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i would therefore like as the secretary of state for international development to double the amount thatet on climate and the environment, and i would like to double the effort that the department puts into that issue. i welcome the minister to his new cabinet role and the despatch box. and i warmly welcome his clear and genuine commitment to tackling the climate emergency. does he accept that there is a contradiction between the excellent work that his department does helping to mitigate and adapt to the climate emergency in developing countries and the way in which through uk export finance we continue to subsidise fossil fuels to the tunes of billions of pounds? and will he use his leadership in government in whatever form to make sure that he pushes to stop those fossil fuel subsidies? this is of course a very, very serious challenge. and this is fundamentally an issue for the department for international trade. but the right honourable member is absolutely right that it is extremely important when we think about an environment and climate strategy for the government that we are full

shadow minister for work and pensions in 2002, and then shadow secretary of state for international development in 2003. now he was elected speaker in 2009 and has served in that role ever since. mr. speaker, we are delighted to have you at brookings with us this morning. as you may know, mr. speaker, brookings has undertaken a major study of the challenges and the pressures faced by democracies today, and i think i can speak for this institution, say people inply this city listening very closely and he has done it well by keeping order in the house of commons. today's event is part of the transatlantic initiative or the bti as we call it, a multi-your project that seeks to reinvigorate and more recently to preserve the transatlantic collaboration on global issues. events like this would not be possible, but with a partnership wehave with the foundation, are deeply grateful for that support, so in a few moments, i will invite the speaker to the stage for his remarks and after here ate senior fellow brookings will moderate a conversation with the speaker .nd amanda questions and answers will fol

rory stewart, the international development secretary. former secretary of state forharper, former chief whip. he has never held a top job in government. we will discuss the various contenders with mike payne, who is chair of the halifax conservative legislation and trends is from halifax. in the telford sharer of the conservative association and dresses from teleport. and we are joined association and dresses from teleport. and we arejoined by association and dresses from teleport. and we are joined by tony harper. we have, i do not know if you have a cross—section of the conservative party membership, but i hope it is by let us see what their views are. mike, let's come to you first and halifax. various contenders through will you be supporting? i think i have a down to a shortlist of four. headed by boris johnson. on what basis have you chose those four out of the ten. the first thing i do is eliminate those candidates who voted to remain in the eu and the 2016 referendum. so that takes out people likejeremy hunt, rory stewart and matthew hancock. i also then want

are tightly aligned around state department and usaid, the global health security agenda which is almost mentality and capabilities of developing countries for the international health regulations which came about after the catastrophe, globally, we saw how weak public health connectivity was around the world and infrastructure, we support that, again, like in the democratic republic of the congo, that's really the backbone of gsha. >> one last question for you, you mentioned that when -- the last time you were at hhs, it was 911, you were there at -- you talked about anthrax, take us back to that time and take us back to your personal reflections and how that impacted your view of why this global health security agenda is so important, again, the first time that we met you gave some personal commentary about how that impacted you, very dark days for all of the u.s., but had to be particularly for somebody who was in hhs feeling the weight of the country, the weight of the world, can you share some of those experiences with us? >> sure, i think it's good to have somebody who lived through those fairly dark days in this role because it causes one while i do sl

for the region. leadership was already criticized. the program. in europe. the program the united states has launched a bid to drum up $50000000000.00 to invest in palestinian economic development the 2 day international conference in. the u.s. post and son in law and senior advisor is being billed as part of a wider white house initiative to resolve. conflicts palestinian leaders have already rejected the approach describing it as an attempt to further exploit. the israeli palestinian government's i think he is just explaining his vision. the goal of this workshop is to begin thinking about these challenges in a new way let's try to view this conflict and the potential of the entire region through a different lens and work together to develop a concrete plan to try to achieve it for a moment imagine a new reality in the middle east imagine a bustling commercial and tourist center and gaza and the west bank where international businesses come together and thrive imagine the west bank as a blossoming economy full of entrepreneurs engineers scientists and business leaders imagine people and goods flowing quickly and securely throughout the region as economics become more integrated and people become mor

state leadership summit in washington. they advocate for development programs. ♪ >> good afternoon and welcome back. of the president and ceo child fund internationalnd a proud member of the board of directors of the u.s. board of global leadership coalition. years ago i went to africa for the first time as a peace corps volunteer living in my mud house in northeastern kenya, working on issues of children's immunization.

