Information about the events coming to you shortly. In the interim i am so pleased to welcome Douglas Murray to the event this afternoon. Also in author most recently the 2019 books demint mess of crowds and he was with us in person at the Manhattan Institute i think in early 2018 and that was just after the publication of this book the strange death of europe. Douglas is a Formidable Political critic and im not sure that he knew the subjects of both his most recent book and this one would come into play during this particular moment in time and for that reason and many others it is my pleasure to welcome you to the event this afternoon. Guest thank you very much. Its a pleasure to be with you and all of your members. Host we will talk for the next 20 minutes or so at which point we will turn over the qanda to the audience. If you look at the righthand side of the screen, there is a little triangle with the word question. You can type question anytime you like. And when we turn over to
The u. K. Considers new curves in london. The rda prepares to meet with melbourne again in lockdown. Pam braces for more economic gloom with First Quarter growth data. We are expecting a steeper downward revision. Lets get a check of where mark were markets are setting up. Here Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie a cautious start to the month of august after asian stocks have a fourth monthly gain. We are seeing sp Futures Holding steady and looking like a soft start to this trading week. Gold futures testing 2000, bouillon extending its rise after the best month in four years while u. S. Real yields lingered near record lows. Money managers are shifting gears a touch, decreasing the bullish gold bets to a six week low at the end of july. In the forex space, looking steady with offshore yuan staying below seven. We have the aussie dollar easing its earlier drop as investors assess the lockdown in victoria state. With a earning stock, we have t
Conference today on north korea. As we think about what might be coming down the road on the Korean Peninsula and the broader region, its very easy, i think, to succumb to the temptation to be pessimistic. In fact, as we sit here in washington today, it seems like theres all kinds of reason to be pessimistic. We seem to be facing on the home front a variety of challenges. Were in the midst of a wrenching president ial impeachment process. The broader country seems to have some deep cleavages societally. We have a big problem with mutual distrust in the country. When we look abroad internationally, the headlines we were reading this morning suggest we might be on the brink of a very dangerous war with iran. We last week read about the development of hype tr sonic weapons in russia and coupled with the demise of arms control and the return of great power competition, it looks like the world is getting ever more dangerous. Even American Relations with some of our longstanding allies seem
Correct ways. Hello if youre watching r. T. International im or is on a lot thank you for joining us and we do start with this breaking news iran has fired dozens of Ballistic Missiles bases housing u. S. Forces in iraq the Iranian Military is calling it a revenge operation for the death of Major General. Who was killed in the u. S. Air strike last week the pentagon has confirmed that the end base in western iraq and the herbal base in Northern Iraq have been hit those 2 facilities housing u. S. And Coalition Forces alongside iraqi forces and there are now reports of iraq casualties in both strikes this of course follows irans warning that it would hit u. S. Targets. In response to the death of its top general on january 3rd the Iranian Military has named the operation martyrs solemn army and warned that further strikes are to come since news of the attack broke there has been a 4 percent spike in the Global Oil Price and the Us Federal Aviation Agency has banned all flights over the p
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