Yousef bloomberg sources said this week that saudi aramco earned 68 billion in the first nine months of the year, cementing its position as the worlds most profitable company. That came as a saudi news channel said the aisle the with sharesipo, trading on the local stock is strange. Local Stock Exchange. This is something which has been on the minds of policymakers and Investment Bankers and investors around the world for around three years now. About this delayed once 12, 18 months ago, while aramco was doing the acquisition of a petrochemicals maker in saudi arabia. Two weeks ago, we were expecting aramco was going to announce its intention to kick off this process. That got delayed as the government prepared these numbers you just mentioned, the 68 billion in profit. Now finally, we are expected to see the government and the Company Announced their shale will begin onsale sunday. We are in a tree at we are in riydah where they have some of the worlds biggest investors. There are mee
From the Kurdish Border region. And the u. K. Edges closer to an early election after the Opposition Labour Party throws support behind a prechristmas poll. The lawmakers are still wrangling at this hour over the date of that vote. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome. Tonight, lebanons beleaguered Prime Minister Saad Alhariri has announced he will resign. The move follows almost two weeks of protests across the country, demanding political change. Many lebanese are unhappy with what they see as a corrupt and incompetent political elite. The Prime Minister failed to satisfy demonstrators with his announcement of a series of anticorruption measures as well as political reforms. Today he headed to the president ial palace to submit his resignation. Earlier, we spoke with our lebanon correspondent and we asked him about the fallout from hariris decision. The first action that we saw on the protest square [indndiscernible] they want to tak
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The suspect a white, exair force soldier who was courtmartialed and jail for a year for assaulting his wife in 2012. He was still able to purchase a military style Assault Rifle last year. Well look at the connections between, race, Domestic Violence and Mass Shootings. Then to the Paradise Papers. I intend to be quite scrupulous about refusal on any topic where there is the slightest scintilla of doubt. Amy thats commerce secretary wilbur ross, one of more than a dozen trump cabinet members, advisers, and major donors whose shady business ties and offshore tax holdings have just been revealed in a massive leak of 3. 4 million documents. Well speak with coauthor of the Paradise Papers story, Frederik Obermaier all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas, a gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic Assault Rifle on a sunday Morning Church service in the small town of Sutherland Springs, killing 26 people an