Frustration over thailands electoral system. We start in afghanistan tens of thousands of people have been displaced following days of heavy fighting between Government Troops and taliban fighters in the south of the country it began on saturday at 8 agencies now say that hospitals are becoming overwhelmed. The fighting is in Helmand Province and centered around the regional capital lashkar gah the u. S. Has been carrying out air strikes to defend Afghan Security forces its the 1st Major Taliban offensive since peace talks with the Afghan Government began last month and it could complicate the United States plans to bring home remaining forces by christmas lets go live to work kabul contre foolery joins us from there whats happening right now in Helmand Province. Well adrian it seems that the fighting that began just a few days ago doesnt seem to be winding down in the last few hours weve been getting reports from local sources that several Afghan Security outposts around the last car
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Youre watching Worldwide Exchange on cnbc top of the morning to you in for Brian Sullivan today kicking off this monday morning with stock futures indicating declines. The nasdaq up about 48 points as you can see but the nasdaq composite overall over the last two days has seen some of that positivity posting a 1. 5 gain with the help of blowout quarterly numbers from amazon. Com, facebook as well the latter coming off of a gain of 10 peculiar on friday for the best one day performance since march 13th of 2020 you can see apple shares over the last couple of days in the green. The major averages coming off their fourth straight months of gains. The s p 500 seeing its best july since 2010. You can see here 20 gains for the dow industrials. 26 gains for the s p and the nasdaq up 40 just over that span alone now in yields they continue to hover near historic lows ticking slightly higher to 54 basis points or. 54 ten year note yields around 11 basis points and the 30 yearlong bond on that t
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Law and we are delighted today, to have jim zarin here at the law school to celebrate his book. Plaintiff and chiefs. And we will have the format of our team anthony carl who will ask questions of jim. I would like to just introduce jim. He is fundamentally a trial lawyer. His book flames and chiefs, is he trial lawyer news book. Theres an Opening Statement that theres evidence by category and relevance a sneak closing argument. Jim has always been a superb trial lawyer. We met first in 1968, would we both will criminal prosecutors at the Southern District. Jim about my age arrived about 18 months earlier and he by the time, was already a start litigator and prosecutor. In those days, the prosecutor news office in the Southern District was small about 50 lawyers in the Criminal Division. We wash each other and we learn from each other. And jim was my mentor. He took me out of my first trial. Prosecution of young men letters from a mailbox five of them. I think he was a guilty verdict.