Perhaps we shouldnt have. I think the days of occupying nations and reconstruction with the hope that jeffersonian democracy is going to plant seeds and roots, it may have been naive. Its a very primitive country, afghanistan. Ive been there many times. So my question, as i advise the president on syria, a residual force to protect the homeland, i dont think we can afford to stay in these countries forever and occupy them forever. I think the most important thing we can do is to have a residual force of some sort to take out terrorist threats to the homeland in a counterterrorism mission. Maybe we lost sight of what our mission was in the first place, and so i guess and i know youre not here to report on policy, per se, but id like your comments on dha, and to that end, what programs have been most effective at counterterrorism in that mission . Congressman, i think thats an excellent question, and i can bring you up to the line to policy. And i leave the policy for you. You have to re
Performing sectors investors search for safety following the attack seeking safe haven assets like gold and yen. Hitting record highs on the first trading day of the year. Good morning and welcome to street signs. Our top story today, the pentagon confirmed irans top leader Qassim Soleimani was killed he was the head of the quds force. The generals death marks an escalation in tensions between tehran and washington following the u. S. Attacbeing attacked at embassy. We are seeing brent up to 68. 44 you can see about 3. 3 wti, 63 now up equal amounts about 3 . Looking at some Major Oil Companies as well. You can see a lot of those are positioned in the uk you can see bp Royal Dutch Shell up about 3 . On the flip side, weve got travel Companies Trading deeply in negative territory. France air down. Higher oil price not a good thing for the Airline Industry lets talk a little more about the politics and ramifications here lets get out to our correspondent who is in l. A. Today. Talk us mo
Out to new highs deedra bosa has details on alphabet. Larry page stepping down as alphabet Ceo Sundar Pichai ceo both of google and alphabet in terms of day to day unlikely to see major changes which is why you may missouri not see a lot of change in the alphabet stock. Under google umbrella pichai ran advertising cloud devices, software he has been ceo since august of 2015 since then alphabet stock has soared relative broad are market but underperformed wig tap peerings remember the split from alphabet to google. Alphabet was the place where the moon shot including way missouri, selfdriefgt stores internet balloons and health care projects. Perhaps the question now is what happens to those moneylosin initiatives . Will we see more financial zmin under pichai and ruth porat from wall street mo has been known for financial dplin. As pichai steps up does he step away from those and the traditional businesses like advertising paying for them. Deirdre bosa wove been tweeting over this news
Indias police are called heroes after they kill 4 men suspected of gang rape and murder in a case that sparked a nationwide outrage. And theyre calling it the mega fire several australian bush fires are now so big Authorities Say they cannot be contained. Welcome to the Program Federal agents are investigating the motive the im fridays deadly attack at a u. S. Naval base in florida a Saudi National was being trained at the base opened fire in a classroom and killed 3 people it was one of many 200 Foreign Nationals in a Training Course mike hanna reports from washington d. C. Naval air station pensacola was immediately placed in a state of lockdown as were the surrounding neighborhoods where many of the 16000 personnel at the base live along with some 7000 civilians who work there each day. And maybe spokesman confirmed it was a Saudi National training at the base who opened fire in a classroom we have the International Training syllabus we have students from from several Different Coun
Ill look at the proposals. The fa suggests the use of concussion substitutes in football following research which suggests former players are more likely to die of dementia. Good morning. Any Early Morning fog we re good morning. Any Early Morning fog were lift and then for most dry with sunny spells developing but becoming increasingly wet and windy in the north and north west. More in 15 minutes. Its tuesday the 22nd of october. Our top story. British detectives are to fly to the United States to interview the woman involved in a car crash that killed teenager harry dunn. Anne sacoolas, the wife of an american diplomat, is alleged to have been driving on the wrong side of the road in august when her car hit harrys motorbike in northamptonshire. She left the uk claiming diplomatic immunity shortly afterwards. Ben ando reports. Six days ago, harry dunns mother and father went to the white house. During a meeting with President Trump they were offered the chance to talk to the diplomats