Gentlemen, the new james of ukip, diane we are waiting to bring your Donald Trumps comments live at this luncheon in houston to speakers included john jerry coffee come a prisoner of war in vietnam for seven years. We will bring you as much of this as we can until donald trump arrives. Please remain standing for the playing of the National Anthem and invocation given by the colonel. The official party for todays ceremony, the honorable ashton carter, the 25th secretary of defense, and francisco was the next city to become a sanctuary city in 1989. They called it the city of refuge ordinance. Didnt that sound nice . Then come in your city the same year became a sanctuary city with executive order 124. A part new York City Police officers from calling the inf directly and telling them about illegal aliens they encountered. Byt ordinance was reissued mayor bloomberg and the blase of deblasio. As they prevent Police Officers from asking a person if he is an illegal alien, even if all the e
He and other p. O. W. S used to communicate. Every night they tapped out goodnight and God Bless America from their cells to each other. When you knew the man in the cell next to you was down and hurting his feet locked and ankle cuffs at the foot of the concrete slab come his hands cuffed tightly behind him, he had been like that for a week or a month, you get up to your wall frequently and you tapped to him gb and he knew that meant god bless. He knew that it also meant to be tough, hang in there. I am praying for you. And then in a week or a month or whenever hed be up on his wall to encourage you in the same way for example on the p. O. W. Flag, never forget, never forget. Never forget. We all came out of that prison experience as stronger men. In some ways it was like cramming a doctorate degree into those years in prison. I would like to leave you this morning with a p. O. W. Message. At the end of every day we would sign off and say goodnight. G anne for goodnight. Gba. God bles
Allowed to hold in formal religious services in their homes. Because if there is a one single nonofficial member of their religious community present in that apartment or house, or whatever, then they will be engaging in missionary activity. And the Russian Courts have already gone to town against several individuals in various parts of russia for engaging in russian missionary activity. One and a american baptist, mormon missionaries have been denied permission to come because they allegedly do not have the proper kind of documentation. The first was tried and acquitted is the only one that was acquitted. But anyway, with that restless, hopefully not too confusing overview of the situation, i close. Thank you. In the interest of time i want to go back to some things i want to have plenty of time for audience questions. One of the things that we talked about, all all of you have pointed to the internet, and i want to get your thoughts on that. In 2014 they also passed a bloggers law wh
This distinguished panel today on a really important set of laws and facts in russia that unfortunately we havent heard much about in the american or western media. The Atlantic Council patience has been very if gauged to highlight the increasingly repressive regime under putin and russia going from the corner of the civic space, the media space and increasing pressure on human rights under putin. Today we hosted approximately 20 events to highlight these issues on russia. The Atlantic Council worked closely with what is considered the emerging or consistent russian opposition in russia tod today. We are really proud of this work and this is part of highlighting some of these works and trends first of all societies, religious groups, and Internet Freedom in russia. So i would like to introduce our panel. The senior director for russia and eurasia is to my left. He has a ph. D from Boston University and developed a Civil Society state for many years and thank you for being here. Next to
German Business Confidence for the months of february is at 105. 7, a touch below what economists had forecast. 00. 6. D a figure of 1 its below expectations. As we are seeing yesterday with those pmi numbers out of the eurozone. We are seeing a little bit of crunch as weakness in the Global Economy is starting to affect the european region and germany as well. 1. 1028. See euro at we are getting breaking news out of christine lagarde. We will monitor the news we get from her purchase talking about the gcc countries. Stocks falling overall globally. Over renewed concern over the strength of the chinese economy. Stoxx 600 down 0. 2 . The shanghai composite was led lower by a lot of the financial and industrial companies. After the central bank in china weakened the yuan. The pound declining. Crude slumping. Lets get on to the second board. Rick off mo risk off moved. The pound had to do with brexit. I want to show you two stocks that reported earnings. Cutting its dividend. Standard cha