they allege are helping north koreans in the same manner but during a panel discussion with the atlantic council one expert said that the trump administration has actually taken a strong stance against russia in the form of the twenty eight thousand nuclear posture review some even saying perhaps misplacing this nuclear threat as the u.s. ramps up its nuclear capabilities plus i think everyone here would agree that the world's more dangerous now than it was in two thousand and ten in terms of the balance of attention to threats it does seem like the review is very rushed oriented and that a lot of the recommendations are kind of oriented around that i'd like to see more discussion would like to see a bit more in the review but really hope to hear it in the continued conversations with the administration about north korea. i think that presents a number of fairly you need challenges for which we need to kind of combine our nuclear policy with a range of counterproliferation and other strategies and i'd like to see that spelled out in greater detail. in our eyes the recent reproach met between nor

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his was hosted by the atlantic council in washington, d.c. *- >> good morning. -- i run the n atlantic council mere and thank you all for coming. for ve a wonderful program you this morning, and i should mention this is part of our on internal developments a russia, we begin with demographyoctober on in russia. >> we have a topnotch journalist from moscow, he's presented a and fascinating on russia politically. comment on that. former deputy secretary general will bat cleanup for us this morning and turn it over to the doctor. >> thank you very much. extend our to the re gratitude to ambassador, who invited me and to write a paper to center.cil and the thank you very much for coming for this event. persistence, of the he main topic paper that i wrote, and then we haveer, i argue that been witnessing the of the regime in ussia, which is now in istory -- italy, mussolini, and portugal. o be sure, there is no -- no conspiracy in the story that i'm outlining. that when guing has becomeimir putin the president of the russian confederation in 2000 he broke the whole range of people from his

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. ♪ announcer: the atlantic council hosted a discussion about vladimir putin.e heard from the former u.s. ambassador to russia and nato, a russian journalist, and russia's first foreign minister. ais is about an hour and half. john: good morning. my name is john herbst. i run the eurasian center here at the atlantic council. thank you all for coming. we have a wonderful program for you this morning. and i should mention that this is part of our series on internal developments in russia. we began with a session in october on demography in russia. and this of course is on politics. next month, we are doing a session on the russian economy, followed by a session a session probably in april on energy sector in russia. we have a real treat for you this morning. we have a wonderful line of speakers. i will not describe them except to say yevgenia albats, a top-notch journalist from moscow, who has written a very provocative and a fascinating paper on russia politically. foreign minister kozyrev will comment on that, as will eugene rumer from carnegie. and ambassador

engineering what is it about then that nothing to do with why is it then that for example the atlantic council they say that the y.p. g.'s casualty data confirms that kurds from turkey total nearly half of the y t g s self reported casualties between twenty thirty and twenty sixty the implication there now that those are coming from the p.k. no no no we have actually i mean we have some numbers there were syrian kurds or syria there were among the people and then when the syrian conflict started that example to defend their families and their syrian their curves for them not the people here anymore and we have i mean many people. because you know somebody for a mr o'donohue was in syria for twenty years and he was a pro-creation not wanted in syria and all of part of kurdistan so this is something different and to have all done in relations with the because it is different do we don't see people as a terrorist organization but what to say is trying i mean is that they just the. i mean the account everybody who looking for the democratic votes for the kurdish people as a terrorist and their wan

they allege are helping north koreans in the same manner but during a panel discussion with the atlantic council one expert said that the trump administration has actually taken a strong stance against russia in the form of the twenty eight thousand nuclear posture review some even say perhaps misplacing this nuclear threat as the u.s. ramps up its nuclear capabilities plus i think everyone up here would agree that the world's more dangerous now than it was in two thousand and ten in terms of the balance of attention to threats it does seem like the review is very rushed oriented and that a lot of the recommendations are kind of oriented around that i'd like to see more discussion would like to see a bit more in the review but really hope to hear it in the continued conversations with the administration about north korea. i think that presents a number of fairly you need challenges for which we need to kind of combine our nuclear policy with a range of counterproliferation and other strategies and i'd like to see that spelled out in greater detail. in our eyes the recent reproach met between nor

