For our friends at the Marshall Fund, it is a great pleasure to host the nato secretarygeneral stoltenberg for his reflections on the future. Im fred kemp, president and ceo of the health line here with my colleague. Welcome to this very special edition of the Atlantic Councils front page, the premier ideas platform for global leaders. Weve been hearing from extraordinary leaders on this platform, including the imf managing director, the colombian president , and later this week, aftghan president. The Marshall Funds. United states and with nato Public Diplomacy to bring you a conversation with the secretarygeneral for nato for the alliances reflection process, evaluating how to strengthen nato in an increasingly competitive world. Were having this conversation as the world confronts the worst pandemic in a century and the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression and here in the United States, the most widespread antiracist protest in 50 years. We have at the Atlantic Counc
Good evening. Demonstrations have taken place across the uk, in protest at Boris Johnsons decision to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run up to brexit. The government insists its acting properly but critics say its an attempt to bypass democracy. Tens of thousands took to the streets from sheffield to swansea, belfast to london. Heres our home editor, mark easton. If you shutdown parliament. Well shut down the streets calls for direct action from protesters outside downing street. Several thousand gathered in whitehall, many to voice their opposition to borisjohnsons move to shut down parliament ahead of britains scheduled exit from the European Union on october 31. Stop brexit the crowds were diverse, cutting across class, age, ethnicity and Traditional Party politics. Todays protest is a reminder of how arguments over brexit represent a reshaping of political discourse in britain. Bankers and corporations who get richer while the workers get poorer. As well as london there w
And the journalist and author, Yasmin Alibhai brown. Stay with us for that. Good evening. Large demonstrations have taken place across the uk against Boris Johnsons decision to suspend parliament for five weeks in the run up to brexit. The government insists it is acting properly, but critics claim the plan is a brazen bid to sideline mps opposed to the governments brexit plans. The biggest protest was in Central London where waterloo and westminster bridges were blocked and Trafalgar Square was brought to a standstill. Well have more on this story in the next few minutes, when viewers on bbc one join us for a full round up of the days news with clive myrie. In hong kong, its been one of the most violent days since demonstrations began 13 weeks ago. Tens of thousands of pro democracy demonstrators took to the streets, in defiance of a police ban. Protesters surrounded some key government buildings, and there were running battles in the street. Petrol bombs were thrown at officers, who
Under siege. 66 migrants have been detained as they tried to cross the English Channel to reach kent. Several boats have been intercepted. Close to 2 Million People in North East India are stripped of their citizenship, accused of being Illegal Immigrants. Formula 2 driver Anthoine Hubert has been killed in a crash at the belgian grand prix. And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers city ams Rachel Cunliffe and the journalist and author Yasmin Alibhai brown. Stay with us for that. Wa nt to want to start with some breaking news. Lease in texas around 20 have been shot in the city of midland and 0dessa, 20 miles apart. They are searching for two people who are believed to have opened fire from two separate vehicles. The midland appeared Police Department issued the following statement on social media . Social media. They are they go on to say there are reports of an shooter in odessa. That is the latest from texas after reports of a shooting there. More to come
Averages nasdaq s p 500 and bit igher by. 5 or a more. 2000. Out russell the optimism is back about tax cuts and what it will economy and we have the earnings season getting under way tomorrow with some of the big banks. Those in a t moment. But first, lets look at a few of the stocks that are 2000 g the russell higher. These are small cap stocks. 17 . Ress software up they beat earnings and sales estimates. Same thing with k. B. Home. They beat earnings by more than 9 . Stands out in contrast to yesterdays lennar. S miss by company, the brinks up almost 9 . These are some small cap winners. The earning season overall, lets hop bloomberg and look at the yearoveryear Earnings Growth. In 2013 and 14, ecent growth, but then we see an earnings recession 16. Here to 2015, 2017, lots of growth. 20 last year. This is the estimate for the Fourth Quarter that well be at. Ing up 11. 8 . That according to mkm. Be more reason to think why the stock market is rallying on the day and to if ontinue c