Room. Our going to introduce Panel Moderator and let him theyduce the panelists so can introduce themselves. I am very pleased to introduce the director of the heritage foundations Margaret Thatcher center for freedom. His key areas of special place of specialization include the United Nations and the role of Great Britain and europe in the u. S. Led alliance against international terrorism. He was recently named one of the 50 most influential britons in dailys. By the london telegraph. And a leading authority on transatlantic relationships, he has advised the executive branch of the u. S. Government on a range of issues from the role of International Allies in postwar british. Britain leadership. His policy papers are widely read on capitol hill where he is regularly soughtafter. He received his doctorate degree from yelp universe from yale university. Let us welcome him and the rest of our panel today. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to todays event. Thank you everyone for joining u
Foundations Margaret Thatcher center for freedom. His key areas of specialization include the United Nations and the role of Great Britain and europe in the u. S. Led alliance against international terrorism. He was recently named one of the 50 most influential britons in the u. S. By the london daily telegraph. And a leading authority on transatlantic relationships, he has advised the executive branch of the u. S. Government on a range of issues from the role of International Allies in postwar iraq to u. S. British leadership. His policy papers are widely read on capitol hill where he is regularly soughtafter. He received his doctorate degree from yale university. Let us welcome him and the rest of our panel today. [applause] good morning, everybody. Welcome to todays event. Thank you everyone for joining us in such extremely cold weather. Really cold weather. It is more like moscow and washington. We will be talking about the russians later. And we have two superb washington foreignp
London, this is bbc world news, its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1 am in london and 8 00 in the evening in washington dc, where donald trump is preparing for his inauguration on friday, as 45th president of the United States. The ceremony on capitol hill is expected to draw Hundreds Of Thousands of spectators to the nations capital. The celebrations have already begun, with a huge Open Air Concert at the lincoln memorial, not far from the white house, and donald trump addressing the crowd. It is a movement that started. And it is a Movement Like we have never seen anywhere in the world, they say. There has never been a Movement Like this. And it is something very, very special. And we are going to unify our country. And our phrase, you all know it, half of you are wearing the hat, make America Great again. Cheering and applause. But we are going to make America Great for all of our people, everybody. Everybody throughout our country. I promise you that i will work so ha
London, this is bbc world news, its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, 1 am in london and 8 00 in the evening in washington dc, where donald trump is preparing for his inauguration on friday, as 45th president of the United States. The ceremony on capitol hill is expected to draw Hundreds Of Thousands of spectators to the nations capital. The celebrations have already begun, with a huge Open Air Concert at the lincoln memorial, not far from the white house, and donald trump addressing the crowd. It is a movement that started. And it is a Movement Like we have never seen anywhere in the world, they say. There has never been a Movement Like this. And it is something very, very special. And we are going to unify our country. And our phrase, you all know it, half of you are wearing the hat, make America Great again. Cheering and applause. But we are going to make America Great for all of our people, everybody. Everybody throughout our country. I promise you that i will work so ha
It was 2157 at the beginning of the week. It has gained 11 points this week. Anna lets get some more details. Nejra cehic joins us. Nejra good morning. Asian markets seem to have not got the memo of caution we saw in the u. S. Session. If we look at the msci asiapacific index, trading higher, the topix recovering the slide on a weaker yen. 111. 46. The house vote on the Republican Health care bill delayed today but this does have bigger implications not just on policy but on the trump trade as well. We could ask if the market is getting ahead of itself with the optimism today. The nikkei up 0. 9 . Gains in china 20. Gains in china too. Speaking of the dollar, snapping sixlongest losing streak in years. If we look at dollaryen, 111. 45, the yen weakening for the first time in nine days. The bloomberg other index is still heading for a weekly decline. We have seen quite a bit of dollar weakness since the beginning of the year. Just to dig a little deeper, it has been in a trading range r