information being utilized to create tensions in our society the workshop was sponsored by the atlantic council's digital forensic research lab the top journalists and researchers how to recognize social media manipulation techniques at the very basic level of books is a social media account preprogrammed to do certain things that people pressing about and there are plenty of good boats out there like made robots with sham poetry what we focus on particularly is malicious thoughts which are used to distort conversations online then memo the information defense fellow for the council specializes in tracking malicious bots on twitter is a lot of the bot activity today coming out of russia yes i've seen a lot of bot nets from the us for example that there are but nets which exclusively post for example far right content in the us but nets are groups of fake accounts that can be automated to. like in post together you can tell a bot by looking at the three a's which are activity and only mittie and amplification and that is if there's an example here whose handle is dreamed of dust which appears to b

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bronwyn bruton the deputy director of the africa center at the atlantic council she explained what the say to them agency means for the country. effectively of the declaration of a state of emergency is the declaration of martial law in the country ethiopians on a good day have virtually no rights no freedom of association no freedom of speech and the declaration of of basically martial law is an opportunity for the military to take control it basically prioritizes the military decision making process above the civilian process and so it's in the past been used as an opportunity for quite brutal action against peaceful demonstrators without is there much more still to come on the program the head of oxfam apologizes is the agency's rocked by allegations of sexual misconduct. and a hollywood blockbuster with a difference fans line up to see the need black panther movie which is changing the silver screen with its own costs. how do you know there's a place called psychoanalyse in australia nor do i but here it is it's more or less eighty mile beach and that massive cloud circling that wi

to debate this a half and i'll go i'll call him mr arab news and former senior fellow at the atlantic council in washington d.c. and. former deputy prime minister of post gadhafi libya thank you both for joining me in the arena last of a given how many problems libya has right now political economic social security do you have any regrets about supporting the original nato led intervention in your country in twenty eleven to topple gadhafi i think i think we are very expect expectation are much higher than they should be because when you have people been living under forty two years of oppression you don't expect those people to be able to make a direct and to become a democratic society in a few months and that's what has happened so what is going on today is really we are paying for the legacy of the regime so no regrets about not only allowed no i do not because maybe if the intervention of had been libyan. could have been killed thousands and thousands on the hands of gadhafi how for you were an opponent of gadhafi for a long time where do you stand on the intervention was it a mistake to

a look at the upcoming russian elections at the atlantic council.hief of naval operations admiral john richardson talks about the future of his service. the presidenton, addresses the republican caucus retreat at the greenbrier. resort in west virginia senate majority leader in -- mitch mcconnell and house speaker paul ryan will speak to reporters at a press conference after. back in washington dc, the palestinian ambassador talks about relations with the u.s. and supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg sits down for an interview at a local synagogue. in the evening, the president will speak at the republican national committee's annual winter meeting at his downtown d.c. hotel. announcer: sunday night on "q and a," author bill jaynes talks about his book "the men from the train," in which he investigates one of the deadliest serial killers in american history. >> many of the crimes happened within 100 yards of the railroad track. us of the things that helps identify his crime as opposed to somebody else's is that it usually happens at the interse

and the west and, from munich, laura galante, a cyber security expert and senior fellow at the atlantic councilthinktank. good evening to you all. if i could begin with you, laura, does russia have the capability to do a lot of cyber damage or a lot of minor harm? we've seen russia undertake a variety of different operations from standard espionage conducted over cyber operations all the way up to critical infrastructure attacks and then the most recent notpetya attack, which focused on the financial sector and then had a lot of externalities, which we have just covered. russia is taking the approach of ratcheting up the types of operations they are willing to undertake in cyberspace and they've had both the technical and psychological component. let's talk about the technical component. what damage can actually do? let's take the ukraine example of the power grid going down in 2015 and again in 2016. with both of those operations, large parts of the country's power grid went down and black energy, the malware behind this, was traced back to likely the russian military and what's been difficult

