He attacked began with a car bomb at the door of the stave the Children Office in jalalabad eastern afghanistan the gunman stormed the building for more than eight hours they battled Afghan Security forces while dozens of save the children staff were trapped inside the building was set on fire eventually Afghan Police and soldiers killed the attackers and rescued the staff afghanistan is one of the most dangerous places for children to be born following decades of war insecurity and poverty for twelve years save the children has worked with afghan communities to help kids survive but the attack on the agencys office in jalalabad suggest its becoming increasingly difficult for staff to help afghans without becoming victims of the conflict themselves its quite possible to save the children that would leave afghanistan and the onus is on the Afghan Government to provide security for the latest to to stick on aid workers security show that over the last fifteen years their jobs have become
Special envoy for syria says the ninth round of talks comes at a very critical time in the conflict. At the hamid and vienna the two main boys they would like to discuss at this stage is the writing of a new constitution and president ial elections but if you remember during geneva eight which were which lasted about two weeks in early december well certainly Nothing Happened there and at the end of those talks to fund a mystery i had expressed frustration and he had actually pointed the finger at the government delegation saying that it had all he wanted to talk about terrorism the opposition says its now here it is somehow unified. Donald trump has arrived in davos for the World Economic forum is joining billionaires and other heads of state gathering at the end hes the first sitting u. S. President to attend the summit since two thousand and he is skeptical about what he can bring to the table of a global focus forum given his America First agenda. Spaces and. Dabbles this year very
Good morning. Im mike santoli today in for wilfred frost. Lets get to the markets. Glad to have you today. A lot going on. U. S. Equity futures after a record close did not take much yesterday, but the s p and nasdaq finished at record levels. Dow futures are looking up more than 10 points this early morning. S p futures up a half point. Nasdaq futures up almost 2. As for the tenyear treasury note yield. Yields ticked a bit higher that boosted the dollar a bit. Still were hovering below 2. 40 on the tenyear. I guess thats an improvement from the 2. 30 level from last week. Its grinding slowly higher like the equity markets. Asian equities overnight, generally a mixed picture. We have the markets in south korea closed as they elect a new president. Japan was down, hang seng was up. The korean vote comes after the former leader was ousted on briarry charges. Polls close there at 7 00 a. M. Eastern time, in a couple hours. A live report in a few minutes. We have a chart issue. Why dont we
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