You can follow the sent live on cspan two. A discussion on Security Issues in the persian gulf, including problems of a ram, russia, and terrorism. This is about one hour. He joined in 2020 after 39 years of sting wished ella terry service. He served as the commander of u. S. Central command. As theo serving commander of central command, he commanded the special operations command. ,n addition to his current role he is also distinguished fellow and National Security at the middle east institute. Are happy to welcome them. He will talk about a theme that has come up throughout the discussion this morning, which we are all aware of that werent sure what to think about. In 30 minutes, we will know exactly what to think about it. Introduce him. To [applause] its great to be here. Thank you for your flexibility in scheduling. This little light, i gave a speech in new york couple of weeks ago as part of my responsibilities. I gave them one of these new york clubs, very dark and heavily panel
To solve him on this one. Right now, we are gonna shift over to thinking about some of the more diplomatic aspects of the problem set and one of the things we heard from the Previous Panel is a lot of Solutions Come from the diplomatic toolkit. We have another remarkable panel to help us think through the. On the extreme right from your perspective, ambassador patterson is the former assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. She was ambassador to four Different Countries egypt, pakistan, colombia and el salvador. She was also the assistant secretary of state for national law enforcement, the aptly named drug and thugs portfolio and she was the acting ambassador and deputy ambassador to the united nations. Next, we have ambassador doug silman of the institute in washington. He previously served as the u. S. Ambassador to iraq and kuwait and was the deputy chief in baghdad and ankara. At the end, doctor vaez was on the International Crisis group where he previously served as
Welcome back. We didnt solve all the problems in the last pane panel so we wiy to solve them on this one so there will be an easier time when he comes. Right now we are going to shift over it to thinking about some of the more diplomatic aspects of the problem set and one of the things we heard from the Previous Panel is a lot of Solutions Come from the diplomatic toolkit we have another remarkable panel to help us think through the. On the right from your perspective, ambassador patterson is the former assistant secretary of state for near eastern affairs. She was ambassador to four different countries, egypt, pakistan, colombia and el salvador and she was also the assistant secretary of state for national law enforcement, the aptly named drug and food portfolio than she was the acting ambassador and deputy ambassador to the united nations. Next, we have ambassador doug silman of the institute in washington. He previously served as the u. S. Ambassador to iraq and kuwait and was the d
Senate return for legislative business next tuesday and now we continue our coverage of a conference on middle east strategy. And i think this counter goes of whoever is in par with regard to the presidency and regardless of who the resources available. So i think going back to what was mentioned in the Previous Panel with regard to the impact of maximum pressure and what max impression was intended to decide allegedly because of lack of clarity among u. S. Policy intention and strategy on iran but one of the argument was the position of sanction and maximum pressure, iran behave in a region would be contained. Unrest with diminished. We clery see the opposite. One of the reasons is iran continued its policy with regard to its support of allies and proxies but also its continuation of the interest. In syria with continuation, and iraq and lebanon the same, in yemen we have not seen any change since 2018 in particular. If anything weve seen a more by iran to showcase as was mentioned be
Hello and welcome to world news today. Ahead of the uns Climate Conference on monday, scientists have warned the impact of Climate Change is already hitting harder and sooner than expected. A report compiled by the World Meterological Organisation says levels of Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere are reaching new highs. And the world is heading towards three degrees of warming by the end of the century. Ive been speaking to the head of the organisation, who told me things are looking grim. Unfortunately, we have been the messengers of bad news. Global emissions have grown by 2. 1 and this was the case in 2017 and we have been breaking records in main Greenhouse Gas concentrations, carbon dioxide, which is the most important one and also methane and nitrous oxide. Those are all striking. And we have been breaking records in that system. We have seen this warming continue, lastjuly was the warmest single month since the 18505. And last 5ingle month since the 18505. And la5tjune 5ingle mo