Between armenia and azerbaijan holds but only just and civilians caught in the middle of paying the price. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced after heavy days after days of heavy fighting between Government Troops and Taliban Forces in southern afghanistan its been happening in the province of helmand particularly around the regional capital lashkar gah it began on saturday when the taliban launched coordinated attacks on several areas fighting has flared up since with the u. S. Carrying out air strikes to defend Afghan Security forces dozens of taliban fighters are reported to been killed and hospitals are overwhelmed as the 1st Major Taliban offensive since peace talks with the Afghan Government resumed last month remember to the president Donald Trumps promise to bring home u. S. Forces by christmas for. Well lets go live now to were kabul for you. Joins us from the Afghan Capital whats the latest on the fighting. Well like you said i do in our taliban offensive which w
Certainly the small winning there were scenes of chaos around that parliamentary building with various different claims being made by opposition parties and members of those parties saying that they had common did control of certain government institutions they seems to have been the sons break up of the sense of unity that we felt the night before in the square i think its fair to say that this announcement by the Central Election Commission will be welcomed by those opposition groups these these. These opposition parties that weve seen competing in the selection but we are already beginning as i say to see that sense of competition and rivalry between these groups starting. To appear again which is no bad thing of course is testament to the kind of level of democracy that this country is proud of its not forget that those opposition groups were holding healthy lively debates between themselves in the run up to election that is now being seen as being deeply flawed. Turkeys foreign mi
China and russias election. Displaced in devastated the human cost of the conflict over nick on the cutback as the ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan falters. Election abortion obamacare and just some of the topics featuring on day 2 of the confirmation hearing of President Trumps u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barretts republican and Democratic Senators each have their c minutes to ask about subjects that are important to Many Americans the full senate could vote by the end of the month on whether to appoint her just ahead of the u. S. Poll on november 3rd. Well in the last hour or so barrett was questioned by democratic Vice President ial candidates come a harris she grilled barrett on a range of issues from abortion to the Affordable Care act my colleagues have asked you today whether you would recuse yourself from cases on the Affordable Care act you did not directly answer their questions and instead you described the process by which that would work or happen and so
Basement which i would have done anyway, and which i did. I have to tell you, i feel fantastic. I really feel good. Maria we will get into all of that coming up. First, the stage is set this week for judge Amy Coney Barretts hearing on capitol hill. Shell read her opening remarks later today. Senator Lindsey Graham telling me, laying it all out on the schedule and when he thinks shell become a Supreme Court justice. I believe she will be confirmed no later than tuesday, a week before the election. Thats my hope. Maria markets are fractionally lower this morning, its a mixed story. As you see, the dow industrials down 21, the nasdaq is up 111 and the s p higher by 8 andahalf. Investors preparing for a major week of earnings along with more talks on stimulus. Markets posted a gain of more than 3 last week. Take a look, we are lac lookingt momentum in stocks on the heels of a week that sent the nasdaq up 4 andahalf percent and s p 500 up almost 4 . Peter navarro here this morning, live at
Seen anything like that in the history of debates it was more like a wrestling match than a debate so this one was more of a welcome return to the normal course of political debating scoring some points trying to come up with some verbal zingers i dont think there were any particularly memorable a lines in here that are going to be repeated over and over but i think the debate was much more cordial much more low key much more polite campbell how to reports that the president paid a little tax in 2017. Paid 750. 00 in taxes when i 1st heard about it i literally said you mean 750000. 00 and it was like 750. 00 we now know donald trump oh. And is in debt for 400000000. 00 and just so everyone is clear when when we say in that it means you owe money to somebody and it be really good to know who the president of the United States the commander in chief owes money to because the American People have a right to know what is influencing the president s decisions the American People have a pres