Dreams which lead to action, to participation, to commitment. Reams which awaken what is deepest and truest in the life of a people. In recent centuries, millions of eople came to this land to pursue their dream of building a future in freedom. We, the people of this continent, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us because most of us were once oreigners. Say this to you as the son of immigrants, knowing that so many of you are also descended from mmigrants. Tragically, the rights of those who were here long before us were not always respected. For those peoples and their nations, from the heart of merican democracy, i wish to reaffirm my highest esteem and appreciation. Hose first contacts were often turbulent and violent, but it is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present. Nonetheless, when the stranger in our midst appeals to us, we must not repeat the sins and the rrors of the past. We must resolve now to live as nobly and as justly as possible, as we e
Coming through that china is slowing down. The country announce that exports fell by 6. 1 compared to a year ago. Francine meanwhile, imports dropped 14 . Lets cross live to our beijing bureau chief for more. Nick, what is behind a week data and what is it mean for chinese growth . Nick well, the numbers are little bit misleading, especially the import number because Commodity Prices have fallen so much. So this does distort the numbers a little bit. But it is the latest in a long line of dad data for the chinese it of bad data for the chinese economy. Maybe easing in terms of Interest Rate. The big question is going to be what are they going to do about the yuan . Aey said they do not want competitive devaluation, but low export numbers will increase pressure on them to guide it downwards. That is what we will look out for in the days to come. Manus the ongoing debate is speculation that there is going to be more government intervention. Theyve bought more than 9 of the freefloating s
Sheer, whos our assistant secretary of defense for east asia in the pacific. You know that david was had come back from hanoi to do this job. He was our u. S. Ambassador there. David is an expert on china and Southeast Asia. I think for many of us who are sort of in the trenches every day on these issues, couldnt think of a better person for the pentagon to put into this role. Next to him is one of the top Southeast Asiaenists in the United States, and he also is singapores ambassador to the United States. Aspoke. He was most recently singapores ambassador to indonesia. He was in the past has been singapores ambassador also to australia. And to quaul la lumpur and has a long history in Singapore Foreign affairs working on asiarelated affairs. And finally, a good friend and a real hero of Southeast Asia and asian policy in the senate is chris bros. He works with senator mccain in senator mccains office. Previous before that he was senior staffer in the Senate Armed Services committee. A
The first traumatic of the russian convoy truck that ukraine call an invasion. We begin this hour with a growing violence from the hes lack am state. As western governments try to come up with an Effective Response to the rebel group in iraq and syria. It rages on. New information from the United Nations show that 191 people have been killed in the civil war. Delivering a strong review to the Security Council saying its not doing enough. The killers, destroyers, and torchers in syria have been empowered and emboldened by the international paralysis. There are serious allegations that war crimes have been committed time and time again. Yet the Security Council has failed to refer the case of syria to International Criminal court will it clearly belongs. The Islamic State i in areas. Iraqis are trying to push the group out of the country. This comes as soony officials suspend talks on a new government. The attack was in response to this bombing in baghdad. 70 people were killed inside th
Are rock stars eating healthy . On wild,ey going debilitating benders and then the next day trying to fill it all in with green juice . We will find out. The top Global Business stories of the morning, opec is sending mixed signals as Oil Ministers repaired to meet in vienna. Saudi arabia says Falling Crude prices will stabilize them selves and the uae meanwhile says that the oil cartel will do what it takes to balance the market. Prices have fallen 30 since june. The Worlds Largest bond equipment maker came up short with her forecast for last year next year. The general problem is a slump and crop rices. And a show of force in ferguson, missouri. Violence subsided there last night and the number of National Guard troops tripled to about 2200. Riders saw stores vandalized and it was nothing like complete chaos of monday night. The Police Officer that shot the teenager in ferguson is speaking publicly for the first time. He was interviewed last night by george stephanopoulos. I dont thi