Headlines coming up next its inside story. Aljazeera. And for you. Running out of water theyre calling it day zero cities like cape town and nairobi is soon to be dry and first two years of drought and bad planning so why havent governments done more to prevent this catastrophe is the golden age of water now over this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter davi Climate Change human action and a growing population are increasing the chances of a global water crisis thats what experts have long been warning about over a billion people lack access to clean Drinking Water and the un predicts a global forty percent water deficit by the year twenty thirty south africas cape town for example could become the worlds first major city to run out of water literally much of the city and the rest of the countrys water flows from neighboring lawsuit to and the next water crisis could be looming then south africa has been plagued by a prolonged drought for three years cape town is
European headquarters here in london. And i am Francine Lacqua live from davos. We have a huge lineup of guests for you today. We will be speaking to Boris Johnson and Antony Jenkins, the mayor of london and the ceo of barclays. Then we will delve deeper into iran. We have some top ceos discussing iran and whether they want to do business there. I spoke to the nissan ceo. He said there is a lot of potential for the french carmakers to the big in iran. Need so much more investment that there is real potential for business deals and contracts here in davos. Is this what everybody is talking about at davos . You have an event taking place in the ukraine that is capturing the headlines as well. Rouhani seems to be the center of attention looking in. It is the first time we have an iranian president arriving in davos in a decade. I spent a lot of time trying to speak to him yesterday. I did have a couple of brief moments but he was backtoback meeting with the Prime Minister of the netherlan
Looking for a fresh start after ugly trading days last week. Yields are rising as debate over who will be the next fed chair picks up steam. Sax seeing more markdowns for womens shoes, handbags and menswear but its not bad news for the consumer companies. Jpmorgan upgrading Dollar General. Entell upgrade over at piper saying pcs are not down for the count yet. Futures, as we said, slightly lower after the major indices posted the first backtoback weekly losses in june. Worst week for the dow this year, all going on amid encertaine encertainen certa uncertainty of the fed mens and jackson hole starting thursday, friday. How do you feel after last week . I work on charts every week. Show it to them. Too many look horrible. I mean, ive got to tell you, were in a key moment here. Industrials hanging by a thread. The Real Estate Investment trusts terrible, carl. Only group good, gold stocks. We dont want them as leadership. No. The miners, hated miners all year not going to lead us out of t
Opening its door to more women being killed or wounded in action. Conflicts have cost more than 130 women their lives and more than 800 have been wounded. Dawn halfacre lost her arm fighting alongside an infantry unit. Theres not a big difference at all. And a lot of the missions we did we did with infantry units, we would do with shelled artillery units. We were all fighting the same thing, doing the same thing. This is the executive director of the Womens Service active network. Shes a former marine captain. She says frontline jobs will mean more advancement to women officers. In the civilian world we refer to the Glass Ceiling when women cant get beyond their point of progression. In the military we call it the brass creeling. Now this change in policy was recommended by the joint chiefs of staff but the changes will not be immediate. Some of these jobs for these women will open up this year, but tl different branches of the military have until 2016 to make their case that some of t
On women. More than a quarter of a million, 280,000 women, have served in iraq, afghanistan, or neighboring countries in support of those two wars. Susan mcginnis is in washington with more. Good morning, susan. Good morning, annemarie. Todays announcement overturns a 1994 ban on women serving in battlefront operations and it opens up about 230,000 military jobs that until now were closed to women. The new pentagon policy makes women eligible to serve in army and marine infantry units. Theres also the potential for them to be part of an elite Operations Team like the navy s. E. A. L. S and other forces. Working side by side with special forces teams with pretty cool. But in order to join women must be able to withstand the rigid strength requirements with those units. There are jobs women cant do physically because they dont have the physical strength to do it. The pentagon is opening the door to more women being killed or wounded in action. Conflicts have cost more than 130 women thei