chatham houston not do as much on -- chatham house did not do as much in europe in the past.verything we had 10 and 15 years ago? robin: good question. i do not think there is a new post washington consensus, not least because europe itself -- i would not see it as a civil war, but it has conflicting viewpoints. governments in central europe actually welcome some of trump's news, do not mind his comments about immigration, do not mind his me first nationalistic approach. and you have strong voices inside countries like france, germany, and written that have sympathy to it. at the moment, it is difficult for europe to stand up as the alternative. francine: when you state 2018 will be the year chatham house focuses on europe, what is your angle on this? is it the shifting space of angela merkel or brexit? robin: it will not be brexit. simply because brexit is a process. i mostly think it has one outcome. and it will be a bumpy road to get there two, let's call it, a hard brexit. i think the more important element is can continental europe, built around the you, uses -- built ar

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around the world are increasingly vulnerable to being hacked by rival states or other groups the chatham house think tanks is the spread of digital technology makes it more likely that cyber attackers could disable or even launch nuclear missiles the report calls on governments to work with the private sector to stay at the cutting edge of technological developments rebecca johnson is an anti nuclear weapons campaigner she says the only way to make the weapon safe is to ban them entirely. take the u.k.'s nuclear weapons which are dependent on wind you know a customized version of windows x.p. well we know now that the the hackers have been able to to. paralyze systems that have that particular form of of of electronics and what you know we're seeing i mean essentially nuclear weapons are a twentieth century technology but a very very dangerous technology a weapon of mass destruction intended for by and large the the kind of wars of the twentieth century in a situation now where because of electronic and technological advance and particularly cyber advances that iraq and non-state actors

is a senior consulting fellow with the middle east and north africa program at chatham house he joins us live from new york thanks very much for speaking to us this report reiterates the concerns and the rights abuses which we've heard before but which are no less important now all the human rights violations getting worse in yemen. or not not sure that necessarily things are getting worse in so far as we're becoming more aware of them and when i say say we what i mean is that the body of evidence which the u.n. in particular has access to is reaching a point where the evidence is overwhelming that all of the groups all of the parties to this conflict to this this war or probably it seems highly likely engaging in some form of violation of international humanitarian law and in terms of the the body of evidence they've built up all parties that the report is critical of all sides in the war has anything new come to light in terms of the you ease activities because it details torture taking place or indeed the extent of iran's involvement. well again these are things that we've seen rep

former sports minister and chatham and aylesford mp tracey crouch has been given the role, which hadons made by thejo cox commission on loneliness. as well as the appointment, the prime minister said a cross—government strategy to find ways to stop people feeling lonely will be published later this year. a teacher from east london has gone on trial at the old bailey, accused of planning terrorist attacks on some of london's best—known landmarks. prosecutors say umar haque, seen here on the left, was inspired by the islamic state group. he denies the charges. abuthaher mamun and nadeen patel, who also appeared in court, also denied the charges against them. president macron of france has been on a visit to calais, where he's declared that he will not allow new migrant camps to be built. he was visiting ahead of talks with theresa may this week, when he's expected to ask britain to take in more migrants. lucy williamson has more. once the uk was a magnet forjuma, today it was the french president. after months of camping around calais, the sudanese migrant has decided to apply for asyl

that would be very interesting to listen to what comes out of those discussions georgina right from chatham house thank you thank you. and speaking of france the country has abandoned plans for a new airport after decades of indecision than the. airport was slated for non to in the west of the country it has faced heavy opposition from activists and environmentalists since the idea was first suggested which was back in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven squatters are set up camp on its proposed site have been ordered out by spring. a province in the eastern philippines remains on high alert as the country's most active volcano continues to spew lava for a fourth day thirty four thousand people have been forced to evacuate germany island ogun reports now from by province. a perfect code is how many here describe mt my own thousands traveled to the luzon region to see the up close but for the people of iowa by the volcano is more than just a tourist attraction it is also a source of anxiety. it's been spewing ash and lava for the past week prompting the mass evacuation of thousands of vill

