Arabia says it will lift its ban on women drive us is not a sign of wanting to reform in this notoriously conservative kingdom. On the European Commission office new proposals to fix the a use migrant crisis but the bloc remains thus divided as africa. Plus well bring you an exclusive report on the fight against al shabaab in somalia civilians are paying a heavy price in the struggle to defeat the jihad ists thats on top of the hardships of first teen years of civil war. And name on code take home as they get champions munich a professor face big spending power resounds among the highly anticipated Champions League clash. Im phil gayle welcome to the program. An overwhelming majority of iraqi kurds have voted in favor of independence from iraq announcing the results of mondays referendum the Kurdish Election Commission said that the vote to secede had been backed by more than ninety two percent of the referendum took place in iraqs autonomous kurdistan region as well as disputed areas
Troops to retake control of the kurdish region will a vote for freedom leading to a future of war also coming up saudi arabia says it will lift its ban on women drivers but is there more behind the wheel here could have more reform in this new tory asli conservative kingdom be just around the corner and the rise of the robots automation threatens every half of all job say experts but could it also change our lives for the better. Off its good to have you with us tonight iraq is faced with the question of keeping the country together it comes after kurds in the north of the country voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence a kurdish authorities. Over ninety two percent of kurds backed independence in that referendum that was held on monday but iraqs Central Government in baghdad refuses to respect the result it has threatened sanctions against the kurds and that could put them on a collision course with a newly confident nation in wait. There were euphoric scenes among iraqs kurds a
Largecap tech is lagging the overall market gains. We see the dow perform the best. One of the reasons the dow is performing so well today is indeed walmart. Seeing a gain of 5 on that forecast for ecommerce sales to rise 40 in the next fiscal year in the united states. Walmart has been making investments in ecommerce for years and it looks like now they are finally starting to pay off. At the expense of amazon. Amazon seen as a big competitor walmart and analysts im putting alibaba up here as well. Those shares also rising today. Amazon the market cap of versus alibaba. We last saw alibaba as larger than amazon market cap wise in mid2016. Alibaba with larger than amazon market cap. We will keep an i on this metric to see if that trend is continue. We are watching oil prices, which have been supportive of break stocks, in particular drillers. Crude oil pushing closer to 51 a barrel as we hear from the opec chair saying we see an expansion in the number of countries signing on to the Pr
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, one. Of morning. The Committee Meets to receive testimony on the u. S. Government policy strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyberspace. To begin id like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues and our Cyber Security subcommittee. This hearing builds upon the good work that they and their subcommittee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a challenge that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident, Cyber Attacks against our Government Systems and Critical Infrastructure, data breaches back compromise Sensitive Information of our citizens and companies, attempts to manipulate Public Opinion through social media and of course attacks against the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. Those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries, both state and nonstate actors view the ent