My name is matthew goodman, i old the science chair year at csis. Welcome to our online viewers, we always have a good turnout online as well. Welcome to the event, building bridges, question mark, in u. S. China relations. This is brought to us with a kind sponsorship of the Carnegie Corporation of new york which has been a supporter of the dialog that lies behind this event which ill explain in just a second and ill introduce our terrific panel in a second and invite them up. First let me make a couple of administrative announcements. As usual, please silence your phones and if theres any kind of emergency, which is unlikely, weve never had that problem, just follow me. That are emergencies hears and at National Geographic one street down on m street. And i think that is all i need to say administratively. Let me just say that the actual narrow reason for this event is that were going to be rolling out a series, a collection of essays that have been written by u. S. And chinese schol
So a comment that i want to meet im really sick and tired of people kind of comparing like forcing women to compared to mens pay even though thats they were going to form quality but its kind of like women are against men in our federation and i dont think thats the case at all and i think like having having what he just said about the prices of the tickets shows that theres interest in the game so theres interest in the game that entered into money and i think like in turn goes to paying the women in terms of contracts like i was i think i mentioned before that norway i think there are now equal pay in terms of their federations i believe so the men and women are getting paid exactly the same that is new and theres been a lot of talk along the way from all fires all the way to the world cup where a lot of other federations have it dont slack i need to make. We didnt have contracts before and were working out contracts now but we have weve signed contracts and weve got to be im not say
Honor to cross the line. And goodbye g20 and time for summer davos. We are live at the World Economic forum at this hour. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets. U. S. Futures rallying about 1 at the moment, this, after the s p 500 saw its best month since january. We have optimism over potential easing trade tensions between china and the u. S. , not to mention the huge photo op President Trump got at the dmz meeting with kim jongun. Take a look at asian futures. We are continuing to see a risk on moves ahead of trading. If we can switch up the boards, futures, nikkei futures up 1. 5 as we get the japanese yen weakening for a fourth consecutive session. Great asets not doing we get risk on sentiment. As korea starts trading on socalled peace dogs as we saw that unprecedented meeting at the dmz. Hyundai engineering and other stocks like korea gas and so forth. Also keep an eye on chipmakers, especially samsung, as we saw President Trump giving some relief to huawe
Salmon efforts in india to put an end to child labor. To the tourist told that sank into the past and grain from the river down for more bodies have been recovered after the worst disaster on the river and a sense. Times to do so much god thats good to have you with us botswanas high court has overturned a colonial era law criminalizing gay sex the ruling makes the country a pioneer in Subsaharan Africa where most countries still enforce laws against homosexuality the Botswana Court said the law should not regulate private acts between consenting adults and that penalizing people for who they are is disrespectful they do netta mostly rejected sections of the penal code that made same sex relations illegal that the law said previously carried a sentence of up to see. 7 years in prison the ruling comes less than a month after Kenyas High Court upheld similar sections of its penal code. Lets get the very latest on the story will speak to a cat and yanick. She is a botswana born trends art
Ordered to stay away from the italian force. And the United States are on track to defend their world cup craft after Megan Rapinoe eliminated host france in the quarter final. A michael thanks for joining us at a g. 20 summit marked by trade deals u. S. President donald trump has hailed an agreement to restart trade talks between his country and china the 2 countries nearly a year long trade dispute has disrupted the Global Economy a round up of the summit from hoffman. This was the handshake the world had been waiting for so much hinged on the bilateral meeting of the 2 president s that you could almost hear a sigh of relief going through World Markets when donald trump said it with this we had a great meeting and we will be continuing to negotiate and i promise that for at least the time being were not going to be lifting tariffs on china and addition the focus here of course being on the wording tremendous or at least the time being 50000000000. 00 at last years g 20 summit donald