Used his address to the Un General Assembly to demand the immediate withdrawal of all Foreign Forces Walid Muallem says the u. S. And turkish presence in syria violates International Law. Over accounting is under way in afghanistans 4th president ial election where voters have had to pray violence just to cast their ballots at least 5 explosions were reported at Polling Centers across the country and on top of that many stations didnt even open at all 20 berkeley has a report from kabul. A city in lockdown the streets of kabul almost deserted on election day because polling stations open the biggest and tightest security operation ever in the capital was under way the taliban had warned people not to vote and it didnt take long before the Group Carried out its threats. Encounters there were attacks around the city aimed at disrupting voting roads were blocked and lines of communication cut a mortar round was fired into the grounds of a school use. Polling hospital confirms civilians ha
Biggest refining hit by drones next last weekend. Shery we are seeing u. S. Futures gaining. 4 after coming from wall street fell on friday. We had trade related news, not being felt well by the markets. We were up throughout the session but then we had reports the chinese delegation would not be visiting u. S. Performs which led to a fall in the equity markets. There were concerns over the trade negotiations. We had consumer stocks declining, trade sensitive stocks falling like tech. The nasdaq fell the most in two weeks down. 8 . Rally throughout the week, yields going towards 170 at the moment but we are seeing u. S. Futures gaining ground after media reports saying the pullout from the u. S. Farm business had nothing to do with those trade negotiations. Lets see how we will set up in asia given the headlines. Lets go to selena. Markets are closed in japan so any moves are exacerbated by trading but futures are so far futures are pointing to a mixed open, slightly higher, seeing the
Search bar. The hearing will come to order. The chairs authorized to declare recess at any time. Let me say good morning and welcome to todays hearing and oversight of the department of research and development enterprise. Welcome mr. Secretary we are delighted that youre here today. As you know this committee has jurisdiction over the department of energy and its a vitally important science in Energy Research and develop activities. The laboratories and facilities i hope much more quickly from now on and i look forward to working with you throughout this congress. With a budget season, i would like to bring just a few minutes and a few items to your attention and ill start with the good news. Which is despite the ministration best effort to make cuts across the board and develop my programs most actually fared well in the house of representatives and particularly pleased to see the increased to the budget for the loan programs office, both of which have yielded transformative results
asked a question which he, frankly, dodged. he was unable to answer. about what the uk calls for restraint in gaza have really achieved. he said in response to a question that too many civilians are dying but then when asked where does responsibility for that state, he replied that that is an extraordinary question. he clearly was not willing to go as far as the chair of the foreign affairs select committee has previously. she has suggested that israel is perhaps going too far in its actions in gaza. the prime minister was absolutely not willing to suggest that at all and kind of solve it is quite, as i say, in his words, an extraordinary question. the other kind of quite significant exchanges, i think, were around asylum policy. a clear issue for the government, one that is one of its main policy priorities. it s not entirely clear that the government will meet its target to get rid of the 90 or so thousand so called legacy asylum cases. he was unable to say definitively tha
good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. after weeks of intense earthquake activity in the south west of iceland, this volcano finally erupted late last night. the length of the crack you can see here is more than two miles long. the eruption is close to the fishing town of grindavik, which was evacuated last month, though so far the lava seems to be flowing away from it. for now, the eruption is not expected to halt international air travel as it did in 2010. our correspondent nick beake joins us from near the town of vogar at the edge of the exclusion zone now. sophie, it s absolutely freezing here, but you can see that the volcano tonight is illuminated, and all through the day, we got a glimpse of the power of this force of nature. as you say, there is no immediate risk to life. that is certainly what the authorities are saying here today, and the direction of the lava seems to be moving away from the built up areas, but certainly they are not taking anything for