A new round of a decades long struggle for power between pakistans military and politicians the opposition says the military is helping the government in ways it shouldnt but focused on is this just politics as usual this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program im in wrong car now obviously not the pakistani Prime Minister but we will be talking quite a lot about him because pakistans opposition seems to be directly challenging the powerful military establishment saying it has too much political influence leaders of the 2 main opposition parties and smaller groups came together in a slum bought on sunday to form the Pakistan Democratic Movement it plans nationwide protests against military involvement in politics Prime Minister imran khans party denies getting help from the army to win the election 2 years ago. Pakistans Army Generals have a long history of political meddling since its foundation in 1947 pakistanis have spent more than 30 years under military rule and it has had
Broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is our chief International Im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. Right now the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has said moscow has nothing to hide in the case and follows a conclusion by germany that the russian opposition figurehead was poisoned with chemical nerve agent. We have already commented on this and said we have nothing to hide a soon as alex in the valley fell ill the plane was grounded and necessary measures roomie julie taken this soon as he was transported to germany those who were demanding information from russia went silent and did not demand anything from berlin this is all following the same old scenario we hear public accusations against russia and the official requests to berlin from a Prosecutors Office have so far going on onstott we were promised today that we would soon receive response as soon as we get the facts we will react accordingly this is all reminiscent of what happened with the sc
Welcome to the hudson institute. Ein senior fellow at the institute of we are here to talk with Christian Brose whose new book, the kill chain, is in the future of hightech warfare that Christian Brose just released. Chris is a former staff director for the Senate Armed Services committee an and prior to that e Senior Policy Adviser for senator john mccain and previously held other positions in the government. Right now he is the chief surgeon to build capabilities for the military as well as for the department of homeland security. We can talk about that as we go through the interview. But thank you for being with us today. So, just to start off, what led you to do this but i know youve been thinking about these issues for a while and obviously something that you have encountered during your time onn the surface kennedy and senator mccain is the policy adviser. But what was the genesis of sitting down and writing the entire book . Guest its a great question i ask myself constant const
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Quickly. And staying strong. The worlds top iron ore prices are among the highest out of china. Shery lets get you started with another check of how markets are trading at the moment. Futures underu. S. Pressure as stocks fell to the lowest level in two weeks. We are seeing it down 0. 7 . Than 2 ,00 lost more same for the dow and the nasdaq. The dow losing more than 700 points. We had the sharp increase in virus cases, adding to economic anxiety. So risk off positioning was very strong last week. We did get positive data over the weekend, signs that the chinese economy is continuing to recover and profits rebounding in may for the First Time Since november. Take a look at what oil is doing because it continues to fall. Actually, we saw a second week of declines, the second weekly decline since april. We continue to have these lower prices after a cautious rebound, now headed towards 37 a barrel for wti. We also had chesapeake filing for bankruptcy in the u. S. , one of the biggest vict