Here and when key members of our board are here and its always such a pleasure to have our International Advisory board member jafar here. Thank you for Crescent Petroleum support for this, for the Iraq Initiative, Global Energy center. Ive been stealing ideas from a long period of time, he happens to be one of the best thinkers and actors as an analyst in the region and also a pleasure to have him here as well. Todays event was organized by the councils Iraq Initiative and Global Energy center. Our Iraq Initiative is led by dr. And abbas working with us. Hes one of the rare individuals who understands the workings of the country hes covering, iraq, so intimately and also the workings of washington which in many respects is more difficult to follow. The discussion is timely. Iraq is facing its most challenging since isis, with protests in the country and citizens demanding reform and news just yesterday that ahmadi will resign. Despite the future, iraq has carried out elections and a p
The hearing will come to order. This hearing is entitled congress and the frank bringing congressional mailing standards into the 21st century. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Happy halloween everybody. I am dressed as americas most maligned superhero, congressman, to be able to fly across the country in six hours on alaska airlines. We were thinking about titling this hearing frankenstein, have houses ghoulish mailing standards have haunted members for decades, but i suppose we should go with the official on spooky title for the record. Like most of the issues that fall into this commencement date, its very inside baseball. To most people frank is a name or aam hot dog but the reality s for members of congress, congressional frank is actually fundamental to how we can indicate with our constituents and every time we respond to constituent request or send newsletters or send synopsis te upcoming town halls we use frank. So surprised with the rise o
About racism and President Trump. 22 years later, prince harry follows in his mothers footsteps as he visits a partially cleared minefield in angola. And i am in doha, well the world athletics championships are under way and the heat is dominating the agenda. And coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news wales have named an Unchanged Team to face australia at the rugby world cup. And that means a record 130th cap for alun wyn jones. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. The former cabinet minister amber rudd has accused number ten of using aggressive language that incites violence. It comes after a turbulent week in which mps returned to the house of commons and took part in furious exchanges in the commons. Today borisjohnson again defended his use of language and insisted that delivering brexit on 31st of october would bring much of the heat out of the debate. Meanwhile, scotlands first minister Nicola Sturgeon has indicated that shed be open to backing Jeremy C
Deal, one of the reasons it was bad is because it expires. And i think you know that is false. There are provisions in the agreement that expired. Thats correct. So the agreement has a set of agreements dealing with centrifuges and inspections. So say to me, to our committee, to the American Public, that the deal was bad because it expires is just wrong. First paragraph of the deal, free face, i said first sentence. First paragraph of the deal. Iran reaffirms under no circumstances will iran ever seek develop or acquire any Nuclear Weapons. Thats permanent. Ever. Under no circumstances. Any. That is a permanent provision they have assigned to that never expires unless someone like the United States decides to blow up the deal. Second page of the deal, preamble and general provisions. I guess they felt that was important enough that they wanted to repeat it twice. Iran reaffirms under no circumstances will iran ever seek, develop or acquire any weapons. Thats not the only permanent part
Percent. Nasdaq down 53. Major Market Indices falling better than 1 yesterday, the selloff coming after surprise decline in Manufacturing Activity after the World Trade Organization cut global trade forecast for the year, we told you about that yesterday, joining us hodges capital manager, craig hodge. What did you make of manufacturing data and what do you think that tells us about the economy and the markets. Its obviously not positive, we put all the manufacturing, its only ahird of the economy, we are a service economy, consumer is over 70 , one data p, as we go, the consumer what youre talking about the jobs and payroll, that would be more important as we go along. Maria look at the reaction, we have been talking about manufacturing weakening for a little while, dagen, but the market was sizable decline on this news. Dagen because this index contracted in august and expect today rebound above 50 plus and came much worse than expected, worse than literally every estimate that was o