Hello, well have all your sports including usain bolt back from injury and back to his best at the Diamond League meeting. Well have the rest in todays news. Hello after four years of reluctance turkey has been drawn into the battle against Islamic State in iraq and the levant. They have launch airstrikes before entering syrian and iraqi air space to carry out those attacks. The police have carried out security raids as part of an operation spanning 13 provinces. Suspects are now in custody including workers from the outlawed kurdish party. They said they will not makes a distinction between the two groups. Isil has been blamed carrying out an offensive that killed more than 30 people. Well lets go to the border town tell us about the latest strikes were hearing about. Well, lauren, these are local media reports that are saying that f16 fighter jets have taken off from an air base. This is the same base that the f16 took off last night took off in order to bomb isil targets. Now, eyewi
Hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. 0ver welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Over the next 30 years, africa will experience a transformative population africa will experience a tra nsformative population explosion. Will it be for good or ill . That depends on whether africas nations can deliverjobs, depends on whether africas nations can deliver jobs, housing depends on whether africas nations can deliverjobs, housing and infrastructure to enable 2 billion people to thrive. It is in a pre sedans and leadership challenge. Mike yesterday as former nigerian president 0lusegun 0basanjo. Might guest today. He has just published a blueprint for african prosperity. Does governance in his own country inspired confidence or scepticism . Inspire. Form of resident 0lusegun 0basanjo, welcome to hardtalk. Former president. Stephen, it is a pleasure to be with you here again. Well, it is nice to have you again. Let me ask you a simple question. Is the potentially explosive populati
Over the next 30 years, africa will experience a transformative population explosion. Will it be for good or ill . Well, that depends on whether africas nations can deliverjobs, housing and infrastructure to enable 2 billion people to thrive. It is an unprecedented leadership challenge. My guest today is former nigerian president , 0lusegun 0basanjo, who hasjust published a blueprint for african prosperity. Does governance in his own country inspire confidence or scepticism . Former president , 0lusegun 0basanjo, welcome to hardtalk. Stephen, its a pleasure to be with you here again. Well, its nice to have you here again. Let me ask you a very simple question, is the potentially explosive population growth were going to see in africa over the next generation or so, is that the continents biggest challenge today . If you asked me what is my greatest worry about africa, i would say demography. The other problems, leadership, governance, corruption, lack of adequate infrastructure. They a
Hello im Richelle Carey thank you for joining me a mass trial of more than sixteen hundred suspects is under way in nigeria Rights Groups warn theyre being denied due process. Catalunya high court asked for extra protection from Spanish Police as pressure grows on the regional president not to declare independence. And in washington a war of words between President Trump and a key republican senator. Turkeys president has described the u. S. Decision to suspend most basic services for turkish citizens as upsetting the phrase in response to the arrest of a u. S. Consulate employee in istanbul accused of links to last years failed coup and immediately imposed tit for tat measure suspending its own bases services in the us particle hain reports from washington d. C. After the arrest of a worker at the u. S. Embassy in ankara and a warrant issued for another the us took the unusual step of saying they would stop issuing visas for some turkish nationals traveling to america the first explan
To run below our objective, a mild undershooting of the Unemployment Rate considered to be normal in the longer run could help inflation, could help move inflation back to 2 more quickly. Second, a stronger job market could also support labor market improvement along other dimensions, including greater labor force participation. A third reason relates to the risks associated with the constraint on conventional Monetary Policy when the federal funds rate is near zero. If inflation were to move persistently above 2 , or the economy were to become noticeably overheated, the committee could readily increase the target range for the federal funds rate. However, if inflation were to remain persistently low or the expansion were to falter, the fomc would be able to provide only limited amount of additional stimulus through conventional means. These motivations notwithstanding, i continue to believe that it will be appropriate to gradually reduce the degree of Monetary Policy accommodation, pr