A brand im also ahead south africas new president prepares to give his first state of the nation address as the country waits to see who survived the pose that would appoint to his cabinet. Who are you is that. Is very much in the zimbabwes new Opposition Leaders look to the future following the death of morgan chang arrive plus. The year of the dog millions of people around the world celebrates the lunar new year. The u. S. Secretary of state has been holding talks with his turkish counterpart as the two countries what to repair strained relations Rex Tillerson and metal. But syria high on the agenda there have been heightened tensions in recent months of a u. S. Support for kurdish fighters and syria to the kurdish y p g as a terrorist group turkey is the fifth and final leg of middle east oil and jordan looks at why the u. S. And turkey have not been seeing eye to eye. Theres a saying you dance with the ones who brought in mandate syria the u. S. Military is supporting the Syrian De
Anniversary of the passage of the act. [inaudible conversations] book here. You want to [inaudible conversations] good evening, everybody. Thank you so much for coming out tonight. Were so delighted to have such a great crowd on a middle of august summer evening. My names liss saw muscatine, im one of the coown tokers of politics prose. On behalf of our staff and on behalf of my husband and coowner, brad graham, we really are excited about this event and excited to have all of you here. I do want to mention just a couple of things, we are also now running book operations in three of the six busboys and poets in washington with plans to be in all of those, all of them before not too long. So if you happen to be at 14th and v in brooklyn or in tacoma and wander into one of the busboys, youll find our books there. We also are going to be the bookseller for the National Book festival over the saturday of labor day weekend. We encourage you all to come out. There are going to be more than a
Our first guest is playing the long game when it came when it comes to investing in the middle east and africa. Bob diamond is known as an optimist and some of it seems to be paying off. The original vision was to in key countries. We are in seven countries. Invest intinuing to union bank of nigeria. I think our focus right now is completing the next stage of investment in upn. Ubn. We really like nigeria right now, we think it is in a better position with the collapse of the oil prices. We think the Agricultural Sector has grown very nicely. We have just made a second very large investment in ubn. Yousef are you in track to double your fiscal year profits . Yes, thats the statement we made and we expect to do that. Yousef other asset sales planned . Bob i cant think of an evening along that line. There were other countries we were interested in become a seven we are in right now, but the focus is completing application. Last year, we acquired a second bankin rwanda and a second and sa
Our first guest is playing a long game when it comes to investing in the middle east and africa. Bob diamond is known as an optimist and some of it seems to be paying off. Bob the original vision was to have position in key countries. We are in seven countries. We are continuing to invest in union bank of nigeria. I think our focus right now is completing the next stage of investment in ubn. We really like nigeria. We think it is in a better position with the collapse of the oil prices. We think the Agricultural Sector has grown very nicely. We have just made a second very large investment in ubn. Yousef are you on track to double your fiscal year profits . Bob yes, thats the statement we made and we expect to do that. Yousef other asset sales planned . Mom i cant think of anything along those lines. There are other countries we we are interested beyond the seven right now, but the focus is completing application. Last year, we acquired a second bank in rwanda and a second bank in zamb
Second term. The debt ceiling has been raised, at least temporarily, but there are still Big Decisions to be made. You specifically said in the last few days that your priority is to make a big down payment on the debt. A debt crisis that you see in this country. Thats right. What do you specifically require . Whats the priority . What has the president got to do in your point of view . Ill just explain what the speaker said when we passed that bill. Our goal is to get cuts and reforms that put us on a path to balancing the budget in a decade. We think the senate ought to offer a budget. They havent passed a budget in four years, even though we have a law that says we need a budget every year. We havent seen any Solutions Offered by the president on how to get the budget balanced, pay down the debt, and no budget in four years. We need to figure out how to grow the economy, how to get opportunity. And if we have a debt crisis like they had in europe, everybody gets hurt. Thats what we