in agricultural exports to china will be further economic consequences going to the twenty twenty alexion but also for china will be economic consequences there's a fair among some some apparently in china that if they that the talks fail having got this fall then the next round of talks would see the u.s. be even tougher and go sure it's negotiations and also president xi is under a certain amount of domestic pressure because of the economic slowdown in china he needs a victory too on the economy he can bring back some deal with the u.s. would be very good for him so there's a lot of incentive to reach should deal right now there whether that's by march with us it's unclear all right she had thanks for that she had written c. in washington now the rescue mission as been called off in bangladesh's capital dhaka after a huge blaze tolls from several buildings in the old town at least seventy people were killed and forty others injured in a fire broke out in a residential complex which housed a chemical and plastics warehouse it took hundreds of firefighters nearly twelve hours to bring it

most important ways of communicating in nigeria so that's what makes this nigeria's first whatsapp alexion. i to same time it's being used to spread fake news why is it such a powerful tool in the spread in fake news well there's two critical things one obviously works out is encrypted which means that the government or anyone else for that matter can actually tell what you're sending on whatsapp so people feel particularly protected now that's a good thing it can be used by civil society groups to promote human rights and to contest government abuse but it's also a dangerous thing in the sense that people who feel that they can push out messages without actually being punished or want to it might push out things that they know were not true and are actually dangerous and of course that's one of the things that we're seeing at the minute now it's important to say that once that doesn't invent these room straight rumors have always been an aspect of politics what it does is it helps them to circulate it's a bit like if you imagine going from a situation where there were some rumors kind of

fight is that he's really doing everything he can right now up with one eye toward the twenty twenty alexion and this court which is failing approval ratings he has a very uphill climb michael fauntroy thank you very much for talking to al jazeera . now the u.s. senate has confirmed william barr as a new attorney general bringing the lawyer back to a job he held more than twenty five years ago the position means bob will head the u.s. justice department overseeing special counsel robert muller's inquiry into possible russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election the senate voted largely along party lines and bob could be sworn in within the next few days. the former deputy director of the f.b.i. has revealed top u.s. justice department officials had meetings in twenty seventeen to discuss removing president trump from office under mccabe says the move was considered because he and colleagues were so along by trump's decision to fire james comey the f.b.i. director at the time a white house correspondent kimberly healthcare reports. it's the first time anyone working o

building in occupy the white house to solve this problem so this is going to enter the twenty twenty alexion cycle as the one of the top two or three issues for every candidate on both sides for them to have to answer today is also the day that we choose to assert ourselves as a global leader in transitioning to one hundred percent renewable energy and charting that path that means that we are not going to peg ourselves by the lowest by by the lowest standards of other nations all great american programs everything from the great society to the new deal started with a vision for our future last week the good they introduce a massive government takeover that would destroy our incredible economic gains they introduced the so-called green the new deal. it would shut down american energy which i don't think the people of texas are going to be happy with that. it would shut down a little thing called air travel. all right let's take this story now to washington d.c. i'm joined by jeremy ornstein he is an activist with the sunrise movement which is working to rally support for the green new deal j

plays out on the national stage political uncertainty ahead as prime minister pedro sanchez weighs alexion i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day. i didn't say we were naive.

agricultural exports to china and there will be further economic pain going to the twenty twenty alexion of no deal is reached similarly for china they will be economic consequences president xi is under pressure to show he can be a good steward of the chinese economy at a time of downturn and also we understand some chinese sources are saying that they're worried that if the negotiations fail now having got so far apparently that if you have to start again then the u.s. will will be even tougher in the talks thank you very much for now shavar tansey with the latest from washington. well now to venezuela where the president has closed his country's vast border with brazil just days before opposition leaders plan to bring in foreign aid that he has refused to accept nicolas maduro made the announcement while surrounded by military leaders in caracas on thursday immature also blocked and see travel with the nearby dutch caribbean island of krakow where aid is being stockpiled he's also considering whether to shut down the border with colombia the u.s. has been delivering hundreds of tons o

senator bernie sanders has announced he will run for president again in the twenty twenty alexion issanders ran for the democratic presidential nomination back in two thousand and sixteen but alternately lost out to hillary clinton sanders made the announcement in a radio interview saying that the current occupant of the white house was quote an embarrassment to the country. pakistani prime minister iran has warned his country will retaliate if india takes military action following last week's deadly attack in the disputed kashmir region pakistan based militant group jewish and mohammed that claimed responsibility for the attack on a security convoy but a top indian military commander in kashmir accuses pakistan's intelligence agency of involvement. three police officers have been killed in two injured in the egyptian capital cairo they were chasing a suspect when the device you was carrying exploded he was reportedly planning an attack on a police patrol in western cairo on friday and was also killed in the explosion. europe and the u.s. are at odds over the fates of european nation

senator bernie sanders has announced that he will run for president again in the twenty twenty alexion sanders ran for the democratic presidential nomination in two hundred sixteen but ultimately lost out to hillary clinton sanders made the announcement in a radio interview saying that the current occupant of the white house was quote an embarrassment to the country lawmakers in ukraine have passed a constitutional amendment that commits the country to joining the european union and nato president petro poroshenko says ukraine will make a formal bid to join the e.u. by twenty twenty three although he admitted that date is ambitious the move was welcomed by the european council president but it's widely to anger russia. the catholic church is facing a new storm of sexual abuse allegations this time involving nuns in the southern indian state of kerala the cases follow a familiar pattern allegations of abuse then cover ups by top clergymen one of the most shocking cases a bishop accused of raping a nun thirteen times over a period of two years the nun in that case says she was ordered to

