A government can be formed her conservative party is negotiating with the social democrats on forming a coalition. Goals here with the news grid in a little over twenty five minutes here on aljazeera right after this weeks edition of the listening post next. On counting the cost some of the biggest names in take out with record earnings but theyre also under scrutiny by regulators in whats being called at the sec clash a look at business relations between the u. K. And china plus another scandal in the german Auto Industry counting the cost at this time. Russia. And mike. In the west. Hello richard gives birth in europe the listening post here are some of the media stories weve been tracking this week both russia and cambodia have elections upcoming its not a great time to be an opposition figure or journalist in either having difficulty getting followers on twitter thats ok just by some more journalists have been arrested in turkey over a story the governments clearly sensitive about
Area for five years four hundred thousand syrians are trapped there the news continues here on aljazeera after the listening post so stay with us. Facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the socalled secret city getting to the heart of the matter why ease activists to live in jail just because he expressed himself he had the story on told to aljazeera at this time and. Rushed. Me off. Because i. Dont. Think its true and like. In the west. Hello im Richard Gilbert and youre at the listening post here are some of the media stories weve been tracking this week both russia and cambodia have elections upcoming its not a great time to be an opposition figure or journalist in either having difficulty getting followers on twitter thats ok just by some more journalists have been arrested in turkey over a story the governments clearly sensitive about and the alternative swearing in ceremony in nairobi that was meant to send a political message. Ru
Like well get a positive open, but things reversed yesterday. Financials in particular. Europe you ask, jim, you didnt, but ill show it to you. All five of the big markets. You can see spain is the only loser thus far this morning. Continued strength in the euro markets. Eurozone look i think that draghi im not kidding, no conspiracy theory, keeping the euro lower. Theyre not happy with our president. A lot of unhappiness in a lot of places. Our road map starts with President Trump, as he is expected to withdraw from the paris agreement. The major names opposing the decisions and what elon musk said hell do if the president does withdraw. One of the companies by the way hewlettpackard coming up. Well have ceo meg whitman. Shell join us in an exclusive interview. The earnings which were reported after the bell yesterday. Opaque somewhat given a lot of a good word for it. I said difficult. You have to understand opaque is even more by the way its auto sales day. Out this hour, ford and g
I am not going to talk about onto thisor aftermath, the book pearl harbor christmas is about what happened after pearl harbor. How different was the world and how different was the United States after pearl harbor. What changes were made. It was the Holiday Season of 1941. It wasnt any different than it was in 1940 or 1939. Or other years just before that in peacetime. About the impact of the war, didnt make a difference in our lives, immediately. Collector of bubblegum cards. Largely baseball cards, as quick as could be, the bubblegum makers came out with four cards war cards. I collected is when i was a kid. I brought them to show you. One of the heroes of my book was winston churchill. War cards. In the less of a hero in my book but never the less a major they gear was General Macarthur. Becausee so important we needed a hero. He wasnt much of one that he was there in the philippines. He became card number one among the war cards. They taught us a lot about what was going on and the
Barragan representing the 44th district in california, a democrat. Tell us what you were doing before you ran for office. Well, i was serving on the city council where i lived in hermosa beach. I was practicing law. I had just gotten out of a fight, fighting an oil company that wanted to drill 34 oil and water injection wells into the santa monica bay. So thats a long fight and just recovering from that before i got into this race. Why law . Why did you go into law practice . So when i was a kid my parents were poor. And my mom said youre a doctor or a lawyer. Thats the only way youre going to get out of this world. And when i see blood i want to pass out. So it was pretty easy for me. Why did your parents say that . Why do they have the outlook . You know, they just you know, they were not educated. My mom had a third grade education. From what she saw, you know, she came up with that. I dont really know how that happened. Your parents immigrated from mexico. Is that right . Both of t