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i spoke to fadi hakura, who is the manager of the turkey project at chatham house.his opens up yet another front in the war in syria. no doubt that the military intervention by turkey in north—western syria is another complication in a very complicated war. turkey wants to make certain that the ypg, which are closely linked to the pkk, do not establish their contiguous territorial autonomous zone. how will that go down in turkey? there are many kurdish people in turkey, could it become a risk for the president?m this military intervention becomes a long and protracted conflict and there is a serious possibility that there is a serious possibility that the kurdish people in turkey will become increasingly agitated and will express sympathy with their brethren in northern syria. however, if this is a swift military operation in the risk will be minimised. is a message to the us, who are arming and supporting the kurdish people as they fight in syria against the outside forces? —— assad forces. could there be tensions between turkey and america now? if the turkish mili

around the world are increasingly vulnerable to being hacked by rival states or other groups the chatham house think tank says the spread of digital technology makes it more likely that cyber attackers could disable or even launch nuclear weapons well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream thank you thanks for watching by foot . as thousands of broken just seek refuge in bangladesh a new armed group is taking shape fighting the government and me and man can only have them because they refuse to give us our basic rights as citizens for the first time a member of the ira can just salvation army talks to al-jazeera at this time. i every ok and you're in the string we are live on out is here and egypt i'm willing to be loud today why are so many palestinian minors in prison in israel and how are they treated take a look at this video from our colleagues at eight zero plus. and then i'd learn that the good and bad in the middle of the good ideas on how to market the state of. the sixteen year old girl that you saw there ahead to me has captured interna

around the world are increasingly want to bowl to being hacked by rival states or other groups the chatham house think tank says the spread of digital technology makes it more likely that cyber attackers could disable or even launch nuclear weapons those are your headlines keep it here the news continues on al-jazeera after inside story. the rebels in yemen say they've built their own surface to air missile it comes days after saudi arabia said that it intercepted a ballistic missile that was fired towards its territory so is there an end game to this near three year conflict this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan it's a new year but the same old story in yemen nearly three years on since the saudi led coalition began its military campaign more people are dying at least eleven were killed in a saudi airstrike on wednesday that targeted a market in northern sada province that region is a stronghold of hooty rebels you've been in control of much of the country since twenty fifteen well fighting has killed at least ten thousand people and displaced millions mor

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parakilas is assistant head of the us and the americas programme at the international affairs think tank chathamyou for coming in. these are pretty high stakes. we are getting down to the 12th hour. a simple question first, what's your gut?” think it might turn into a shutdown. the democrats are clearly trying to use it as a leveraged point. they have minority in both houses. areas where they have influence are relatively few, but this is one. they can defend the dreamers programme, which everybody agrees needs to be extended. and the children's health needs to be extended. and the child ren‘s health insurance programme, massively politically popular. they are standing on relatively solid ground on those two points, but it's not clear how the politics will play out with midterms coming up in november. everybody playing a bit of brinksmanship. it's interesting because president trump went so far is to say it could happen, andi went so far is to say it could happen, and i wouldn't say he was sanguine about it, but he was ready to let it happen. he was recorded as saying, we need a good shut down,

around the world are becoming more vulnerable to hacking attacks by rival states or hostile groups the chatham house think tank says the spread of digital technology makes it more likely that hackers could just sable or even launch nuclear missiles the report calls on governments to work with the private sector to stay on top of technological developments. there's a large cleanup effort underway in southern california after a devastating mudslide but local police say it's unlikely they'll find any more survivors seventeen people were killed when storms sent a wall of mud crashing through homes and washing away cars rob reynolds has the latest from los angeles. deliverance from above a coast guard helicopter hovered low to rescue a man a child and their dog from the roof of a house surrounded by mud roads in the area have been washed out or are impassable because of mud and debris another coast guard crew landed on a golf course and shepherded eight people and five dogs aboard their jayhawk helicopter officials say five hundred rescuers are combing the hills and canyons using search dogs and th

