the question is on the nomedz en bloc. -- nominations en bloc. all in favor say aye. all opposed say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nominations are confirmed en bloc. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the en bloc consideration of the following nominations -- executive calendar 590, 591, 643, 644, 682, and 683. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report the nominations en bloc. the clerk: nominations, department of justice, norman euell arflack of kentucky to be united states marshal for the eastern district of kentucky. ted g. kamatchus of iowa to be united states marshal for the southern district of iowa, michael t. baylous of west virginia to be united states marshal for the southern district of west virginia, daniel r. mckittrick of mississippi to be united states marshal for the northern district of mississippi, david g.jolley of tennessee to be united states marshal for the eastern district of tennessee, thomas m. griffin, jr., of south carolina to be united states marsh

korea was a problem in side the communist bloc as well. policy makers today like to dismiss north korea as a pawn of china or a lunatic place. the reality is north korea has its own history, values, its own ideological precepts. what you can take from the pueblo is that a country's -- they have to be taken seriously on their own merits. until policymakers start to do that we are likely to have the same kind of unsuccessful efforts we had with the play below -- peublo. susan: going back to the story of the capture, you said there were airplanes involved. were they flown by russian pilots? mitchell: we have gotten access to the soviet bloc security. none of their allies knew about it in advance. none of their allies were consulted. we now have records of soviets and east germans and others being furious publicly attacking the north koreans for this. they thought was a terrible idea, really risky, at a time when they were trying to focus on the vietnam war. togave the u.s. an excuse escalate involvement in south korea. they were irate about t

mitchell: we have gotten access to the soviet bloc security. north koreans did not talk to anyone about this. none of their allies knew about it or were consulted about it in advance. we have records of the soviets and east germans farriers -- furious, publicly attacking north koreans for this. risked giving the united states american involvement in south korea. soviets are trying to get information about what is happening inside north korea in the 1960's. they can't get information because the north korean officials won't talk to them. we think of north korea as a black hole for information for the united states, and it is a black hole of information for their allies as well. mitchell: 83 crewmen were on board? susan: one of them tragically killed. what was life -- susan: what was life like for them? mitchell: horrible. for the first couple of weeks, they were beaten and tortured mercilessly. beaten with clubs, forced to sit on radiators, terrible things in order to get confessions out of them. they wanted to humiliate the united states. famil

to terrified of it all depends on the trust in the issuer we can see the example set by the voting bloc in theory it's backed by the whole venezuelan economy but no one has faith in the body of aa because nobody believes what the government says. that that may be true but maduro at least claims that venezuela raised seven hundred thirty five million dollars on the petro his first day of pre-sale where in fact the president is so enthusiastic about it that he's already announced another crypto currency that petro gold is slated for launch next week it'll be based not on the country's oil reserves but its gold. order. every morning her into a cut thomas sets off on a job that requires speed and efficiency the two things that india's overstretched roads do not provide her into works as a delivery man near delhi for e-commerce logistics firm shadowfax he has to deliberate dozens of packages a day on time to customers in hellish traffic. another problem is finding addresses in india's many unplanned settlements encodes house numbers and landmarks are often inaccurate and confusing. the mothe

representatives have repeatedly emphasized however that the bloc doesn't view the situation as a potential trade war. that greece continues to struggle to clear up a scandal involving pharma giant no vomitus prosecutors have been investigating the swiss company for over a year it stands accused of bribing high ranking politicians to smooth the way for expensive sales and fast approvals for its medicines in greece now the country's parliament is also getting involved the affair has provoked furious reactions in greece where many blame corrupt politicians for the country's economic woes. kentucky fried chicken customers in the u.k. were left disappointed after the fast food chain was forced to close most of its nine hundred outlets because it was unable to get fresh chicken delivered the first food chain recently switched its delivery contract to d.h.l. which clearly had some serious logistics problems neither k.f.c. nor d.h.l. went public with the reasons for the shortfall. it's called petro and is meant to help pull venezuela out of its endless crisis. on tuesday the country's president ni

