gold has always worked well, and barrick also has copper.r is a new, modern metal, more strategic than most, i believe. so i think barrack is really well-positioned to build a proper business, and not only just relying on the sentiment side of things, but a high quality, big margin business, because we have world-class assets. guy: you are no stranger to large-scale consolidation. other mining execs are sounding very cautious at the moment. what is your attitude? do you think we are still in a world where large-scale consolidation is possible, that investors will be backing that? do you see any opportunities that could push you in that direction? mark: there was a unique moment where investors and companies like barrick and randgold and the joint venture with newmont really delivered values because we all worked together. consolidation needs that. it needs shareholder support and it needs shareholders to think longer term. i have said this for a while. right now, but we have seen is another round of smaller consolidation at the top of the ma

that's quite a pop barrick attack and they are bowing the harsh just sanctions to date the what's being described by western partners to russia. obey heinous attack, the russian invasion. this is today's military escalation in east ukraine. welcome to a rolling cover, a chair. it's breaking news on the international. vladimir putin did announce a military operation in the don bass during the address to the nation much earlier in the morning. the soft of the people republics did actually turn to russia for military assistance. was russia western partners round on moscow for what they're calling an invasion? they say russia must be punished or the russian defense ministry stresses there's no threat to civilians because it's only targeting military infrastructure that does go in stock. contrast to what partners in the west are saying in relation to putin's latest actions, that's cross live now to roman coast reporting from don't yet. but i got see of lou ganske, both of you. hello again. what are the 1st to you? we did the videos of explosions in the gans go. we have video of the republics

i slam the covenant operation as a bob barrick attack bow about how she's designed the well the world awoke today to a huge military escalation in ukraine, the russian president in fist, it's a peacekeeping mission, but his western counterparts call that a barbaric heinous act that will not go unpunished. welcome to our special coverage here. when are you to national rory sushi? by the way. so russia president has announced that operation this military operation to defend the don bass. it's during an address to the nation that he made . this is after the 2 newly recognized republics requested rushes assistance, which they did against what they called military aggression from ukraine. rushers, defense ministry says the operation poses no threats to civilians and only military infrastructure is being talkative here at auto international. we're working very hard to confirm just that. in the meantime, western powers are now rounding on moscow for what they call an invasion. they are threatening severe reprisals when it's cross live. now what senior correspondent and what i'd garcia standi

barrick gold, the stock is up more than 17% in february alone. that's not just from the word. they reported an excellent quarter posted a five cent earning beat off of 30% basis and a 1 billion dollar buy back from a gold company could this thing have more room to run let's take a closer look with the president and ceo of barrick gold welcome back to "mad money." >> so nice to see you. >> we have this war that breaks out. we have rampant roaring inflation. my bitcoin went down but my gold mutual fund went up. isn't it supposed to be other way around >> remember what i said, our friend gold. >> they're printing a lot of bitcoin. we had the chairman of the sec on he said we have no idea how many coins are being printed. we don't know what's out there doge coin, it doesn't matter we do have a finite amount of gold and it's hard to find, isn't it >> absolutely, jim remember when they introduced bitcoin, they said there would only be so many bitcoins and lit be block chain and no other. look how many crypto currencies there are in the world today when you ask somebody how does it w

and of course, by going together with a counterparts from other european countries on adena. barrick also wants to signal to ukrainian leaders the message. the west is standing united. no dividing. that is the message that the german government, including all of shots, are sending in these days of crisis negotiations are political correspondent. neither has i thank you for that insight or we mentioned another piece of that flurry of diplomatic action is the french president, him, i know my call meeting russian president vladimir putin in moscow to day. let's go to our correspond jack, paris, who was following the story for us from brussels, hijack we seen the kremlin today? thing we know him on, on my car, we'll share plans with putin to lower tensions. what might that be? what do you think we can expect from this meeting? the $1000000.00 question, right? nice to me. what exactly is micron hoping to get out of this meeting? i think ideally what he would see as an enormous win is if he could persuade the russian president to remove any of the nearly 800130000 troops from that border w

