Weekend. I encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans at the battle of midway 75 years ago through the 75 years of American Military history. This is your own past and present and future so this is a great opportunity and a onceinalifetime opportunity to make the most of it. I would like to welcome admiral frank thorp to say a few words of welcome. Welcome to the navy memorial. As you all know, our mission here is to honor, recognize, and celebrate the men and women of the sea services, past present and future, and to educate the American Public about your service. It is a tremendous honor for us to be here and on a day like today, we use the term sea services, but we are all in it together. These gentlemen represent the idea of being in it together. I want to say one thing about why i am honored and why we are honored to be here today and the opportunity you have today. When i looked at the program here, and i look at words like trailblazers, legends, these
For some and a war criminal for others for lankas new president to go to buy others a part is sworn in but is he the white man to diffuse ethnic divisions and fix the economy this is inside story. Hello welcome to the Program Obama sure lankas new president is positioning himself as the strong man who can fix the nations most challenging problems promises by a good as a boxer to improve security and the struggling economy gain support of the ballot box but tickler from the scene had a buddhist majority but his swearing into Office Highlights the islands ethnic and religious split similar to his brother mahinda during his 2 terms as president many tamil and muslim voters reject the. Go to was defense secretary while his brother was president when the tamil tigers were defeated 10 years ago and the 26 year long civil war both accused of war crimes and muslims have faced hostility following that is there so side attacks that killed 263 people lets hear what the new president had to say th
Gulf. Earnings reports first since the u. S. Blacklist. Warnings of difficulties ahead. We speak to the companys chairman. Im matt miller, in for Francine Lacqua in berlin. Lets check on markets. Gains in london, drops across europe. Stoxx 600 down a half a percent. Bp holding it back from bigger losses. To pound continues to weaken see thes, and you japanese yen strengthening. By 108. Dollar can only. 6 of yen. The fed is expected to cut rates tomorrow. Yield and coming up we speak to the ceo of cap gemini, 9 30 a. M. London time. A lot to catch up on today as we have a slew of exclusive interviews. Lets get the first word news from new york. Ratesa mexicos interest are too high for the slowing economy according to the president. The central bank has cap the key high,t 8. 25 , a decade and this makes it one of the strongest currencies this year. The mexican economy may be in mild recession. [speaking foreign language] they are more cautious about inflation. ,his is not a bad thing, no
Can actually deliver on this promise made to the turkish president at the margin of the g. 20 summit to actually prevent or block these potential sanctions and is it true that trumps pretty president obama denied access to patriot missiles well whats behind that decision well its lets say its a half truth in the sense that yes those patriots were not delivered to turkey but that we did because there was a disagreement about the conditions of their degree so it was not a categorical rejection but turkey wanted that purchase to be accompanied by a degree of Technology Transfer and thats not what the u. S. Was prepared to accept under the Obama Administration and therefore deal went through didnt go through. And what would happen then if turkey decides not to take delivery of the s 400 what will be the consequences well i mean now the turkish government has iterated so many times that the s 400 that turkey was intent on the purchase of this 400 there would be difficult to explain to the t
Industry we find out if it could be game over for the likes of sony and microsoft. So as the soviet union imploded it turned its back on the african continent in the 1990 s. But now under president putin russia is making a push to engage the reason is simple western sanctions the pivot to china hasnt been a huge success and hopes of billions of dollars in investment from the middle east havent arrived in the quantities expected plus african votes count in the United Nations. Russias trade with africa rose 26 percent to 17400000000. 00 in 2017 moscow doesnt have the financial power of beijing just in 2017 trade with africa amounted to 170000000000 dollars the u. S. Is of course worried its trade with Subsaharan Africa was 39000000000. 00 in 2017 and this is what russia is doing in africa it has oil and gas deals with algeria egypt ghana nigeria and mozambique it has Nuclear Deals in place with rwanda zambia and south africa although that is in limbo while it is a big supplier of arms to