plans to expand the bloc east towards designed as a move against various global powers. this is about shutting russia out and indeed to some extent china as well from this region in order to make a monolithic e.u. stroke western bloc serbia is the key to this because serbia is the only country on the list which really needs persuading and the reason why it needs persuading is because the price of e.u. membership for serbia unlike the others is incredibly high serbia would need to be persuaded into allowing its profits of course are on the front here to be converted into a second albania and no serbian politician would want to be responsible for that a lot of the serbians realize very clearly that. in essence the e.u. is offering serbia the chance to lose good relations great trading relations with many economic blocs in return for having good relations with just one. an iraqi violinist who risked his life by playing music while living under islamic state says he was trying to inspire most school residents to resist i mean mokdad lived for two years in the terrorist contr

union currently has twenty eight member states seven countries are waiting in the wings to join the bloc five of them are so-called candidate countries that means they have already applied to become members and started negotiations with the e.u. and four of them are in the balkans montenegro albania serbia and macedonia and then there is turkey where negotiations have stalled two more balkan states bosnia and herzegovina and kosovo haven't formally applied but they are still potential members even as those nations hope to join the bloc they're also looking to avoid mistakes of their balkan neighbors already in the e.u. still at odds over border disputes. fishing in troubled waters every time a zero jump ship heads out to sea the gratian fisherman is met by police forces from neighboring slovenia. in brazil but what about because we're always accompanied by the croatian police so that the slovenian police can't do anything can't arrest us. when we cross over this border. were threatened with fines of up to forty thousand euros. slovenia and gracious have been at odds over the maritime and

the question occurs on the nominations en bloc. all in favor say aye. all opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the nominations are confirmed. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration and the senate now proceed to s. res. 385. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 385, supporting the observation of modern trafficking -- and so forth. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate now proceed to the en bloc considerations of the following senate resolutions which were su

more successful in sports than the west bloc. mind you, in rio, the usa won 121 medals. and the next country was at 60. and the american women, if they were a country, they would have been the fifth most successful nation on this planet. >> from john in del rio, texas, republican line, you're next. >> caller: yes. i was curious. what if the north korean athletes decide to defect? do you have something set up for them? >> yeah, another good question. this happened during the cold war routinely. and so east german and romanian and soviet athletes would go on an international competition. what happened then, my sister was an olympic figure skater during that time, in 1968, in grenoble, france. i remember that it was an amazing amount of security forces with those athletes. i also remember during the cold war that all of these athletes had families back home, and they would be scrutinized if their family members would have been defecting. nevertheless, many did. i think that, first of all, it's a small delegation that north korea is

if the bloc does not play ball on trade. ♪ manus: welcome to "daybreak." catch-up coming back. you've got hong kong back in business. still liquidity at the tail end of holiday season. you've got teachers rising. you got london up by 12 points. morgan stanley saying that the -- blackrock saying the u.s., you should buy stocks. yen is showing slightly more risk-off level. stocks are generally higher. you are going to get swedish cpi today. you get euro area consumer confidence later on. there is one focus for markets. that is the bond issuance. you've got breaking news on the hotels. anna: intercontinental hotels reporting numbers this morning. they are up by 4%. for is just a pretax, $274 million. it is a little light on the revenue side. etf,t full-year adjustment 2.446. we're speaking to the ceo, keith barr at 7:30 u.k. time. other breaking news. that is an understatement. melrose industries talking their performance. this is the business that is bidding for the engineering company. melrose industry staying on the topic of the k -- gk is in need of funda

is offering serbia the chance to lose good relations great trading relations with many economic blocs in return for having good relations with just one and so i mean we should recognize that serbia has several suitors on the global stage it's got china it's got russia it's got japan it's got the arab world it's not just about the e.u. and survey has been doing very well well for more on these and plenty of other stories to get to r.t. telecom otherwise i'll be back in just over half an hour but the headlines see that . local blogs sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings peace to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battle. to do stocks credit tell you that because it's exactly the same. as the tell me you pull it out and it's like. these are the hawks that we all have our good. when lawmakers manufacture come sentenced to public wealth. when the room in clusters protect themselves. when the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. going or middle of the room signals. going to bring real news real world. hey everybody i'm stephen bob. taft hollywood guy you kn

