The Afghan Government can stand up and be the ones that take care of things in afghanistan. I just want to add something to love this. When i saw the book, mrs. Bush, i am honored as always to be around you and im thankful to the u. S. Afghan womens councils. They have done an incredible job. When i saw the book, it reminded me, took me back 14 years ago. I want to read something to you. The honorable mrs. Bush, i would like to thank you on behalf of afghan men and women for all the work you have supported and the care you have given the afghan women and children. You even went to pyongyang. I went to those days. I gave my first speech in chicago in 2004. 400 americans is as men and women have had to convince many leaders with my speech to believe in afghan women capacity and to fund for the project. After a long speech, i ended with the following sentence with a lot of hope. This is what the afghan woman says. Still after her pain she says i feel like the thunder, the dark days and th
At least in terms of your weekend reading time it goes deep into politics. Surprising for me. Again, quoting him about the Current Business environment, whats unique in this cycle is the difficult relationship between business and government. The worst i have ever seen, end quote. Wow. He goes on to write Technology Productivity and globalization have been driving forces during my business career. In business if you dont lead these changes you get fired. In politics if you dont fight them you cant get elected. Immelt says most government policile is antigrowth, end quote. These perpetual roadblocks perpetuate a cycle of slow growth, poor job creation, populism, low productivity, poor policy and more slow growth, end quote. Wow. I can quibble with globalization. It hurt a lot of working people im not going to quibble with the caustic nature of the political backdrop that makes doing business more difficult and makes us less willing to pay up for the stocks of any business, no matter how
Next a panel on pandemics featuring Karen Masterson and sonia shah who wrote pandemic tracking contagions, from cholera to ebola and beyond. Welcome, everyone, can you hear me . I am from the uva center for Global Health and i am delighted to be moderating this panel with two outstanding journalist and authors who are currently living in baltimore and came down to share their stories with us. We are going to be on a tight schedule which i am responsible for keeping. We will look forward to about 1520 minute presentation from each author and then ample time for questions. I would like to remind request that everyone silence their cellphone. I would also like to especially since i am so excited about this panel and all of the other events i would like to remind everyone that the virginia festival of the book is pleased to keep most events free. If you would like to help with that, please consider a donation. My third request is to please evaluate this session as the festival is always wo
Military members of conducting economic cyber crimes against American Companies. Which firms were hack and why were they targeted . We have all that and more on this monday Business Report on monday, may 19th. Good evening, everyone, thanks for joining us. Modest gains in stocks today, but thats not what people on wall street were buzzing about. Much of the talk was about two members in the Dow Jones Industrials average, both global economies and both involved in massive multibillion dollars that could transform their Business Model and industry but only one of those companies appears to have a deal. The other, no deem. That itself where we start tonight after month of negotiations and multiple sweetened offers. Pfizer received a no from britains arizona tra zenica, still it wasnt enough. So no deal with some pretty Big Questions remain about whats next for pfizer and as tra zenica. Take it or are leave it and astrazenica left it rejected pfizers sweetened and it says final offer. Beca
This is bbc world news america. Amidst the worst violence in iraqis go tos polls, but these elections might only increase tensions. Thise fear is that election could make matters even worse. One of northern irelands most prominent politicians has been arrested. Hes being questioned in connection with a murder 40 years ago. Known as the black five, these basketball players led the way in integrating their sport. Tonight, we bring you their untold stories. Welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and also around the globe. People in iraq went to the polls today in the first parliamentary elections since American Armed forces withdrew from the country three years ago. Security was tight as the country tried to cope with a surge in violence. In the past week alone, 160 people have been killed. A warning that this report contains violent images. Iraq is a matter of life and death, but this rally hdad election watch the white van on the right. It tore through the shiite crowd,