Money and fight. This is al jazeera live from doha, also coming up donald trump 5 the Cyber Security chief who rejected the president s claims of widespread Election Fraud. International condemnation of the ethiopias government targets rebels in the north with asteroids. And argentina looks at hitting its richest citizens with a one off tax to raise billions for people whove lost everything in the pandemic. The pentagon has confirmed to shop productions in the number of u. S. Troops in afghanistan and iraq by mid january just before President Donald Trump. Leaves office trump had wanted a full withdrawal from americas longest war by christmas instead. 2000 will come out of afghanistan and 500 from iraq leaving 2 and a half 1000 any country. Let us remind those who question our resolve or may seek to interfere with this prudent well planned and coordinated transition. The United States armed forces remain committed to protecting the safety and security of the American People and support
Cnbcs karen cho is here to report on the largest trade deal for china and excludes the United States. The meeting happening now could reveal whether the Tokyo Olympic games could take place or be postponed again. Im frances rivera. Im valerie castro. A team of four astronauts safely lifted off and are on their way to the International Space station as we speak. This mission marks the new era where spacex will happen nasa. Tom costello joins us from the kennedy spa Kennedy Space center tom, good morning. Reporter good morning. A phenomenal experience yet again as we watch the Spacex Falcon 9 rocket topped with the space ship that the crew has dubbed resilience. Lifting off the pad at 7 27 eastern time a perfect, perfect evening launch here into the night sky coming up the entire east coast of the United States accelerating before finally dropping off its various stages well on its way now to intersecting with the International Space station hoping to meet up with the space station about
Talklking office last month. The summit began aboout an hour ago. I understand knnees wra is a ke member of the association of Southeast Asian nations. Japans Strategic Partner and shares basic values. Chief among his priorities is securing a pledge to Work Together on a range of regional issues including addressing chinas growing maritime presence in the nation. Suga wants to step up cooperation in the field of security including holding a meeting of foreign and defense ministers from both countries. He plans to speed up negotiations on the transfer of defense equipment to indonesia. The coronavirus pandemic will also likely be only the agenda. Indonesia has the highest number of cases in southeast asia. Suga will likely offer loans to help limit the economic fallout in the country and hopes to secure a plan to ease entry restrictions for nurses and caregivers coming to japan as foreign workers. Japan is seeking deeper defenense ties with australia a they champion what they term a fre
Address in the next few months. One issue onver which i can be decisive today. And i think all members of the governing council will agree with me. We must explain much better to the general public what we are doing and why we are doing it. People thattalk to we do not normally reach. This imperative has to cascade the role elements of our review, our inflation name, our inflation measure, our tools, and their effectiveness, and how we take into account new challenges that people actually care about. The housing costs, but also Climate Change and inequality. Im fully committed to that. Monetary policy can only be credible, mind you, if we ensure that our goals are truly understood and shared by the people we serve. I think you very much for your attention. That was Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central bank with an important speech of about 4045 minutes. The focus has been on inflation. There are a couple of things we need to look into and we have reaction from laura
Suzanne it is a pleasure to welcome you all here to do to our conversation on Foreign Policy and the u. S. President ial election. This event is part of the brookings policy 2020 series which seeks to empower voters ,ith factbased, datadriven nonpartisan information to better understand the policy matters discussed by candidates running for office this year. Thank you all for joining us. We are 29 days away from november 3. Americans will cast their ballots for the next president , but the future of americas global role is also at the ballot. Election,ward the todays conversation will focus in particular on its implications for the transatlantic relationship and u. S. Foreign policy toward europe. Many of leaders and their counterparts around the world are watching the election closely. While there are differing views about how the upcoming november election will shape the relationship, few in europe or it will revert to its previous form. The europeanfrom council on Foreign Relations