Introduce and moderate second panel. Let me begin by introducing myself briefly. My name is bill galston. Am a senior fellow here at brookings and delighted to be a small cog in the institution. People,o introduce two bell, for working tirelessly to bring about, and also, our president , john allen, for letting his vast experience and moral authority to our enterprise this morning, and i think it is a sign that brookings is spiritually aligned with the National Service movement. Introduce the question this way. Service is the answer, what is the question . And we have heard, and i think we will hear three different kinds of answers to that question, and it is useful to keep them separate. The first have to do with service as an avenue of personal growth, the expansion, the deepening of character. Actualond has to do with good done for others, service and the roof cents. Sense. He root wheree third, and this is the work of John Richland and bridgeland and john dilulio begins, what are t
Shops actually open. Two people have been killed in a shooting outside a synagogue in eastern germany. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport with jane dougall. Hi, simon. Scotland have kept their hopes of progressing in the Rugby World Cup alive with a nine try win over russia, they will hope to join wales who have officially qualified for the quarterfinals with a win over fiji. And nick miller has all the weather. Gusty winds and showers, we see it all behind you, and that is the picture across much of the uk at the moment. Are there any changes coming 7 how moment. Are there any changes coming up . How is that weekend shaping up . Answers for those questions later on. Some of us have just got to get through the next few hours, nick also coming up, the extraordinary operation to fix this teenagers jaw after it was split in two in a riding accident. Hello, everyone. This is afternoon live. Im simon mccoy. Were live in penzance in cornwall, where were continuing looking taking a lo
730 7. 3 . Of i want to bring you this. What do we have at the start of the year . We are just 52 basis points now. That is probably factoring armageddon. What could possibly be going on in the eurozone to have yields that far out that flow . That is a thought. To new york and join su keenan. With germany,t this is a could muster 55 million in stimulus funding. The governmenth says it spent last time a crisis hit more than a decade ago. And it says it has the reserves to do the same again if necessary. The Prime Minister says action is not needed yet. The biggest problem is uncertainty costs in ongoing u. S. China trade wars. Senior white house advisers fanned out across the sunday talk show circuit to push back at fears of recession here in the u. S. They said the economy remains robust and consumers are still spending. Top economic aid larry kudlow and trade advisor Peter Navarro said there are no additional plans for not staying the course. I sure do not see a recession. We had some
Hello. The United States plans to start withdrawing troops from afghanistan before next yea rs president ial election. Secretary of state mike pompeo describes his directive from President Trump as unambiguous end the endless wars. The afghan war is americas longest, with about 1a,000 us troops still there. Two were killed on monday in an apparent insider attack by an afghan soldier, and although peace talks continue with taliban militants, the chances of Real Progress look uncertain. Peter bowes is our north america correspondent. Peter, what is behind this, would you say . This appears to be a sign that President Trump is becoming increasingly impatient over a lack of progress in afghanistan over the last couple of years, and he has a lwa ys last couple of years, and he has always made it well known that he prefers to, as he puts it, to end these endless wars, and of course, this is currently americas longest war. He would rather be taking troops out and putting troops in all living
Of national guidance. Tommy robinson, the former leader of the English Defence league, is sentenced to nine months injail for contempt of court. And jubilation as england power into the cricket World Cup Final for the first time in 27 years after thrashing australia at edgbaston. And coming up on bbc news. Simona halep knocks out Elina Svitolina to reach a fifth grand slam final, herfirst on grass here at wimbledon. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. British ships in one of the busiest oil shipping lanes in the world have been put on the highest state of alert after a Royal Navy Warship had to warn off three iranian gunboats that were trying to intercept a tanker owned by bp in the gulf. The ministry of defence says hms montrose moved between the tanker owned by bp and the iranian vessels. The montrose issued several radio warnings, and the iranian boats then turned away. Iran has denied that any confrontation took place. But it had already threatened to retaliate after B