Good morning. It is great to see so many familiar faces this morning. Were looking forward to a timely event as we address the threat post by north korea and u. S. Policy options. Todays event will be livestream here incourage guests our mind to join in on the conversation on twitter. Fdd. An find that at also please silence your cell phones this morning. And placed ahead of the conversation to todays moderator from the associated press. Thanks a lot. Thank you for being here. Andas been a confusing frightening past several months when it comes to north korea, and confusing for americans, people in guam, south korea, japan. On the one hand, weve seen a level of saber rattling you do not typically see between Nuclear Armed nations, in a sense that we are closer to potential actual military conflict between the u. S. And north korea then perhaps we have been. On the other hand, you hear those in the administration are doing that they are actually doing that there are actually signs that
Workers. We meet orphans caught up in the fighting in Eastern Ukraine even though there is supposed to be a ceasefire. Sports story this friday six months ahead of the rio olympics one of the most successful countries kenya could find itself ban from the games. Right now its only an agreement on paper and wont result in a complete ceasefire or an end to russian bombing, following a marathon meeting in germany world powers have settled on what they are calling a cessation of hostilities in syria beginning in a weeks time. One priority is delivering food, medicine and shelter to besieged towns and cities and james base reports from munich. Reporter 19 delegations the sponsors of International Peace efforts in syria gathering in an effort to get things back on track. But the most important meeting happens several hours early on the 15th floor of the same munich hotel, this is where Russian Foreign minister Sergei Fedorov and u. S. Secretary of state john kerry came facetoface. And if you
Minors more vulnerable than ever before. Office turning afghan war relics into works of art. The syrian president Bashar Alassad questioned how in kind of truce can be achieved in his wartorn country as hopes for a ceasefire continue to fade and world powers had wanted a so called cessation of hostilities to start by sometime this week but the situation on the ground is as bad as ever. On monday at least 50 civilians were killed by air strikes which hit five medical facilities and two schools in the northern provinces of aleppo and idlib and france and turkey described the attacks as war crimes and the u. N. Said they were a blatant violation of International Law and its still not yet clear who carried out the bombings. On the broader question of a pause in fighting Bashar Alassad said it would be difficult. Translator hear about the request of ceasefire in a week and who is capable of bringing together all these conditions within a week . No one. Who will speak to the terrorist to the
The cosmos says einstein was right about Gravitational Waves. Im robin adams in doha and stories coming up including iaa president and fight the decision and its sponsor ship deal with athletics following resent corruption scandals. Talks have started in munich aimed at revising the floundering syria Peace Process and u. S. Secretary of state john kerry and Sergei Fedorov are hosting discussions and said a ceasefire to start on the first of march but the u. S. Says it will push for the ceasefire to begin immediately. Meanwhile on the ground there is continued fighting near syrias border with turkey in the latest battles they captured an air base which was originally controlled by the Syrian Military before it was seized by rebels. Elsewhere nato defense ministers meeting in brussels agreed to send war ships to the aegean sea to stop smuggling refugees and migrants to europe and lots to get through first and we will start in munich and speak to our editor james base and the talks have f
To what we have seen in global equities. Japan down by about 8 over the last couple of days. For nationaltoday Foundation Day. A little bit of a breather for japanese investors. Materials off by 6 . Weaker Commodity Prices not helping out that space. Oil and gas also plunging heavily, down by 6 . Lets look at some of the Hong Kong Energy producers. Sinoc ball while almost 7 . Petro china coming under a lot of pressure. Looking at how oil is faring today, down 2 in asian trade. So falling below that 27 a barrel mark. Yesterday, the crude price in asian trade down almost 2 . Lets see how some of the other markets in the region are faring. The selloff is generally continuing. Malaysia in the red, as is new zealand. The korean market getting hit hard as well. It has had a threeday limit our break. And we lunar break. And we had a Nuclear Launch over the weekend. A lot of weakness coming through from another a number of other companies. In australia, a little bit of a pickup. Entering into