has no plans for occupation the you america and the allies and the prevalence operation as a bomb barrick attack and invalid ross of tough sanctions against russia. mm. hello, and welcome. this is nancy international coming to live from moscow bringing you the latest world news updates as we continue to go beyond the headlines and question more. thank you for joining us this morning. now, on the 2nd day of russia's military operation and ukraine, news and videos are pouring in from all sides. the capital key was rocked by a series of powerful explosions. kiev claims that has shot down a russian cruise missed all as a residential area in the city. the day bri apparently came down on an apartment building starting of fi and enjoying a's. mean, while air raid sirens have been heard in may do ukrainian cities with residents encouraged to use bomb shelters? ah ah well pictures the russian force is coming in from se new train local say they've occupied. the city is melita paul is mer, apparently confirmed in his speech that the cities surrendered. there were also, i witness reports of the ongoi

build an anti hooting coalition for the us and its allies and slammed the criminal operation as a bob barrick attack, vowing the harshness of sun shoes . the world today is witnessing history in the making, what's been called a massive russian invasion of ukraine by european and american officials is still playing out reputed now facing a barrel of criticism. we continue our special coverage here on asi international. it's good to have you with us. so russia is not waging that of a military operation, which it says is aimed at defending the don bass from so called ukrainian aggression. a kia along with western powers are describing it as an invasion. things cities across ukraine are under attack. although russia's defense ministry denies that saying no civilian areas are being targeted that the strikes are aimed only at military infrastructure. and also the safe exit roots for ukrainian soldiers are being arranged. a putin is also calling for ukrainian soldiers to be treated with respect that we obtain this exclusive video from our russian war reporter in the don bass. he claims it shows ukra

i'm the prevalence operation as a bomb barrick attack and invalid ross of tough sanctions against russia. mm. hello and welcome. this is monte international coming to live for moscow bringing you the latest world news updates as we continue to go.

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the e u. america and the allies slammed the criminal operation as a bomb barrick attack and, and val, a ross of tough sanctions against russia. ah ah, this is anti international coming to you live from moscow as we continue to bring you the very latest world news updates. and as always, continue to go beyond the headlines and question more. thank you for joining us this morning. now kiev claims it has shut down a russian at cruise missile above the capitols residential area. the debris apparently came down on an apartment building, causing an explosion. let's get more details on this. now i'm joined in the studio by ortiz, e gosh, darn of ego. good morning to you. thank you for coming in. and they were reports that russian troops on nikia. now we're hearing explosive explosions in the capital . so what do we know about what's really going on there? well indeed, again, the information is very hectic. again, remember, this is an act of was own. so just to advice of caution, a really, really pick your source is what to follow. so again, a lot of reports and in fact, explosions are report

words already from the west african body echo was asking for the military to return to their bowel barrick said, alluding for of this potential qu, and also from the un secretary general saying that he's deeply concerned over the events that are taking place in the south system, all of confusion on who's in charge and who's behind what seems to be an attempted cru, nick and what's the context of this, especially given the ongoing instability, the reason well, 1st of all be so is there it is familiar to cruise, there's been 9 qu since it doc it's independence and there's always been a tussle of power between elected officials and, and the military. in fact, no elected official and going to be so has ever been able to finish his time in the office and there was an attempted crew in october that was foil than when we were in be so last year, the elections, the election results were called into question by the opposition and then by the constitutional court that, that stand of that, that confirmed about election. but ever since there's been some unease in the rex of the military. you have to a

quote, bob barrick, it wasn't that long ago that he actually said he actually said publicly that maybe ukraine needs to go nuclear. she think wednesday lensky said that you think that might have even hurried putin along of it. with this plan, you think that might have motivated him more strongly. russia would not want a ukrainian or a nuclear capable ukraine on his border. or who was a country on your, on its border with the, with the president saying that he may issue from a come from a call saying that he wants to use nuclear weapons against you. i think this is just maybe the last straw, the straw that broke the camel's back. you cannot say that you're going to have nuclear weapons. you want you to robins coming from an organization which is radically against you. the stuff get nato is not an objective organization, it's radically anti russian organization. so that probably did not help in the defense of ukraine. that's for sure. our to political analissa and some of us joining us and nichol. i thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. thank you. or appreciate you joining

let me know what barrick look of wishy is like when we get them hooked up with money with that quote, number emotional with on i used to work the owner to deal with them when you come, when you does reward work on the summer bush, mister. most lube great will dolly computer it a machine on the way we ship a little more. where does the car to go through the she she more of a director for curriculum nearby darma ford. so more for us to get our facility currently who are stupid newkirk losing their should've done that must have been done and got to read mute, quit to sputter. when you to that say, are you moving a little bit, perkins is where i'm moving. my viewer will put you down those blue emo, she repeated for my jewel. it's supposed to talk for most places. do studies get one of those little things in the novel for. busy comes little to bleed at all, the seriousness or source in order to over the order to put on more for a boom us. i'm a little more as we ask me to put a little bit. i'm in the news. you want me more difficult answer from when you order for them are coming. so i mean

