European political news. It is about currencies and the new zealand centralbank news. When was that, last evening that i saw that . It is wonderful to have Holger Schmieding with us to go over with that signals. Is that a butterfly flapping . Is that the phrase you would use . It is not a small deal. Francine we could open it and see more troubles were Central Banks only looking at new zealand. There is a linkage with currencies. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with taylor riggs. Taylor the white house commenting on Donald Trumps accusations. The republican candidates as you can blame the white house wreaking havoc in the middle east. Is honoringsis president obama. He is the founder of isis. He is the founder of isis. He is the founder. Lamed trump has long president and Hillary Clinton for creating a power vacuum in iraq that was exploited by the Islamic State. Forces in libya are close to retaking the Islamic State strongholds. There taken over a hall that was used by the
Straight up 6 00 on december 24th. Taking a live look outside. You can see the cathedral there, the washington monument. Nice and clear. Its monday, Christmas Eve. Good morning. Im sarah simmons. Im wisdom martin. Tucker barnes is here to bring us gifts weatherwise or maybe not. Cold or gifts. You want the cold. No, i mean coal. Like coal. I was trying to tie it altogether. I dont bring coal to anybody. I cant do it. That was a bad connection. I thought you said cold. I did, too. I will leave it alone. Lets do the weather. If you are out doing last minute shopping here, its not going to be a beautiful day. We have clouds on the increase. Eventually showers in here and it could start at the onset as a little period of mix, wintry mix. By that i mean a few snowflakes, maybe a few ice pellets. Some of the sleet that we see this time of year as the system moves in. The timing on this very small wintry event will be 1 00, 2 00. There is the radar. You can see the activity in the carolinas,
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It is a pleasure to be back here in this room where i might mention that 17 years ago in january 1997, a charity meeting that was open who is today president of the American University in cairo. A meeting where we had a dialogue with the first individuals who came to the United States from the taliban, it came to new york about three or four months after they kept taking control to ask the United Nations to give them afghanistans u. N. Seat. Of course not really about was not in the power of the u. N. Secretary general. I make mention of the people who were there, the delegation was led by, a gentleman to get later became the foreign minister and he is one of the reconciled of the taliban. And he was interned for some time. And he is currently of the afghan eyepiece counsel and also reconciled. This includes one of the individuals from to hire, who is the minister of refugees and assassinated a few weeks ago after returning from a confidential meeting in dubai, trying to start some kin
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