[ technical difficulties ] particularly in africa in exchange for help with that crisis. Lets go to maltese capitol. Give us more detail on the money and also what the europeans are also prepared to offer. Yes, david, i think in some ways this idea that the European Union has of trying to enlist african countries to help solve what it sees as a migration problem, a burden for europe is starting to look like a hard yell. The crisis clearly it says a s a humanitarian one. It says we cant allow people to keep dying. They say traffickers and smugglers are the problem, and more needs to be done to try to help these poor people whether they are fleeing war or poverty stay in africa, so with that in mind, they got us more than 2 billion worth of money they are presenting to african countries to say have this, make your economy stronger, have more governance and less corruption to see if that works. Ill talk in a second about what the reaction has been from some of the african countries so far
This is real money. Tell us what is on your mind. Hit us up at facebook. Can the tensions over ukraine get any worse . Russian president Vladimir Putin lashed out to the west. He said the west only supports peace talks as a smokes screen to allow ukraine to continue military operations. Europe and america are threatening suffer sanctions against moscow. In the ukraine the russians still denying what everybody else knows to be true, Russian Forces are actively fighting on the side of the rebels in ukraines civil war and now turning the table on Ukrainian Government forces. In a sign of how things look for ukrainian president petro poroshenko, he said that his country will seek to join the n. A. T. O. Alliance. However unlikely that prospect is, it will just harden russias resolve to get in ukraine. There will come up with new sanctions to try to get russia to back off. So far the golden sanction that might compel russia to change course is off the table. That would be boycotting russian
This is real money. Tell us what is on your mind. Hit us up at facebook. Can the tensions over ukraine get any worse . Russian president Vladimir Putin lashed out to the west. He said the west only supports peace talks as a smokes screen to allow ukraine to continue military operations. Europe and america are threatening suffer sanctions against moscow. In the ukraine the russians still denying what everybody else knows to be true, Russian Forces are actively fighting on the side of the rebels in ukraines civil war and now turning the table on Ukrainian Government forces. In a sign of how things look for ukrainian president petro poroshenko, he said that his country will seek to join the n. A. T. O. Alliance. However unlikely that prospect is, it will just harden russias resolve to get in ukraine. There will come up with new sanctions to try to get russia to back off. So far the golden sanction that might compel russia to change course is off the table. That would be boycotting russian
Effective in our goals. I also have concerns about the current effectiveness of intergovernmental cooperation to undermine the flow of money to terrorists. I look forward to hearing from the witnesses on these issues. Continuing the Task Force Effort to Counter Terrorist financing. Thank you, and i yield back. Chair recognizes the Ranking Member of the full committee, ms. Waters, for one minute. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I applaud the bipartisan efforts surrounding this task force and believe it will serve us well as we work to guard against key threats to our National Security. Today the task force will explore dangerous new trend the growing convergence of terrorism and crime while terrorist organizations motivated by ideology and criminal enterprise is driven generally by greed have been thought to operate independent from one another. The testimony from the Witnesses Today makes it clear that this is no longer the norm. Furthermore, in an age of globalization, the growing
On the downside, dsm, the dutch Chemicals Group misses full year targets. The ceo sounding cautious on emerging markets. Europe is more or less flat. United states has some modest growth. And emerging economy growth is slowing down somewhat. So lets be realistic. The picture even worst for alston. The power giant cut its target on weak utilities demand. Plus, the pboc dumped billions of dollars worth of cash into the Financial System bringing down money market rates and easing money market fears ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. Announcer youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. Hello and warm welcome to the program. We kick off with the latest iea forecast with global demand. Theyve slightly raised the estimate of Global Oil Demand, unexpectedly strong u. S. Deliveries, partly offset by china and elsewhere. For 2013, as a whole, growth estimated at around 1. 2 Million Barrels a day accelerating to 1. 3 Million Barrels a day in 2014 as the