Washroom. Sharif is giving a News Conference now. Well take you there live. In other news, dalai llama tells he may be the last to hold the title. Disgraced himself. Also on the program, a look at whats happening in russia today. Ben . Desperate days for rouble. Russian leaders say not to pani panic. Its midday here in london, 7 00 a. M. Washington and 5 00 p. M. In pakistan where a nation is still struggling thes with ot days. 132 children and nine Staff Members were killed. Its called the worst tragedy in the countrys history. Mass services are held today for the victims. Now theyre declaring three days of morning. A press conference now is in the city of peshawar. Hes been meeting with other political leaders to discuss the governments response. One of the things sharif has said today, he has promised to rid his country of terrorism. He has been speaking as i mentioned to many of the countrys political leaders. He has said the country was united now to insure this kind of tragedy ne
Seats and out of the building. Another Taliban Attack in afghanistan as Militants Attack a bank and kill at least six is. Soldiers are said to have are mistreated iraqi detainees in 2004. Why the new York Premiere of this film poking fun at north korea has been cancelled due to threats from a hacking group. Hello. Pakistans Prime Minister is meeting all main Political Parties to discuss how to respond to the Taliban Attack on a school in peshawar. More than 140 were killed, nearly all children. The Prime Minister lifted a moratorium on the Death Penalty on cases of terrorism. The first journalist to see the devastation in the school, there are disturbing details in her report. Reporter they were shooting from the stage . Yeah. They were shooting from the stage and then also came to the seat rows. You will see the students were trying to get out of the rows and come on the main aisle. Thats where you see most of the blood from. Reporter okay. So were walking toward an area now thats cle
Eurozone for this month. Were looking at it coming in higher than the expectation. Yes. So the december the december composite pmi flash estimate was forecast at 61. 5 and it came in at 61. 7. So a tad higher than anticipated. Were looking at the euro trade slightly higher against the u. S. Dollar right now at 1. 2487. But we should give you the full picture, which is that the euro has appreciated against the u. S. Dollar by around 10 this year. But again, better than expected manufacturing data helping against the euro slightly. Good morning, by the way. How are you . Wonderful. And you . We were together on the show a couple weeks back. A pleasure. Yeah. The german pmi data, the lowest since june of 2013, 51. 4 for the month of december. That broke about a half an hour ago, Something Like that. Its still in expansionary territory, sort of above that 50 level. But weve now seen it at a lower rate, Something Like so, again, we are looking at a pretty low level with regard to these pmi
Department of recreation. Every student in the top 10 . Were going to bring some of that back. We have term for one more question. He started to nine sing one of the reasons you wrote the book, question springs from that what you think is the biggest misconception that people have . The biggest misconception is that most of my life is taken up with junk and scandals and alleged corruption. Most of the no because i even in d. C. 152nd sound bite. And nationally the United States government. Beset that tape to every ambassador in the world cannot to every president of every country in the world, sent it to the other propaganda arm of the u. S. Government. It ran on television. But this so many have contributed to it, too. And that is all part of it. I am not fazed by it. Washington d. C. , as long as it gives them some hope that some help. I dont care. [applause] i dont care. The wanted thank you so much for coming here tonight. I also wanted to give you this is actually a very precious
Ambassador James Dobbins is a senior fellow and distinguished chair of diplomacy and security at the rand corporation. He most recently served as director of the Rand International security and Defense Policy Center. Next, we have seth jones amount directs the National Security and Defense Policy Center at the rand corporation. He served as the representative to the commander of u. S. Special Operations Command to assistant secretary of defense for special operations. So please lets all welcome them. [applause] thank you, dalia. And excuse me, feel like im turning my back on all of you there. We are any time in my 30 years, 30 plus years at least of going to the middle east where i think there are more divisions, chaos and depression than i can ever remember. We will try, as dalia said, to focus on some opportunities. I hope my colleagues will have some. It is really an honor for me to get to moderate the panel because im yes, i trust year trusty her here but i would says even if i wer