We also welcome distinguished Board Members and selfless fund of middle east programs here at Atlantic Council john de blasio. Finally we welcome u. S. Government officials, private companies and nonprofits. I predict a rich and substantive question and answer session following the discussion on the stage. Open to everyone. This richins of the discussion will be enhanced by the absolutely superlative interviewer who will draw the kernels of wisdom out of nabeel today. Tom friedman needs no introduction but simply for fun i will remind you can read his analysis of Foreign Affairs in the new york times, analysis for which he has thrice won the pulitzer prize. Tom is the author of several books and one of which was a textbook as an undergraduate. His full bio is available for you and is printed at. Let us turn to our man of the hour nabeel khoury. Hes a nonbrexit senior fellow fellow at the atlantic counsels christopher middle east are in addition to his work on our website you can read o
President of the United States is the president of the United States. He can do whatever he wish and he is not accountable to me or anybody in this room. Renault shares fall to the bottom of the 600 as reports emerge that nissan is gearing up for a potential divorce. The pound falls below 1. 30 against the dollar after the bank of Monetary Policy Committee Says he would vote for a rates cut if there is no improvement in the uk Economic Data welcome to the show, everyone the most Senior Commander of irans revolutionary guard was called to a closed session of parliament after tehran admitted it mistakenly shot down a Ukraine International Airlines Passenger plane. There were no immediate details asked of the official but iran blamed its air Defense System for the crash, which killed 176 people the announcement has sparked protests across iran and protesters have called for the resignation of iran saying they tried to cover up involvement in the crash. Dan is in abu dhabi. What a differen
Tunisia and representatives from bahrain, iraq, jordan, tunisia, turkey, yemen, the netherlands, norway, australia, zimbabwe and ecuador so from the four corners we come to hear you. We also welcomed the Board Members and founder of the programs here at the Atlantic Council and finally we look in the u. S. Government private companies and nonprofits i predict a rich and substantive question and answer session following the discussion on the stage. Open to everyone. This richness of the discussion will be enhanced by the absolutely superlative interviewer to draw the kernels of wisdom today. Tom friedman needs no introduction but for fun i will remind you you can read the analysis of the Foreign Affairs and the new york times, an analysis for which he has won the pulitzer prize. Hes the author of several books focused on the middle east and one of which from beirut to jerusalem where the textbook and work as an undergraduate. The full bio is available and is printed out here. Now let us
Difficult to actually confirm these reports but we hire hearing reports very distressing reports from the Syrian Kurdish militia saying that in one town there was huge panic because of the airstrikes being carried out while weve also understand that large numbers of the residents are accepting these towns that are currently under fire streets of rose exits in these towns that are still with refugees its unclear where these people will go its long they dont really know where is a safe area given the fact that turkish air strikes have been going as far as 30 or 40 kilometers deep into this region and human Rights Groups and aid agencies all voicing concern these people could end up in areas where its very difficult to provide refugee supplies to and so now that this military operation is very much underway what reaction coming expect from other big players in the region iran russia for example. Well indeed they are starting to put up pressure build up pressure on turkey moscow and iraq o
Their protesting against todays world cup clash between iran and cambodia and the ban will be relaxed for the 1st time. And welcome to the Program Germany is in shock after an anti semitic attack on a synagogue on the holiest day in the jewish calendar poor the day of atonement the heavily armed gunman tried to force his way into the building in the eastern german city of khalid but was prevented from entering he then shot and killed a bystander in the street before killing another person at a nearby cable up shop german chancellor im going to condemn the attack and showed solidarity with germanys Jewish Community by attending. Vigil at a synagogue in berlin earlier her interior minister said it could be assumed that the holiday was anti semitic. At the end of the vigil merkel spoke to reporters heres what she said. To them by the unfortunately t. J. On your holiest day we have witnessed something terrible. People have lost their lives there was an attack. In the its not my call and th