Wednesday, november 29th, 2017. From nbc news, this is today, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everybody. Welcome to today. Hoda is here with me this morning. This is a sad morning here at today and nbc news. Nbc news chairman andy lack sent the following note to our organization. Dear colleagues, on monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by matt lauer. It represented, after a serious review, a clear violation of our companys standards. As a result, weve decided to terminate his employment. While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over 20 years he has been at nbc news, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident. Our highest priority is to create a Workplace Environment where everyone feels safe and protected. And any action that runs counter to our core values are met with consequences. We are saddened by these events.
This is just under two hours. Welcome, everyone, to the hearing, and we will discuss the prospects for our economy. The Federal Reserve is one of the most important institutions in the country and, indeed, the world. Chair yellen served as president of San Francisco fed, then as vice chair, then as chair of the Federal Reserve board. Our distinguished service at the fed encompassed the most tumultuous time in the United States financial and economic systems since the great depression. Many books have already been written about the events of this time, and many more will certainly be written from different points of view. And with varying assessments. One thing is certain the Financial System and the economy have stabilized. We are no longer debating how to reconstitute them, but rather how they might work even better. This hearing will review the development the crisis and special sense doctor yellin director yellen became the chair of the fed in terms of the dual mandate of maximum em
Suicide bombers blow themselves up at a packed baghdad market killing at least thirty eight people. A walkway collapses at the Indonesian Stock Exchange building injuring at least seventy five people in a shower of glass and daybreak. And new video from Nigeria Group boko haram appears to show several schoolgirls almost four years after they were kidnapped. President has promised to strangle what hes describing as a terror army for me along his countrys border with syria. Once rhetoric is in reference to a thirty thousand strong kurdish led border force thats being set up in Northern Syria with the u. S. Backing hes also planning an imminent offensive against Kurdish Forces in syria shot at. Now the United States has confessed that they are forming a terror army along our border what we have to do is to strangle this terror army on our borders before it is born i was zero seven concealed who has the latest from antakya in turkey india syrias border. Prisons are done today also war that
Lets listen to. Good morning everybody. The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for twenty seventeen to the International Campaign to abolish Nuclear Weapons i can. The organization is receiving the award for its work to draw attention to the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of any use of Nuclear Weapons and for its groundbreaking efforts to achieve a treaty based probation on such weapons. We live in a world where the risk for Nuclear Weapons being used is greater than it has been for a long time. Some states are modernizing their news arsenals and there is a real danger that more countries will try to procure Nuclear Weapons as exemplified by north korea. Nuclear weapons pose a constant threat to humanity and on life on earth through Binding International agreements the International Community has previously adopted prohibitions against landmines cluster munitions biological and chemical weapons. Nuclear weapons are even more destructive but hav
Of the sixday war the breaking of the middle east by doctor guy laron. To my right, its a great pleasure to welcome him and welcome all of you to this event. Im christian and i direct the history and Public Policy program at the Woodrow Wilson center. Its a program that tries to provide to bring Historical Context to current Public Policy issues. The discussion of Public Policy issues in washington. Many of you are familiar with the subprojects of the history and Public Policy program, the program weve run here for 25 years almost more than 25 years. A project thats devoted to uncovering, collecting, disseminating, making accessible and discussing new evidence fror communist world archives but the mission has sort of crept to now include really all hard to access archives around the world. We are delighted to launch with this event today a series of activities, discussing on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the sixday war. We will have today the launch of perhaps the most import