Good morning. Welcome to the hudson institute. We are honored and privileged to be hosting this event and conversation with Robert Obrien assistant to the president on the National Security affairs otherwise known as National Security advisor. Of youto welcome all here that are able to join us and the audience watching live stream from the website but also a very special welcome to the cspan audience who will be following this event on cspan2 today we are delighted to have you here if only virtually and delighted to have everyone that has been able to participate in this discussion. This is going to be one of the most interesting and significant events that weve done here at hudson given the fact we are less than a week away from the election. The question of what america is going to do and where america is going to go from here those are going toil be decided very soon and so what happens in our discussion here i think will help us to w understand what tas place regardless of who it i
This is all just here these are the top stories celebrations have begun in chile where it looks like a referendum to change the constitution will pass with an overwhelming majority polls closed more than an hour ago the government agreed to the vote following protests against social and economic inequalities in america and is on the scene human is in santiago. If this were a boxing match. Versus the reject has won by a not proud bunch were hearing everything from 70 to 80 something percent. 15 to 20. Really really white matter its not quite clear yet whether a Constitutional Assembly will also have to be approved that means when the delegates to rewrite the constitution will be. Popular vote or whatever after the. Current congress and senate but thats still to come meanwhile people are waiting for the final official vote to come out theyre coming here in waves by the thousands Security Forces in iraq are fired tear gas at protesters trying to get into baghdads fortified green zone the
A bit skeptical about this 3rd real fear mation of a ceasefire there as you said there have been accusations from both sides that the ceasefire had already been violated but by and large if i compare those early hours. Early hours of a job or 17th was when that 2nd ceasefire was supposed to come in place it is much calmer thousands are celebrating in chile where merced where with most of the votes counted a referendum to change the constitution is on course to pass with an overwhelming majority the government agreed to that referendum following demonstrations that. One of the main leaders of colombias left Wing National Liberation Army has been killed in a military operation the government says the rebel leader was responsible for medicine kidnappings peace talks with the government was suspended after an attack on a military Police Academy that last year. Soldiers and Police Officers in mexico have seized what theyre describing as an industrial sized drug lab the facility had been use
Government on Health Matters he says that in fact it could be as many as a 100000 new infections each day in reality because he says you have to count the people who are asymptomatic and people who are not getting tested now he says that the situation is extremely urgent that the next few weeks and france will be very very tense indeed Libyas National Oil Corporation says its reopened its last oil field that had been closed that means nearly all of libyas ports and facilities can potentially resume production soon most of the countrys oil exports were halted back in january by worldly for have to us forces based in east. A humanitarian cease fire has come into effect between azerbaijan and armenia to try to stop the conflict but as your previous attempts to stop the conflict both have already accused the other of violating the agreement the president of azerbaijan has warned that a military solution is still on the table a large crowds of protesters are currently marching towards the G
There was a group of protesters who tried to cross the concrete barricades there are several levels of concrete barrier through a free i believe so they crossed the 1st barricades at which point the Security Forces deployed tear gas to push them back in the protesters subsequently weave through were were not hearing at this point of any. Any any lifo violence that is actually claimed the lives of the protesters so far only fear of gas well those who have been used to repel protesters who have tried to penetrate the fortified green zone. Protesters in belo rules say time is up for president Alexander Lukashenko to resign police have fired tear gas and arrested dozens of people in the western town of the leader Opposition Leader said lana to an os chaos says look i must step down by midnight will face a crippling general strike in chile a polling stations are open for a referendum on whether to change the constitution mass protests that sounded last year led to the vote demonstrators say