phillip from the atlantic council. the blockade had an impact on the economy of qatar and come at a time also of slumping gas prices and the result is three years of deficit and at the same time, i mean, the dauphin pipeline stays open, the economy is set to grow next year. my question is, how sustainable from an economic point of view is the current status of the blockade or is it a ticking clock? are there any specific measures of escalation or tightening of screws that you could see that might impact that clock in terms of the-- yeah, the sustainability of the economy? thanks. >> well, regarding our-- the resilience of our economy, the country can survive with the current resources. we are blessed with national resources, but also, we are having a good management for those resources. and the blockade, when it has an impact on the economic situation, has the shock impact, which is the first few days or a few weeks from the middle they have taken. but the problem doesn't lie there. it lies where the other countries, t

a look at the upcoming russia elections of the atlantic council.chief of naval operations admiral john richardson talks about the future of his service. , the presidentn addresses the republican caucus retreat. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and house speaker paul ryan will talk to reporters at a press conference after. back in d.c., the palestinian ambassador talks about relations with the u.s. and supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg sits down for an interview at a local synagogue. in the evening, president trump will speak at the republican national committee's annual winter meeting at his downtown d.c. hotel. >> coming up on "washington journal," erin via cough and david wasserman will talk about their new project on gerrymandering and congressional redistricting. onrissa martinez decastro the future of the daca program

that was reported by the atlantic council.e were able to confirm of it of the person who had knowledge by which that list is created. such a list was generated as a u.s. government work product as required by that u.s. sanctions law. when it came to the deadline, it came time to publish that list, that list was never published. when the oligarchs list - list -- putin's -- they expected to have global consequences in terms of the ability of the pew ten's regime and maintaining their wealth and keep doing what they have done all these years to keep putin in power. we have reasons to believe that such a list was created by the u.s. government. some where before the deadline, it got submarined and replaced with this list that was a joke. forbes' magazine list and the kremlin phone directory. so much for closeness of putin, give a list of people, forget it. michael flynn have been gone today. both campaign chairmans were arrested in october. the white house right now is in escalating turmoil of mishandling of classified information

that is live from the atlantic council and i'm a lot a.m. eastern. we go to new york city with palestinian president addressing the un security council. he will talk about statehood for have the and didn't decision by the u.s. to move the american embassy to jerusalem. we have those remarks, live at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> c-span's history series, landmark cases, susan two, beginning at 9:00 p.m. eastern, with a look at a significant supreme court decision heard in 1819. exploring this case with us are there a peterson and a law professor at the university of arkansas and author of "mccullough v. maryland." onch at 9:00 p.m. eastern c-span, c-span.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app. for background on each case, order a copy of the landmark cases companion book, available for a dollars $.95 plus shipping and handling at www.c-span.org/ landmarkcases. there is an interactive constitution. the national portrait gallery in washington, d.c., unveiled the official portraits of former president barack obama and former first lady, michelle obama. w

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perspective on this situation we are joined now by syria ambassador frederic hof, now with "the atlantic" councile seen these cease fires before from the u.n., any different? >> possibly not unfortunately, margaret. there is a long list of u.n. security resolutions instructing syria to stop this kind of activity, to per miss the delivery of humanitarian assistance both food and medicine, they have been ignored. it's good that this resolution was passed, good that it was passed man newsily but the early returns are not good. bombing is reportedly ongoing as we speak. >> brennan: this is a suburb of the capital of damascus. president trump has called this humanitarian disgrace and public plea blamed iran, russia, he said u.s. was only there to fight ice is that the limit of u.s. intervention? >> possibly not. it remains to be seen. nearly a year ago april 2017, the united states intervened very forcefully, striking a syrian air base in the wake of a sarin nerve agent. by the assad regime on civilians in northern syria. i suspect people in eastern ghouta right now who are saying please, mr. assad, a

