a little brat for breakfast. [laughter] rachel: nothing wrong with that. pete: barely made it to the top of this hour. germany not known for its good? really gooded food. will: it really is. we have got various sausages we brought back in. [laughter] rachel: we also had this potato salad that was amazing. so good. will: make it octoberfest wherever you are this morning. we re going to start with putin s war on ukraine. russia i blowing up several apartment buildings overnight, killing at least 17 people. pete: this happened after a ukrainian strike on the only bridge connecting crimea and russia. rachel: trey yingst joins us live from kharkiv. good morning. reporter: good morning. an explosion yesterday partially destroyed the only bridge between russia and crimea. this blast decimating the rail anded road portions of the bridge, sending pieces of concrete plunging into the water below. now, the russians say a truck bomb is responsible for the incident, saying that three pe
Three colleagues, and 50 members of the Washington Institutes board of trustees undertook just about one week ago completing it, to the gulf. Let me just very briefly introduce our my colleagues up there. My immediate left, keep our , a fellowkate bauer at the institute. She will speak after me offering impressions of specifically about our visit to abu dhabi. Our brcaft is our family fellow. A former u. S. Government Intelligence Analyst who will be prepared in our q a to talk about all sorts of issues from counterterrorism and counter radicalization to social change going on in the gulf and at the far end of the table is mike saying, they institute is is our former, National Security Council Director who will also participate in our q a session talking about all sorts of issues under the sun trump Strategic Issues to u. S. Bilateral relationships with the countries in question. Capn, this was an unusual that we took in the sense that it was a large delegation. There were 55 of us all
Robert good morning. Welcome to the Washington Institute. Satloff, the director. Im delighted to welcome all of you to this policy forum trip report from a trip that i, my three colleagues, and 50 members of the Washington Institutes board of trustees undertook just about one week ago completing it, to the gulf. Let me just very briefly introduce my colleagues up there. My immediate left, kate bauer, a former u. S. Treasury official Family Fellow at the institute. She will speak after me offering impressions specifically about our visit to abu dhabi. Lori plotkins boghardt. She is a former u. S. Government Intelligence Analyst who will be prepared in our q a to talk about all sorts of issues from counterterrorism and counter radicalization to social change going on in the gulf and at the far end of the table is mike singh,our former National Security Council Director who will also participate in our q a session talking about all sorts of issues under the sun trump Strategic Issues to u
Welcome all of you to this policy forum trip report from a trip that i, my three colleagues and 50 members of the washington institu institutes board of trustees undertook just about a week ago, completing it, to the gulf. Let me just very briefly introduce our my colleagues up here, my immediate left, kate bauer, former u. S. Treasury official, who is our bloomen steen katz Family Fellow at the institute, she will speak after me offering impressions about our visit to abu dhabi. To her left is lori boghart. A former government intelligence analyst, who will be prepared to talk about all sorts of issues from Counter Terrorism and counter radicalization to social change going on in the gulf. At the far end of the table is mike swing. Our fellow. Who will also participate in our q a session, talking about all sorts of issues under the sun, from Strategic Issues to u. S. Bilateral relations with the countries in question. Again, this was an unusual trip that we took in the sense that it w
Boiling over this morning a day after the kingdom announced its cutting ties with tehran and bahrain will be cutting ties with iran and saudi Officials Saying iranian diplomates have one more day to leave their country and shia protesters storming the Saudi Embassy on sunday angry over the execution of 47 men accused of terrorism including shia cleric alnimr. Began three days of mourning and he has been buried in an undisclosed cemetery and he was a central figure and protests by saudi arabia shia minority and arrested in 2012. This morning Irans Foreign Ministry accusing the kingdom of covering up the executions. Moves to another and this indicates its intention and it is wonton of diplomacy to create tension after tension and crisis after crisis. Major sunni and shia powers in shia and yemen and fears the standoff could have tensions across the region and Al Jazeera Gerald tan reports. Reporter the Saudi Embassy ablaze in tehran. Iranians lash out after leaving shia cleric was among