well peter tells very as a senior consulting fellow with the middle east and north africa program at chatham house he says the report shows yemen is fragmenting into several conflicts and a fresh approach to peace may be necessary the issue that we have right now if we have is we have a un that peace process which is really fixed focused on the idea of a single conflict a binary conflict between who these formerly the who the seller alliance on one side and the government of yemen backed by saudi arabia on the other and when in reality what you have is multiple interlinked sort of overlapping conflicts going on and rivalries going on so that if a peace deal is reached simply between the who is on the one hand and the government of yemen on the other hand that means that you're excluding a lot of different groups who are very involved in the conflict have control over different areas and that in turn creates incentives for them to generate new conflict again in the future so we might see that the big war the big conflict that we're looking at from the outside ending descend into a series of s

systems around the world are increasingly vulnerable to being hacked whether by states or groups chatham house think tank says the spread of digital technology makes it more likely that cyber attackers could interfere with nuclear missiles into putting them out of action or perhaps even causing them to be launched or poor calls on governments to work with the private sector to stay at the cutting edge of technological developments. now the british prime minister terri's amaze announced plans to eliminate avoidable plastic waste in the u.k. within twenty five years she also proposed a plastic free aisle in supermarkets as part of an environmental action plan millions of tons of plastics enter the oceans every year and some take hundreds of years to biodegrade a u.k. course one of bonnie b. phillips reports from a waste collection center in the west of england this is the cost of consumer culture we don't like to think about the waste we make but we're all responsible for it this plant in the west of england process is hundreds of tons every day the paper the glass above all the plastic we

some ministers are expecting to be speaking at the chatham house energy conference.y have been speaking a lot lately. quick check on the markets and where you are at. the msci asia-pacific holding on to those gains, pushing further, higher. a little pressure still on commodities. a little bit of a downside on brent crude. 2.68 for that 10-year paper. how much higher can it really go? that's all we have for this edition of "bloomberg markets: middle east are called ♪ >> the following is a paid presentation by the murad rapid lightening regimen. guaranteed or your money back. announcer: coming up, see how women all across america are taking murad's seven-day challenge. fading age spots, sunspots and discoloration in as little as seven days. and now, you can too with our best offer ever. ♪

fellow at chatham house.ill this mode pass? >> i think it remains a bit of an open question, but if i had to vote now, i would say they did not have the votes. democrats are looking at insurance that they will have, at least not in this bill, some vote to protect the so-called dreamers. they were young people brought here as children. but now they are either in the military or attended college -- that sort of thing. it looks like they do not have a very firm commitment yet on that. i would think they will probably hold out. mark: it is the intention for them to vote on immigration post february 8. intention is not enough. >> we will see if it is enough for democrats, but that bruc represents a far step back from what position has been up to this point. does the shutdown actually optic make it less likely that the president shows up? >> i think it is worth noting that his staff of the weekend made a point of pointing out that it would not be possible under the shutdown for the president to go. interesting that

peter salisbury who is a senior consulting fellow with a middle east and north africa program at chatham house he told us the report shows yemen is fragmenting into several regional conflicts and a fresh approach to paste may be necessary the issue that we have right now if we have is we have a un that peace process which is really fixed focused on the idea of a single conflict a binary conflict between the who these formerly the who thinks are alliance on one side and the government of yemen backed by saudi arabia on the other and when in reality what you have is multiple interlinked sort of overlapping conflicts going on and rivalries going on so that if a peace deal is reached simply between the who is on the one hand and the government of yemen on the other hand that means that you're excluding a lot of different groups who are. very involved in the conflict of control over different areas and that in turn creates incentives for them to generate new conflict again in the future so we might see the big war the big conflict that we're looking at from the outside and doing descend into

