central bank is in damage control the bank of england raises interest rates to fend off the effects of bragg's that. global financial markets a flat as they wait to find out if the wrong power will take over as fed head. and . facebook shares fall the social media giant will have to spend big on preventing russian meddling in u.s. politics. and benefits all in let's do business the bank of england has raised its key interest rate for the first time in over a decade from one quarter of a percent to half a percent but u.k. is at a crossroads as to where brags it is going to take the nation v.o.a. governor mark carney says it's time to tighten fiscal policy tucked under this man's arm brittney's vis a vis not such good news for those with a mortgage to pay on thursday the governor of the bank of england announced that for the first time in ten years the time was right to not u.k. interest rates up points with unemployment at a forty two year low inflation running above target and growth just above its new lower speed limit the time has come to put a little off the accelerator so a little and slow

bragg, like the major. he went by the name "black stuntman."now, deputy da billy west was monitoring the investigation. >> they were chat friends, chatting about the swinging lifestyle and that sort of thing. and david actually said, you need to meet my wife joan, and invited him to a swinging party. >> they all got together at a local hotel, just social that first time, no sex. >> there was a second swingers' party that both of the shannons and jeffrey attended. and at that party, he i think as well as others did have sex with joan. but after this happened, joan and jeffrey started seeing one another. >> that was okay, though, according to the rules the shannons had established, as long as it was just sex and nobody got romantically entangled. anyway, wilson was married with kids. there was no indication that his wife knew what he was up to on the side with joan. >> we started doing some one on one, is what they call it, when the other person is not there. david always knew when i was with jeff. and the relationship with jeff started, it was a

is there finally a breakthrough in bragg's it talks british newspapers say the highly controversial divorce bill issue is settled but the used chief negotiator says not so fast. leaders meet with african counterparts in abidjan to discuss migration to. we made one young refugee striving to become an entrepreneur and. also on the show china's communist party stands accused of infiltrating western companies to influence management decisions. this is the end of your business i have an office in berlin well according to british media reports there has been a preliminary agreement on the so-called break that divorce bill the u.s.s. britain that money from long term financial obligations such as investment programs and infrastructure projects agreed before the break that referendum the divorce bill has proved a stumbling block in talks settlement could mean that real ago she actions about future relations and trade could start so newspaper reports say the two sides have reached an agreement in principle for the u.k. to pay between forty five and fifty five billion euros in a brags that bill to th

well it all sounds very jolly but things are heating up around bragg's it let's check in with barber of islam brussels who's been following the talks which has led all that diplo speak into plain english barbara it seems like barney is really tightening the screws is this an ultimatum. oh very clearly because in brussels it had been known for a while that this would be a vote the triumph frame for britain to deliver that means bring some money to the table or at least bring some clear commitments financial commitments to the table of the next european summit it needs to be done beforehand so end of november that's the deadline and it's the first time that michele bachmann years said this quite clearly you just have two weeks to deliver otherwise what will happen at the december meeting of the heads of state and government is they will sort of lower their sum and say no continuation was straight talks we just heard david david speaking to quite a bit but other parts of his press conference were his tone was very different was it indeed because if you listen to them more closely gone w

among the soldiers, bragg. but i think also think bu. and i think another candidate, who i'm going to throw into this, and i do this because i've done the biography, is a person, franz segal, who was vilified by the public. even germans during the war. and he was a person whose career long after the war was vilified by a lot of germans and nongermans for his maddeningly frustrating campaigns. so i have some real creditability being part of that conference you just mentioned, losers and generals in defeat, perhaps. so maybe that could be a theme. but in any case, those are the ones i would say. >> i think you know what i'm going to say. ben butler gets my vote. not only during the war, but after. and in the north and in the south. nobody illicits the animosity that butler does. of course, no other general than jefferson davis, and order calling for his execution. and if you read some of his hate mail and his papers, the library of congress, i think it's pretty clear that it's ben butler. >> well, we're going to kind of turn this around a

