Thrilled to be partnering with politico. All the events and activities that are happening this week. The state dinner is great but it also about substance. Bilateralns in the discussion. We are very excited. Be the first state visit with a hashtag. We looking forward to a terrific week. You can follow the conversation on twitter. You can tweak questions for the moderators. I would like to welcome politicos editor Susan Glasser. Susan good afternoon. Im delighted that you are all here. We have such a terrific panel. Those people who have labored in the vineyards of u. S. Canada policy issues. People are at paying attention. Senator amy klobuchar. Has been working on this issue for 10 years. John iversen who is a columnist for the national post. He is a political expert. Delighted to have him with us. I cant think of a better group of people. Please join me in welcoming them. We already have jumped right into our conversation backstage. A lot of panel discussions. Most of them actually d
So here we are at the end of a long week here. It was a very long week. So you were of course i was in switzerland. I was covering xi jinping but lets talk about the markets since we are hooking at a big rally yesterday with the Dow Jones Industrial up 29 points. The implied open is telling us the s p 500 is up 9 points. Dow jones is higher by 30 and the nasdaq called up by 80 points. Lets talk earnings and so many of them and big names coming out after the bell. That includes amazon. Amazon. Com surprising investors with an earnings beat thanks to stronger sales when it comes to the Cloud Services unit. The stock was up some 12 in after hours beating its all time high from late july. We take a closer look at the numbers. Amazon turned in Earnings Results that really blew past analyst expectations sending the stock up after hours. They turned in revenue of 25. 4 billion. Thats better than 24. 9 billion expected and wall street was looking for a loss of 13 cents. Got a profit of about 1
Practice the first amendment, we could become victims of that darkness. Thank you bob. [applause]. I going to stay and sign some books now . Yes, absolutely. Thank you. A book tv is on instagram, follow us for publishing news, scheduling updates and behind the scenes pictures and videos. Instagram. Com book underscore tv. Ronald numbers, did isaac newton discovered gravity. Yes he did. But he did not discover it from being hit on the head with a falling apple. And that is the story that has circulated for centuries, that that dramatic episode in the garden triggered his thinking about gravity. He wondered wondered why does the apple fall straight down. It makes a great story. A friend of his started circulating it, it is conceivable that apples happened but it is very unlikely that newton developed the theory of gravitation either watching an apple drop were being hit on the head of an apple drop in. Thats a little bit more dramatic right . Getting hit on the head. But the stories in t
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Christians have been abducted in recent days by is militants in the northeast of syria. The face of indonesian anger in australia over the planned execution of two convicted drug smugglers. The shameful Global Response to mass atrocity. Amnesty International Say ss they put National Interests ahead of human rights. Well talk to the head of amnesty. Welcome to the program. Aide workers have expressed outrage at the slow pace of rebuilding gaza six months on between the seven week conflict between the militant groups. They say at this rate it will be three more decades before it is rebuilt. 2,220 palestinians were killed as a result of the hostilities in july and august. 1, 1,486 civilians, many children. 67 Israeli Soldiers were killed during the conflict and five israel soldiers lost their lives. Our reporter is in gaza and there for us now in the neighborhood. Reporter it lies not far from gazas border with israel and 61 days after war ss of war it bore the brunt of artillery stricks