Welcome. There are many meanings of transparency. Im not going to get into all of them today, but im sure there will be many different aspects. Their widely divergent opinions on the successes of the Obama Administration and i hope to explore some of those today. President obama made a number of promises when he was running for president. A number are Still Available on change. Gov. During the course of the administration, new issues came up. Everything from Campaign Finance disclosure to dealing with the lawsuit and others on visitors logs. Theres been a lot of changes during the course of the administration. What i hope we will talk about today is wouldve occurred or not occur during the last four years am looking forward to what will happen over the next. I am joined by three experts. I have on my right, anne weisberg. I have sent through the Data Transparency Coalition and a former hill staffer. To my last is Josh Gerstein with politico. Theres more extensive biographies on your ch
Hello welcome to al jazeera america. Im Thomas Drayton. First a look at the update economy. The retail season spurred sales, the highest in three years. A Bright Outlook on the jobs front. More americans stayed employed. Jobless claims fell by 42,000 last week. Encouraging news for traders as they headed back to work after the christmas holiday. The stock market continued its climb with the dow hitting on alltime high. Is the economy on track . Here is what economist Mark Lieberman had to say. We says hurdles going forward. At the end of the month 2. 5 Million People go off unemployment insurance. The program will end. Thats money spent. Its spent every day by every recipient. Plus the jobs have not necessarily been the higher paying jobs. In october, for example, half the jobs created were in the Retail Sector or a hotel tore restaurant personnel. Not career jobs or the best paying jobs. The best thing we can say about the economy is its improving. There wont be a particular date that
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Speaks to the civilian Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, who heads a Transitional Government charged with steering sudan to democratic elections in 2022. Its bbc hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. Its exactly a year since a historic power sharing agreement was signed between the civilians and military in sudan after the fall of president bashir. My guest in this exclusive interview is the civilian Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok. The world celebrated with the sudanese people after the successful revolution, but has that euphoria now given way to harsh realities and unfulfilled expectations . Prime minister Abdalla Hamdok in khartoum, welcome to hardtalk. The euphoria at the removal of president omar al bashir, how far is that really now a long distant memory . Thank you very much, zeinab, for having me on hardtalk. Today marks the First Anniversary of the signing of the constitutional document that paved the way for the establishment and the formation of the Transitional
A country in the grip with a political and energy license. You can read much more about that right now. If you like it ask you dot com, otherwise checkout odds. Hes a plethora of telegram channels. Were back soon with the when i would show the wrong. Why dont i just dont yes. To fill out the thing because the after an engagement equals the trail. When too many find themselves well, the part we choose to look for common ground. Ah ah, ah. Hello and welcome to cross stock. Were all things are considered. Im peter labelle. The conflict in ukraine is not only about which side will eventually prevail, the stakes are much higher. The outcome of this conflict will determine the nature of a new geopolitical order. The west is fighting russia to maintain its global hegemony. Much of the world would like to see this come to an end. Ah. To discuss these issues and more, im joined by my guest here in moscow. Glenn decent. He is a professor at the university of south eastern norway as well as autho