Prime minister has been asked to stay on as the temporary could take or until a new government is formed Michelle Obamas request follows tuesdays resignation of the Prime Minister. Hes leaving ended the Coalition Government thats been rocked by nearly 2 weeks of protests lebanons army has stepped in on weapons today to clear roads that have been barricaded by demonstrators calling for the ruling elite to step down so far theres been no protests across the country lets get more now from 0 holder whos been covering the leadership changes from beirut so in a good to talk to you again whats the reaction like on the street there. Well as you can imagine theyre considering this a victory one of their demands was that the Coalition Government is toppled but the political crisis is far from over there really their demands has not been met in full because what they want is a new government which is going to be made up of technocrats people who are not affiliated with any Political Party and thi
Active and retired members of the military. That number, 2027488002. You can also catch up with us, via text. 2027488003. If you do, please include your name and where youre from. Otherwise, catch up with us on social media, on twitter. On face books. Host very good Tuesday Morning to you. You can start calling in now. In terms of how this all has unfolded, the pullback announcement came late sunday night in the form of a statement from the white house. This is what it said. Turkey will soon be moving forward with its longplanned operation in Northern Syria. The United States armed forces will not support or be involved in the operation. United states forces having defeated the isis territorial caliphate will no longer be in the immediate area. The statement went on to say that turkey will now be responsible for all isis fighters in the area captured over the past to years in the wake of the defeat of the territorial caliphate by the United States. That led to a lot of questions for Pr
This after a day of trading that saw s p 500 hit another alltime high, second straight day of record. Meantime investors are cautiously awaiting upcoming earning season with 80 of s p 500 Companies Reportedly cutting earnings forecast. Joining me research chief macro strategist lenor hawkins, what is driving the market to plus side if you watch the bond market, 10year yield falling and closing below 2 yesterday and then you this percentage of s p 500 Companies Cutting their earnings forecast . This is really all about the fed in the hope that easy money will keep prices going up because this has nothing to do with fundamentals, if you look at what happened at first half of the year, s p 500 rose 17 , the strongest first half of the year since 1997 but if we look at earnings, if we look at whats going on with the fundamentals, earnings declined 4. 4 for the s p 500 for the First Quarter and expect today decline negative 2. 3 in second quarter, you have prices going up while the actual r
Again, good morning and welcome to the fifth annual United Statesjapankorea trilateral symposium organized by International Student conferences and generously sponsored by Sasakawa Peace foundation usa and the Korea Foundation. We thank you all for joining us on this cold and blustery day as impacted hopefully other parts of the east coast more than us but we know it wasnt the easiest commute this morning. For those of you that i follow us and paying attention today on social media we like to point out that we have greater a hashtag for todays conference and that is hashtag isctrilat. For those of you not following on instream and twitter that at so my name is Alexander Evans and i will be your master of ceremonies for todays event and i currently work as the research and Program Coordinator at the center for east Asian Studies within Johns Hopkins. The preps perhaps more portly r todays event i am a lump of the 63rd japan america student conference back in 2011. I think in a lot of wa
Pederson gets off the plane holding the lombardi trophy symbol of nfl supremacy. Afterafter eagle players disembd the airplane they came to fans, hundreds of them, to share a magic minute. Earlier this was the air Traffic Controller taxiing in the eagle plane. Welcome the World Champion eagles back to philadelphia. Thank you, sir. Monday night, the big story on action news tonight is a heros welcome to the superbowl champions. This is what it looked like as busses carrying the eagle players, their families and staff rolled into the nova care facilities. The players better get use today the reception. Theyll get it for a long time to come. We have stories to tell tonight. Dann cuellar is live at the art museum for the latest on parade plans. Christie ileto is at the link for swag patrol. Jeff skversky has nick foles day at disney world and cecily tynan has the parade forecast. Thursdays victory parade will start at broad and patterson at 11 00 a. M. Then north through the city on broad.