Welcome. Today i want to discuss a theme that deserves far more attention and that is america is a force for good in the world. Last week the Food Bank Program was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its efforts to improve conditions for peace around the world. The wfc is run by executive director david beasley, former governor of softer line who deserves along with his team a huge amount of credit for the organizations success over the past few years. W fp depends completely on voluntary contributions and hes grown his budget from about 6 billion in 2017 to more than 8 billion and 2019. That money translated to real lives saved is what the Nobel Peace Prize reflected w fp now helps feed more than 100 quadrillion people in 80 countries and the United States in the United States has supplied 40 of the w fp budget and by far the greatest contribution from any nation in the world. More than 700, 700, or than 700 times what china has in more than two and half times the second largest co
Belgium is warning of a tsunami of new cases. Socialist candidate claims victory in bolivias president ial rerun, paving the way for the return of people morales. Of evo morales. Money destined for the u. S. Families and victims of attacks by armed groups and after has left sudan. The first step in a compensation agreement that will see the country removed from the u. S. List of statesponsored terrorism. Earlier u. S. President tweeted that the new government of sudan agreed to pay 335 million. Once deposited i will lift sudan from the state sponsors of terrorism list. At long last justice for the American People and a big step for sudan. Sudans Prime Minister is expected to make an announcement shortly. They carried out attacks on u. S. Embassies in 1998. Sudan was placed on the u. S. Terror list in 1993 over alleged funding of armed groups. We are to get some kind of official announcement soonish. What kind of things will you be looking for in that announcement when it comes to getti
, 10 10 marks party day in north korea. Expectations for that date and drpk relations. And mystery solved. Dprkisappearance of the ambassador to rome who is in south korea and continuing developments in the wake of the reported shooting death of the minister of fishery. The upcoming economic dialogue started by yours truly and a new vice Ministerial Alliance is possible. Frequent, our most guest and our only repeat guest, is perfectly positioned to give us critical insight into these topics and more. Hes the Deputy Assistant secretary mark mefford. A graduate of princeton. We know his bio. Office of japanese affairs. Multiple assignments throughout asia with korean language skills, korean, japanese, and vietnamese. And my favorite title, representative to the spent fool spent fuel team at the nuclear facility. The dynamos are running away with the regular season in kbo. Mark, welcome to the show. It is great to be here, thank you for having me back. Regulars, to our victor dean, the fo
A major Hacking Campaign and the known and difficult journey to a better life the venezuelan migrants back on the road again and facing new challenges because of course it 90. Its a decision that could remove saddam status as an International Pariah President Donald Trump says he plans to take it off the u. S. List of state sponsors of terrorism that would pave the way for khartoum to access urgently needed debt relief and for knowns trump agreed to remove the designation in return 4833335 1000000 dollars payment to american terror victims and their families the money would compensate those affected by the alqaeda attacks on u. S. Embassies in kenya and tanzania he morgan has more from khartoum. Something that means a lot to Sudanese Government because the country has been cut off from Foreign Investment largely because of being on the list of states sponsoring terrorism and this has resulted in a shortage of hard currency which makes it very hard for the country to import basic commod
Well. We are watching what is going on with individual indices. Hong kong coming back and a big way after that long holiday. Hang seng up more than 300 points. The nikkei 225 up more than 1. 3 . At this point, seeing positive signs of drug and his recovery, although there has been mixed messages about what treatment he is getting, the timeline of his diagnosis as well. We are looking at risk aversion trade that we saw on friday,. Hich were gaining not doing a whole lot here this morning. Moving on 70 basis points. Seeing the reversal from friday, ozzie gaining and the yen, which additionally i despite, it it kit. 1900 after that 4 brent crude just below 40 a barrel. Watching fx, watching the dollar, pretty steady this morning as well. The pound seems to be holding onto the gains as well, brexit set for a showdown at the eu summit. Aussie and your revenue be holding on the firstlets get world headlines. Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says the fasttrack schedule of the Supreme Court t