[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the Washington Institute. I am robbed that last comment there and im delighted to welcome you to this special event. Before you begin, if i can ask everyone to take your iphones or sam sans or whatever and turn them on island because we are broadcasting live on cspan 1. Please watch your language, speaking clear tones of people around the world can hear us today. You are free to to eat as much as you like because we are eager to get the message of todays discussion out far and wide. It is not often that one can time the publication of the new book so precociously to an International Event or perhaps i should say its not often one can arrange an International Referendum in a faraway country to be time perfectly with the publication of a new book. But as it turns out, we have today this confluence of events. We have the referendum and hurt you in turkey that although the results and process where provocative and remain controversial, i
Point 18. 5 times reported earnings. News of the u. S. Economy grew a 5 clip in the Fourth Quarter helped fuel those gains in the dow and the best gdp rating since 2003. Move over new york, florida has become the nations third most populaist state. They have 19. 9 million residents. California has over 28 million people. That is according to the Census Bureau that boosted floridas housing market. Facing a huge be loss of revenue in china. The Chinese Government is pushing them to accept lower royalty payments from chinese smartphone makers for those using qualcomm technology. Negotiations are ongoing. China wood and its antimonopoly investigation in the company. Group has removed 90 million listings for counterfeit goods before the september ipo. They spent more than 160 Million Dollars to block counterfeit items and improve consumer protection. It is considered to be one of the top risks and perhaps a big business for alibaba. The announced a 260 million market cap. Now to the lead th
Cricket world cup semifinals in sydney. Hello. Relatives of victims from the Germanwings Flight which crashed in the french alps are themselves now traveling to reach the site of the accident. And as they make their way there, reports have been emerging that the black box audio recordings from flight 9525 point to one pilot being locked out of the cockpit before the plane came down. Sources close to the investigation are quoted as saying the cockpit door was heard to be opened and closed followed by the sound of someone knocking increasingly loudly but with no reply from inside the cabin. The germanwings plane, of course, left barcelona on tuesday. It was bound for dusseldorf in northern german and crashed in the alps. Pulling together all the latest developments lisa hamperly. Reporter as the investigation at the site of the crash continues, experts in paris have been analyzing material gathered from the airplanes cockpit voice recorder. The New York Times and the French News Agency a
Claimed credit. World leaders weighing in on standing against the terrorist threat. That is it for us. A busy news night. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight, fair, balanced and unafraid. Continuing coverage with greta next. This is a fox news alert. A blood bath in an International Airport ripping through europe the busiest airports. Right now the death toll is at 50 and more than 100 injured. It all happened at istanbul airport and bomb detonating at Security Check point. Attack viciously similar to marchs attack in brussels. Live in istanbul, laura are a, whats the latest . Well, the istanbul governor has said there were three suicide bombers and that resonates with the other accounts we heard that there were three blasts. There was one in the parking lot outside the International Terminal. This is a stand alone build from the domestic terminal so foreigners and foreign
nationals were definitely those that were targeted, it seems. Also one at the entrance of the Internatio