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development. and we support meaningful and comprehensive dialogue among states as well as with other partners at the national regional and international levels. the president putin last year you called for a technological breakthrough and mentioned very importantly that we must be receptive to innovative ideas and technologies that make a difference in people's lives and the term in the future of the kountry and the world these are your words mr president. in may 2019 slovakia chair of the o.e.c.d. ministerial council on the theme harnessing digital transition for sustainable development opportunities and challenges. and the mission is to use the potential of the new digitalisation era and to ensure it is for the benefit of all. in my keynote speech to the o.e.c.d. ministerial i suggested that digital humanism. of the science slovakian prime minister peter pellegrini there addressing the main session at least in petersburg international economics chairing the stage there were the russian and chinese leaders also the leaders of called area armenia and the u.n. secretary general as well continuing coverage will pick up again in the next couple of minutes as we bring more in-depth coverage

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states withdraw from the nuclear defense agreement saying it's a step towards global destabilization what art has been following the developments of the forum for us. some of the wealthiest businessmen on this planet international official will spend most of their time at the international economic forum here at the venue but those who get an invitation on the 1st day of the floor actually head to st petersburg residence at some point during the day to take part in the event chaired by the russian leader and one of these events was to get together with the heads of the most important international news agencies and during that panel a lot of moms who had quite a few quid of cool things to say about washington a raising signatures on some of the most important treaties that control the use of missiles missile defense and so on we can remember how george w. bush decided to ditch the anti-ballistic missile treaty almost 20 years ago we can also remember what donald trump did to the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty last year so here's what mr putin said in particular. it seems. global threat issues being ignored that concerns our american partners have withdrawn from the anti-ballistic missile treaty so wha

president of the international society for stem cell research, said -- "with these new arbitrary restrictions on research, the united states is ceding its role as the global leader in the development of cellular therapies and regenerative medicine." in more news on reproductive rights, former vice president joe biden angered much of his own democratic party wednesday when his campaign manager said biden still supports the hyde amendment, a decades-old ban on federal funding for most abortions which disproportionately impacts the poor and women of color. biden's position puts him at odds with the democratic national committee's 2016 platform, as well as all of the women senators challenging him for the 2020 presidential nomination kirsten gillibrand, kamala harris, amy klobuchar, and elizabeth warren. all four are co-sponsors of legislation to overturn the hyde amendment. other 2020 president candidates also weighed in as well, including senator bernie sanders, who tweeted -- "there is no middle ground on women's rights. abortion is a constitutional right. under my medicare for all plan, we will repeal the hyde amendment." meanwhile, senator bernie sanders confronted executives at

for american values amid the rise of another alternative. the chinese alternative is the international expansion of authoritarian capitalism. the chinese government is developing a repressive digital surveillance state. up to 1 million muslim leaders are interred in reeducation camps. china is investing an initiative involving the influence of building infrastructure throughout the pacific, europe, africa and the americas as they fill a vacuum left by that. the areas of mutual interest in climate disruption to combating terrorism to international peacekeeping operations. they must defend our interviews and relationships. we will not be able to meet this, nor will it suffice to reduce the china relationship to a tit-for-tat trade fight. [applause] >> meeting the challenge of china means maintaining investments with the military to deter aggression and adventure. as with russia we need to invest in strategies to deal with political interference, proxy wars, cyber attacks and weaponization of technological interdependence. the new challenge provides an opportunity to come together across the political divide. at least half the battles at home enhancing our domestic instability. the american way is supe

