Port a week after the deadly blast. With anrnment resigns outraged public demanding accountability. Lcome back to france 24 thank you so much for joining us again this afternoon. We start with unrest in belarus thisis tuesday, where the main challenger has fled the country, this after a second night of street clashes between police and opposition supporters. The cocountry has been rocked by violence since Election Results gave president Alexander Lukashenko 80 , and Svetlana Tikhanouskaya has refused to accept it. Lukashenko has been president since 1994 and is being dubbed europes last dictator. Refusing to concede defeat, former belarusian president ial candidate Svetlana Tikhanouskaya is now in lithuania, according to the countrys foreign minister. The lithuanian president on metaexpressssed doubts about te Election Results that precipitated her departure. [speaking foreign language] tikhanouskaya had been a newcomer to politics, launching her campaign only after authorities jailed
Week the s p is tracking for a third week in a row of losses, down 1. 3 nasdaq futures up 73 points. Weve got a lot to talk about on a summer thursday. Our road map starts with earnings walmart posting better than expected results fellow down component cisco gets a lift, beating with its Quarterly Results and talking up a. I. Ceo Chuck Robbins will be joining us here. Plus, investors continuing to digest fed minutes released yesterday. The tenyear note yield hitting a fresh high were going to begin with walmart, raising fullyear forecast the retail giant benefitting from customers seeking bargains. U. S. Comps up by a better than expected 6. 4 and ecommerce jumping 24 led by pickup and delivery theyre clearly taking share because theyre out comping their competitors and the industry theyre crushing it i want to straighten some things out here when you have ecommerce up 24 , when you have advertising, which is just free money, what are the Gross Margins there, 35 , much higher margin. F
Who ignore part of the reform law. That brings us to our question for viewers. What do you think about the quality of education in your local schools . Special line today for this question. Parents of School Age Children can call 2027488000. Eachers can call 2027488001. School administrators can call 2027488002. Nd all others can call 027488003. We want to talk about the equality of education in your committee. Lets talk about how king talks about the new law puts more power in the states hands. Learning standards that will prepare all students for college and careers. The law supports investments and quality preschool and it requires the information on student progress to share through statewide assessments while reducing and improve state and local taxes. It builds on work already underway to raise expectations for students and establish tailored systems for School Improvements and states. The law shifts responsibility for develops strategies to support the highest needs students and
And so you constantly gradually fall behind urban areas so that does become a problem in rural areas. Similar are observations on wage index from ms. Peterson or mr. Stover . The wage index relative to critical reimbursement is not as significant as a pps setting. However, the idea that physicians and specially trained nurses and nobody flebomotists and technicians can be recruited to rural areas for less than when they would earn in the urban areas is simply not true. We compete on a National Level for these very, very scarce resources. Same observation, mr. Stover. Yes, mr. Chairman, i would agree with my colleague, ms. Peterson. My last question would be on telemedicine, are you getting reimbursed do you have Behavioral Health also . We do, yes. Are you being reimbursed for Behavioral Health in the same way for other health items . We are. Your goal is to recapture all costs . Correct. And to integrate Behavioral Health into medical clinics as well. Do you have any studies that woul
So far very good results. And an amazing thing. It would be interesting to know why he thinks we can do that. So lets bring joe kiani out. [ applause ] u zk our last panelist is Jeffrey Selberg, who heads the Peterson Center for health care which has just gotten kicked off. And this is really important because Michael Peterson who is here and his dad Pete Peterson are great friends of mine. And they have worked for years to get americans to focus on the longterm consequences of unsustainable debt. And how we can bring debt, especially the debt we run up every year consuming, down so we can invest in our future and secure it. And after years of beating their heads against the wall, they looked at the numbers for the federal budget at least and decided that actually all the real structural problems are in health care. Combined with aging population. And they decided that they would try to be a part of the solution instead just sitting on the sidelines, complaining about it. So they are d