The best minds that we have today in washington dc and in the country on indo pacific affairs. Without further ado let me introduce assistant secretary shriver. [applause] mr. Schriver thank you, victor. Thank you csi s. It is always good to return here and be here but particularly when speaking of these because csi s has done so much quality on the Alliance Relationships with south korea and japan and the trilateral relationship as well. Hosting me and providing this venue and giving us the opportunity to have this discussion. This eventaware that takes place against the backdrop of rising tensions between japan and south korea. Today i would like to do a few things. Talk about the progress that we trilateraln our Security Partnerships and talk about the future possibilities and what we can accomplish to regain a spirit of trilateral cooperation. We need to be frank about the downsides and the risk should tensions continue or escalate. Start by talking about the importance and the res
Hearing comes a month after the us air force admitted a clerical error that allowed a former airman who shot 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, texas, to buy a gun despite a Domestic Violence conviction in 2012. The Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing runs a little over three hours. [inaudible conversations] good morning everybody. Thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather here today in the wake of violent acts by evil man in las vegas and Sutherland Springs. Those two places get all the attention but there is lesser number of people dying in other places as well. Today, with the help of our witnesses, we hope to learn more about how those tragedies might have been prevented. And we will discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Before october 1, 2017, few americans know what a bump stock was. Then, a shooter used bump stock to fire more than 1100 rounds into a crowd attending a Country Music concert. The shooting lasted only 10 minutes.
Hours. Morning, everybody and thank you for attending todays hearing. We gather today and the wake of violent acts by a violent man in las vegas and southern springs. There is a lesser number of people who find other places as well. Today with the help of our witnesses we hope to learn more about how those tragedies may haveve been prevented and we wil discuss various proposals on preventing similar tragedies in the future. Before october 1, 2017, few americans knew what they dump stock was. Then a shooter used him to fire more than 1100 rounds into a crowd attending a Country Music concert. The shooting lasted only ten minutes. The bump stocks enabled this person to fire ammunition as fast as if he had used an automatic weapon. 58 people died, 500 wounded. The deadliest mass shooting in our history. The law laws prohibiting the factoring of machine guns for decades and decades as has been the case and greatly restrict the sale but during the Obama Administration it was determined bump
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Theres an army of women ready to support the, and theyre all over the world. That kind of confidence comes from knowing that they exist. But what we found when we did a study in 2013 is that women are sadly left behind in terms of internet access. In our report women in the web which we did with your assist and you with women in polls, we identified how large this gap is. Unfortunately, in Subsaharan Africa is the largest gap that we identified. These women and girls are being left behind for a variety of reasons that been mentioned today. We found that when they have access to the internet have access to education, the information that can help them with health care, job creation, Society Development and disempowerment that comes to meeting others that are like you. And so we know that by closing that gap we can make a tremendous impact. We have been committed to a goal of reducing the gap in Subsaharan Africa by 50 in the next five years, and we have numerous, tremendous partners tha