The foreign secretary, borisjohnson, is in iran to press for the release of the british iranian woman, Nazanin Zaghari ratcliffe, and other dual nationals, on humanitarian grounds. Mrs Zaghari Ratcliffe is serving a five year prison term on charges of trying to overthrow the iranian government which she denies. Her mp, tulip siddiq, says shes been told by the Foreign Office that mrjohnson probably wont secure her imminent release. We had a conversation with the Foreign Office yesterday and we were very clear to stress that borisjohnson was not going to iranjust to release her and there should be no expectations of him coming back with her. But i asked whether he would be raising the fact that she needs to be released in humanitarian rows. And he will be raising it with the authorities but we should not expect any miracle. What we should ask is whether he can arrange for a visa for Richard Ratcliffe to go to iran. Bear in mind he has not been able to go to iran to see his daughter or wi
Thank you, ambassador, for being here and thank you as well for being on the panel. I have yet to good to kuwait, the last time i had been there with 1990 during the gulf war. I got to take a second picture next to the two spirit towers, this time whats that . There you go, liberation towers. It was good to be back, but more importantly to see this Coalition Come together not only in the private sector and having 64 nation theres, but also, like you said, ambassador, seeing the iraqis out front, talking about the country, talking about not only Economic Opportunities in iraq, but also about humanitarian situation. One of the things the first day of the conference was great. The press was able to ask questions of not only Prime Minister abadi but also the kuwaitty Prime Minister and the deputy minister and the foreign mince sterp. The iraq i can press asked some of the toughest question. They warned dont go on a stage with mike pregent, hes going to ask tough questions. The iraq i can p
And authority on the subject with the iraqi ambassador, senior researcher. Im sure well have a great discussion with lots of important insight. On top of hudsons Live Streaming that we always do we have the honor of having cspan2 this event so another reading to the viewers out there. Reconstructing iraq and the good news from iraq is the military defeat of the terrible terrorist organization, isis, by the Iraqi Military with international cooperation. The task ahead is daunting. Iraq needs to rebuild and heal the communities. Challenges remain from funding, stabilization efforts in the even larger resources needed for reconstruction the coming years. Responding was one of the goals of the regions iraqi reconstruction conference in kuwait which secured around 30 billion from private actors. Significantly the gulf countries except in quite to the conference which is interesting testimony with its own troubled history with the iraqi nation back in 1990. Congratulations to the kuwaitis fo
A controversial security law that will remove restrictions on the military. And picture perfect, the planet pluto as it has never been seen before. We begin with latest developments on the greek debt crisis. Euro zone finance ministers have given them the green light for former talks on a boilout to begin. And they have agreed to give greece a shortterm loan so it can pay its bills. Greek banks are also being given a lifeline. The ecb raising emergency funding for banks by 978 million. Now things have changed now. We had a series of news with the approval of the bridge financing package, with the vote, the various votes, in various parliaments to begin with in the Greek Parliament which have now restored the conditions for a raise in the ela. Lets go to simon mcgregorwood live for us in at thens. He was talking about raising ela, thats the emergency liquidity assistance. How does that help greece . Reporter well, it gives the greek banks a little bit more cash basically, to continue op
Northwest store was a site of multiple synthetic drug seizures and an employee was shot there and it may have been related to a drug sale. The owner of that store is retired d. C. Police officer. Last week, mayor Muriel Bowser signed a law to allow police to fine or close those Stores Selling the synthetic drugs. Middle of july and it feels amazing outside. I cant believe how refreshing it is. I dare say cool, because it is july, right. We can appreciate that. Tom kierein with look at the day ahead. Yeah, it is cool compared to this time usually were in the sweltering 70s. Right now a partly cloulydy sky, but the haze and humidity is gone. Here we are in upper northwest washington, about five or six miles away from the Washington Monument, but we can zoom the monument in. Theres the jefferson memorial. A beautiful morning underway. Temperatures in the low to mid 60s, well be staying this way through 6 00 a. M. And then by 8 00 a. M. , upper 60s. And then by 10 00, temperatures in the l