Council we value european allies and valued u. S. Engagement in the transatlantic relationship and the initiative is precisely to make the case that the European Union is a key, critical Strategic Partner of the United States. Part of our role is to explain the developments within the European Union and to engage policymakers and great bridge between policymakers United States and europe especially in times of Great Power Competition for as you know president macron of france is laid out an ambitious agenda for reform of the European Union for engagement of partners like russia, reforming the eurozone, reforming and stepping up European Defense integration as well as changing enlargement policy. These are issues that are think will discuss today with the minister. Let me first turn to start with initial remarks and then we will open to a conversation with all of you and we want this to be as interactive as possible. Thank you very much. [applause] good afternoon. Thank you for hosting
Iran. This event was held at the ol university of michigans ford school of a policy in ann arbor. Hello everybody and welcome. I would like first to add my thanks to the weiser family as well as to the American Academy of diplomacy with which weve been fortunate to partner to bring todays event together. The topic we will address is obviously timely and extremely important. Going to talk about us iran relations, the nuclear deal, politics and security y in the gulf more generally and of course those issues are linked to a whole range of other regional issues relevant to us Foreign Policy in the middle east from israel and the palestinian territories to the conflicts in syria, yemen and afghanistan and to have a discussion onsuch an important and wideranging array of issues we have assembled a dream team of diplomats with experience in the region. Im going to introduce them briefly and trust me, introducing them in a time efficient manner requires a lot of distillation of their icincred
To get brexit done and get this excellent deal over. The dup arent the only ones not in favour of the, labour say they wont be backing it either. As it stands, we cannot support this deal and will oppose it and parliament on saturday. And with two weeks to go until the uks official departure date the eu says theres no reason for any further delays. Also on the programme. High stakes diplomacy in ankara. The us Vice President announces a deal has been reached with president erdogan for a brief ceasefire in northern syria. Hes the key witness the impeachment inquiry wants to hear from. Today Gordon Sondland answers questions about pressure for ukraine to investigate joe biden. Welcome. Michelle is in washington. Im Christian Fraser here in brussels. The deal with the eu is done. Boris johnson has managed to get an agreement, something many of us thought was impossible. The eu did move, contrary to its own assertions, and to those of many experts and, dare i say it, journalists. But to ge
Snails are being released back into the wild after a successful Breeding Programme at chester zoo. Hello, a very good morning to you. Welcome to bbc newsroom life. The first round of voting in the conservative leadership contest is under way, tory mps have their first chance, this morning, to vote for the person they want to see lead the party in the country. At least one of these ten candidates vying to be oui of these ten candidates vying to be our next Prime Minister is going to be knocked out of the race today. The mps are holding a private ballot, with contenders needing a minimum of 17 votes to carry on. Voting started in the house of commons this morning at around 10am, with a result expected to be announced by the 1922 committee at around 1pm this afternoon. Further ballots will be held next week with the two most popular mps moving to a run of five tory Party Members. The winner is expected to be announced in the week of the 22nd ofjuly. Lets talk now to our political assistan
Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed forces. The enemy lost up to 420 troops, a tank, two armored combat vehicles and eight vehicles. Next we have footage from the artyomovsky direction, where our paratroopers carry out daring raids and get almost close to the positions of the Ukrainian Armed forces. They practice direct fire against ukrainian oporniks. Several successful such raids and the enemy is forced to leave the lines. Attempts to counter the Russian Military results. As always, they dont give, there is a very high saturation of birds in principle, its just that the night ones are more expensive, there are fewer of them, there are also night fp, they have already tried to catch us a couple of times, it didnt work, we are fast, sharp, hold on, we its okay, in the southern donetsk direction the vostok group has disrupted another rotation of militants, the lines in the vodyanoye and shelter vsushniki areas are being held with all their might. Literally, the losses in the Ukrainian Armed