Inskeep. Good evening welcome to tonights debate provides our democrat Kate Schroder are republicans so they have will discuss many issues affecting not only ohios but the entire tristate. We will talk more about tonight more about tonights format in just a moment but first id like to introduce the panelists the ones asking the questions asking the questions and i. Their Cincinnati Business Courier reporter and columnist Chris Wetterich and yes on 22 do the presidency of the cincinnati usa Regional Chamber and eddie koen is the ceo of the urban league of greater southwestern ohio. Thereve been changes over the years so this is what ohios First District currently looks like. It comprises of a swath of northern and northeastern Hamilton County and all of orange county. Because of covid19 the traditional opening handshake is not being observed tonight but we do want to thank Kate Schroder and steve chabot for being with us and taking part in this exchange of ideas by want to tell you a li
Buses aside to make their way in to this area and then they staged a sit in if you will for several hours and then when it became very late at night kind of a couple of 100 several 100 hardcore protesters stayed here overnight then at 4 am thats when the government issued an emergency decree saying that any group over 5 was illegal and thats when we saw that clearing out process that led to this empty street behind me yemens who the rebels have released 2 u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 fighters the swap is the 1st of several prisoner exchanges expected in the coming days between the saudi Live Television and movies. Fighting is escalating between armenia and azerbaijan the azeris say they have destroyed missile launchers that were targeting their cities medium government denies its forces have been firing into. Protests continuing in cyprus against government corruption they follow an aljazeera investigation of senior politicians who are willing to sell passports to convicted crimi
Protests and said that he would only step down after a rerun of the parliamentary election where the state the president approved of support but his Prime Minister cypresses speaker of parliament has resigned in the wake of the cash for passport scheme the controversy was brought to light by an aljazeera investigation of senior politicians who are willing to sell cypriot passports to convicted criminals the government is now bullish the program the rebels in yemen have released to us citizens in exchange for 250 of the fighters the free 2 thieves of arrived in yemens capital sanaa off to going through oman more prisoner swaps are expected on thursday the whole data has more on the how the exchange is being carried out. A senior official is saying that the operation is under way and theyre expecting the 1800. 00 prisoners to be released today so what is going to be happening from a logistical perspective is that were going to see plays taken. Prisoners all the way from the word and then
Flown from the saudi city of all the way to words the capital sanaa sources from both the government and the hotels are saying this expecting the operation to and by to morrow kyrgyzstans new Prime Minister says are jumper off as resumes president ial powers after the resignation of the current president and the parliamentary speaker have been weeks of antigovernment protests since the disputed parliamentary election earlier this month protesters accuse the government of rigging the vote in its favor you see thousands of antigovernment protesters are still out on the streets of bangkok their sorrow openly defying a government ban on public gatherings theyre calling for the Prime Ministers resignation and for reforms to the monarchy the government imposed its emergency measures in the Early Morning hours to stop months of demonstrations. The speaker of the cyprus parliaments to meet choose c. Or c. Lura has resigned in the wake of a cash for passport scandal and ill just say their inves
Youll take the opportunity during our interview to join todays discussion by submitting questions as we go along. You can do that by clicking the q a button at the bottom of your screen. Today, as sidney mentioned, we are joined by my friend bob zoellick. Bob zoellick has served america and served her well across multiple administrations and in a range of few roles. In the late 80s, he served as counselor to secretary of the treasury, undersecretary of state as well as White House Deputy chief of staff. In the george w. Bush years, he served as trade u. S. Trade representative and later president of the world bank. Hes received numerous honors, the state departments highest award, the treasury departments Alexander Hamilton award and dods medal for distinguished public service. But the American Government werent the only ones. The German Government awarded him the Knight Commanders cross, the Mexican Government awarded him their aztec eagle order of merit. These days, among other posts