Good evening. Im andrew, the director of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the bush school of government here e at texas a and m. University. I would like to welcome our special event this evening with kim ghattas who is going to speak of the recent book, black wave saudi arabia, iran and the fortyyear rivalry that unleashed collective memory in the middle east. I have to say i spent the weekend reading it. I didnt quite get through but i couldnt put it down it was so interesting. If you havent read it after this evening you can get the book if you havent already but i would urge you to read it to be at its fascinating and very wellwritten and very well researched. There was a narrative thats very troubling. I would like to announce that our event with ambassador dennis ross is another expert in the middle east is unable to come to college station. Hcollege station. He had a family emergency and so kim ghattas is an awardwinning journalist and writer covered the middl
Welcome to a town of first time tories. Work around the clock to repay your wrexham has never returned a conservative mp before. Trust and to deliver on your for most of a century it stuck priorities with a parliament that works for you. With labour through thick and thin. A very different story for labour austerity bit hard here but it has asJeremy Corbyn leads his party turned its back on the party to its worst election performance and gone from red to blue. Since the 1930s. He says he will stand for liam, it was all down but not yet. About delivering brexit. Get it done. The responsible thing to do is not we should be an independent country. We should be moving forward, to walk away from the whole thing looking at different things. Andi to walk away from the whole thing and i will not do that. I will stay onwards and upwards, i say here until there is somebody elected others lacked faith to succeed to me and i will step in labours leader. Down at that point. For pam, he was the else
Is any case further delay. We should get on and get it done by october the 31st. Was there literally no other way of getting the deal other than to turn over your partners in government, the Democratic Unionist Party . This is a very good deal for every pa rt party . This is a very good deal for every part of the uk and particularly, for Northern Ireland andi particularly, for Northern Ireland and i would point out that as i say, from the beginning of Northern Ireland will be able to join with the rest of the uk in doing free trade deals around the world and all the other benefits that flow from membership of the uk market and of course, without having any checks and any infrastructure of any kind, at the border, and i think that respect it is a great success. I will take two more questions. How will take two more questions. How will this deal help heal the deep divisions over brexit in the country . I think that is a very important question. I do think the a nswer important question.
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