Welcome to hardtalk. I am stephen sackur. There is something distressing about the revelations of sexual explication and gross misconduct inside one of the worlds best known humanitarian aid organisations. Oxfam is at the centre of a storm of investigations. Now the entire aid sector is under scrutiny for safeguarding failures which appear to go back decades. My guess is amira malik miller. She is an experienced aid worker who experienced misconduct first hand and is now prepared to speak out. So what went wrong and why . My guest. Amira malik miller, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You work for the swedish government. But how expensive is your experience of aid work in the field . I worked in the humanitarian assistance sector for over 15 years. I have been based in liberia and west africa. I have done a lot of work in sudan. I have travelled extensively. I have had a lot of experience and travelled extensively and covered some of the worlds biggest humanitarian crises over the past 1
Im stephen sackur. There is something especially distressing about the revelations of sexual explication and gross misconduct inside one of the worlds best known humanitarian aid organisations. Oxfam is at the centre of a storm of allegations of abusive behaviour, shoddy recruitment, and management cover up. Now the entire aid sector is under scrutiny for safeguarding failures which appear to go back decades. My guest is amira malik miller. Shes an experienced aid worker who experienced misconduct at first hand and is now prepared to speak out. So what went wrong, and why . Amira malik miller, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. You now work for the swedish government youre based in stockholm but how expensive is your experience of aid work in the field . Well, i worked in the humanitarian assistance sector for over 15 years. Ive been based in liberia and west africa. Ive done a lot of work in in sudan. And ive travelled extensively. Ive had a lot of experience from hq but travelled extens
Amended. Yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk h. R. 4547 a bill to amend titles 2, 8 and 16 to improve and strengthen the representative payment program. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 396, the nays are zero, zero recorded as present. 2 3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore the ouse will come to order. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20 the Unfinished Business is agreein
And finally, 1 00 p. M. Time, the u. S. Treasury is set to auction 24 billion in three year notes. Jonathan thank you very much, david. And an uncomfortable market. The s p 500 finished yesterdays session unchanged on a record close. Joining us from hong kong is sean darby. And of course, allen russ kin of fx research. Much has been made on the vix and the s p s. Give us your thoughts and your initial takeaway. Weve got a period where real bond yields have been turning negative in most of the developing markets. Thats been accompanied by a fall in the dollar and the background got a resurgencing global trade. So its a pretty Perfect World for the economy and for equity markets. I suspect why weve had such a low reeding on volatility measures over the last couple of weeks. Jonathan whats interesting about this is people often come out and say this is a sign of complacency but realize its also very low. So isnt this just a case of the market being right . I think the markets have actuall
And welcome to power lunch. Stocks are cutting their earlier losses the dow was down triple digits, but the s p 500 having its worst day since may 17th tech, materials are leading the declines as you see by nearly three quart oers after percent me slay . Here is what else is happening at this hour Steve Scalise undergoing his third surgery after being shot yesterday. He remains in critical condition. The senate stepping up sanctions against iran and russia. The house needs to vote on it. More and more ceos speaking out, urging President Trump not to reverse u. S. Policy on cuba. The president is set to speak about it tomorrow. More on that story straight ahead. All right, thank you very much, melissa. Lets kick it off with your stock story of the day and that is the all mighty Amazon Company in the headlines again as a report surfaces that amazon might be willing to pay up to 9 billion bucks for the messaging app slack. Now along with much of tech lately, amazon is down today off about