Of freedom and democracy in American Foreign policy will feature general hr mcmasters who served in the military for 34 years and held the position of the 20 sixth assistant to the president for National Security affairs as well as being a close friend of my husband for many years. He will talk about his new book battlegrounds the fight to defend the free world, with doctor michael crow, the sixteenth president of Arizona State university. Mccain Institute Trustee and a dear friend of the family. We are honored to host mcmaster for what is an important and timely discussion on us foreign policy. You can begin. Glad to see everybody here. What i want to do first is say the book is a fantastic piece of work, got many little tags on it. I want to spend some time relative to a set of core ideas you put out in this book some that are fantastic in the sense that they are concepts we should be using in the articulation of our thinking about foreignpolicy and National Defense policy and so for
The intervention from the chief rabbi has prompted a leading Muslim Organisation to criticise the conservatives for their handling of claims of islamophobia in the party. In other news. Dont give this man your vote because of his brexit policy thats the message from former tory cabinet minister lord heseltine. A present senior minister hit back. Michael i think advised people to vote liberal democrat in the european election. So in that sense he is consistent. But i do think he is wrong on this. A bleak outlook, says the un on Climate Change. The world has to act much faster to avoid Dangerous Levels of global warming. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with ben croucher. Ho isato ho is a to lead Tottenham Hotspur at home for the first time tonight. He says he likes the love his fans give their side. And andy murrays thoughts on retirement. Thanks, ben. And another ben ben rich has all the weather. We have had some cloud and outbreaks of rain. It has been mild. That will change
And how can our politicians play their part . With us now to talk about what might come next is Immigration Minister robert jenrick. After labours Big By Election wins, lisa nandy could soon be representing you All Over The World the Shadow International Development Minister joins me from salford. As the un calls conditions inside gaza catastrophic, well speak to dr Hanan Ashrawi a woman who has spent decades at the heart of palestinian politics. And well speak to israels former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Good morning. You might have seen that we were going to speak to israeli president isaac herzog. He has had to postpone, but we hope hell be with us on a future programme. In the meantime, welcome to my panel. Jasmine el gamal, a middle east expert who advised the obama administration, also best selling historian and tv presenter simon sebag montefiore, and lucy fisher, the Financial Times Whitehall Editor and host of its Political Fix podcast. Lets have a lok at some of the fron
Chocolate chip cookies once for a study group. Her side of the story, from the day of those chocolate chip cookies, i was a goner. We started dating in the middle of that year and weve been together ever since, married 32 years this november. She is my Public Service hero. She has been a legal aid lawyer and a juvenile judge. And now she is secretary of education in virginia. She is a Public Servant and mother and sister and wife. She juggles all of those roles and makes it seem so easy. Thomas jeffersons daughter patsy, jefferson was virginias second governor. Patsy was the wife of a governor. My wife is the only person to have lived in the Governors Mansion as a child and then as an adult. One really special memory of me becoming governor in 2006 was at the end of the long day of being sworn in and inaugural events, we go back to the Governors Mansion and they say to me, welcome home, governor. And they say to my wife, welcome back home. She had told all the kids about the tricks the
You wrote this back in january. The scandal of the married tsar and his 16yearold mistress revealed in the raunchiest love letters ever written by a head of state. [chuckles] i did not actually wrote that. Thats the headline by the daily mail. But it is the most outrageous and most explicit correspondents ever written by a head of state. I have to say the correspondence is so outrageous that they added edited the daily mail. They rang me up. They said were a tabloid newspaper. We cant print this stuff. Were a family newspaper. Brian who was it . Who was the head of state . Wasn the head of state tsar Emperor Alexander the ii. The emperor who liberated the serbs the slaves of russia. And exactly at the same time 1861 as your president lincoln was about to liberate the slaves of america, the two men were in correspondents. In correspondents. Both of them were bus and both of them were assassinated. So, in interesting relationship. Alexander ii was the sympathetic of all the romanovs of t