let's get over to fort bragg.et over to fort bragg right now, nick valencia has been there where all of this has been playing out. what has happened? >> hey, kate. no jail time for u.s. army bowe bergdahl. he has been given a sentence reduced his rank to e-1 the judge ruled that he has to give $1,000 of his salary for the next ten months as part of the fine. he's also been given a dishonorable discharge. the prosecution was recommending up to 14 years in prison for bergdahl. the defenses desperate to try to keep bergdahl out of another day of confinement suggested this dishonorable discharge. this week in testimony started with the surprise plea from bergdahl himself asking for forgiveness, apologizing to those service men who were injured while on the hasty search and rescue operations, trying to recover him in afghanistan. a lot of this testimony this week also focused on his mental health, medical health experts test fiing that he suffers a schizophrenic like illness that distorts his ability to see the various

it's moved towardsfort bragg. very light bringsell along the north bay. 101looking like some rain coming down but very, very light. it is expected to pick up. we did see that band move through and look at our totals so far. we're expecting to see about a quarter of an inch across the north bay. we'll track it foryou and let you know when the showers will reach us coming up. >>> one of the nation's most famous criminals is dead. charles manson died of natural causes in a southern california hospital last night. we're live in the newsroom with more on manson's life and death. >> he died at age 83 at 8:13 last night at a hospital in southern california. he was inprison for nearly 50 years for ordering the mass murderers that shocked the world. he was bornin cincinnati and grew up in foster homes and in and out of prison several times before the killing rampage that made him infamous in 1969. at 34 he usedhis cult to order the killings of at least 7 people in southern california, one was actress sharon tate. she was 1

military aggression and election meddling but she offered very few details and apparently the stalled bragg's at talks are far less pressing chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not to secure the best possible brics it the day after may's a speech a group of researchers claim to russia had set up hundreds of accounts to influence the brakes and vote artie's point boyko looks into the story corps. in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the brags it talks on the problems facing to raise their maze of government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story in london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from fro

jesse bragg is the media director for corporate accountability.e welcome you both to democracy now! pascoe sabido, what should people in the united states and around the world understand about what you feel is the most critical issues now to deal with at this climate summit? >> what we're seeing is a lot of focus happening on coal. coal is damaging to the climate, despite what the u.s. might say. unfortunately, a lot of talk about coal phaseout, everyone is moving into gas. gas has been seen as a clean solution. but if you look at the entire production cycle when you drill for gas and transported, it releases huge amounts of methane which is more than 100 times worse in the climate than co2. coal and gas are pretty equal when it comes to climate impact. yet coal committees, welcome news, gagas copies are trying to move us into yet another fossil fuel. new pipelines, terminals, locking us in to another 40 to 50 years. we need to be aware will we talk about moving out of coal, we need to see that as off also fuels. we're bnp pararibas, one of thee b

country will probably avoid a government collapse and snap election which could have complicated the braggs that talks between britain and the european union opposition parties have been demanding that mr fitzgerald step down over her role in a police whistle blowing scandal. well sources on the indonesian island of bali have renewed their calls for residents to leave the area i mean fears that eruptions from a volcano could become more violent and our goal has been shooting massacre columns of smoke four kilometers into the sky thousands of travelers are stranded after two forces to close the airport for a second day. emanuel macross pro diversity seems to indicate a faster scaffolder ouagadougou french president sort of a clean break from the past saying that he came from a generation that would not tell africans what to do and that he would rather focus his efforts on bridging the ties between africa and europe. and pope francis held talks with me in the last lead i was having sujit in the country's capital all eyes were on how the outspoken catholic played it would address the issue of

