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briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. and you can be part of the conversation, tell us what your spotting online tell us what you re spotting online and why the stories you are watching, just use the hashtag bbc the briefing. world leaders are gathering in france today to push forward plans to tackle climate change, agreed in paris two years ago. french president emmanuel macron will lead attempts to find billions of dollars pledged to help emerging economies end their reliance on fossil fuels. us president trump will not be there, he pulled his country out of the agreement injune, the only country of 195 to do so. andrew plant talks us through the day. arriving for a dinner with the french president, former un secretary general ban ki moon and his predecessor, kofi annan, arriving in paris for what emmanuel macron has called a meeting of elders. this the evening before the one planet summit, taking place two years to the day since the ....
strategic and international studies and the international security program and director of the defense industrial initiatives group that focuses on defense acquisition and increasingly on what i call the defense trade or the cooperation in the acquisition of the deal with our allies and partners. i m going to introduce the panel and maybe kick off the question and answer session with the group. our panel is divided into two folks that are presenting and will speak to the presentations and other issues. the topic for the panel is finding opportunities to precipitate the u.s. defense r&d cooperation and we have a strong panel to present. on my left recently completed service in the last several months completed surface as the assistant secretary oassistant e research engineering at the u.s. department of defense. he was the chief technology officer of the u.s. department of defense and advisor to the secretary on all matters relating to research engineering until january ....
good morning. thanks for your patience director of the strategy group yen to welcome to this session on american in goal leadership first i want to take they thank you for giving us this base with our members of our strategy group let me tell you about our program this morning the strategy group is 35 years old with the notion that even in washington there could be an organization that is non-partisan we have been resolutely nonpartisan over 35 years the founders meet annually in aspen in colorado to discuss and debate big ideas of america s foreign policy and our global leadership in each year we prepare a book for publication and this year s book is available today that we are discussing today maintaining american leadership. we will discuss the book this morning and with that global trade position about the impact of technology on the global military leadership continuing with a conversation i will moderate between former secretary of defense bill:and madeleine a ....
joining us after the coffee break i hope everyone had a chance to refresh themselves and maybe chat with a new person you ve met today. my name is andrew and i am a senior fellow at the center for strategic and international studies and the international security program and director of the defense industrial initiatives group that focuses on defense acquisition and increasingly on what i call the defense trade or the cooperation in the acquisition of the deal with our allies and partners. i m going to introduce the panel and maybe kick off the question and answer session with the group. our panel is divided into two folks that are presenting and will speak to the presentations and other issues. the topic for the panel is finding opportunities to precipitate the u.s. defense r&d cooperation and we have a strong panel to present. on my left recently completed service in the last several months completed surface as the assistant secretary oassistant e research engineeri ....
tightening is set to hasten? while disney is said to be near a deal for a big chunk of the murdoch empire as comcast drops out of the race. how will sky shares react? we re less than half an hour away from the start of european trading. taking a look at futures. we are looking at gains here in the ftse about a quarter of a percent. much on the continent. it is the oil stocks that are going to be the interesting thing to watch. a big gain, highest level we have seen in 2.5 years. you will want to watch the producers as well. gain is due to the crack in the pipeline and the shutdown. taking a look at treasuries, u.s. treasuries, if you look at the bigger picture is not as interesting. they have not moved that much. 2.38. we are stuck in a range but it does look like investors are buying treasuries today. they are doing the same with gilts and that could mean they might not be to have the cash to put to use of the equity markets. we will see in 28 minutes time. anna: let ....