Symposium director and the director for the peace and war center. At the universities and Global Resilience Center for global insecurities and the peace and war center and in the initiative for the university. The 2020 military writers award. We would like to mention a couple of details before i introduced hiintroducing and wet the award. For those of you that are not familiar with the award we created a special video that provides context and background to the award from the previous recipients and we ask that you go to the website. The link to the website has been put out on chat and take a couple of minutes after the presentation to watch the video we would also like to ask you go to the page in the military writers symposium website. You will see theyve given an introduction to the symposium this is why we are doing some of the things we are doing right now in this particular theme. As you can imagine this is the inaugural event virtually we bring the guests and authors here to the
A counter revolution Security Forces they used force to clamp down on gatherings they made arrests they intimidate the people and thats why a lot of people are scared to return to the streets so those who are marking this anniversary say we will continue to fight there is that the term a nation for political change but nobody is under the illusion that this will be an easy way forward as a by john says at least 13 people have been killed by an armenian missile attack in the city of gunja and dozens were injured rescuers are trying to find survivors trapped under the rubble i mean his Defense Ministry says it did not foxwoods as a bunch of. Hes discovered a natural gas supply roughly equivalent to almost 10 years worth of its annual energy needs present ressam choppered one says the find off the east coast of the black sea is anchors the largest ever discovery. Protest right now mancini in the us capital of washington d. C. And other cities across the country in the march for women they
Hughes is what we claim we want. In both a president ial candidate and a president. A man who did get it. A man called Charles Evans hughes as a Supreme Court justice. All but when the election. In 1916 when president Woodrow Wilson went to bed the Election Night, he thought he was beaten. He had been elected, how American History goes in several Different Directions on suffrage, civil rights. What does he do on Foreign Policy . Germany baited us into war. Wilson would hughes have avoided it . Hes the one you could write novels about. He had Charles Evans hughes who would later the he was on the Supreme Court. He left the Supreme Court when he ran for president. He went back on the Supreme Court. One of the finest minds on the court. A fellow justice called Charles Evans hughes, the greatest in our great line of chief justices. Why hughes . Robert jackson provided part of the answer when he was attorney general. Jackson said that hughes, quote, looks like god and talks like a god. And
A week ago failed to hold in the u. S. President trump is campaigning in 2 swing states his now in wisconsin after arriving in michigan the pressure is on as his democratic challenger joe biden is leading in Many National polls with just over 2 weeks before the election john hendren has more from washington. Hes been playing defense all across the map in florida georgia and iowa hes been campaigning those are all states that he should have handily in his column by now but National Polls show him behind across the u. S. The latest poll i saw said 12 Percentage Points behind joe biden and hes also behind in key battleground states those include michigan in wisconsin the 2 states that hes going to now so he has been aggressive there speaking very much like hes on the steroids that he was on just days ago when he tested positive for the coronavirus standing in front of the air force one showing people that hes back. And womens marches have been taking place across the u. S. Against preside
As more of a political win for iran its something president Hassan Rouhani it said just in the past few days that its a very important step for the year a new nation for them to have something specific in tangible as a result of the Nuclear Agreement of 2015 now just to give you an idea of how much money iran spends on its defense of program it between 2016 in 2018 it was around 45 percent of its g. D. P. That was between 18 and 22000000000 dollars thats not likely to change. In less than an hour voters in guinea will head to the polls to choose their next leader in a tense election that follows months of unrest both president alpha conde and his longtime rival sort of dull and yellow held rallies ahead of sundays vote this is the 3rd match up between the pair 82 year old conde insists his attempt for a 3rd term is legal the opposition says it violates the constitution voters are heading back to the polls in the self declared republican Northern Cyprus for a president ial run off their