And we will be talking politics. Will you be doing it during this thanksgiving holiday . All coming up on washington journal. You can send us a tweet. Good morning. We begin with afghanistan. American troops on the ground in what has become americas longest war. Joining us live is brig. Gen. William graham. Thank you for being with us on this holiday. Thanks for having us. Happy thanksgiving to you and all your viewers. Host he is joining us via skype. So there is a little bit of a delay. Lets begin with what is americas longest war. From your standpoint what are some of the Biggest Challenges on the ground . Guest in just a minute and we will get that out of the way. This is my second tour in afghanistan and what i will noisywith you as another helicopter flies past is that there is optimism here with the Afghan People. The new u. S. Policy and its our nato allies is playing well with afghanistan. There is true optimism here. By someed here today amazing american patriots. You guys ha
6 00 here in london. Lets get to the markets. We are without the volumes from the United States during yesterdays sessions. King date we had no trading in stocks or treasuries. We are getting back into those today. Msci asiapacific by 0. 4 . General picture in asia continues a positive one, continuing the best start since 2006. The dollar against the again , we saw the again being pushed up. Have halted five days of advances in the japanese currency partly because of what we heard from the japanese finance minister. Moves in fx markets are a problem. Price, over 70 a barrel, even though it is retreating. Fx is going to be a focus , what happens next with the pboc, that bank of japan, and the bank of korea. Traders have been spun into a whole new momentum. Record long positions on the euro. , two is a counterbalance sides to this market. The long positions are the longest we have seen. It is estonia focusing on bond purchases, they could end after september. Dramatize theover situation.
Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Four serving members of the army have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a banned far right group and planning terrorist offences. The men aged between 22 and 32 were arrested this morning in england and wales in an operation involving both the police and the army. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Dominic Casciani is here. It isa it is a fast moving story. What is the latest . It started with West Midlands Counter Terrorism unit, one of the largest in the country, working with colleagues at wales and the West Midlands. These four arrests, three in their 20s, arrested at birmingham, ipswich and northampton. The fourth, from powys. The addresses have been searched and then we discovered that these men we re then we discovered that these men were all serving members of the army. The ministry of defence has confirmed that they were serving in the army. They have been providing support to the police. We do not have information about where these
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In missions. His remarks are 35 minutes. I welcome his excellency, president macron. President macron secretarygeneral of the United Nations, it is my privilege here today to take the floor for you, i know to whom i own that privilege. I owe that privilege to all of those who rose up against the barbaric regime that seized my country, france. I owe it to those nations that heard our cry of resistance, and from america and asia sent their sons and daughters to our aid. They did not all know about france but they knew that were france defeated this would be a defeat for the ideals they shared with us, of which they were proud and ready to give their lives. They knew their freedom and their values depended upon the freedom of other women and men who lived thousands of kilometers away from them. I owe that privilege to those who once the war had ended dared to take the path of reconciliation and to build a new international order. Those who understood human rights lay at the heart of inter