Normalize relations between isra and the arab nations. Also middle east policy goals for t Biden Administration challenges posed by irannd the israelipalestinian conflict. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome David Rubenstein come present of the Economic Club of washington, d. C. Welcome everyone, to our ninth virtual signature event of our 35th 35th season but its really not completely virtual because for the First Time Since covid has hit we are actually having live guests here today and its because its a special program and i want to thank our live guests for coming in at participating and a unique programor us because we have been doing everything virtual for almost nine months now i guess it is but our guests are here to talk out something very special, the Abraham Accords which assigned at the white house on september 15 with hea of each of these countries as well as President Trump eating there as the official host. Let me introduce our guess and i will make some announcemen aft
Themselves going to quarantine to. Get to know that. We are. There so strange times will try and guide you through it best we can hide their money is kevin owen here they are to International World news center with his 30 minute live update for you from moscow and theres the fallout from the coronavirus continues to sink in it seems tonight the contingency plans are not stopping Financial Markets from plunging Worldwide Americas dow jones index has dropped another 10 percent within moments of wall street opening up on monday earlier i discussed was driving markets to the brink of collapse then right now with our senior correspondent. Well the zuni one way this is going and it is going down look at yourself in a matter of weeks the Dow Jones Industrial average this is this is an average of many major corporations so an index of their stocks the average it is plunged to levels that we saw that the world was out in 2070 so over the course of a few weeks weve raced all economic progress ma
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From the darkest moments. In the midst of this historic storm of the people of texas have responded with their very best. This could well be texas finest hour. Drain to the damage could wreak havoc on the busy travel season. Gas prices hitting a twoyear high as the nations largest field pipeline runs from texas all the way into new jersey, new york city even with temporarily shutting down its main fuel line from texas to new york because of outages. Turning to tax reform, President Trump calling on congress to get to work when they return to washington next week despite the push to many polls say americans are not confident lawmakers will get anything done. Futures are showing this in your market. Dow futures up 72 points. Much to miss them. Weve got the good reading on secondquarter Economic Growth coming in at 3 yesterday. The dow up 27 points yesterday and had he not at least the start of the last day of trading in august. Europe stocks higher across the board. Case in england, fran
And thats saying a lot. Hes also been at nasa since 1979 and he knows what nasa is all about. Jim. Thank you very much. [applause] i think we have a wonderful International Panel this morning and i will introduce each of our Panel Members. The first one is sayyid and sayyid is part of the Strategic Planning team to mars and his duty is to make the uvs journey to mars will be sustainable, leaving an everlasting effect. He is also the cofounder of a Youtube Channel that aims at making science and Technology Accessible to our use in that area. That has been quite successful. Site. [applause] next, the on he works at the Mission Operations for Integration Center of Human Spaceflight Technology director in japan. He received his degree in the Space Systems engineering special design of an intelligent controller or an economist walking robot under a microgravity environment. He is currently in charge of the japanese human and nonhuman expiration as the main lead in the Architectural Design o