Fight that changed boxing, one event in a year that changed so much more. We begin tonight with what could be a major change for u. S. Troops in afghanistan. Today president obama ordered the pentagon to prepare for a full u. S. Troop withdrawal by the end of the year. Its a decision that could affect the lives of 10s of thousands of americans families. Now, a few thousand u. S. Troops were sent to afghanistan not long after 9 11, by 2005, the numbers swelled to 20,000. The american presence piqued threpeakedthree year old ago, bt president obama has been pulling americans out of the country since then now about 35,000 u. S. Forces in afghanistan. The president spoke with afghan President Hamid karzai today and the white house acknowledged if afghanistan does not sign a Security Agreement with the u. S. That american troops will leave by the end of the near, Patty Culhane reports. Reporter u. S. President obama has left the negotiationing with hamid karzai to his staffer. But after nin
Protests and a black market for u. S. Dollars. It was a vote we regret faking and plan on making it right. A vote governor breuer has to take has been stated to be antigay and she has been abbisk to veto it. Good morning, its al Jazeera America, im Morgan Radford in new york city. President obamas pirns is wearing thin, issuing an ultimatum to afghans President Hamid karzai. He wants to keep 10,000 troops inside the country too Train Afghan Security forces. By august of 2011 troop presence peaked to 100,000s. The stalemate creates a showdown with huge consequences for both countries. U. S. President hamid karzai has left the negotiating to hamid karzai to his staff. After nine months of silence, he picked up the phone to send him a personal warning, and was told while the u. S. Wants to stay in afghanistan, they have given up hope that hamid karzai will sign a Security Agreement providing application. 12 years after the invasion, the u. S. Started to plan for the zero option, a complet
So you would think again with reagan being in hollywood as an actor and john kennedy going to hollywood all the time to hang out with the stars jack kennedy once went to hollywood after world war ii and spent a month there living with broad robert staff trying to figure out what gave movie stars charisma so he could mimic that. He went to gary cooper said in huge said this guy is the most job dropping warring person ive ever met that we go outside of the restaurant and he is mobbed. I dont get it. They were also the two most popular speakers in america in the 1950s. Kennedy had made a big splash running for president and got hundreds of speaking invitations every week and reagan gave more speeches. He was the official corporate spokesperson for General Electric and later death valley days and his job was to tour the country giving speeches on electric appliances. He did that thousands of times. He estimated he gave a speech eight or 9000 times. And yet they kept crossing the country an
Anna is off today. Bloomberg reporters are standing by across the world, ready to deliver the stories that will drive your day. U. S. Prosecutors are seeking more than 13 billion from bank of america to resolve an investigation into the mortgagebacked loans. Jon ferro have the latest on that story. Zeb eckert will break down the inflation data. Caroline hyde will look at amazon. Can the worlds Biggest Online retailer keep growing . Now to our top story and a bloomberg exclusive for you. U. S. Prosecutors are said to be seeking more than 13 billion from bank of america to resolve investigations on the sale of mortgagebacked securities. Joining us now is Jonathan Ferro. This is all about the runup to the financial crisis. The bonds that were sold back to buy home loans. We know what happened to those mortgages and those bonds. It was not ready. Pretty. That is a lot of money. That would be on top of the 9. 4 billion the jpmorgan fines. These numbers just keep on getting bigger and bigger
Welcome to the programme. President trump has declared the United States to be the greatest and most virtuous nation in the history of the world in a speech marking Independence Day. His optimistic tone contrasted with muted fourth ofjuly celebrations in much of the us as Coronavirus Infections continue to soar. 0ur north america correspondent david willis reports. After a fiery speech on the eve of Independence Day in which he accused angry mobs of seeking to tear down americas history, President Trump struck a more conciliatory tone in an online address to the nation. The country, he said, was on its way to what he called a tremendous victory. We were doing better than any country had ever done in history and not just us, any country and then we got hit with this terrible plague from china and now were getting close to fighting our way out of it. On an Independence Day unlike any other, americans were urged to celebrate freedom by staying indoors. Some ignored the call, despite the r