fellow for the crown center for middle east studies at brandeis university and an associate fellow at chatham house. i'll ask our panel to go in that order and just a couple opening topic questions. dr. cragin, i was wondering if you could talk a little about foreign fighter flow, the trends you're seeing and specifically what are the implications for algeria? >> sure. thanks very much. as you see in my bio, i'm the counterterrorism fellow at the national defense university. so for those of you who aren't familiar with ndu, we're actually part of the u.s. professional military education program, which means i actually have to start all my comments by saying nothing i say represents the joint staff of the department of defense or the u.s. government in general. i should also say that as having the portfolio for counterterrorism i work transregionally. so sometimes i'm in southeast asia and sometimes in north africa. the past two years i've been to tunisia and algeria as part of the research but i don't consider myself a regional expert. i think that should be taken into context. so my comments

americas program at chatham house live this hour for us. thank you so much for your time today. on this point about the unemployment rate for african americans, let's talk about the president's comments. because he is talking about a rate, a trend quite frankly that was taking place before he ever took office. but taking credit for all of it. >> yes, absolutely. like loot of trump claims, there is a kernel of truth there, but it reflects a larger deception. the about employment rate has been dropping for years. the trend line has continued from the latter years of the obama administration into the trump years he can certainly take credit for not having changed the trend. arguably he could take credit for some improvement at the very margins. but the underlying trend is not something trump can take credit for. indeed, there are a lot of factors. any president, in party. >> in time which are responsible for the unemployment rate. >> the u.s. president again looking ahead to a milestone here. his state of the union address. very important moment for his presidency. topics that will

she is from chatham house.k of this strange american politics on your strange bull market. i am still in the triple leveraged all-cash fund. i have been killing in performance on that. morningi said this this , i have no idea what this afternoon will bring. it is still almost a dysfunctional cacophony day today in washington. is there any way general kelly can come to the rescue? leslie: it has been an extraordinary couple of days and many people came back thinking that donald trump having scored a victory with the tax bill -- tom: exactly. leslie: despite its unpopularity might have a more strategic think 16 but we saw i tweets that first day on every major forum poly -- policy injury -- issue in a fairly destructive way. tom: let me ask the question everybody wants to know this morning worldwide. does general kelly, the chief of staff, does he have a button? forget about the foreign policy button. does the adult in the room have a button for the many dialogues of 1600 pennsylvania avenue? leslie: i think we k

senior research fellow at chatham house.scuss nominations is the film criticjason solomons. discuss nominations is the film critic jason solomons. who discuss nominations is the film criticjason solomons. who else?! the shape of water. it's a good haul, 12 nomination. can they convert them into winds however? it in the fantasy category as he said, and the last time thes was hugo, the martin scorsese film, which will empty—handed. it will be out on the 16th and the awards on the 18th. it's a strange film at sally hawkins asa it's a strange film at sally hawkins as a nude woman having a relationship might love at first sight with a strange sea creature that's been brought in and treated as an alien by a facility in the us. there she is with 0ctavia spencer who was nominated in this supporting actress category. it's directed by gillian modell: who won four pans labyrinth ten years ago —— guillermo del toro. it's a chance to seize the mainstream. it's a strange and whimsicalfilm which mainstream. it's a strange and whimsical fil

john nilsson—wright from the independent international affairs think tank chatham house. thank you.i say a huge thank you to nhs staff and their hard work. they work hard and do a fantastic job work. they work hard and do a fantasticjob for a work. they work hard and do a fantastic job for a stay work. they work hard and do a fantasticjob for a stay in and day out all your round. but obviously, when extra pressures are in winter, they are doing a fantasticjob, and their dedication is ensuring that people are getting the treatment they need. the nhs has been better prepared for this winter than ever before. we have put extra funding in, there are more beds available across the system, we have reduced the number of delayed discharges of elderly people who would otherwise have been in nhs beds other than in social care. but i recognise that those people who have had their operations postponed, this is disappointing, frustrating. but we to ensure that those operations are put back as soon as possible. and once again i say, the nhs staff are doing a fantasticjob and i would like to take

