxford womens festival decision to no platform a feminist professor following complaints from trans activists. And some members of a fight back and some transects had said that they would not appear at the conference if i was there so they asked me if i would like to invite myself and just not cause. They were going to talk about that its just today pm here in moscow this thursday the 5th of march my name is kevin oh were live here at the International World news center. 1st high stakes that underway talks big ones in moscow this thursday have been continue for hours now as the leaders of russia and turkey try to ease the violence in syrias war stricken province the 2 International Powers are backing opposing sides in the conflict whi
The ancient connections to todays conflict. My way i hope people in syria said lub provence are describing a tense count in the more sleep rebel held area after a cease fire to affect turkey which backs Opposition Forces brokered the deal with russia thats our idea the Syrian Government or president richard Tayyip Erdogan and blood amir peretz agreed the deal during hours of talks in moscow on thursday they said theyll establish a 12 kilometer wide security corridor along it lives emma for highway that connects the government stronghold of latakia with syrias largest city of aleppo know the syrian armys offensive or to retake it lopez pushed nearly a 1000000 civilians towards turkeys border and threatens a direct confrontation between turkey. And russia now has seen of course you know who is in the turkish city of her time not far from the Syrian Border and she joins me know cinema. Has been struck and for no it appears to be holding. While there so far it appears to be holding there i
To solve him on this one. Right now, we are gonna shift over to thinking about some of the more diplomatic aspects of the problem set and one of the things we heard from the Previous Panel is a lot of Solutions Come from the diplomatic toolkit. We have another remarkable panel to help us think through the. On the extreme right from your perspective, ambassador patterson is the former assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. She was ambassador to four Different Countries egypt, pakistan, colombia and el salvador. She was also the assistant secretary of state for national law enforcement, the aptly named drug and thugs portfolio and she was the acting ambassador and deputy ambassador to the united nations. Next, we have ambassador doug silman of the institute in washington. He previously served as the u. S. Ambassador to iraq and kuwait and was the deputy chief in baghdad and ankara. At the end, doctor vaez was on the International Crisis group where he previously served as
Is new can nonproliferation still a realistic goal for russia hosts a conference on the issue at a time of global unease about atomic ambitions in iran and north korea is there the political will to limit and abolish Nuclear Weapons this is inside story. Hello there and welcome to the program i missed now the country with the Worlds Largest stockpile of Nuclear Weapons is holding a conference on preventing the spread and use delegates from more than 40 countries in russia as concerns grow about the threat of nuclear war talks with north korea to give up atomic weapons in return for sanctions relief have stalled russia and the us have abandoned a treaty on limiting new came missiles and a year off to america pulled out of the 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal tehran is taking more steps to produce and much geranium which could be used for weapons of began pumping gas into centrifuges on wednesday russias foreign minister opened to the conference in moscow by saying irans latest move does not pose