is offering serbia the chance to lose good relations great trading relations with many economic blocs it would turn for having good relations with just one and so i mean we should recognize that serbia has several suitors on the global stage it's got china it's got russia it's got japan it's got the arab world it's not just about the e.u. and serbia has been doing very well in recent years thank you very much from this kind of universality of for attention so really there's not much in it for serbia to replace all of that with just the e.u. which is run essentially by countries which have traditionally in the past showed results of the not very friendly to serbian interests to say the least marco always great to get your take him marco gas to international affairs commentator thank you thank you. russia's envoy to the united nations has told the security council session that moscow believes the process for investigating chemical attacks in syria has been sabotaged with the latest from new york killed not. the u.n. security council convened a meeting of the fifteen member body to discu

is offering serbia the chance to lose good relations great trading relations with many economic blocs in return for having good relations with just one and so i mean we should recognize that serbia has several suitors on the global stage it's got china it's got russia it's got japan it's got the arab world it's not just about the e.u. and survey has been doing very well. russia's envoy to the united nations has told a security council session that moscow believes the process for investigating chemical attacks in syria has been sabotaged with the latest from new york. the u.n. security council convened a meeting of the fifteen member body to discuss investigations into chemical attacks in syria the russian ambassador took the floor and emphasized that these investigations shouldn't be politically motivated and there shouldn't be any presumptions of guilt or he also emphasized that throughout the entire investigation the syrian government was fully willing to cooperate with the investigators but their willingness to cooperate wasn't really taken into account come up a. little syria has

human -- you mentioned a on thecant dollar bloc fixed income landscape.tion is we should have another $80 billion or so. this is a significant part of the landscape. we have done a lot of research. whether we are looking to maximize returns or minimize risk, we have discovered that adding a significant proportion of debt reduces risk. we are obviously very excited about the prospects for the region. yousef: we are looking at a few graphics as well that we put together on the basis of your research showing the composition of some of the outstanding emerging market allocations. you say chronically underweight. why is that? events because of happening like the anticorruption probe in saudi arabia? with that noise gone, could not bring back some of the money? is it sentiment or something more fundamental? dino: i think it is more fundamental. the news flow is difficult for some people. you mentioned the corruption but generally speaking, you have negative geopolitical news that comes out of the region. there is a strong association with oil and prices are vol

said negotiator has warned that plans for a period of transition to a person's withdrawal from the bloc will be at risk michel barnier says substantial disagreements with person object are the missing london's plans for a transition period of around two years after it for me in the e.u. in turn dealing team also rejected criticism from britain's brics it minister david davis who described proposals to sanction britain if it breached e.u. rules joining the transition as discourteous it was. the position of the european union is very logical from my point of view by asking to enjoy the advantages of the single market the customs union and common policies the united kingdom has to accept all the rules the obligations until the end of the transition that's only logical but also has to accept the electable consequences of its decision to leave the european union to leave its institutions and its policies considering this disagreement to be quite frank transition today is not a given if these disagreements persist the transition is not a given the syrian government warplanes are continuing to

singapore miguel francis santiago caught up with a former mexican president to discuss the future of bloc train technology. as a token economic botching forum in singapore was in its last day i managed to catch up with mexico's ex-president has sent a fox to saga who was very keen on bringing people together with block chained to knowledge my poor. if we keep not. a concept we do hans and we do it better through you know vision and good knowledge that are needed in one's in reserve more we're going to be one what makes it more united states. the warden to revere would be more which stronger why did you choose to become such an active participant in it this means being open my eyes it's like discovering their world began their world banking they were look people to reduce ball but keep the great need. to create a better world we need to move fast many people is getting desperate i will say that the world of the sort of there is growing faster than the world of warfare and this just a potential conflict for the future according to the un four billion people live without an address including