nique's stepmother, betty chatham, says the move effectively ended all contact between nique's family two youngest daughters amanda, 12, and rebecca 9. >> he was to provide us with a telephone number. he was to set up a skype account so that we could talk with the girls. nothing. packed up. moved. >> five months later in the summer of 2012, the investigative file passed to cold case detective sergeant john richter. >> i was actually in the homicide unit as a corporal when her body was found. >> does that stay with you? >> yeah, i would say that certain cases that stick with you. and this is one. >> at first richter did what all cold case detectives do. he re-interviewed witnesses. when that went nowhere, richter took another look at matt leili's computer hard drives. do you think somewhere in there is the nugget that will get you to the next step in the investigation? >> i think at the minimum we needed to redo it to see if technology had advanced. so i needed new forensic guys to look at the video, or whatever else he could find on the computer. >> turns out the techie richter needed

we are americans, warletters.us and it goes to this archive at chatham university which i picked with a lot of institutions, i could sense how passionately they felt, students were so respectful to the material, they use them in their own questions, not just history but english literature and the theater department but how supportive the faculty and administration was. my key concern given the collection, they say thank you, we are done. we want this to be the largest archive of american wartime correspondence anywhere in the world and we think it is, outside the national archives and government institutions. our hope is people spread the word. someone have a cousin who served in iraq or afghanistan or vietnam, please get the message out there. once i will say it like it is a wonderful family activity to bring these letters out and go through them. younger generations, grandpa with the biggest grumpy guy i ever met and they read his love letters, where was this guy? he was really funny and engaging, like a kid. it shows them a different side of family members they think they already k

call in terms of their money in terms of anything is not true the only put up on the stand yes in chatham you could produce extremism and use them in water in afghanistan but the long term they could be eventually a threat for you all security and for you would also cite a kind of first structure that. allows your goofy believes that foreign influence is changing the culture here further restricting women's already limited freedoms i think it's the influence of the middle east countries basically more you see it in our students it doesn't have anything with or were tradition to they surely we used to wear a burka although. and is also sometimes being regarded as a stopping woman from progress but sometimes i see her job is also being misused in certain countries including afghanistan i think that's the influence of. these extremism. after years of taliban oppression there are now opportunities for girls in afghanistan to go to school and university to have a career even to become an m.p. but with madrassas like these there is now a conflict in some girls hearts and minds about their right

peter sounds very as a senior consulting fellow with the middle east and north africa program at chatham house he says their report shows yemen is fragmenting into several regional conflicts and a fresh approach to peace may be necessary the issue that we have right now if we have is we have a un the peace process which is really fixed focused on the idea of a single conflict a binary conflict between who these formerly the who the seller alliance on one side and the government of yemen backed by saudi arabia on the other and when in reality what you have is multiple interlinked sort of overlapping conflicts going on and rivalries going on so that if a peace deal is reached simply between the who is on the one hand and the government of yemen on the other hand that means that you're excluding a lot of different groups who are very involved in the conflict who have control over different areas and that in turn creates incentives for them to generate new conflict again in the future so we might see that the big war the big conflict that we're looking at from the outside ending descend into

well joining me to talk more about this is syria consulting research fellow at the chatham house think tank in london thanks very much for coming in to just picking up a little bit on what can really was just saying it sounds like the americans are trying to put in some sort of force that they trust they've been working side by side with the white p.g. and the syrian defense forces so that's why i'm guessing they are getting now involved in. being more efficient with their training or whatever but in a way tech is just reacting because turkey was expecting them to leave the y.p. g. and just walk away wasn't it was not only turkey who was not sure what the next step in syria will be like the kurds who are also scared that the do is will abandon them as soon as the fight against isis is over this is why this move is not only surprised to turkey but also a surprise to the kurds the syrian regime and russia as well and one of the borders i've talked about is the euphrates river which has always been talked about the syrians wouldn't accept if they wipe e.g. cross that river that's not a bo