process it could take months could take over a year and now would bring it into the twenty twenty alexion cycle and at that point sammy the president might be left saying he could complete the wall in his second term of office the show goes on and i guess thanks so much and. the u.s. senate has confirmed william barr as the new attorney general bring the lawyer back to a job he held more than twenty five years ago position means bar will head the u.s. justice department overseeing special counsel robert muller's inquiry into possible russian ference the two thousand and sixteen u.s. presidential election senate voted largely along party lines could be sworn in within the next few days the senior democrat on the u.s. senate foreign relations committee wants the trumpet ministration to hand over documents related to the killing of saudi journalist. bob menendez sent a letter to secretary of state might pompei o requesting records about whether any senior saudi official including the crown prince mohammed bin sandman was responsible for his death was killed last october after he entered the

he's going to be able to say enough to get them excited about going into a two thousand and twenty alexion campaign yeah i think i think really what it's all about is the twenty twenty election campaign i really don't think there's a chance to get much done and i think he's going to have a conciliatory tone as he did last year and didn't pay off at all but he's also going to have a harsh tone and he's going to lay down the law basically and he's not going to bend and he's going to say you know i want to get things done we have to put the animosity aside and i hope he says but if i don't get an offer from nancy pelosi i can't there is nothing to talk about so i think conservatives like the red meat the bulk of them over the eighty percent still support him and i think he's good at you know present victims of of people who are murdered by illegals have their relatives there he's got a young boy there whose last name is trump who is being bullied because of that and he wants to change his last name he's bringing him there so i think it's going to make a lot of points and i think it's going to

of china have dropped enormously and that the other economic effect is going to the twenty twenty alexion of the whole trouble is to avoid all of that from china as well will be economic effects there's also a feeling that if they walk away from talks having got to apparently this great stage then the u.s. might be even tougher in another round of negotiations starting again and also president xi is under some pressure domestically because of the economic slowdown in china and this would be very good for him to shore up his base and suggest that he is a competent economic steward if he does richard deal with the trauma of ministration all right she had thanks for that she had live. in washington the rescue mission has been called off in bangladesh's capital dhaka that's after a huge blaze sold to several buildings in the old town at least seventy people were killed and forty others injured the fire broke out in a residential complex which house they chemical and plastics warehouse it took hundreds of firefighters nearly twelve hours to bring the whole thing under control ten via cherry ha

on the poll and those are the voters that he's speaking to and he thinking about the twenty twenty alexion when he's doing that so this is a promise one he really wants to keep and this is really the only shot right now with democrats controlling the house of representatives that he has to fulfill that promise i suppose at least this avoids another government shutdown or extension of the previous one which would have been harmful for the country and i guess presumably for his ratings as well. that's right and there was no way he was going to get that funding in this particular bill and he was he did not have the stomach to shut down the government again over this his popularity took a severe hit republicans popularity took a hit and democrats did not want this to happen again so this is a way and he warned that if we go this might happen this is a way for him to circumvent shutting down the government but if this gets blocked in the courts we may see another challenge toward that government funding because he would try probably to stick that funding and again we'll have to wait and see wha

there is an endless bid under alexion pharma that they somehow, you know, just -- and what happens iss stoke it, david. they say, this would be a good fit. this would be a good fit what a good fit is a new drug. okay that's what you want differentiated results from a new drug so i like bristol. i think the combination is very good lilly just massively good and merck, wow advi not so good too dependent on a drug a lot of people are coming after. >> the biggest drug in the world. >> you see the ads, you watch an ad on the super bowl, in 16 weeks this drug is much better than humira. you're seeing the most important ads are the ads against advi. >> yes as we await alphabet earnings tonight, it is moving up interesting, apple is now up 6.7% year to date. >> on nothing. on nothing i hope people that they'll make an acquisition -- >> wait, wait, wait. i said apple. >> i switched apple. >> nothing >> the last ten points are up because they didn't -- the stock -- the company's product line didn't deteriorate. now, the buyback i believe is back in place. an article about how they stayed away w

that stock is up by better than 4.5% also moving higher this morning, shares of alexion pharmaceuticalsr its latest quarter and give a better than expected outlook >>> food distributor sysco beat the street's expectation by 2 cents. revenue did come in slightly below the street's forecast. but sysco, that is up by about 3.1% >>> today marks the end of fed chair jay powell's first year in office it's also his birthday this year has been a wild one for the fed chief. steve liesman joins us now with more >> universal praise. powell was aprivate equity banker who would understand markets, they thought. and most of all spoken english some of that praise has now turned to criticism. also from the man to appointed him. >> i think the fed is out of control. i think what they're doing is wrong. i think the fed is far too stringent and they're making a mistake. and it's not right >> maybe not quite so strively but others have joined the krifl schism pointing out the stumbles here he made the market scared he thought they were going too far. and then two comments on the balance sheet while the bal