Of higher Interest Rates. Ill have more in a moment. Human eggs have been grown in a laboratory for the first time. And carol has the weather. Good morning from the roof of broadcasting house in london. Broadcasting house in london. Will cross the rest of the south east. South east. Some wintry showers, most prolific in the north and west. Most prolific in the north and west. Some of them will be over lower levels and heavy. Levels and heavy. We will see when 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. Of the Winter Olympics in south korea. In pyeongchang shortly to watch the event. Allegations have lost a last minute appeal to take part in the games. Our correspondent, Stephen Mcdonell reports. After years of preparation, the pyeongchang Winter Olympics is here. Pyeongchang Winter Olympics is here. The venues are ready and the spectators are pouring in. Spectators are pouring in. The political manoeuvres being played out of these games. Played out of these games. The Opening Cere
Thrashing. Stocks jobbing the most since august. The euro soaring the most in five years. Manus the question is, this is yesterdays move. A rally about 3 . The biggest move since 2009 when the fed said they would buy 300 million off the treasuries. The question i am asking is, is this euro drop me euro rally debt . Bed . Dead . Anna we have the jobs report of the u. S. How week with that number have to be to keep the fed from raising . Manus we go for an Unemployment Rate of 5 . Yellen has given us the curtain raise. Anna lets get a first word news. Slipped the euro has the most since 2009. Investors shift their addition attention to the rate hike. It was versus the dollar yesterday. Sachs has goldman called for the euro to plunge not go as planned. They predicted a dovish surprise for mario draghi would send the euro tumbling. Robin brooks is now rethinking his entire week euro thesis. Today was not a most fun i have had he said. Opec ministers prepare to meet indiana to decide out th
Our panel on the history of terrorism, new avenues of research. So we areroundtable, each going to speak for five to 10 minutes, somewhat informally. We will talk about specific aspects of our research. Introducer,ator and i will be the most general in my comments. Of timewill have a lot i am anticipating over an hour to talk amongst ourselves and to take questions and comments and feedback from you this a fully, experiential, interactive exercise as we proceed. My name is randy law, i am a russian and soviet historian by , but i have been working in the field of terrorism for a decade or more. The project that brought us together is an edited volume done by the routledge history of terrorism. Large reference work that i was interested in putting together as something that would be comprehensive. That would read as a cohesive book, not just a collection of articles. During the writing of it, contributors share their chapters with each other, there was a good bit of dialogue back and fo
It was great to hear from the journalists about their relationship with jim. One of the advantages to having this many press secretaries together is that they agreed to hold a background briefing to go over some of the planning reports in detail. There has been allusions to a glass of water to. I hope the document proves us to be conservative estimates. Everyone has made reference here today about jim and sarahs work when it comes to gun safety and gun violence. Our next two speakers are people who have lived in the trenches on this issue over the last two decades and have made a difference in a terribly difficult and divisive issue. Dan gross is the president of the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence. Before that, he started the center to prevent Youth Violence and has devoted much of his life to the cause. Gail hoffman, who many of you know, was central to putting this event together, has been at this since the late 1980s with handgun control, was the point person for all of us i
Like Lyndon Johnson but he was active in Foreign Policy debates, very active in the discussion about vietnam, algeria, the soviet union. He also did something kind of interesting. He chaired a special committee to determine the five best centers in american history. This is a committee that Lyndon Johnson created for himself, who tired of it and cant of the candidate. So in some sense this is the one project kennedy was in charge of during his Senate Career. He took it very seriously. Acquired all of the greatest historians in history in the spend some seven months digging into this, came up with a list of the five greatest centers and was something that became a part of his identity of being a young politician but also someone very steeped in american history. What came out of that . There was robert taft and robert for the to 20th century ones, but the big ones were john calhoun, daniel webster, henry clay in the precivil war era. So kennedys committee quickly decided on the top thre