Of 9 school year, new security measures as people are returning to class under a heightened state of emergency. First, more than 1,000 people are under arrest in gabon after a second successive day of violence. Clashes broke out last weekend after the president ial election chose the income bent only by a ,000 votes b of 6 overnight, two were killed the gabons National Assembly hours after it was set ablaze. Nearby the burntout shells of several cars and the streets littered with debris. This is the aftermath of deadly protests that engulfed the capitol wednesday. With gun fire crackling across the city and plumes of smoke bill owing from the buildings. Today, heavily Armed Security forces are patrolling the roads against the opposition, which has accused the government of stealing the election the of the tired of the government. Weve had this 50 years. Now were making demands. Some of the the protesters were largely ispersed by the afternoon. The president , ali bongo, won by a razort
Dismantled. Francois hollande is called another u. K. To play its part in resolving the crisis. The first u. S. President ial debate is now just hours away. Polls say half of American Voters are looking to the match to help them decide between Hillary Clinton and donald trump. Coming up in business, turkeys stocks take a tumble after moodys is the Credit Rating to junk. A look at the Worlds Largest radiotelescope as big as 30 football fields now operating in china to help look for alien life. First, our top story live from paris. Thanks for joining us. Our top story is in syria where activists say dozens of people have been killed since the regime launched a new operation to take eastern aleppo. Syrian and russian planes have been pounding the city in one of the heaviest bombing raids since the war began five years ago. The Un Security Council demanding moscow rein in its ally, bashar alassad. Most bitter u. N. Meetings in recent history. While bombs rained down on aleppo world powers
Ulous subregion south of the sahara. For decades, cote divoire, or the ivory coast was one of its most stable societies. Then in 1999, a military coup, followed by years of civil war threatened thetate and its prosperi. We will examine the geogphic roots of this conflict, including differing climatic and ecologicalones; the booms and busts of agricultural export commodities; regional conflicts based on ethnic and religious tensions. Geographer jeanlouis chalea studies a cocoa plantation nearoubre,thsohwesof cote divoire. chaleard speaking french translator during the 1960s and 70s, the ivory coast experienced strong economic growth. This was essentially due to exported cultivation, principally of cocoa. E ivory coast is the largest cocoa producer in e world. Narrator cocoa will only grow in tropical rain forests which you can see on this satellite mosaic as darkegreeareas along the southern coast. During the 1920scoffeendocoa plantations began in the southeast. They then diffused to th
On the off chance that theres an impressionable staffer on the Ways Means Committee here what might the four of you and i would like to get all four of you your opinion on this him or her, the staffer that is to take back to chairman ryan and say this is what we might accomplish in this congress. We will go lefty right. The first thing is forget what can be accomplished. The first is lesson that only people pay taxes and corporations are fictional entities of the burden falls on people and not corporations pass through. Second the ideal rate and they use the word rate for Corporate Taxation is zero. Thats the ideal rate. Now i think what we can get done is the narrative that we are not competitive and to be competitive we should be at or equal to which means the rate should be no higher than 25 . That is still higher than i would like but at least that gets you to say we are not being competitive with our oecd trading partners but around effort so that seems to be a narrative. Im not s
Back several decades to find out what makes Banking Systems unstable. He concluded that the deciding factor is the level of political interference in the system. This last about one hour. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome. Were going to start our program. Im david cowen, president of the museum of American Finance. Were joined today by chairman of the board and our friends from cspan are taping today. Our guest lecture is charles calomiris, professor Financial Institutions at the Columbia University business school. He also teaches at the school of international and public affairs. Charles received his ba in economics from Delhi University where he graduated magna cum laude and matriculated through stanford when he cut his ph. D in economics. He is a member of the shaft open Market Committee as well as the financial economists roundtable and the Federal Reserves centennial advisory board. Charlie is wellknown in the field. Am quite poor that two of the many accolades that he has receiv