100000000 people in 4 months. Germany is going into lockdown again as it imposes more covert 19 instructions after cutting measures fail to reduce infections. And fears over missing students after gunmen attacked a school in Northern Nigeria by the families blame the government. British an e. U. Leaders say braggs it talks are going to go on even though negotiators havent reached a deal sunday is supposed to be the deadline for the deal but both sides have been meeting again the head of the e. U. Commission most of all the lay in the says that osce told topics that deserve more discussion. Despite the exhaustion after almost one year of negotiations and despite the fact that deadlines have been missed over and over we both think that it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile. We have accordingly mandated our negotiators to continue the taffs and to see whether no reach an agreement can be reached even at this late stage while so far there have been several sticking p
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A u. S. Air strike killing an Iranian Military leader in baghdad causing oil prices to spike this morning stocks dropping. Eamon javers has the latest on that from washington reporter good morning, jon now getting red siran and aroun wormd. The supreme leaders saying harsh vengeance awaits criminals behind the killing of Qassem Soleimani, that was outside the baghdad airport. In france, president macron says he discussed the situation with russian president Vladimir Putin and state department in washington, jon, saying that secretary of state mike pompeo is speaking with a number of World Leaders this morning, briefing them on the situation, including a statement suggesting he has been speaking with high ranking Pakistani Military officials. For his part, the president of the United States offered his explanation for justification for the attack on twitter, also kept a relatively muted presence on twitter you see his statement, explaining that Qassem Soleimani got caught planning addit
To the interview with jay blakesburg. The man who shot so many still photos of the grateful dead from 78 up until jerry garcia stephanie has a new book out. About 140 or 150 pictures. Color photos and a lot of quotes from a number of people throughout the years talking about jerry garcia. We will have enliven studio coming up. I got to see him we look the same right . First to the big news of the day. In the past hour we heard from Contra Costa County fire officials about the massive fire at a Petroleum Storage facility in crockett. That was the explosion as it happened. Officials say the fire is contained but they have yet to determine what started it. The fire sent an awful lot of the black smoke into the air in rodeo, hercules and crockett. Interstate 80 is now open after 80 was shut down in both directions for hours yesterday. At this point crews are on the scene investigating are working to prevent any further damage. Lets bring in sarah life in crockett with the remaining concern
Sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan q a. Next a look at 2020 defense spending and how it relates to strategy. Hosted for the center for strategic and budget assessments. This is 45 minutes. Evan im going to say couple of quick words before turning things over to travis to highlight his report and field your questions. Two things i want to mention. First, this is an important event here for at csba. Defense corps analysis is something we have done for decades, uniquely well, and travis, the author of this report, is the latest in a long line of talented Defense Budget analysts who have spearheaded these efforts for us over the years. I think it is important to note the Defense Budget analysis we do here is not just about defecting Defense Budgets, not just about going line by line to understand precisely what is in the budget, but assessing and analyzing budgets whether budgets match strategy or they dont. Right now, we have an interesting situation where 18 months ago the depar