Confliction zones and a safe areas in syria particularly in the last 34 years as dismal none of them have worked and the reason is the Bigger Picture which were seeing right now which is an extraordinary affirmation of the role of imperial powers using local actors in the middle east particularly in syria and iraq and particularly the kurds the russians the americans the british the french now the turks as a Regional Power this is been going on for 100 years so theres nothing new here this is a all the says is a sad reaffirmation of the continuation of imperial manipulation of weak dependent local actors and betraying them time after time after time for the interests of the bigger power and this is i think the sad situation youre in and do you think any of. Those powers that you just mentioned have thought about the hundreds of thousands of not the millions of civilians that are in this area that tookie has said that it wants to create a safe zone in return millions of Syrian Refugees
Good afternoon. I am margaret talev, politics and widest editor at axios, ad by half of the Texas Tribune, welcome to the festival and to our one on one with susan rice. We have an hour together. Thats going to include at least 15 minutes for time so your questions and answers so youre 45 minutes to think at some killer questions. Im looking forward to hearing them. You all know ambassador rice. She served as president obamas u. N. Ambassador and the National Security adviser, and previously as assistant secretary of state for African Affairs under the bill clinton administration. And you may also know that shes got a book coming out soon. Its tough love my story of the things worth fighting for. Its not actually out officially for another week or so, we can have but you can get it today and she will be signing copies of it after were done here. I think thats at the festival at 800 congress. They asked me to let you know. You do that after this. This book because none of you have read
Sandra you are so right about our waters in fact you could go so far as to say that the future of our planet may depend on the conditions of our oceans lakes and rivers will have more on that in the coming reports but 1st a brief look at whats lined up today in our program. Sessions has a rescue plan for its course so a we as well take a look at how that works. They Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just presented its report on the condition of our oceans well see what he said and in germany and other parts of you have you can go kayaking for free as long as you collect trash along the way. First to the seychelles where environmentalists are working to protect coral reefs these frogs are ecosystems monks the most especially rich bio tops on earth and the island nation relies on them for its very survival and emission. Of launching 2014 aims to support a healthy ocean and implement Climate Change strategies and to promote the stable blue economy and the region depends on win
What we are doing today. This whole festival is about the idea that we all have a stake in government. Of our and we as citizens should be more engaged and better informed as a way to motivate civic participation tams complicated and simple as that. For 10 years, the texas tribunes journalism, we have tried to give all of youened everybody else in texas and elsewhere, a way into that conversation. It is Public Service journalism in the ideal. We believe in it, we believed in it then, we believe in it now. Your being here makes an enormous difference. It tells me that like all of us at the tribune, you care. And you believe. So it is not insignificant that youre here. We love it. My job today is to say thank you. This will be the second time ambassador rice has been at the tribune festival in three years. Honestly, i cant believe we get her to come. She is an extriretnary Public Servant with a great story to tell. This is the first time that margaret is here, shes a journalist that ever
That i think people like clover char and people to judge did better than many analysts are thinking because they put themselves as pragmatic problem solvers and even peacemakers on that stage and i think they got a little bit of a boost well have to see other numbers come out what do the debate tell us then about how easy or hard its going to be full any democrats one seat done. Well i think right now were already beginning to see that you know the top 3 candidates Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren and joe biden already control i think about 65 percent of the vote and right there youve got 3 people that are at the front so its going to be hard for others to really break through i think thats why hujan castro tried to take such a flamboyant swipe at Vice President biden because he wants to put himself in that race i dont think it worked for him so right now with the americans have already seen their positions harden around these 3 and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are appealing to p