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Welcome to you. On her way. She should be here any minute, National Correspondent for politico. What will be next to her is matt kamensky, her boss, global editor at politico and editor in chief of politico. He had been at the wall street journal before that. Last but not least is jonathan Foreign Policy magazine. Delighted to have all three of you here. Jonathan, welcome. Matt has been here before. Natasha will join us when she arrives. I want to start with the latest developments with this yea...

[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the Washington Institute for near east policy. I have the pleasure of directing the institutes reinhardt program on counterterrorism and intelligence and im very, very please to be joined here today by the acting director of the National Counterterrorism center, Russell Travers. Todays conversation is part of the institutes ongoing counterterrorism lecture series. Russell took office at nctc as acting director in august, but its not...

Anger on the streets in haiti protesters there man the Prime Minister stepped down as the country faces a severe fuel crisis. And are the results of israels 2nd general election in 6 months looks too close to call exit polls suggest benny gantz who leads the blue and white party is neck and neck with liquids Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu it could lead to weeks of political wrangling houri force that reports from tel aviv. To music blurred Benjamin Netanyahu smiles but more than 5 hours after...

Behind these attacks our Intelligence Community at this very hour is working diligently to review the evidence u. S. Secretary of state mike home pay or has been deployed to saudi arabia the state Department Said he will coordinate if its to counter iranian aggression in the region despite iran denying any involvement foreign minister jahvid zarif tweeted in defense of the who thinks the u. S. Isnt upset when its allies mercilessly bomb babies in yemen for over 4 years with its arms and its mili...

Says it suicide bomber was targeting special forces soldiers but as with previous attacks most of those killed and injured were civilians young a suddenly a man on the motorbike arrived in a huge explosion happened a lot of people hurt a martini and looted the attack will be a major concern for all the president ial candidates as they Campaign Across afghanistan in the coming days even more worrying for the off here in kabul was the 2nd attack happening in what should be one of the most secure a...

South africa is holding an extraordinary session of its parliament on how to tackle gender based violence president s are around opposer has admitted theres a crisis after growing protests over rape and murder figures show sexual offenses in general murder rates have been rising significantly in south africa over the last decade in 2018 police recorded an average of 58 murders every day while sexual offenses including rape have risen almost 5 percent this year and according to w. H. O. Estimates...

A very forceful press conference designed right out of the gate to lay the blame at irans feet now much of the evidence displayed in there was a large volume of it might be arguably circumstantial thats certainly what iranian leaders are likely to say but the fact is that the sheer volume of information presented will be hard for anyone to ignore be irans enemies or their allies anyone trying to get to the bottom of what happened will find it difficult to ignore the sheer volume of information e...

Event. Big crowds turning out at nearly every location. This was the scene in San Francisco, thousands of people marched in the streets today. Protesters initially gathered near the House Speakers Office and they then marched over to the Senators Office and then headed toward the waterfront. Hundreds of students walked out of school today to make their voices heard. We are hoping to wake people up. We missed a whole week last year. We have to keep it clean. There were also rallies in richmond an...

Head of the Opposition Party would be treated with lots of privilege and rights including a monthly meeting with the Prime Minister as well as highs highlevel security briefings im not sure exactly that the next Prime Minister is there will share security briefings with the palestinians but its interesting to see and what about politically i mean if if as you suggest it might be in charge what would that mean in terms of difference in Foreign Policy for safe for israel actually you know regardle...

A meeting with senior members of his the could party he said hed agreed to form a bloc of right wing and ultra orthodox religious parties along with likud as a basis for a new government under his leadership look there are one or 2 options either a government headed by me or a dangerous government thats leaning on the arab parties at this moment more than any other and in the face of the security and political challenges that are on ahead its forbidden that a government will be formed that is le...