jumped to sharply last year while the bloc imported only marginally more from the u.s. the use resulting trade surplus rose seven percent more than one hundred billion euros. u.s. president donald trump highly critical of the trade imbalance has accused the europeans of unfair practices saying e.u. import tariffs in many sectors are higher than those imposed by the us. posted losses of four point five billion dollars last year this as the on demand taxi service has a real from scandal and legal troubles including shareholders ousting c.e.o. travis colonic last june optimistic after improved fourth quarter results new management says the company is still on track for an i.p.o. next year. this conspicuous structure is actually a mini market located in a commercial district outside beijing it's fully automatic there's no staff stores like this are being touted as markets of the future the idea is simple customers use an app to access the store locate products and pay for them. there are security cameras watching the store. for customer shop. without paying the customer ser

table as a possible increase in contributions to plug a budget shortfall off to britain leaves the bloc next year before that summit the e.u. commission is hosting high level talks on fighting terrorism and stemming migration through africa's region and the looking to boost support the deployment of the silk or g five sahil joint force and that's a security initiative set up by mauritania burkean a fossil mali and chad security in these countries is threatened by extremist groups and criminal networks. in brussels barbara visa is across the summit and joins me now hi bob or first of all why is the e.u. focusing so much of its foreign policy attention africa region. because the european union has understood and rita that what happened since the hill affects europe it has understood this since the streams of migrants were crossing for instance nigeria or going to libya and then going from there to italy so that is one aspect but they also know that this is a political black hole this whole huge region full of desert and scrub land that is more in this uncontrolled because there is no gove

everybody knew that jeremy corbyn was sympathetic to the communist bloc and wanted to promote dialoguehing he does. we need to know more. there are questions to ask for 0xfam. they were and are invented the before the commons select committee. 0xfam hits with new sex claims. 26 potential new allegations emerging. 7000 regular donors have stopped giving money to 0xfam but we we re stopped giving money to 0xfam but we were hearing earlier that is out of 400,000, were hearing earlier that is out of a00,000, maybe it is not that devastating for 0xfam. the chief executive said it was 3.5% of his donors. this is an extraordinary story. the basis of course, the times initially broke the story a fortnight ago, they started talking about the 2011 report, all about sexual misbehaviour in haiti. that had just been buried. by burying that report it seems that now everything is coming out. it is a contagion that is going through the entire charity sector. this is extremely distressing. entire charity sector. this is extremely distressinglj entire charity sector. this is extremely distressing. i fin

merkel's bloc has reached a deal with social democrats to form a coalition government.eople familiar with the matter say the social democrats will run the finance, foreign, and labor ministries. get defensec will and economy. the deal and a four-month stalemate. in the u k, prime minister notesa may's cabinet will agree on brexit plans this week. the march deadline for agreeing on the terms of the transition phase now look optimistic. the proposal for the future customs relationship with the european union is not close to being ready. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am taylor riggs. this is bloomberg. vonnie? tonie: coming up, count down shut down. the house passes short-term spending plan. hopes are still high that a longer-term budget agreement can be found before the critical deadline. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: live from london, i am mark barton. vonnie: from new york, i'm vonnie quinn. this is "bloomberg markets." lawmakers are attending the passage of every spending bill that would avert a gove

stamped out anything remotely critical of the soviet bloc. if the if greens got they wear the european half of the atlantic lines would have become detached as it would have effectively lost the protection of the american nuclear umbrella. in short, the west would have lost the cold war. for the german greens being on the wrong side of the cold war turned out to be a career enhancing move. by 1997 there were nine red green coalitions at state level in germany and in 1998, the first red-green coalition was formed in berlin two years later the german parliament passed the renewable energy act. by giving tariffs to the most inefficient renewable technology put germany on the fight energy insanity. the law was not included in a party man fess city. the mps didn't know what was in the bill. by overrewarding solar, germany had more solar can't unanimous nye country any world and unleashed a solar manufacturing naomi china. where germany led, the rest of europe followed. german insistence, european leaders agreed and extending the energy policies to

