[voiceover] the Us Ambassador to libya and three Embassy Staffers have been killed in an attack on the us consulate in the libyan city of benghazi. [kathleen] ive seen firsthand the sacrifice of Foreign Service families. My father was a consular officer and my mother worked right alongside him. Its done because people love the concept of serving their country and they love the idea of taking american ideals abroad, taking our values and trying to promote them in various places and also in doing so, helping to protect the interests of our country at home. [kathleen] from Benjamin Franklin, americas first diplomat, to todays professional Foreign Service, these are the foot soldiers on the front lines of americas Foreign Policy. These are americas diplomats. [voiceover] great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association, in association with thomson reuters. Funding for great decisions is provided by the nelson b. Delavan foundation, pricewaterhouse coopers, llp, and the Una Cha
[voiceover] the Us Ambassador to libya and three Embassy Staffers have been killed in an attack on the us consulate in the libyan city of benghazi. [kathleen] ive seen firsthand the sacrifice of Foreign Service families. My father was a consular officer and my mother worked right alongside him. Its done because people love the concept of serving their country and they love the idea of taking american ideals abroad, taking our values and trying to promote them in various places and also in doing so, helping to protect the interests of our country at home. [kathleen] from Benjamin Franklin, americas first diplomat, to todays professional Foreign Service, these are the foot soldiers on the front lines of americas Foreign Policy. These are americas diplomats. [voiceover] great decisions is produced by the Foreign Policy association, in association with thomson reuters. Funding for great decisions is provided by the nelson b. Delavan foundation, pricewaterhouse coopers, llp, and the Una Cha
Approval from the internationally recognised parliament. Falling oil prices could change the fortune of nigerian farmer. As turkey continues to shell kurdish fighters inside its territory, syria has appealed to the u. N. Security council to intervene. These show Syrian Kurdish y. P. G. Fighters being shelled in the north. It wants them to withdraw from areas they have captured in Northern Aleppo province. The y. P. G. , who also have the support of the u. S. , are refusing and say they will push back any advance from i. S. I. L. France has joined the u. S. In urging turkey to stop bombing kurdish zones in syria. Syrian forces meanwhile continue their push for aleppo, backed by russian air strikes. This apparently shows the aftermath of an air strike on the districts of where a building collapsed. A family of six were stuck under this rubble. We have had no reports of deaths so far. An aid convoy carrying medical supplies has been load inside of douma. The syrian red crescent it says th
Lets check in on markets in asia this morning. U. S. Ose of you in the wrapup your thanksgiving meal. Equities up. 1 . Seeie dollar continues to weakness after australian capex fell by the most on record. To new zealand we go. This is the view from there. Spotew Zealand Dollar weakening at 65 u. S. Cents. Lets head over to japan. This is the view yesterday on light volume ahead of that thanksgiving holiday. And were in thick of that. Nikkei futures pointed to a higher open. Dollaryen is slightly weaker. But we begin today with an unexpected rally for commodities as metals surged on speculation china may step up its support. Jumping commodities led to gains around the world. So, is at a rally with legs . Is here now with what chinas possible intervention and how this can impact the markets today . We understand domestic players will be meeting today amid this record slump we have seen. Ee biggest drop in the l metals index. We saw metals rising from europe to canada. We saw copper up as
Oil prices. We begin in egypt where coordinated attacks have killed dozens of soldiers in east sinai peninsula. Islamic state of iraq and the levant soldiers said they carried out the bombings. Government crack down on former president mohamed morse. 2600 have died but some you put the figure at more than 40. Military base headquarters and a housing complex for army and Police Officers. The town of rafa on the gaza border was also hit. Road side bomb in suez city to the south. Now earlier we spoke to Hilary Mann Levitt at the american university. Weve seen them increasing in intensity for the past year and a half since the overthrow of president morsi in egypt. This is something historically true in egypt that each time government in egypt going back to gamal abdelel nasser, in the 1950s, to suppress this nonislam ick regime, not that the muslim brotherhood, but not that groups have split off of the muslim brotherhood, to become very violent, in order to fight against a government they