we will start at the atlantic council. >> good afternoon everybody. thank you for joining us today. all cellld silence phones, especially with the tv crews here. director heretive at the jerusalem fund and palestine center. on behalf of our board of directors and staff, it is a pleasure to welcome you all here today. including everyone watching online on our livestream. it is an honor to introduce and welcome our distinguished the investor. he will be speaking about the latest developments and at next steps for palestinians on the political and diplomatic fronts. trump recently announced his decision to recognize jerusalem as the undivided capital of israel. he also plans to move the u.s. embassy into jerusalem. this is a major change in official u.s. policy. with a jerusalem being such a core issue for palestinians, this move has severe implications for future peace negotiations and for any u.s. role in such talks. the trump administration recently made the unprecedented step of withholding millions of dollars in humanitarian aid for political reasons. it will impact critical servi

barbara: barbara slaven from the atlantic council. thank you for your work. i know you are trying to stay out of bob mueller's way, that i would be interested in your assessment of how he is proceeding in his investigation. whether you have a sense that he may be collecting information that he would not bring to the public until after our november elections, for example, waiting to see if the house changes hands, and if there might actually be a more reasonable prospect of impeachment then there is now, with republican control. the other question i have is whether there is any coordination between what you are doing and what the senate is doing, and if you have a sense of what their goal is in their investigation, and how it might differ from yours. thank you. rep. schiff: i have to say i have been very impressed with what i have seen of bob mueller and his investigation. he has assembled, i think, a phenomenal team. i am deeply jealous of the team he has put together. i have a phenomenal staff. they are bright, and they work 24/7, 7 days a week, and they do

. >> for more, i'm joined by mark semekovski, senior fellow at the atlantic council. he worked on national security issues, many related to russia, during his time in the office of the secretary of defense for policy. good to see you. thank you for being with us. you know, we know these troll farms, the internet research agency, are tied to a russian oligarch, known as putin's chef. the way it works in russia is that generally speaking, you are not one if you don't have some tie generally speaking, a financial tie, to putin. >> that's correct. yevgeny prigozhin is close to putin, someone putin has known for decades, was his favorite restauranteur and is someone who's company, wagner, you have seen in the news recently which was hit likely by a u.s. air strike in syria. he has ties to russian mercenaries and has tie to a company that interfered in the u.s. election. >> what is supposed to happen next? one of the problems with this cyberactivity is that you can't treat it like conventional military activity where you can prove it in a certain way, then you can engage wi

just search atlantic council in our video library. our coverage from the republican retreat in greenbrier, west virginia continues. the president will be speaking to the group this afternoon at 12:30 eastern. we'll have that live a bit later on. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and the house speaker, paul ryan, will hold a news briefing from the retreat. we'll have that live as well at 2:30. the president making his way back to washington this afternoon. he'll speak tonight to the republican national committee winter meeting. gathering at the trump hotel in downtown washington. that's live at :00 p.m. here on c-span. also in washington this evening, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg sits down for a discussion with the editor in chief of forward magazine. they are expected to talk about the intersection between law, media, and jewish life. live coverage of that is at :00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> c-span's history series, landmark cases, returns next month with a look at 12 new supreme court cases. each week historians a

unwin version is the deputy director of the africa center at the atlantic council she joins us live now from washington d.c. first of all what does this state of emergency involves in ethiopia and how long is it likely to last effectively the declaration of a state of emergency is the declaration of martial law in the country ethiopians on a good day have virtually no rights no freedom of association no freedom of speech and the declaration of of basically martial law is an opportunity for the military to take control it basically prioritizes the military decision making process above the civilian process and so it's in the past been used as an opportunity for quite brutal action against peaceful demonstrators what then do you read into the sudden and unexpected resignation of the prime minister does it end what why did it happen now it's very hard to get a read on what's happening inside the ruling party in ethiopia it's very opaque it is known to be fairly harshly divided between a group of moderates who believe that the ruling party the purity of needs to reform in order to survive a

