Process of nominating him as their candidate for president. The russian leader wont even be attending that event. Some will see that as a sign that hes pretty confident. Theres now very little standing in the way of his re election in march. Virginia langeberg explains. He has spent almost 18 years in powerand is a manfamiliar with a grand entrance. However on this occasion, Vladimir Putin is expected to not even turn up to his own nomination event. Some have read that decision as a sign of confidence, but the kremlin says the president has a prior engagement. Today marks the official launch of Vladimir Putins president ial campaign. He runs as an independent and has until the end of january to collect 300,000 signatures to register his bid. There is little doubt he will be re elected. There are no strong arrivals are now that Alexei Navalny has been formally disqualified. The Central Electoral Commission deemed him ineligible because of the corruption conviction which he says is polit
The discussion is three hours. Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Thank you for your patience. Im nick burns, director of Aspen Strategy Group and welcome to this session on American Global leadership in the 21st century. First, i want to thank dla piper for giving us the space is horny. We very much appreciate that. I want to thank all of you for being here, members of our Strategy Group, in particular senator dan of alaskan who im honored to interest you in a minute. Let me tell you about our program this morning. We at the Aspen Strategy Group are 35 years old. We have this radical notion that even in washington there can be an organization that is resolutely nonpartisan. We have been resolutely nonpartisan for 35 years. Our founders are bill perry, joan i, a lot. We meet annually in aspen, colorado to discuss and debate big ideas about america foreignpolicy and our Global Leadership in each year we hear a book based on our proceedings for publication in this years book is availa
A very warm welcome youre watching r. T. International broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and making erin i would start this hour with breaking news from on r. T. North and south korea have agreed to march together under a unified flag at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony there will also be a joint into korean womens Ice Hockey Team holding to a statement made by the representatives of pyongyang and seoul following todays talks between the two countries south and north korean officials met for a third time in the space of just a few days to discuss peace efforts meanwhile the western allies of the nine hundred fifty s. Korean war have gathered in canada for separate talks on the Current Crisis with a seemingly different approach. The pressure came continue until north korea takes decides to do nuclear i think. Is to send out a very clear message that we want to intensify that pressure it is not the time to pressure. Career the surest path to peace is to keep threateni
Risk is the education of half a million children one point seven million million food insecure people may not get food and cash the un condemns washingtons decision to slash its aid for palestinians. Ethiopia releases the first batch of Opposition Leaders arrested following political unrest two years ago. Catalonia is new parliament sits for the first time facing the threat of renewed direct rule from the druid. And fairest smile be here with all the days sport including rafa nadal continues his march toward a seventeen round i dont know in melbourne. For the first time in its history the un agency which provides funds for vulnerable Palestinian Refugees says it faces a challenge in meeting its mandate to Trump Administration is confirmed its withholding half of the one hundred twenty five Million Dollars it was going to give the body established in nine hundred forty nine is the United Nations longest running humanitarian Program Providing a lifeline for some five million palestinians
U. S. Economy over the next five years, and pay some 38 billion in repatriation taxes. Good morning, everybody. It is thursday, we had another record breaking session in the u. S. With all three major indices making gains of more than 1 during the session lets look at the picture in europe and see how things are trading there. Were off to a good start as well not as strong as we were about an hour ago, but still trading positive on the day, up 1 or so, thats a far cry from the plus 1 gains we saw across all three major indices in the u. S the nikkei coming off its 26year high, down 0. 4 in the session. Lets switch to european indices. Ftse is lagging a bit, down 0. 2 this is while the macron and may meeting is taking place. Well get there shortly. Willem is there. Cac cac is in the green, and xetra dax leading the charge its a big day for germany theres the bundesbank imf meetings taking place. We heard from wideman and well get into that. Switching to sectors, the leader this morning