Good morning, everyone. My name is melissa and i direct the project here at the center for strategic and International Studies and im divided to welcome you to todays event. The u. S. Approach to security jurisdiction in afghanistan. Before we begin today, i want to share our building safety precautions overall we feel secure that as a convener we have the duty to prepare for an emergency. I will serve as your Safety Officer at this event. Please follow my instructions. Finally take a moment to familiarize yourself with the emergency exit pathways to the room or directly behind you down the stairs if theres an incident behind you we will go out these doors, you follow me and i will take you to a safe location. Today we are delighted to be hosting two distinguished individuals from the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, the director himself was sworn in as the special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction in july, 2012. He has more than 30 years of expe
Welcome to daybreak australia. I am haidi stroudwatts in sydney. Annabelle i am Annabelle Droulers in hong kong. In the top stories this hour, asian stocks primed for gains after an upbeat day on wall street was job data supporting the case for fed rate cuts this year. Around 600 Japanese Companies as well report earnings later today. Haidi president xi pledging fresh investment in hungary as he receives backing for beijings pushback against overcapacity claims. Annabelle we are to the bloomberg tech summit as Silicon Valley leaders talk ai and much more. We will hear this out from snap ceo. Kicking off with breaking news this morning, we have perus central bank making its Rate Decision as forecast by most economists. We are seeing that cut coming through to 5. 75 earlier at 6 . We did action have a decline last month in Consumer Prices that sort of green lit what has been a secondquarter point reduction here but inflation last month slowing to 2. 42 in line with the Central Banks targ
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