for american values amid the rise of a potent alternative. the chinese alternative is the international expansion of authoritarian capitalism. as we speak, the chinese government is developing a repressive digital surveillance state. muslim uighurson are being interned in so-called reeducation camps. china is investing more than $1 trillion in its belt and road initiative, expanding its political and economic influence by building infrastructure throughout the pacific europe, africa, and the americas as they fill a vacuum left by american withdrawal. thean cooperate with chinese on areas of mutual interest from climate disruption and combating terrorism to international peacekeeping operations. we also must be prepared to defend our values, interests, and relationships. we will not be able to meet this challenge by sticking to a 20th century strategy. nor will it suffice to reduce the china relationship to a tit-for-tat trade fight as if all that matters is the export -import balance on dishwashers. [applause] meeting theg: challenge of china means we must maintain investments in a military that can do aggression and adventure. we also need to invest in strategies to deal with less over tactics. the weaponization

states has stepped over all the norms and regulations of the international community and has created new threats for the region and the world. mohammed al is standing by in muscat in amman has monitor developments in the iranian capital and we'll talk to those here in just a couple minutes but 1st let's go to rome 1st it will come at that meeting comes down where president rouhani was speaking and robin president rouhani wasted no time in lashing out at the allegations. yes and a very good platform for him to do so here at the shanghai cooperation organization summit because he's effectively among allies accusing the united states of providing a globe offering a global threats to security security and those thoughts or feelings repeated all supported by senior leaders at the summit today including sodomy putin and president he jingping of china early. mr rouhani met with pain in bilateral talks on the site of the summit and ping stressed that iraq and china should have closer cooperation going forward regardless of how the circumstances may change for iran reference it looks like to the difficulties that iran now faces challenged by the united states in general having the u.s. withdrawn from th

developing story out of the middle east. secretary of state michael pompeo blaming iran for the tanker attacks in the gulf of oman, saying it was a blatant assault and clear threat to internationalo coming into cnbc this morning. this comes from u.s. central command, the u.s. navy it appears to show a small iranian boat removing what looks to be an unexploded mine from one of the two tankers in the gulf of oman yesterday joining us now is helima croft if that is accurate, that puts the attention squarely on iran, but what does that mean for geopolitics in. >> the question what is the united states going to do? for the last month, had president trump saying don't want a war, i don't want regime change, prime minister abe in iran trying to get a diplomatic off ramp and then a japanese tanker struck. >> bad look. >> bad look. the question is, if you're president trump, are you going to escalate sanctions or going to have to deploy more military forces to the region, more carriers going to the gulf those are the type of things we have to think about. >> we had this, it is early, the years escape me, what year was it, late mid'90s, we had u.s. navy ships escorting oil tankers. >> we

for destabilizing the whole gulf region it comes as donald trump prepares new sanctions and forces his secretary of state to increase international support as well to punish iran let's take you through all the developments so far u.s. secretary on peo he's in the u.a.e. now he was in saudi arabia earlier him that king solomon he also met the crown prince mohammed bin salman hoping to form some sort of global coalition against iran the u.s. president also talking about new sanctions and we're going to have an update on that with our correspondent in just a moment but also there is russia which is announced it is ready to counter any new sanctions it's got an oil for goods deal that it wants others to join all the while though iran is saying time is running out for european leaders to act and to save the 2015 nuclear deal so here are our correspondents on this one at the moment we'll talk to dorset in tehran and i'm going to want to start with rosalynn jordan we had that joint statement rose but also news on the actual sanctions take us through it. well the u.s. president donald trump has just signed an executive order which is imposing sanctions on the supreme leader of iran ayatollah common nay he has s

for. the united states has launched a bid to drum up $50000000000.00 to invest in palestinian economic development the bid was launched by jarrett cushion during a 2 day international conference and behind the plan is being billed as part of a wider white house initiative to resolve the israeli palestinian conflict. iranian and u.s. leaders have been trading insults with iranian president hassan rouhani saying u.s. president donald trump was mentally challenged trump in turn threatened obliteration of iran attacked quote anything american last week iran shot down a u.s. drone and it's also suspected of sabotaging oil tankers near its coast. brazil's supreme court has rejected a request to temporarily free former president louis. the silva from prison or was hoping to be released while the court debates his upcoming appeal case argues his 2017 conviction should be quashed because one of the judges who convicted him was biased. san francisco has become the 1st major city in the united states to ban the sale and manufacture of electronic cigarettes city lawmakers said the ban was necessary until their health effects were clearer they also pointed to a quote dramatic s