He worked at the development bank. He served as a special advisor. He was elected in june of 2018 and assumed his office in august 2018. He will make some opening remarks and then following that i will come up and preside over some questions and then have anybody here who wants to ask a question be able to do so. We will go until exactly 9 30. Everything is on the record, and so please when you do have a question standup, identify yourself, your affiliation and then ask a question, not a long statement. That would be appreciated, and one question per person would be appreciated. Okay, its my honor to do you introduce the president of colombia, president duque. Thank you so much. Good morning. Its a great pleasure for me to be here with you. I want to thank you, david, for your introduction. I want to welcome friends from different think tanks, former public servants, members of the International Development bank organizations. So my great purpose of this morning is to, in ten minutes,
Democrats whove gone further towards remain and theyre promising to simply revote article 50 to scrap bricks it all together so many people now wondering exactly how this is going to affect the parties are showing if and when there is a general election general election perhaps coming siddur than we think we will wait with bated breath for 900 lifers and bryson thank you very much. Both more so sick on the here on al jazeera increasing a School Building collapses in the kenyas capital 7 children are killed more a few berries in the bubble. And russia is in danger of again being banned spy the world anti doping agency. Still by satellite you see very little over this part of the world and you would expect to apart from occasional showers in turkey run the coaxes but theyve gone the so were scratching at things to talk about its just quite weather to be a house the breeze isnt strong the temperature is around about middle thirtys or life fortys as cooling down slightly the rock and sligh
President of colombia here as our special guest, president uk. Hes not pensively with washington, d. C. Hes been here for 14 years off and on and he got some of his graduate degrees here from American University and George Washington university. Hes trained as a lawyer and is working as well at the Interamerican Development bank where he served as a senior officer in the cultural area and also special advisor to the president of the bank on colombia. He was elected in june of 2018 and assumed his office in augus. He will make some opening remarks and then following that i will come up and preside over some questions and then have anybody here who wants to ask a question be able to do so. We will go and tell exactly 9 30. Everything is on the record, and so please when you do have a question standup, identify yourself, your affiliation and then asked the question, not a long statement. That would be appreciated, and one question per person would be appreciated. Okay, its my honor to do
A very warm welcome you watching r. T. International with meaning. The u. S. President should rethink his position towards peace talks with the taliban is the message the groups leaders have sent to washington in an exclusive interview to ossie. I dont know that there is a behind. Us there were but we are still committed to the negotiations recently that i would start our policy from this very minute the other side is the most elusive form of what conflict except. Except peace on the table so we dont want to revitalize the whole day to step down. From back to where we want to be were just sort of there were after the fact to give it to me to go there go. Early and my colleague neil harvey spoke to r. T. Senior correspondent mark gasnier who had a chance to interview the taliban representatives. Youve got to look at this from their perspective just a few days ago they stood on the brink of a breakthrough with regard to the after more than 19 years of bloodshed they were talking they alm
Is reinforcing his governments hard line against facebooks plans to launch their own Digital Currency libra which specialists are eager to point out is not actually a crypto currency joining us now just doesnt tell is cryptocurrency analyst ben swan then its good to have you here keeping the Virtual Currency be hot while christie is on assignment so 1st of all ben lets just get to the basics here what did the french finance minister Bruno Lemaire have to say about libor he seemed to make a really sweeping statement of opposition to it. Yeah hes very opposed to it whats interesting about his statement is it was really focused specifically on libra and not Digital Currencies or even the broader spectrum of crypto currencies that are out there and i think the reason for that is because it gets into a statement is really focused on facebook as an entity saying that all the asli you know france needs to have solver and monetary policies and protect their sovereign monetary supply we can tal