around the world are increasingly vulnerable to being hacked by rival states or other groups the chatham house think tank says the spread of digital technology makes it more likely that cyber attacks could disable or even launch nuclear missiles or port calls on governments to work with the private sector to stay at the cutting edge of technological developments record johnson as an anti-nuclear weapons campaigner who founded the acronym institute for disarmament policy she says the only way to make the weapons say this children ate them entirely take the u.k. is nuclear weapons which are dependent on wind you know a customized version of windows x t where we know now that the hackers have been able to to. paralyze systems that have that particular form of of of electronics and you know we're seeing the i mean essentially nuclear weapons are a twentieth century technology but a very very dangerous technology a weapon of mass destruction intended for by and large the the kind of wars of the twentieth century in a situation now where because of electronic and technological advance and part

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there clearly, there's no chatham house rules when you're in these conferences.ff the record. people can talk about it afterwards. so to think it's private, is absurd. let me -- charles: well, the president could have thought he was amongst a -- >> if he thought that, that's doubling down on idiocy. the problem with president trump is this: policies, real good, the man himself says dumb things, and he takes the emphasis off the very good policies. by the way, there is a legitimate debate which i'm 100% in his corner for, how can you have open borders and a welfare state? how can you be bringing in so many people from poor countries finish i'm not going to use that other word -- in here trying to integrate them in mass while you have a massive welfare state that costs a lot of money? that is the debate. the minute you use an inflammatory word like that -- charles: how does that change the facts that you've laid out? >> well, i'm -- charles: a single word that -- >> charles, look at the news. i mean -- charles charles hold on. we're not going to use the mainstream

fellow of the us and the americas programme at the independent international affairs thinktank — chathamthere is more to it. the real problem is that this is a president who has come back in 2018 and really needs to drive forward with a very strategic agenda and what we have seen strategic agenda and what we have seenin strategic agenda and what we have seen in the last few days is tweeting on a number of issues, very inflammatory, and now this comes out. there might be a lawsuit against the author of the book, michael wolff, forfailing against the author of the book, michael wolff, for failing to abide toa number of michael wolff, for failing to abide to a number of confidentiality agreements. there's a question of is this going to this president right back down? there was a lot of concern over whether he would be more of a problem outside of the white house than in, and the loss of the senate seat, the election in alabama, was attributed in part to donald trump listening to steve bannon saw this break has been coming but it is really very significant in the sense that it is going to di

associate fellow of the us and americas programme at the independent international affairs think tank — chathamppen? i imagine it is something we will continue to discuss for the next few months, but theresa may and donald trump and their advisers will have very serious conversations. donald trump would like to take the visit and that the right conditions. the great shame about this cancelled the visit is if you look at the american embassy has the potential to be symbolically at the heart of the american british relationship, 1,000,000,000-dollar american british relationship, 1,000,000,000—dollar building, remember that decision was taken by george w bush because there was a move to make embassy is much more secure in the aftermath of the september 11 attacks. it is quite open, the heart of the 15 billion regeneration in the heart of london. this could be the president saying we are contributing to the uk but instead we see them taking a negative position and one that makes it very difficult for the embassy staff and ambassador to have the kind of opening day with like. let's talk more about

soas, and associate fellow on the us programme at the independent international affairs thinktank, chathamaren't they? jenna maxwell, the numbers are consistent. they are in between 35 and 45% approval ratings, moving around a bit. but, they are low, historically low for a president, and they have been low for available time. compare to previous president in that early time in office. considering, especially, that here was a free seeping victory, i think you have to put it on that context of this number is actually being low in relative terms. there has been a consistency across that space. slightly paradoxical, isn't it, those numbers cut he has not got a lots done. they did get that tax cut, that was very significant, but the thing about tax reform, is donald trump's base, that low and consistent number, they have really supported him on the basis that he will deliver some benefits of the ordinary person. if you look at how americans responded to the tax reform, most americans were not happy with this plan. it was deemed to be pushed through very quickly, and it was seen to be a tax cut