newmont, barrick gold up a couple of percentage points.et about the russian stocks that trade here in the u.s. yandex down 29% in the premarket, coming off of a 36% slide over the previous days. tom: we are continuing to monitor markets on the move. i'm looking at the u.s. to year as well. i think that is at a creek level. -- a critical level. jonathan: does this change things for the federal reserve? we are risen the range of the last few weeks. we have not broken through that, still in and around 1.50%. tom: right now with a broader view, whal -- broader view, wei li joins us, local chief investment strategist at black rock. how will black rock deal with the regime shift mr. putin has handed us? wei: there are many ways to look at the definition of regime shift. we talk about the fact that we had a very rare companies in of stock up, bond down return last year, that was our expectation. for this year, our view defines a regime change and a higher inflationary regime, and that has consequent is for asset allocation as well. more broadly o

do you want to have this or do you want people living in barricks, you know, those are the types of decisions that have to be made. >> and general, i'm going to shift gears and talk about recruiting for a moment here. we're start to go see signs in the media that the military is having trouble recruiting the number of people that we need. ought not to be a surprised because you go to your restaurant and there are help wanted and we shouldn't be astonished with the military. and the air force says they're half of where they are, on the pool of people waiting to enter the air force and the army, the commandser of army recruiting command says he's upping bonuses to $50,000, and he's-- the army is offering more and more opportunities for two-year enlistments, which is, may be attractive to young people, but it's difficult on the army because you're training at a much more frequent rate. can you talk about the challenges you're seeing in recruiting? >> i think that everyone right now, we're in a war for talent and we want the best young men and women that come in and-- we want to give them an oppo

i let's now go to brussels and have listened to young stockton by barrick. he's making some remarks at that conference, russia and we remain ready to engage in dialogue and find the diplomatic way forward. but while we continue to work for the best, we must also be prepared for the worst. we will do what is necessary to protect and defend all allies. we have all of them raised the redness of the nato response force and allies are putting forces on standby and deploy more troops, planes, and ships to day we will consider how we should and hands. so the turns on the fence posture and pursue our diplomatic efforts and up men out. thank the me down for joining us at the beginning of the meeting. and the meeting will continue in just a moment. okay, that was young, stockton beg, speaking day in brussels, less returned to our correspondent neve barker. so as we were discussing nave, we could hear later from nato, about whether they're gonna bolster their troops in the region. yes, as sort of books of suggested there's a bit of a double pronged strategy here to bol

there's also growing concerned that russia could deploy thermo barrick weapons, sometimes called vacuum bombs. they're filled with high pressure explosives which absorb oxygen from the surrounding air, creating a powerful blast. and rushes defense ministry says it's nuclear missile forces, and northern and pacific fleets are on enhanced combat duty after an order by president vladimir putin. simon, romanies or politics at international relations specialist at the university of oxford. he's also an associate fellow with the royal united services institute for defense and security studies. he joins, as far as i got from oxford. thanks very much indeed for being with us. just to pick up on, on that last point about to putin ordering and putting his, raising the alert for the nuclear low level. in response the u. s. a said they, they're not going to change their level. did it see the russian move as a kind of a move to escalate so that they can then deescalate? well, how do you interpret it? well, it's got entirely unprecedented for russia to dangle the nuclear card. when ever deb vitamin p

trends, | this change of mindset and trends, we will see an escalation and things like that from a barrick credible reports of russians using civilians as human shields. —— thermobaric. as the refugee situation mounts, that will become more present, the people in kyiv, did they try to leave? or is it too late? there is probably a very small window left. late? there is probably a very small window left-— late? there is probably a very small window left. :, ,, , :, , : :, window left. thank you very much for the latest there _ window left. thank you very much for the latest there on _ window left. thank you very much for the latest there on the _ window left. thank you very much for the latest there on the situation i window left. thank you very much for the latest there on the situation on . the latest there on the situation on the ground. just want to bring you some of the latest pictures in moscow, because we are getting more protest and arrest, and fees and of course 900 people people arrested yesterday into the days since the invasion these protests beginning to grow, i wasjust looking

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