Clinical stability, economic development and international security. You bring to the issue of Religious Freedom the years of research, analysis and impact. Dr. Ferrer served 28 years in the u. S. Army and the u. S. Foreign service. In 1999 he became the first director of the State Department Office of international Religious Freedom. He subsequently directed the Witherspoon Institute international Religious Freedom Task Force. Was a member of the chicago world affairs council Task Force on religion and u. S. Foreign policy, topped the national Defense University and served on the secretary of State Earth working group. From 2008 to 2018 dr. Ferrer was associate professor of the practice of Religion And World affairs at georgetown university at the school of foreign service. He also directed the religious Freedom Project at Georgetowns Center which became the Religious Freedom institute. In addition to leading that tom is a senior fellow at the institute for studies of religion at Bayl
it s part of its promise to tackle what is says is an increased threat since the hamas attacks in israel last october. the intention is to stop extremist groups or individuals from having a platform to spread their views. but concerns have been raised that any definition could be seen as unfair and undemocratic. with the details, here s our political correspondent damian grammaticas. the aftermath of the october 7th attacks on israel, the government says, has been increasing concern about radicalisation here in this country. so it s come up with this new definition of extremism, saying it means the promotion or advancement of an ideology based on violence, hatred or intolerance that aims to negate or destroy the fundamental rights and freedoms of others, undermine the uk s system of democracy and democratic rights, or intentionally create a permissive environment for others to do that. this month outside downing street, rishi sunak promised robust action. we will redouble our
we start with the social media app tiktok because its ceo has vowed to keep on fighting after the us house of representatives passed a bill that could see the app banned in america. shou zi chew released a video on tiktok threatening legal action and warning that if the bill becomes law it will mean the end of tiktok for its 170 million users in the us. we ll hearfrom him injust a moment, but first, here s our us business correspondent erin delmore who has been following developments on capitol hill. the houseboat sets the stage for what could become an ultimatum to tiktok chinese owned company bytedance. selby avenue or it will be banned. there is a way to go between here and there. it needs to go through this and it faces an uncertain future. the senate majority leader has been noncommittal about whether he will bring it up for a vote. some studies are only about to vote against it. if it does move through the senate, president biden that he will sign it. components of the
Federal law it s a crime to destroy or removed classified documents so long as the person acts intentionally, meaning on purpose, knowing they are classified. well if the documents have the words of classification stamped on them, kind ever hard to argue that you didn t know. and i should say, there are three levels of official classification in the u.s. government. the lowest is confidential. then in the middle is secret. at the fop is top secret. some documents reportedly marked top secret. the official government definition of top secret is that if the documents came out they would pose exceptionally grave danger potentially to the united states. so this is really serious stuff. it really is. they are top secret. plenty in there. now sit something around mar-a-lago. and i just want to now make sure anyone watching understands they weren t just, you know sort of willy-nilly put together by somebody and ended up there. no the post reports that trump was secretive about the packing o