A host will spare no efforts to support the initiative along with help from the International Community. So historic talks aimed at ending decades of war and misery in afghanistan are finally taking place here in qatar this saturday negotiators from the Afghan Government and the taliban amazing along with the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh and the Qatari Foreign minister more than 6 months it is now since the u. S. Brokered its own deal aimed at ending americas longest war that agreement with the taliban paved the way for saturdays discussions for those we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the negatives we all know what happened to us throughout these years and maybe stand today we now need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a new future. We can define together we continue the afghan peace negotiation and we try. For peace and quality we will pave the
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Thats a 13. 8 increase month on month. Pretty good, alix. Israel alix can it last . And coming up this hour well speak to valley grant, Senior Vice President and henry mcveigh, ahead of global maam row and Asset Allocation with his report on economy and investments. The main macronews that happened was beijing following through on the threat of retaliation, china ordering the u. S. To close the consulate in chengdu and comes after the foreed closer of a Chinese Mission in houston. Sharon chin the asian bureau chief, how big of a disruption is it between the two countries . Sharon i mean the whole dispute over the consulates, the u. S. Asking china to shut its houston consulate and china asking the u. S. To shut down its consulate in chengdu has en a severe reaction and the worst theyve taken in the last few years. Here it was immediate, people on the ground expressing support for the chinese government. There was a lot of security on the scene in front of the consulate in chengdu and a
Good morning and welcome to daybreak era. Lets get to the stories that set your agenda. President biden calls on israel to let in more aid into gaza or bring the u. S. Military to boost humanitarian assistance to the territory. President biden im directing u. S. Military to establish a temporary period in the mediterranean on the coast of gaza. And to receive large shipments and temporary shelter. Kriti fed chair Jerome Powell telling congress the central bank is not far from the confidence needed to ease policy. Right here in europe, ecb president Christine Lagarde signals the bank may cut rates in june. It warns tiempo geoPolitical Risks should not be ignored. I want to quick check on the markets. Weve got the geopolitical situation coming up of off of President Biden in his state of the Union Address overnight. What that means for futures is a little bit of positivity right here in europe. Euro stoxx 50 future desire. Ftse 100 higher. Lets cross the atlantic where you are not seeing
Director. Kahina here kahina present chair. Ekin here. Ekin present. For the record, i note that director hinsey is attending this meeting remotely. Director hinsey is reminded that she must appear on camera throughout the meeting and in order to speak or vote on any items places you on. Item number three the ringing use of cell phones and similar sound producing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. The chair may order the removal from the meeting room of any person responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone or other similar sound producing Electronic Device places you on. Item number four approval of minutes for the november 21st regular meeting. Thank you directors. Are there any changes to the november 20th one minutes . Yes seeing none, well open Public Comment for anyone in the room on the november 20th one minutes. Seeing none, please open a remote at this time. Well move to remote Public Comment not to exceed a total time of ten minutes. Members of the publ