She will be joined in conversation by author and journalist david marinus. For a complete schedule of our live coverage from wisconsin visit booktv. Org. In the meantime, heres part of a program that airs tomorrow afternoon with economist Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell talking about their travels to socialist countries. Its no surprise to anybody now that socialism is back and popular. A lot of the focus has been on young people and millennials were attracted to it but of course the president ial debate to see among mainstream democrats now the New York Times had a year long and 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution a yearlong column called red century. I think exactly one, and that year was dedicated to the economic aof the system. If a handful mention of atrocities instead you got articles like why women had better sex under socialism. Which even if true, i dont know how we witness against 100 million dead bodies. But this is the atmosphere that was taking hold as we were do
Attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do know it does seem as though a large number of civilians once again have been caught up in a battle between taliban and Coalition Forces and a number include colluding many women and children this comes of course as afghanistan is preparing for its president ial election in the coming saturday the last couple of days have been generally quiet here in afghanistan but we have seen generally a surge in the number of attacks taking place both by the taliban who have threatened to disrupt t
Stories on our website. Just log onto bbc. Co. Uk news. Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Asian stock markets are retreating after wall street ended the day in the red over concerns ahead of us china trade negotiations. There is a new cheese executive, will they steer the trouble car maker back on the road to success . Good morning, either. Hello, well. Its a wednesday. Glad you could join us for another exciting mid week edition of Asia Business report. Im rico hizon. We begin with the ongoing us trainer china trade war. Investors feel anxious ahead of a meeting between the leaders of the worlds two biggest economies. As we leaders of the worlds two biggest economies. As we can see asia pacific markets are in the red. The nikkei down by fourfifths asia pacific markets are in the red. The nikkei down by four fifths of 196. The nikkei down by four fifths of i . Wall street ended the day in the red after the Trump Administration slapped visa restrictions on bei
Much is about where the consumer is physically, but how does that square with data concerns . We will ask the foursquare ceo. For many of the National Security teams that monitor threats on the u. S. , the apparent drone strike saturday was the realization of their worst fears. The attack raised concerns by u. S. Security officials and experts in terrorism about the rapid evolution and technologies that may have allowed these inexpensive devices to pierce saudi defenses, flying long distances to drop bombs. Im joined by alan. Alan we are still not 100 sure exactly what devices were used. The rebels in yemen, which took initial credit for the attack, said they used drones. Later, u. S. Officials said that they were Cruise Missiles and possibly drones as well. A Cruise Missile is a kind of a drone. At the very least, Cruise Missiles used to be kind of the weapons used by large military organizations, but as the technology has gotten cheaper and easier to use, we now see kind of it mergin
Oil story in just a bit as well. Guy weve barely gone anywhere when it comes to stocks. Over three months, up by 1. 36 . Bond yields getting absolutely crushed. We see prices jump. We see equity markets under pressure. It was a real what cup call for the market. After that wakeup call, we kind of gone back to where we were. What does Fourth Quarter bring . Number last years Fourth Quarter . December, incredibly rocky. This is the picture we have in europe. Stoxx 600 trading at session highs. We are up by around 0. 3 . We have the holidays. We have china closed the rest of the week. Volume is abysmal today. Eurodollar also under pressure. We see data out of germany on the cpi front. You had a whole bunch of other factors. The dollar continues to make gains. You continue to see the dollar index pushing higher as well. If you want to watch the chancellor of the exchequer in the u. K. , on his feet in manchester right now, that is on your bloomberg. 1400 ing at trading at 1491. What a quar