Worn surging numbers may undermine a Global Recovery. Plus, we discussed prospects for the u. S. And the wider picture with the atlanta fed president , who joins us this hour. Haidi lets look at the sydney staggered open, the friday session muted compared to the street we have had in asian stocks, asiapacific stocks seeing 13 consecutive days of gains broken by the thursday session, the longest winning streak since 1988 coming to an end. A flat stock a flat start in sydney, kiwi stocks up, muted start in japan spite heavy inflows of foreign buying. We are seeing a further downside when it comes to trading in the futures session. Getting secretary mnuchin speaking at the moment. He is speaking in an interview with Bloomberg News, saying financial conditions are quite strong, that companies that are need grants,covid not that. We heard secretary mnuchin earlier asking the fed to return unused coronavirus money. We will get you more as we get those comments. This is coming at a time when
Forces, their size in afghanistan, will be 2,500 troops. Our force size in iraq will also be 2,500 by that same date. The announcement was made by acting u. S. Defense secretary chris miller. He replaced mark esper, who was fired by President Trump after joe biden won the electioner in this month. Troops have been gradually reduced as part of a peace deal struck earlier this year. U. S. Media reports say 4,500 soldiers are now believed to be deployed in afghanistan, and 3,000 in iraq. Republican Senate Leader Mitch Mcconnell is raising concerns about the timing of the latest move, and warned against any earth shaking changes to defense or Foreign Policy in the coming months. The planned reduction comes amid a recent resurgence of violence in afghanistan. The government and the taliban are engaged in ongoing peace talks, but they have yet to achieve a breakthrough. Turning to the latest on the coronavirus here in japan. Infections continue to spike across many parts of the country. Its
Were live in sudan where thousands of ethiopian refugees who fled fighting a struggling to survive eyeing the rising sea levels. The new satellite blasting off with a mission to keep track of one of the most challenging effects of Global Warming and on fire and small have all the days sport including counting down to kickoff. Its now exactly 2 years to go until qatars world cup, and organizers say preparations have been largely unaffected by the crowd. A virus pandemic. Welcome to the news. A rocket attacks in the Afghan Capital have killed at least 8 people. The interior Ministry Says dozens of people have been injured Victoria Gate and he has the latest schoolgirls running for their lives after a rocket lands near their school. Part of a coordinated attack on the capital, kabul. More than 20 rockets landed in residential areas near the green zone, where many embassies are based. Witnesses say the attack during the morning rush hour was time to cause maximum damage. This over the what
As it struggles to contain a covert, 19 say, and eyeing the rising sea levels, a new satellite blasting off with a mission to keep track of one of the most challenging effects of Global Warming on far as small, have all the data sport including counting down to kick off. Its now exactly 2 years to go until qataris world cup and organizers say preparations have been largely unaffected by the corona virus pandemic. Thank you very much for joining. As i saw says its behind rocket attacks in afghanistans capital that have killed at least 8 people. The interior ministry, says dozens more have been injured. The attack came just hours before the u. S. , secretary of state michael bell was due to hold talks with Afghan Government and taliban negotiators in qatar, capital doha. Earlier this week, the pentagon said it would soon pull about 2000 troops out of afghanistan. For a begins our coverage with this report from kabul. Schoolgirls running for their lives after a rocket lands near their sch
That begins at 8 00 pm eastern. Enjoy booktv every weekend on cspan2. Good afternoon. I am director of the center on National Security, i am delighted to be joined by ali soufan, author of the black banners declassified how torture derailed the war on terror after 9 11. You probably know ali soufan from some of the events weve done together, a special agent with the fbi, investigated highprofile terrorism cases before, during and after the 9 11 attacks. Is in recent years brought his investigative skills to the private sector, ceo of the founder of the center, his specialty is Global Security affairs from governance culture to state actors to nonstate actors and i will explore as much of that today as we can. I want to deck out each day, we publish the intel brief which is something you should read every day. It is a wonderful deep dive into timely issues that go to the heart of what we are thinking about even if it is not in the headlines. From white to premises him to what is happeni