A michael local welcome to d w special coverage of the Munich Security Conference the annual event brings together World Leaders top ministers and experts the 1st day of talks have already shown potential progress talks between the u. S. And the taliban may lead to a fresh Peace Process for afghanistan and an unprecedented meeting between chinese and vatican diplomats has taken place for the 1st time in decades one topic has dominated the conference fears that the western powers could be losing their unified front on friday germanys president warned that a lack of western solidarity was fueling global insecurity todays panel is set to tackle that topic with nato chief u. N. Stoltenberg and u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh joined by pretentiously the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov we also. Understand that mark esper the u. S. Defense secretary may also be at the talk today at the event in munich we have de w. s chief Political Editor me. And here in the studio im joined b
Thanking our witnesses, secretary esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discussour policy in syria , particularly in light of the tevents that happened just a couple months ago in turkey when they invaded and drove the kurds out of portions of that but its our first hearing since congressman brendici has joined the committee. We have a lot of new faces but theyre not new faces anymore but its good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving, welcome. As i said the purpose of this hearing is to look into the events around syria and as a bunch of questions and the other big issue for us is just the ability of members of this committee toask questions directly of the key policymakers in an area that is of enormous importance and give them an opportunity to learn more about policy and also express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and i th
The United States but by other countries. Its been very successful today and there is a great spirit, thank you very much everybody, thank you. Prime minister, this morning when you approach President Trump, did you apologize for him for the remarks last night at Buckingham Palace . If so, what was his response . We had a great meeting yesterday between me and the president. We talked about the kinds of things that really matter to canadians where its how weve been moving forward on nato and whether the progress being made in nafta is going to continue and were confident and will. We talked about the challenges of china and we talk about a few things. Last night i, made a reference to the fact that there was an unscheduled press conference before my meeting with President Trump. I was happy to take part of it but it was certainly notable and i had a number of conversations with the president over the course of this day and yesterday. speaking french speaking french when you told presid
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With the sport for just over 7 months to go with each hi carolyn pigs is hit with a radiation scare plus a former australian rugby player reaches a settlement i have unfair dismissal antigay social media. Lets get going nato leaders shot into a meeting right now near london as they search for unity on their future direction the alliance has been labeled quote brain dead by the french president emanuel macro and they have been disagreements over money and the ongoing war in syria the us President Donald Trump and the french leader miss your macro in particular have disagreed on several points doing so very publicly in a combative News Conference on tuesday turkey has also threatened to block a major defense plan which could undermine the alliances role in the baltic region which Prime Minister Boris Johnson used his opening speech to push a message of unity. We are rock solid in our commitment to nato and to the giant shield of solidarity that now protects 29 countries and nearly a 1000