Breakfast at st. Anthem chej in manchester, new hampshire, live over on cspan 2. You can watch online at cspan. Org or listen live on the free cspan radio app. Next, a discussion on the political situation in afghanistan, and the role that taliban and other power brokers like the u. S. , china, russia and pakistan may play in future peace arrangements. From the Brookings Institution earlier this week, this is just over an hour and a half. Welcome. Im mike owe han lon briefly playing the role of mc to say hello and welcome you before i hand it over to tom bowman. Tom is a very distinguished and accomplished npr reporter. Thrilled that he would join us. He spent time in the field in afghanistan, embedded with u. S. Combat units and other parts of the broader effort there that no of course is approaching the end of its second decade. Before i hand the baton to him ill introduce laura miller, who was the acting special representative for afghanistan and pakistan at the state department, ha
Very briefly putting the role of mc just to say hello and welcome you before i hand the baton to tom bowman of National Public radio who will be our moderator. Tom is a very distinguished and accomplished npr reporter, also really thrilled he would join us. He spent ape lot time in a field field in afghanistan and elsewhere embedded with u. S. Combat units and other parts of the broader effort there that now is approaching the end of its second decade pretty soon. Next to tom and beforehand the baton to them i will just entered is my copanelists Laurel Miller who was the acting special representative for afghanistan and pakistan in the stick up romcom numerous other jobs in that capacity and that organization as well, has been at the Rand Corporation subsequently where she recently completed a coauthor 200 page study study on age proposed afghanistan Peace Agreement written as as a simulated or perhaps model agreement that parties themselves could perhaps consider because even though w
S p is now down 2. 25 the nasdaq is off by 40 points that happened after news that we heard from beijing that well tell you about in a moment Interest Rates are a huge part of the market story. Yesterday we saw the inversion of the twoyear and the tenyear yield. So shortterm bonds are paying more than longterm bonds. Historically this is considered a recession warning sign check this out the 30year bond this morning is now yielding below 2 . This is the first time in history weve seen the 30year below 2 1. 99 . Tenyear is yielding 1. 557 . The twoyear is yielding 1. 54 lets look at what happened in markets overnight in asia. Things got a slower start there. The nikkei was down out of the gate it ended down by 1. 2 . In china, stocks are stronger. Shanghai is up by a quarter percent. The hang seng up by three quarters of a percent. In europe, there is active trading taking place, you are seeing some red arrows across the board. The biggest decliner of the three major averages would be t
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Is happening now in the middle east, what is the situation in israel and in the gaza sector, which is experiencing powerful bombing and a humanitarian catastrophe, from the scene, our correspondents. Well, now well tell you in more detail about these and other news, but a little not in the format that you are used to, and both of them will be heard in our conversation one way or another, our guest is the leader of the communist party of russia nady zyuganov, we welcome you, hello, dima, we havent met for a long time, im very glad to see you, especially since im also very glad to see you in the studio, probably an oldtimer, you and i held the most negotiations here, on the russia24 channel, not the most, not the most guarded, of course , but thank you, Gennady Andreevich, by the way, here is your newspaper, release, its true, i immediately saw the word budget there, its probably worth discussing with you right away, the Main Financial document, we have it for 3 years. Not just for 3 yea