vowed to serve another four year term despite growing concern that criticism within her conservative bloc many contend that she granted too many concessions in a coalition deal but the center left social democrats to end months of political gridlock on sunday she shot back saying it would have been irresponsible to let the negotiations collapse the social democrats rank and file have to vote on the coalition deal on march fourth. the chancellor stepping out to defend the coalition deal specifically the key foreign and finance ministries going to the social democrats it was the only way she says to stop the talks collapsing. you can smell it of course i also find it painful i would like to have kept the finance ministry but it's what we decided politically and in the coalition agreement and the finance minister cannot just do whatever he likes to. merkel also address the question of staffing within her own party to have the many calls for fresh talent perhaps surprisingly the chancellor agrees with that. through this and i'm not going to have to make sure that we keep in mind not just the

the telegraph leads on claims prominent members of the labour party met eastern bloc agents during the mail on sunday has an interview with brendon cox — the widower of murdered mpjo cox — who has stepped down from his role in two charities after admitting inappropriate behaviour with a colleague. the papers says he has also stepped down from two charities, set up in his late wife's memory. the sunday times says the education secretary is looking at a number of university reforms, including cheaper tuition fees for some courses. and the sun on sunday reports on alleged marriage difficulties between pop stars cheryl and liam payne. a variety of stories for us to mull over. we will start with a story that has been rumbling on. we talked about it last night in a different form. the sunday telegraph, a czechoslovakian agent claims 15 labour mps met with spies. it started with jeremy labour mps met with spies. it started withjeremy corbyn and is now spreading out? among the 15 were john mcdonnell. they said they were absurd claims. it has been called ridiculous. if you put this into context

negotiator has warned that plans for a period of transition to ease britain's withdrawal from the bloc could be a risk michelle obama and says substantial disagreements with person are jeopardizing london's plans for a two year transition period after it leaves and twenty nineteen and supporters of bangladesh's former prime minister there are continuing to protest after she was jailed for five years on corruption charges. as your headlines up mess gets risking it all on goalie. me a bit. until recently there was an infernal racket all around this lake the clank of pickaxes punctuated by explosions. but the noise stopped. it's an unwelcome silence for lug. he and thousands of other golden jade hunters had to lay down their tools when the author of closed down the mines. lug gets by on odd jobs until he can find a buyer for the germs he hopes will change his destiny. sometimes he has to work. that out in his head. so i took half of his sort of sediment what i. could. as he waits for a buyer for his precious jade he makes extra money renting his small truck to nomadic herdsman whose seaso

to decide how to fill the multi billion euro budget shortfall left by britain after it leaves the bloc it's expected to be at least ten billion euros the leaders also need to find funding for new priorities like migration terrorism and border protection. well now we turn to some breaking news from the united states for you from washington where apparently the white house is on lockdown after a car crashed into a nearby security barrier what we're hearing at this hour is that this was the scene outside of the president's mansion after the incident authorities say the driver of the vehicle that hit the barrier was immediately apprehended they also say that the security perimeter around the white house was not breached. and our washington correspondent carolyn is on the story so carolina what more do we know about these reports. well we are not that match the white house is still on lockdown and to the vehicle to the barrier at the big question of the big fear of course if it is if it is if this could have been a potential attack to the to the president to the white house the driver is be

corben statement increases pressure on the prime minister as the labor bloc members of parliament could now vote with euro skeptics from the conservative party to defeat expected legislation on the issue possibly leading to a vote of no confidence and new elections been so-called soft brecht's that position represents an evolution for the labor leader who has long been regarded as a skeptic of e.u. it also ordered him some praise rare praise that is from business groups including the confederation of british industry and the british chamber of commerce. and sticking with the united kingdom retail sales for january in the u.k. were lower than expected growing only point one percent when expectations were for half a percent year over year u.k. retail sales were up one point six percent also far below expectations for two point six percent yearly increase the outliers in retail show that food sales took a large drop while sporting equipment sportswear toys and games all increased by eleven percent. the seventh round of talks to renegotiate the north american free trade agreement or nafta h

