At 202 7488003. You can join the conversation by texting us at that same number, also going to twitter cspanwj or facebook. Com cspan. The acting defense secretary outlined the president s decision yesterday. [video clip] by january 15, 2021, our forces, their size and afghanistan will be 2500. Iraq will alsoin be 2500 by that date. With ouronsistent established plans and strategic objectives. Supported by the American People. It does not equate to a change in u. S. Policy or objectives. Moreover, this decision by the president is based on continuous engagement with his National Security cabinet over the month past. Including ongoing discussions with me and my colleagues across the u. S. Government. I have also spoken with our military commanders and we all will execute this repositioning in the way that protects our fighting men and women, partners in the Intelligence Community, diplomatic corps, and our superb allies that are critical to iraqiding afghan and Civil Society. Secretarya
Mccabe grilled on capitol hill yesterday over the russia hoax, defending the investigation. But admitting he would not have signed off on the fisa warrant to wiretap carter page again, the very latest coming up. Markets this morning are rallying. A triple digit move this morning with the dow industrials up 190 points, nasdaq up 120 of, s p 500 higher by 25. This after a mixed day on wall street yesterday where Technology Stocks took a hit and cyclical stocks found new life. We will get into it with the dow industrials up 262 yesterday, the nasdaq down 159 at the close and the s p 500 yesterday down about 5 points. Jobs in america, employers are seeing a growth in job openings that rival prepandemic levels. Where are the jobs . We investigate. Plus, insure your bird, Financial Coverage for the centerpiece of the big thanksgiving day meal making a buzz this morning. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria lets check european markets this morning. We look at a gain there was well. Th
Making history. Shes become the first black woman to stand on a Vice President ial debate stage the night officer, a prime opportunity to energize would be voters. She is the daughter of a jamaican father, an indian mother shes also served as the District Attorneys of San Francisco and then. The attorney general of the state of california. Harris is pointed questioning of the president s appointees in Court Nominees during Senate Hearings and what not have help make her a young star in the democratic born and raised in oakland harriss team predicts she will focus on the president s coronavirus response. They say she will also have the chance to explain her views on Law Enforcement. Area some progressive us have criticized her on as for Vice President pence he aims to highlight the administrations economic record the president has been touting a lot up until the time of the pandemic of course is still so much talk on capitol hill about whats to become of the stimulus package of discussi
Million followers. And Regional Elections take place in germany. The far right afd party are expected to perform well at the polls. Hello and welcome to bbc news. As fires continue to burn in the amazon rainforest, brazils military chief says his government is in talks with four countries offering help chile, israel, ecuador and the United States. The Development Comes just days after brazils government rejected a previous offer of money from the g7 countries. More than 80,000 fires have broken out in the vast rainforest so far this year. Sophie long reports from para state, deep in the amazon. This was once lush rainforest, but now sparse land, a result of deforestation in the years gone by. But this year there has been a massive surge in the number of fires set to clear the trees and the landscape along the bau road that takes us deep into the jungle bears the scars of the blazes that are now threatening a whole way of life. In the bau indigenous village they are preparing for a nami
Time now for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The worlds most pressing and potentially dangerous strategic confrontation is playing out in the narrow waterway between iran and arabia. The United States is leading efforts to isolate the government in tehran. Iran is responding with defiance, despite severe economic disruption. My guest, former British Foreign secretary jack straw, is a veteran of western diplomatic engagement with iran. How high is the risk of calamitous conflict . Jack straw, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Your diplomatic engagement with iran spans two decades, and through that period youve been an advocate for dialogue, for engagement, with tehran. But here we are today, with relations are between the us and the uk and tehran toxic. So is it a story of complete failure . Its not a story of complete failure at all, and indeed, the Nuclear Negotiations which the French Foreign ministers and i got going in the summer of 2003, by fits and starts, laid th