Afternoon or good evening, depending on wherever you are sitting right now and joining us for this session. May peace be upon you. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the second event of the embassy of afghanistans listen and peace series. We are glad to be hosting this event on lebanons agreement and partnership with the Atlantic Council. A wonderful partner of the embassy in washington, i want to offer a very warm thank you to the Atlantic Council for their help in organizing this very important discussion. And all the great work that they are continuously doing. Furthermore, i would like to express my gratitude to doctor patricia, and doctor daniel. For taking this time to share their knowledge and insight with us today. , and busted or i think you not just for joining us today but for all of the great work you have done in afghanistan over the years. Its an honor to have you with us today, thank you for moderating and guiding us through this conversation. For those of you who
General Assembly World leaders convene for a special session is there a multilevel. Pandemic and the number of deaths in russia suggests that the virus is taking a far greater told them to government is admitting well meet an undertaker who tells us he is overwhelmed. And a key architect of the European Union and the g. 7 dawns from code big seen former french president to scott to lead france during the 19 seventies and laid the foundations for europes single currents. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to our viewers all around the world welcome we start tonight with the latest from the pandemic here in germany and the news is. Not good the head of the countrys Public Health institute says that germany is still nowhere near bringing the 2nd wave of corona virus infections under control a partial lockdown in place since early november has stabilized the numbers but those numbers remain to haul. The coronavirus pandemic is not yet letting up in germany. The head of the
This hearing of the National Subcommittee will come to order. Welcome, everyone to todays hybrid hearing, house members will appear in person, others will appear remotely. Let me remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending Physicians Office all individual attending the hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who choose not to wear a face mask will not be recognized. Let me make a few reminders for members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they are speaking as active speaker mode. A timer is visible in front of you. Members appearing remotely, youre familiar with webex by now but let me remind everyone of a few points, you can see each other speaking during the hearing whether in personal remote as long as you have your webex set to active speaker view. If you have any questions about this please Contact Committee staff. We have a timer visible on your screen when
The negotiation process may have problems but the request is that we move forward with patience and a lot of attention. And the house carter says it will spare no efforts to support the initiative along with help from the International Community and. So the historic talks aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of war and misery in afghanistan a funny taking place in negotiators from the Afghan Government and the taliban meeting here in doha given their Opening Statements already and both sides expressed optimism for peace and a willingness to negotiate each there has vastly different goals and reaching an agreement will be a difficult task. Photos of food we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof a game after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the negatives microphone we all know what happened to us throughout these years and maybe stand today we now need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a new future that we can de
A deal in israel today as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the lead in a unity government to end a long running political crisis. We begin in latin america which is emerging as a global coronavirus hotspot crumbling Health Systems struggling economies and political divisions are making matters worse in some countries and brazil which is the worst hit in the region with the 4th highest number of cases in the world president jabil tomorrow has been a rallying his supporters to back his call to end the lockdown and reopen the economy of the game according to the president we will change brazils destiny even with this crisis affecting the entire world thanks to mr spicer the wonderful people here we are together brazil is ours. Well brazil has recorded over 15000 deaths more than all other latin american nations combined 230000 people are known to be infected there but limits on testing experts say are likely hiding the true much higher figure in chile one of the regions other major