mark strassmann is at fort bragg, north carolina. >> reporter: sergeant bowe bergdahl arrived in court facing a possible life sentence and left demoted to a disgraced buck private, his army career over. but he's a free man. in june of 2009, bergdahl walked off his war zone post in afghanistan. he carried nothing to protect him but a compass and a jason bourne delusion. within hours, the taliban had him. bergdahl spent five years living as a captive in a metal cage before president obama negotiated his release. prosecutors wanted him to serve a 14-year sentence. bergdahl, now 31, told the "sunday times" he realizes many americans want him executed. >> the people who want to hang me, you're never going to convince those people. >> reporter: one of those people is his commander in chief. this was then-candidate trump: >> this dirty, rotten traitor. 30 years ago he would have been shot. boom! firing squad. >> reporter: judge colonel jeffery nance imposed his sentence without explanation but said he's weigh the president's remarks in bergdahl's favor. bergdahl's most serious charge was enda

and britain hikes funding for braggs it as it slashes growth forecasts for the next five years when you more and business. thank you very much for your company. the former bosnian serb army chief accused of leaving some leading the massacre of eight thousand muslim men and boys has been found guilty of war crimes crimes against humanity and genocide charges at the u.n. tribunal in the hague have sentenced to life in prison here is what the presiding judge had to say as he read out the ruling earlier today the chamber finds. guilty as a member of first joined common enterprises of the following cones count to genocide count three persecution the crime against humanity while the atrocities committed by took place in the early to mid one nine hundred ninety s. during the bosnian war let's take a look back at his role in that conflict. srebrenica the small town in eastern bosnia-herzegovina has gained infamy as the scene of a war crime in july in one thousand nine hundred five bosnian serb forces massacred more than eight thousand men and boys here they were acting on the orders of radical

as a kind of tab to be settled before bragg's it a collection of budget commitments and pension promises expected from the u.k. as part of its membership through twenty nineteen the e.u. has vowed not to move forward until the issue is resolved and it's even given a december fifteenth deadline for progress the new offer has been expected in recent days the u.k. needs to move beyond the divorce phase of talks before it can negotiate a future trade pact with the blog a critical issue for its post bragg's an economy the possibility of leaving the union without a deal is widely viewed as an economic worst case scenario other stumbling blocks remain in the divorce phase including the nature of the border between ireland and post break that u.k. . twenty years ago the frankfurt stock exchange went electronic that's when it flipped the switch on its cetera electronic trading system a program that automatically executes buy and sell orders. quite literally it's a far cry from the old method of shouting out orders on the trading floor the result was more transparency and speed and then increase i

means bragg's it is already beginning to bite with consumer prices reaching a five year high many analysts agreed action was needed. something with inflation probably going to go about three percent this is something that they need to do particularly at a time when the u.s. federal reserve is probably going to raise rice in december this year and the e.c.b. is starting to pull back its own stimulus program further rate rises from the bank of england are expected over the next three years depending on the financial impact of bragg's it because as the governor of the bank of england put it himself these are not normal times. and the news of going to hear about now is not quite normal either branch right which is a story about love but also a movie about hate we're going to take you to india now that country's most famous monument the taj mahal is at the heart of a political controversy some hindu nationalists are calling it or calling for it to be demolished they say the malls only and built by a muslim emperor does not reflect indian culture one lawmaker described it as quote a blot on indi

in recent weeks and days the british media has been heavily focused on the lack of progress at the braggs it talks and the problems facing to raise their maze of government the russian interference story has drawn the fire away from all that and now media outlets can pour over the question of how many trolls does it take to incite a revolution not many according to everyone we approached to discuss this story in london do you think four hundred twitter accounts from from russia is enough to change the outcome of the referendum here in the u.k. well i think it could i think it could sort of and the could be a lot more yeah so you think it's only the tip of the iceberg yes i think it's just the tip of the iceberg i believe there is some of the books movies and i'm being very careful with my own. where there's smoke there's usually russia did use. the idea about four hundred twitter people will affect. as it were mostly mostly people who don't read anything on twitter is. absolutely laughable the prime minister's spokesperson has said that downing street didn't have any evidence of successfu

