There is quite a lot going on in the markets mainly because of the threshold that markets crossed yesterday. Lets have a look at what that means for european stocks and even the global stocks rally pausing. We did have the best monthly gain in three decades. Investors awaiting a lot of Economic Indicators that could support the. Rally in risk assets. We have Consumer Confidence and of course personal income. We did have a gauge of asia pacific shares gaining. Above 45 alding barrel, and i also wanted to show you bitcoin and a second, because they were also, you know, within a sliver of a record high for bitcoin. At 19,130. It now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. France will gradually start using its lockdown from sunday. Museums will follow suit from december 15, but restaurants will remain closed. President Emmanuel Macron says vaccinations could start at the end of december or in early january. M
Than 2016 correct . Visualize thenot rise of donald trump in the transformation of the Republican Party we started this book back in the obama era. We had a sense that baker was a character who would help us to write a big story about washington as well has as well as his own personal story. From watergaten to the end of the cold war and james baker is in the middle of that. Host was an easy prey . Did he easily agreed to be interviewed for the book project . Wast at this point, he willing and ready for some of the l2 write a biography about him. Some ready for amebody else to write biography about him. He was open and cooperative. He didnt put anything off balance. He was very generous with us. Host what was it about him personally and about his stellar career in washington and before that that initially you to talk to him . Guest i think we realized we were delighted to realize that no one had done an independent book of history about him. When you think about it, baker has a unique
Life and times of james baker. In Susan Glasser, welcome to washington journal. Let me start with a question about the idea of doing this book on james baker. This obviously predates the 2020 election, but this is earlier than 2016 correct . Visualize thenot rise of donald trump in the transformation of the Republican Party we started this book back in the obama era. We had a sense that baker was a character who would help us to write a big story about washington as well has as well as his own personal story. From watergaten to the end of the cold war and james baker is in the middle of that. Host was an easy prey . Did he easily agreed to be interviewed for the book project . Wast at this point, he willing and ready for some of the l2 write a biography about him. Some ready for amebody else to write biography about him. He was open and cooperative. He didnt put anything off balance. He was very generous with us. Host what was it about him personally and about his stellar career in was
Lukashenko, and protests and nationwide strikes. Welcome back. We begin with a growing number of calls in a number of muslim majority nations for french products to be boycotted. This comes amidst growing anger at what president Emmanuel Macron said after a schoolteacher was beheaded after showing caricatures of the prophet muhammad. At the ceremony, the president vowed to root out what he called islamist separatism and added this country will not renounce caricatures. In the days that followed, we have seen protests, french products pulled from supermarkets, and perhaps the most vocal of all has been the turkish president , heard on erdogan. President erdogan muslims are subject to a Campaign Similar to the jews in europe before world war ii. That is the turkish president s beginner. Doug herbert to tell us more. Doug the issue is political, needless to say. In erdogans case, there are some who say he is essentially weaponizing Muslim Identity. You have Muslim Identity usurping turkey
Not kovach. We were introduced i tom, local scribe here years ago and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms ofbackground and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just wanted to give you background before ron and istart speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead end her, i know hope as they were called. Its the average lifespanwith 18 months for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was the game changer. The advent of penicillin, they had surgical units right behind the battlefield, right behind the front line and they had better evacuation back to the mainland. So by the end of world war ii we do have a cohort of about 2500 us veterans who are paralyzed and returned home and they had a chance at a normal life and this was the first cohort that was going to have this and it presented a dilemma and a bit of an issu