[applause] thank you. Sit down. Sit down. Thank you, everybody. That is very nice. I have a massive cold and that makes me feel better today. I feel more well with that nice introduction. Thank you, mayor martin. He asked what should i say, and i said whatever you say, make it short. We have a lot to cover here. You referenced to we have with us, but i want to thank all the folks here, such as fantastic job every single day bringing Educational Opportunities to kids and adults here in stamford. Up toyou for opening this representatives Carolyn Simmonds and thank you for being here. I want to get right to the meat of this. Im sure you have loads of questions about what is happening, what has happened and i want to answer them. About a lot ofay things, but i get the foundation of it, we talk about the rule of law. We are going to talk about the very simple idea that has been at the root of this country since our founding that no individual, and matter how powerful, no matter what title s
Syria and iraq with the command of the u. S. Central command, i am pleased to have him on the program. Welcome. David thank you. Charlie tell me about the trip and what you saw. This, as you suggested, the first time a centcom commander has done this in six years. This is a very unusual opportunity for me and other reporters to travel with the general, the commander of centcom, in that role as overall of the war in syria and iraq against isis. This is the First Time Since i think 2010, roughly, that a centcom commander has taken press with him. Under general austin, a predecessor, that was out. They did not want the press tagging along. He decided the American Public needs to know more about the wars, if people are going to understand and support them, so he decided to take a salon, not just take us along, not just to baghdad or kurdistan, but into syria. We were not allowed to disclose going. E were we were not allowed to file anything until we had gotten out of the country, and we we
We will look at his legacy and possible political wrangle to find a replacement. And turkeys president launches another attack on germany accusing german m. P. s of being terrorist sympathizers after they voted to recognizing the killing of armenians 100 years ago as a genocide. Welcome to the program. We begin with an alleged plot to unleash a wave of terrorist attacks at the european football championships in just five days. Sporting venues were targeted along with mosques and synagogues. The alleged aim, maximum mayhem and loss of life. Ukrainian Authorities Say they have thwarted this plot, arrested a french rightwing extremist and confiscated an arsenal frightening in its destructive capacity. Reporter hidden camera footage of the suspect shows him packing a small bandwidth explosives. Ukraines Security Services says it has been following the frenchman since december after he made contact with armed groups with the aim of buying weapons and explosives. Special forces detained him
Syrian forces are making their dance. Tens of thousands are trapped. First, a fry right far right extremist market launchers was planning attacks during a major football tournament in paris this week. That is according to the security president in the ukraine. They arrested a 25yearold frenchman identified as a far right person from ukraine, planning to attack mosques, synagogues, and government buildings. I spoke to david stern ngf. In kiev. We dont know what has been announced by the ukrainian services, the head of the services. This was greeted in some circles with skepticism. We heard accusations of this sort not of this sort but of accusations from security services. Domestics are going into great detail. He was caught on the ukrainian polish border at the end of last month. They are only announcing now what exactly he had, which was around 125 kilograms of explosives of tnt, thousands of rounds of ammunition, antitank grenade launchers and detonators. He was planning on carrying
Expected. 0. 6 percent. Down still waiting for the dax to open. And at the minute, into looks like the reaction so far, here we go cac down more than 1 in fact but not as much as the 2 some people were predicting. That is how equity markets are opening across the board. What was seen so far is a theme of classic, risk aversion. The euro at some point, during the greek crisis, kind of treat like a safe haven but not happening today. We see it hit a sixmonth a lower versus the dollar. At the moment, pretty much flat. We were seeing a drop my moore earlier. Moving on to gold, traditional safe haven asset, up more than 1 . We have seen as rise the most in a month today. Also, of course, the other safe haven asset money moving into is bonds. U. S. Treasuries, seeing them rise earlier, yields coming down of course before the European Market opened. You can see yields on the french and the german 10 year as well. By clicking muted the to the german bond and you can see the 10 year down well,