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And putin and the most expensive games in history hours away. Im in australia and why the berry industry here refers to their products as white gold. Three years of fighting in syria finally a glimmer of hope for the besieged city of homs and the continued violence on what was once a major city is now a pile of rubble and has been referred to as leading the battle against Bashar Alassad the capitol of the revolution and reduced to rubble with just a few people, maybe as many as 3,000 still in the city, trapped in many of the old parts, extremely dangerous of them to move around and we understand at the moment they are gathering, waiting for the first aid to come in. No sign of that yet. We have been told it probably wont happen even though the convoy has moved out of damascus until saturday. And homs has over a Million People and battleground in the civil war and launching of ....
Thank you so much. We will get back to hans in a short while. Bp, good news for bob dudley. Deal where they will be allowed to bid for government contracts in the gulf and in the gulf of mexico. They were banned from doing business. That has been overturned. Litigation continues in terms of the clean water act. News, because it allows bob dudley, this is one hubss four key geographic where he wants to produce oil. For theirry important reputation and business. Very lucrative contracts coming. Lets get to ryan. He is at downing street. He is meeting u. S. Secretary of state john kerry is in london and meeting with his russian counterpart today. Plenty of 11th hour conversations as western leaders tried to convince Vladimir Putin to stand down ahead of the vote on sunday. It kicks off at the british Prime Ministers office. He will be receiving the u. S. Secretary of state any m ....
Im guy johnson. And i am francine lacqua. Coming up, a bloomberg exclusive. We speak with the South African finance minister as a nation sets to go to the holes. The army in ukraine has become an operation to retake ovyansk. Pressure is reporting that two helicopters have been shut down and one pilot killed. Down and oneshot pilot killed. Heather, can you give us the latest on the situation, visavis the offensive . Day. Re protests on labor the situation here has become increasingly tense, as you mentioned. There was an antiterrorist operation by Ukrainian Forces to slovyansk. We have had two statements, one from the interior ministry saying this operation started about 4 30 a. M. Today. They have circled the town, taking control of nine roadblocks as interior minister and the head of the National Guard and the defense ....
Provinces. They give me a better feel, and actually get a better feel than the embassy gets. Whether our government will be able to continue working with them, i dont know. Its going to be the difficulty of getting out there. Ch and thats a serious problem. Thats why i so much encourage, you know, helping the ngos in afghanistan, whether its on oversight or green issues, health issues. Because theyre the ones with the eyes and ears. Theyre out there. Theyre community based. Thats what were going to have to rely on. And were toying with an idea to yutz the ngos. To be our eyes and ears to monitor programs. Thats more difficult. Tths not the gold standard. We have to, who is watching the watchdogs . Who is going to watch the people, you know. So thats a whole process that we have to do. We have to deal with the ngos. We cant forget them. We cannot forget an independent press. Let me just be clear here. The reason the reason chicago organized crime and the al capons and the mafias did not ....