Learn facts on capitol hill well, hello, and welcome into our view is joining us from Around The World. Im Becky Anderson. It is monday, may the 20, nine in am here in london. It is 11 30 a. M. In iran, where the government is expressing condolences over the deaths of president Ebrahim Raisi the countrys president , and the Foreign Minister and seven others in a helicopter, crash, rescuers are trans sparing the bodies of those killed from the crash side. And irans East Azerbaijan province to the city of tabriz. Iranian Officials Say the Helicopter Ran into trouble amid heavy fog on sunday afternoon. At the time of the crash, there were lowhanging clouds and Cool Temperatures across the region with fog settling in as the sunset will images of the Crash Site Show the remote mountainous area where the aircraft went down. The president and other officials have been attending and Inauguration Ceremony of a new near the border with azerbaijan ive and watson following action from around the r
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he is thomas pickering. his career as an american diplomat spans more than 40 years. he is now a distinguished fellow in foreign policy at the brookings institution. so mr. ambassador, always a treat to have you on. welcome back. thank you, brooke, it s very nice to be back with you. so, the news, again, according to the secretary of state, the fact that president trump opened up this meeting in talking about russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, what do you think of that? well, i suspect he could do no less, and we hattd a lit of what i would call prediction of that in the warsaw speech the day before, in which he moved a little more in the direction of russia s mischievous and meddlesome conduct, and so i think it was there and clearly designed to play a very important note for the u.s. domestic constituency where it is important in meddling and elections a serious business. the notion, however, that we would have believed that the
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