Museum at vint hill, virginia, 45 miles west of washington, d. C. I founded the Cold War Museum in 1986 to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history and educate future generations about the time period. What i realized when i was giving lectures to High School Students in this area, nine times out of ten, the students wouldnt know anything about the cold war or the u2 incident. They would think the u2 incident had something to do with the u2 rock band. As a result, i knew they needed to be taught about the cold wartime period. As a result, i ended up noticing they needed to be taught about the cold war time period. So in 1996, we founded the Cold War Museum, which opened in 2011 here at vint hill farms station, a former Army Communication base near the washington, d. C. , area. It used to be used by nsa, cia, asa, Army Security agency, and other groups to monitor the Electronic Communications from around the washington, d. C. , Embassy Region and International Signals that the
Tehran has been threatening to retaliate for a deadly air strike on an iranian diplomatic compound in syria. Daniel hagari the Israeli Military spokesman said dozens of israeli planes were patrolling the sky and israel was prepared very strongly in case of an attack from iran. Translation of the Home Front Command is publishing an update and adjustment in the Defence Policy in these minutes, as of tomorrow morning and during the next few days the educational systems, camps and planned trips will not take place. At six oclock in the morning we will update the directive again, starting tonight and in the coming days no educational activities including overnight stays in parking lots and excursions are allowed. In the last few minutes the israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said his country is prepared for a direct attack from iran. In an an address to the nation, he said Defence Systems were deployed and the armed forces were ready to respond in kind. Hes advised israelis to
Gaza and the west bank times contentious decision reversed decades of u. S. Neutrality on the status of jerusalem and has been met with world wide diplomatic backlash also coming up. Briggs it divorce talks back on track e. U. Commission president close younger and Prime Minister theresa may say the next phase of negotiations can now finally begin. With. Thank you very much for your company the United Nations a middle east envoy has warned about the risk of a violent escalation following the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel he told the gathering of the u. N. Security council that the move may trigger unilateral actions which would make a peace deal harder to reach the Security Council meeting was requested by britain and france and half a dozen other countries. Well monitoring the emergency u. N. Security Council Meeting is carson phenomena and carson joins us right now from washington carson what more can you tell us. Why the Security Council meeting in n
[inaudible conversations] we will call the meeting to order. Thanks for coming today. A couple of things to start with. Number one votes are starting at 3 00 oclock we will deal with that when we have to but second this committee does not meet as frequently as others but the primary reason is the issues we deal with our sufficient magnitude they are dealt with by the whole committee. In any event to be an appropriate subject for the subcommittee the complexity of dealing with the issues in north africa certainly are worthy of our consideration. We have a very good panel for people who deal with this all the time. Ambassador i know your travel schedule is quite robust and as a result i appreciate you accommodating us to be here yourself north africa is the important region as well as transatlantic security some years ago we watched the arab spring began in tunisia spreading across the middle east. One better life of the slow pace of change despite her aspirations and has not met their e