Good morning, everyone. Im director of turkey studies at middle east institute. Im very happy to welcome you all to our eighth annual conference on turkey. Each year as we convene this conference we fine keen interest in turkish matters. 2017 was very dramatic and a difficult year for turkey for its neighbors and allies including the United States. So we appreciate if you are making time to join us in our discussion. Our keynote speaker, is a leading voice on Turkish Affairs in Foreign Affairs of the german parliament. She will provide a firsthand report on the challenges facing ankara and berlin. We have elected members of the turkish and European Parliament on the program as well alongside a leader in u. S. Diplomacy toward turkey and expert analyst. You will hear our guest speaking guest speakers on three panels. To begin we will examine turkeys internal dynamics. Our panelist include recent member of the Turkish Parliament, Political Party representative and scholars who have been
Claims are assessed. Also in the wake of Harvey Weinstein, actor emma watson talks about new british Film Industry standards to tackle bullying and Sexual Harassment. And great britains men edge out switzerland to make a winning start to their curling campaign at the Winter Olympics in pyeongchang. Good morning. Its wednesday, 14th february. Welcome to bbc newsroom live borisjohnson is about to set out his vision for how britain can seize the opportunities of brexit in an attempt to reassure remain voters who feel angry and alienated by the decision to leave the eu. In a speech in central london, the foreign secretary will argue that its a project of tearing down barriers rather than erecting them, and promoting globalfree trade. The foreign secretarys speech is the first in a series of speeches by government ministers which they have dubbed the road to brexit ahead of key talks on the uks future relationship with the eu. Our assistant Political Editor norman smith is outside the venue
Example of the bureaucracy of the government. So many levels of management and no one does anything. President obama is requesting a nearly 4 billion of emergency funding from congress to address the influx of children coming across the u. S. Border. Heres more about that. The administration has requested 3. 7 billion of emergency funding from congress for stopping some of the influx of children dealing with the situation along the southern border with mexico. Laura is with the wall street journal and writing about the story, what is in the administration request to congress . A lot of the money is to house the children and families crossing the border. That is where the crisis has been. A huge influx created children traveling alone and adult traveling have come across the border. And in each of those cases there are sort of special needs for housing them and the administration is not able to handle right now and that is what a lot of the money would go to work. The white house propos
We remain to work in a bipartisan manner to achefer these objects. Thank you to both of you for your testimony. Mr. Hochstein, you talked about the things that ukraine needs to do in order to reform its energy markets. This is the most energy inefficient country in the entire region and ill direct the question to you but happy to have mr. Yee respond as well. The reforms they need to need take are dramatic and the effective of those reforms done too precipitously is perhaps too destabilizing in a country that doesnt need much more instability. The vector between what gas prices are today and what they would be without the subsidy is enormous. The amount of money they have to spend on reengineering this wildly inefficient soviet Energy Architecture is essentially almost a rip down and build back up proposition. So, how do we ask ukraine to do this without requiring them to spend money they dont have, and impose price increases on citizens who are right now looking for reasons to be conf
And principles. So, we have that frank dialogue. We are able to do that with a very strong embassy team there. I think we need to continue to do that. It helps when members of congress visit the capitals to reinforce the message that we take corruption very seriously, not only as a matter of economics, or of moral principle, but as a matter of National Security. And until an ambassador is appointed, has the administration considered reappointing or asking mr. Butcher to stay on . Hell complete the tenure this summer. Theres another sar shay affair and take over by the end of the summer. Okay. Im sure senator murphy agrees with me we dont want to see a void there in romania. It is important we dont do that. Mr. Hochstein, you were talking about developing shale gas in europe. Do you have or does the u. S. Have any estimates or europe in terms of the oil and gas potential is if they were willing to exploit it . Yes, senator. We work with country that is are interested. And as chairman mu