know how they are coming at us because of good work like the kremlin play book and like the atlantic council's trojan horse report and testimony of other witness whose have come before us. and we know that two of the vectors through which the russians interfere in other country's politics and elections are campaign finance, nontransparency directly going at the politics of the country they want to compromise and more generally corruption nontransparency because as one of the reports said corruption is the lubricant for their effort to interfere with other democracies. whether directly going in with funding to the political system or indirectly corrupting people and using that leverage to interfere with the political system, it all is spawned in darkness. and we are told that over and over and over again. we also know what the two vectors are of this that are the most significant ones. one is dark money in campaign finance. we ought to do something about that. there is a bill called the disclose act that would let us do something about that. not long ago republicans were for that. but now it's

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al-jazeera dot com addressing that it was posted just over a week ago it is by have who is at the atlantic council think tank so you'll find that one in the opinion section oh actually down the bottom i thought there is an embedded video keep scrolling there it is skipped right past it there this is the people in power documentary actually called behind the facade you've also got al-jazeera world film from twenty twelve called macedonia river divide that explores the divide created by the volga river on one side macedonia slavic speaking majority on the other the ethnic albanian minority just for all the context you know where to find it search for macedonia in the documentary section and i'm just a red dot com. now israeli planes have been carrying out and strikes in northern sinai with the approval of the egyptian president of the fattah el-sisi this is coming from the new york times the region has been under a state of emergency since twenty fourteen when thirty three security forces were killed by an armed group linked to isolate but fighters from across the middle east of also moved into this

secretary hagel has also chaired the atlantic council, the u.s. vietnam war commemoration advisory committee, and the vietnam veterans memorial fund corporate counsel. beginning in late 1967, secretary hagel and his brother tom served together in vietnam in the second at 1047 and the part of the ninth infantry division. the photo on the cover of "staying the course" depicts his company in action in may, 1968. secretary hagel. [applause] secretary hagel: thank you. and thank you for your service to our country. mr. farrow, thank you for hosting this event and all that the national archives do for our country. the national archives is truly a national treasure that affects and reaches into every home in our country, as well as telling the story to the world of who we are as a people. and as a nation. so, thank you for you and your colleagues do every day for our nation. dr. villard, congratulations on your book. it is 5000 pages. i know the scholars will appreciate it, but rummaging through it a little, and getting a sense of what you cover, it's a

on c-span two, at 10:00 a.m., the atlantic council hosts a discussion on social and economic change in saudi arabia. at 12:45 p.m.urns to continue consideration of omb deputy director nominee russell vote. isc-span3, a hearing on what ahead for the fbi headquarters and plans to build a new building on the current site. >> u.s. cyber commander and admiral michael rogers testified before the senate armed services committee. admiral rodgers says he has not received specific direction from the white house on responding to russian interference in the u.s. elections. this hearing is just under two hours. the [inaudible conversations] the committee meets today to hear at all mike boettcher is. you have more titles than anybody else. the commander of the u.s. cyber command, director of the agency and chief of the security service given your upcoming retirement this might be the last time you are dropping in. as the recent national defense strategy identified renewed great power with russia and china and that kind of stands along with what the general said when he said that we are losing our qu

the atlantic council hosted a discussion on social and economic change in saudi arabia. the senate returns at 12:45 p.m. to consider consideration. on c-span three a hearing on what is ahead for the fbi headquarters and plans to build the new building on the current site. the 50 capitals to her. they will be the guest on the bus. general joseph hotel testified at house hearing about ongoing military operations in iraq, syria in afghanistan. he discussed cooperation with regional allies to counter iranian influence. in the effect of russian operations. this is the public portion of the house armed services committee hearing it's two hours and 50 minutes. we come to order. we welcome back to the committee the commander of the u.s.s.of it brings to his area of responsibility. where russian influence and presence is much greater now. a region and that that is one of the targets of the chinese whole of nation effort. to increase its way. in and emanating from. or our presence from this vital area. with a number of a strong allies and partners that are able and willing to acti