Program. The paris has been engulfed in renewed unrest over a controversial security bill Police Used Tear Gas as the situation spiraled out of control theres been huge anger over plans to protect Police Officers powers and surveillance with more from the french capital here is shot it with. Small weve had huge tension the same in paris in the last hour where we have seen a number of what i would describe this action grabs by the police its obviously much more organized not youll have members over the skew gee force is going to the crowd and rapping you know that they think of causing trouble perhaps likely to lose trouble you saw one man dragged from the crowd by the offices that followed tensions were such a moving story that this is a very sad she is ready to in fact at one point. To gases being used directing from aeroshell springs x. The protests we saw many people trying to get away from that and suffering the impacts of sea gas. Well i just want to give you a sense of how big th
Increased the sway of neighboring iran and militia groups aligned with tehran. As u. S. Soldiers head home, they could risk leaving the field to americas adversaries. For some analysis on this, lets bring in ben hodges is a retired u. S. General who is currently holding the persian chance to teach these of the center for european policy analysis joins us from frankfurt. General, its been nearly 20 years, isnt president. Right . That its time to close the chapter on afghanistan and iraq. Well, if theres 2 aspects of this, of course, i do not like the way that this has been done, and apparently without consultation with all of our allies whove been with us there for almost 2 decades from the very beginning that have lost the way the americans have lost casualties as well as money. So i dont like that. And of course the consultation that has to be done with the afghans. On the other hand, millions of americans are racist to see this terminated. My only sense is that if the United States w
And italy was the 1st country in europe to be hit by the pandemic, suffering one of the highest death tolls. Now the country is struggling to cope again with the 2nd way. Plus germany is soccer team saw 1st, its worst defeat in almost 90 years. Its 6 nil loss to spain in the u. S. , our nations. Theyve asked some questions to the future of culture. Often look, im going to Office Welcome to the program. The United States says its sharply reducing troop numbers in afghanistan and iraq. By mid january, the deployment will be cut to 2 and a half 1000 soldiers in each country present on all trump is making good on a companion promise to end what he called for as a wars. But theres opposition, both from leading republicans and from nato allies. The sun could be setting on the us presence in afghanistan. American soldiers have been fighting here since 2001, helping stabilize the country after overthrowing taliban rule, but suffering over 2000 deaths over time. Troop numbers have winked. Now o
Says its forces are closing in on the capital of the rebellious teen grier region in a conflict that has cost hundreds of lives and forced thousands more to flee. Im told me all of it will. Thank you for joining me. U. S. Drug giant pfizer and its german partner biotech have applied for emergency authorization for their Coronavirus Vaccine in the united states. The vaccine has performed well in initial safety trials. And based on that, the u. S. Food and Drug Administration could grant permission before testing is complete. If it does, the 1st dozers could mean administered next month for many people. The Severe Health and Economic Impact of the pandemic mean a vaccine could couldnt come soon enough. A small pub with a big history. 60 years of the albatross pub in california, once hosted intellectuals of the Free Speech Movement in the sixtys. Today, its shutting down for good jude to the coronavirus pandemic where people, everybody hang out. Public spaces is a community space. Its, a
Begin with the oracle of omaha well start with the trimming of apple shares hes got more than 900 million we totally get it. Its not like buffetts bailing on apple in any way. It did sell about 36 million shares what is this, do you think is it simply Portfolio Management i think thats exactly right, scott. Its Portfolio Management. Apple being one of the most liquid stocks in the world on any market he could have sold a lot more than that if he had wanted to. So this is just, look, the stocks had a great run, hes pairing back a little bit, got a lot of cash. What i found kind of surprising is that with that much cash, actually not surprising but confirming on the value of the market is that he really hasnt made any big acquisitions. Hes only said hell only buy his stock if he cant find anything else to buy they scooped up 9 billion of their stock in the last quarter. They continue to buy back a lot of stock i do wonder even at the margins, ty any, if this is in any way a statement tha