Got to come away with something hes got a very very narrow majority in the countrys parliament he doesnt control the senate so certainly he will want to return to islamabad with something tangible out of his meeting with President Trump to be able to shore up the position of his government like in washington thank you. Im still ahead on the program set for an unprecedented majority in ukraines president followed him as a lengthy snap election gamble pays off. On burning anger in the philippines thousands protest against president bush rico to take his state of the union address. So we got a really ramping up across western parts of europe at the moment might see want to see records broken over the next couple of days the air being pushed in from the south quite a bit of cloud here just tumbling across scotland down into the north sea running across scandinavia pushing down into the low countries and that will make its way further east with will be some showers and thunder pools certain
A gun but now has caused a sensation by becoming the 1st colombian to win the Tour De France well have more from the town he grew up in. The low im terry Martin Thanks for joining us china has held a rare News Conference to address the unrest in hong kong this comes after another weekend of clashes between police and antigovernment protesters the chinese Central Government blames the turbulence in hong kong on what it calls irresponsible forces in the west attempting to stop chinas development the protests originally started in opposition to a bill that could see hong kong urse defendants hong kong defendants extradited to Mainland China for trial heres what beijings spokesman had to say. You leave. As quite a few hong kong residents know little about the situation on the mainland and its legal and judicial systems they may have doubts about the proposed amendments so some individuals and media organizations with syria motives have been scam mongering based on these doubts to struggle
In he is the author of three books , attorneys ofrrow the dammed, and to oneill and the democratic century. Tonights talk will center on his third book, about Richard Nixon. Its a biography of the 30 37 37th president of the United States. He was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. Join the program, please us in the atrium for book signings. Please join us in welcoming mr. Pharrell to the program. [applause] thanks very much. That was terrific. Thank you. Groucho marx used to say, after that kind of introduction, i can hardly wait to hear what i have to say. Its a great honor to be at the smithsonian because at a time when history and may be objective knowledge is under the smithsonian is this great, wonderful institution, asset that we have, and today i was reading through the Smithsonian Magazine website and they had this marvelous story ofut how the black curator an africanamerican museum in virginia got together with the white curator of the museum of and togethercy, they set down o
Seen an auditorium like this draw an audience. It is a slow news cycle in south asia. We are very excited to have Vardhan Shringla here to give remarks today. I am going to start with a few housekeeping items before introducing the ambassador for 15 to 20 minutes and then we are going to move to a moderated lunch including q a from the audience. We would like to leave some time for this interactive discussion. But we do have some heritage product on the us relationship. This has been a big priority for the Heritage Foundation, for myself, for the Us Government and just last night, modhi 2. 0, moderating differences, consolidating looked at the reelection of Prime Minister modhi, reviewed some of the progress and some of the remarkable progress in us relations during modhis first term and looking at the second term and was we can expect in terms of opportunities and challenges. Here at heritage we are organizing a big conference on india us relations in october, september of this year i
Now theyre getting paid their full salary. And a good salary still feeling secure were getting our full cellar is now ok but we cant be sure that will be the case next month there are 1400000 people working for the government and Public Sector in the semiautonomous region of Northern Iraq they watch their paychecks shrink or disappear beginning in 2014 thats when the war with ice will began the price of oil plummeted and the federal government in baghdad cut budget payments to the Kurdistan Regional government austerity measures were implemented and workers paid the price with reduced salary. The dispute has been resolved the new Prime Minister who came to power this year says the estimated 10000000000. 00 thats owed to Public Sector employees will be paid although hes not given a timeframe the government says unemployment has dropped from 14 percent in 2016 to 9 percent so far this year theres more confidence among people like businessmen come out aga he develops residential and comme