with mexico's ex president dissenting fox teesside who was very keen on bringing people together with bloc change acknowledging my podcast is that if we keep not boring and maybe we a concept that i do not that we enhance it we do it better so even ovation and technology that are needed in one generation more we're going to be one what makes it more united states working together we will be more which stronger why did you choose to become such an active participant in a this means being open my eyes it's like discovering that world began their world of banking they were look people to reduce poverty to great middle classes to create a better world we need to move past many people is getting desperate i would say that they world of the sort of there is growing faster than the world of warfare and this is a potential conflict for the future according to the u.n. four billion people live without an address and polluting mexico they're not necessarily poor but they do not have a shipping address because they are inadequately serviced by their government in turn they experience social segregati

conference that secured the votes needed for starting coalition talks with again america's conservative bloc. people we will not give up our s.p.d. party believes if we decide to govern in a coalition. it's inside me and i'm not so vague here andrea nala started out more than twenty years ago within the s.p.d. youth organisation a young socialists she became their leader in one thousand nine hundred five back then she was a student of political science and told georgia beller in one of her first interviews that she didn't plan a political career. sharpen it for you it's me for this do i don't want to strain politics for the rest of my life so after being chairwoman i want to look for a real job and for that i need a good degree proves. not is finished her studies four years later and has stayed within the ranks of the s.p.d. ever since as m.p. party official and later as labor minister one of her achievements was germany's new minimum wage law she also fought successfully for better pensions despite this she's not very popular with the german public. martine shields short tenure at the head

, the system which means countries in the eu impose the same import taxes on goods coming into the blocdonald trump's nominee takes over at the us federal reserve. will monetary policy had in a new direction under his leadership? and to boldly go where no mayor has gone before: in indonesian city official looks to star trek to lead his city into the future. good morning asia, hello world. it is a monday. glad you could join us for another exciting addition of asia business report. i am exciting addition of asia business report. iam rico exciting addition of asia business report. i am rico hizon. exciting addition of asia business report. iam rico hizon. we exciting addition of asia business report. i am rico hizon. we start off with the us central bank, and jerome powell, you see on your screens, jerome powell, you see on your screens, is said to be sworn in as the new chair of the federal reserve , the new chair of the federal reserve, replacing janet yellen. by nominating him, donald trump river wey from tradition, as most us presidents have chosen to appoint the same chair in their f

has come for britain to make a choice of what sort of future relationship it really wants with the bloc he says without a customs union and outside the single market values to trade are unavoidable the u.k. wants the best of both worlds but he is in london ahead of the next phase of talks on leaving the view it will focus on the terms of a transition deal key issues including immigration and britain's ability to strike third party trade deals. garia has taken up the e.u.'s rotating presidency you know what he's thinking so what well the nation isn't a role model economy it's dogged by organized crime and corruption and still has strong links to the russian oligarch you don't use christiane type went there for us. the city of vanna is bulgaria's largest port on the black sea. fleet pipeline sections were made in the german city of housing and have been delivered to a firm owned by the russian energy giant gazprom the port city is awash with rumors of what gazprom is doing here. sometimes make jokes here in bulgaria but the main thing that will be flowing through the south stream pipeline

the telegraph leads on claims prominent members of the labour party met eastern bloc agents during thed war. the mail on sunday has an interview with brendan cox, the widower of murdered mpjo cox, who has stepped down from his role in two charities after admitting inappropriate behaviour with a colleague. the sunday times says the education secretary is looking at a number of university reforms, including cheaper tuition fees for some courses. and the sun on sunday reports on alleged marriage difficulties between pop stars cheryl and liam payne. so a variety of stories on the front pages. we won't be looking at all of them. let us start with the mail on sunday. brendan cox. we have to take issue, straightaway, with the headline. yes, iwas issue, straightaway, with the headline. yes, i was a sex pest, confesses headline. yes, i was a sex pest, co nfesses jo headline. yes, i was a sex pest, confesses jo cox's headline. yes, i was a sex pest, confessesjo cox's husband. headline. yes, i was a sex pest, confesses jo cox's husband. he does not say that anywhere in the interview at all. he ce

