Reproductive health at georgetown millions of dollars to look at the efficacy of fertility beads for Family Planning purposes and there has been evidence now that those do work, they are efficacious and we can fund those as a tool to use to reach our goals in Family Planning. Obviously were going to have a whole lot of other tools. But that particular tool is acceptable by many religious groups opposed to the other tools. And so i think that is one positive story that we might look at replicating. Do we have other questions from the audience . Right here in the middle. Hi. My name is jana carp, im hear from the state department. And it has come up a couple of times in terms of the ebola crisis in west africa but i was wondering if you could speak more generally about the role that faithbased groups could play in pandemic preparedness and response and sort of Lessons Learned from ebola in the past year, two years. Other questions . Again, my name is rosemary, i just go back to the coope
Twitter slows. Hello. Welcome to countdown. I am mark barton. I am anna edwards. In london. Welcome to the program. We begin with the earnings. First quarter profits rising 5. 2 . That is the net income increased. Analysts anticipate a profit of 1. 44 billion. The reason why it has been booted boosted by the purchase of its division in bell john. Belgium. Earnings were boosted by a drop in payments to minority shareholders after bnp body stake in one of its units for three and a quarter billion euros. It is worth noting bp hosted its profits and 08 after setting aside payments to u. S. Economic sanctions. It did say today that talks took place on the matter during the First Quarter. There is still uncertainty on the size of the penalty. Be excluded,annot but it could be significantly larger than the amount provision. That is worth noting. Bas profit rose and exceeded analyst estimates held by the person its of its provision in the elgin. Belgium. And they spoke to bloomberg. Reconsider
That he only got 43 of the vote. Any Political Party in a twoparty system has to shape its message and its product to get a majority of the vote. There are anomalies, of course. We have the electoral college, which can make the difference on the margin. And we can have thirdparty candidates as we had with the perot candidacy when bill clinton was running. Is asking,uestioner he is asking it rather sarcastically but it goes to a good point. As changes take place in the country and people focus on different problems, the job of a party and a coalition of people with strong beliefs is how to apply their values in a way that will attract majoritsupport. How to apply their values in a way that will attract majority support. I dont advocate the democrats give up what they believe in or the democrats but give up what they believe in but i do think its important that if you believe strongly in something and if you are in the political sphere you have to figure out how to make those values conn