Suzanne it is a pleasure to welcome you here today to our conversation on Foreign Policy and the u. S. President ial election. This event is part of the brookings policy 2020 series which seeks to empower voters with factbased, datadriven, nonpartisan information to better understand the policy matters discussed by candidates running for office this year. Thank you all for joining us. We are 29 days away from november 3. Americans will cast their ballots for the next president , but the future of americas global role is also at the ballot. Looking toward the election, todays conversation will focus in particular on its implications for the transatlantic relationship and u. S. Foreign policy toward europe. European leaders and many of their counterparts around the world are watching the election closely. While there are differing views about how the upcoming november election will shape the relationship, few in europe believe it will revert to its previous form. With polling from the Eu
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And we report on the rise in child labor in syria as the war forces kids to of money for their families. Hundreds of women by the roofs have marched through the capital minsk to protest against Police Brutality antigovernment protests show no sign of easing around 6000 people are being detained state media is reporting several protest organizers are among them they were arrested during clashes with Security Forces over the past 3 nights the violence erupted when president Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner in a vote that his opponents say was raked aljazeera steadfast and is in minsk. What we saw in the last couple of nights when the people came out at night protesting not knowing really what to do so there were different parts of the city now this is one group of women as you can see theyre all waving flowers they are also saying stop beating us and they get an enormous response from people around this area who see them their. Horns as a sign of opposition and also they alwa