growth for the bloc went up two and a half percent that growth was largely driven by france which has a new economic impetus with a manual make haunt the reins and spain which expanded by just over three percent in. the value of goods and services produced in the eurozone has been rising steadily. in twenty fifteen eurozone growth rose by one and a half percent. in twenty sixteen the eurozone economy grew by one point seven percent. and last year the economy charged ahead by two and a half percent. this momentum was partly because the european central bank in frankfurt has pursued a huge stimulus program slashing its main interest rate to zero and buying billions of euros a month with the financial assets known as quantitative easing the e.c.b. has gradually been typing off these stimulus measures which were introduced in the wake of the financial crisis last week e.c.b. president mario draghi hinted that the strong euro wouldn't affect the block's economic prospects but he said global factors were a wild card that could have a negative effect the european commissioner for economic af

is set to leave the bloc in just a radio. also in the program honestly when some signed me to speak across much of europe being subzero temperatures extreme weather warnings are in place in many countries as the cold front blankets even the continent's south an edge is good snow. i don't welcome i'm. for the second day a temporary truce ordered by russia failed to create a window for humanitarian relief in syria's eastern cruta amounted to a group says a barrage of airstrikes preceded the cease fire pushing for with the advance of syrian government troops on the outskirts of the rebel stronghold they've also been reports of ground battles during riaz the truce was supposed to be still in effect and still no signs of civilians evacuating or aid getting through. the skies over eastern ghouta were supposed to fall silent but a five hour humanitarian pause brought little relief to besieged residents in the rebel held enclave strikes were reported during the pause and observers say that syrian government warplanes resumed their bo

brussels to decide how to fill the multi billion euro budget shortfall led by britain after it leaves the bloc it's expected to be at least ten billion euros the leaders also need to find funding for new priorities like migration terrorism and border protection. are going to tell you now about the winter olympics chang in germany stunned canada to reach the men's ice hockey final in a thrilling match germany got off to a flying start against the defending champs taking a three nil lead can either them battle their way back into the game to make it four three wood just minutes to go but germany held on for the historic win and will now play the russian team on sunday's final. the final competition day at the boro and international film festival is upon us and my colleagues have been watching film after film for more than their rican now did you guys have your fill already i am i hi scott. oh no doubt it's a tough job a tough job but somebody's got over that yeah. all right so what's what's happening behind you. so right behind us right now is the premier of the one of the last competition films

the european union for northern ireland to remain aligned with the republic after britain exits the bloc. lashed out at the u.s. -- at the house of commons, yesterday. >> it would undermine the u.k. common market and threaten constitutional integrity of the u.k. by creating a customs and regulatory order and no u.k. prime minister could ever agree to it. mark: the eu unveiled its first draft of a brexit legal agreement today, outlining what issue still need to be worked out. says she will may make it clear that northern ireland will not have different customs rules to the rest of the u.k.. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by over 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. it is noon in new york, 5:00 in london and 1:00 a.m. in hong kong. i am vonnie quinn. >> and i am shery anh. welcome to bloomberg markets. ♪ vonnie: here the top stories we are following on the bloomberg from around the world. powell surprises the markets. a movement is a movement is afoot, aiming to increase financial literacy and empower the african-american community jakey financ

. >>> happening now in atlanta, thousands of black women gathered to motivate a powerful voting bloc.t is aimed at building a political agenda. it includes notable speakers such as the legendary cecily tyson. nbc's blayne alexander is there for us. blayne, a good saturday to you. talk about the goals. >> reporter: alex, good afternoon to you. we're in the heart of downtown atlanta. thousands of women, black women over the course of three days have come here to the westin hotel. you know, the excitement side, it's electric tfyelectrifying, of a rally and more of a strategizing session. the tag line is building the agenda for black women. all of the sessions are focused around one thing, issues imperative and important to women of color in this country. alex, we looked back at the alabama senate race and saw the undeniable influence of african-american woman there, 98% voting for doug jones and playing a big role in getting him elected to the u.s. senate. their goal here is to harness that power and use it to make a difference in the midterms. i spoke with a number of people who were at