Please grab a seat. Were going to start. Good morning, and welcome to the German Marshal Fund of the United States. Im jonathan katz, a senior fellow here at gmf. I want to welcome our guest, dmytro kuleba. Ukraines deputy Prime Minister for european and euroatlantic integration. Its great to have you here. I know youve had an incredibly busy schedule in the last couple of days with meetings, very successful meetings both on capitol hill but also with the Trump Administration. Ate busy time for you. Of course, right now its fairly busy in washington, all the way across town with Certain Committee hearings taking place. I want to welcome you here. Needless to say this is an incredibly important time for you to be here in washington. In some sense the zelensky government, president zelensky who all of you know took office last spring, has been in office now for six months. Its been an incredibly busy time. New laws passed. A focus on anticorruption. Then also just this week, hard to beli
Ok thats it for us for now were expecting the Russian Foreign minister to take to the podium of the u. N. General assembly in the next half an hour or so and well be right back to bring you that live meantime its putting the hoax in a few moments. Join me every thursday on the alex simon show and ill be speaking to guest of the world of politics sports business im showbusiness ill see you then. 3 days of salutations while the impeachment horns are blaring all over your cable news feeds and pedantic punditry this week or watchers its important to remember there was more going on in this world than just us President Donald Trump versus nancy pelosi out im sure if joe biden than reality. That there is more news out there than whats allowed on jake tappers teleprompter every night news that is important thought provoking and even scarier in other words news that affects you in the rest of us just as much as political impeachment games played by millionaires working for billionaires news li
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Theres cass thats one of the wells busiest airports protests bring trouble to a standstill china hands at serious consequences so with a disruption sway Public Opinion on the demonstrations and would beijings patience run out this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program. The protests a whole kong began 10 weeks ago sparked by a controversial extradition bill but theyve evolved into why the concerns about democracy in the summit thomas chinese territory the citys leader is warning the protests up putting hong kong stability in danger it is one of asias most important transport on financial hubs and a mass sitting in a port led to the consolation of flights businesses are feeling the effects tourist numbers are down and the stock market fell to its lowest level in 7 months on tuesday rob mcbride has more from hong kong. Many passengers are still turning up tuesday evening at Hong Kongs International Airport to learn that their flights have indeed been cancelled there maybe stil
Recorded a video statement declaring she hasnt been tortured in custody as well was arrested more than a year ago along with at least a dozen other womens rights activists Rights Groups say that she and 2 others were held in solitary confinement for months and subjected to physical abuse International Human rights lawyer toby cadman says despite reform saudi women are still treated like 2nd class citizens. I think one of the one of the things that were also seeing now is more and more women fleeing saudi arabia because of the draconian guardianship laws and various other group represents a number of saudi women who have sought to flee from saudi arabia and you are asked these women how has the situation changed since this this great announcement of reform with women being able to drive and even being allowed to go to the cinema those changes have had no Significant Impact and even what were seeing now is that the guardianship rules are supposed to be relaxed all removed within 3 months