means bragg's it is already beginning to bite with consumer prices reaching a five year high many analysts agreed action was needed it. only with inflation probably going to go about three percent this is something that they need to do particularly at a time when the u.s. federal reserve is probably going to raise rates in december this year in the same way is starting to pull back its own stimulus program further rate rises from the bank of england are expected over the next three years depending on the financial impact of bragg's it because as the governor of the bank of england put it him self these are not normal times. so what's behind that interest rate hike is it a sign of weakness our financial correspondent only bars reports from the frankfurt stock exchange. that's right it's not like in the united states where the fake fed is raising interest rates because the economy is going along at such a good clip and the labor market is stronger and getting ever stronger no tax it is making itself felt in the british isles and above all in terms of inflation everything that's imported is n

late for the boy prime minister to resign milieu agrees but the country is still hurtling towards bragg's it on the twenty ninth of march twenty ninth teen with no deal. nervous european business groups who came to see mrs million downing street and noni concerned with one thing damage limitation they want the british government to back down so the country doesn't fly over the end of a cliff on the day. we've made it clear towards the e.u. commission and the british government that it is in our interest to avoid one thing the cliff. the end of relations between great britain and the european union you can avoid that if you want to avoid it and we hope we bolster their will to do so today in britain. but the clock is ticking and there's little more than hope right now what will happen to the many cross border companies how many jobs will be lost to research. in the automobile industry parts are delivered from one country assembled in another and then exported on to foreign markets many of these cross border transactions could be subject to british import tariffs in the event of a hard brea

the british government appears to be on the back foot a hard bragg's it could be devastating for business in the u.k. and some companies have already announced plans to move parts of their operation to other e.u. countries that he was considering a new plan to bridge the divide between member states over migration it would just have been a country's fish air of asylum seekers based on population and wealth could be off to offer assistance if the situation becomes critical but once migrants arrive in a country like germany what all the chances of settling it we met an energetic young man from guinea he's trying his luck a as an entrepreneur and the language barrier is the least of his problems. a mommy suma from guinea is struggling with german tax law he's taking a special course for refugees because he wants to start his own company he arrived in germany four years ago with nothing. when the economic situation is no good and there is no democracy in the country then you have to go where there's humanity and justice. and vets what i've done. guinea is one of africa's poorest countries in

regulation and believes that frankfurt exchange there will grow as a result of bragg's it the health it is the largest of siemens divisions by revenue and is also the most profitable it sells machines to hospitals and practices as part of the initial public offering zeman is expected to sell a minority stake of up to a quarter the listing of the stock exchanges scheduled to take place in the first half of twenty eighteen. still producing nations have agreed to dismantle market distorting subsidies g twenty minutes has met him but in on thursday to avert a trade. overcapacity that's been causing international tension but the divisions still remain. expectations were low from the outset the interests of the participating countries were just too varied the goal of the summit was to put the brakes on steel production worldwide to reduce crippling overcapacity but in the end that mission remained impossible there was at least some agreement as to the cause of the problem though it can and you know it finished members recognize the need to make sure that the market forces are working bette

stephen summed it up perfectly in a book or an article a while back, and he was talking about braxton bragg and john bell hood. and he said, if you read the recent writings on these two generals, you would wonder why -- you wouldn't wonder why they were in command of armies, but why they weren't in insane asylums. [laughter] sam: and the fact is, so much of the stuff that has been written about john bell hood, and i am sure others, as well, just has no evidence at all. where the evidence has perhaps taken too much literary license in their paraphrasing. i like to use this as an example. evening, ande this we can turn on the news to see what happened in the world today . and you can turn on msnbc, for example, and they are going to tell you what happened today, and chances are it will be true. and then you will turn on fox news, and they will tell you what happened today, and it will probably be pretty much true. but the two things you are hearing are going to be totally different. so you can spin things. you can accentuate things. errors ofare also commission and there are also whyrs of omi

distract from those difficulties and even divisions within her own party as well on the issue of bragg's that a nun best nothing better to reflect. that a recent speech where she made repeated references to russia chief among those today of course is russia but it is russia's actions russia's illegal onix ation of crimea so i have a very simple message for russia because we know there's a strong and prosperous russia russia has the reach and the responsibility russia can russia does not just secure the best possible brics it now facebook say that they will respond with their information to the committee by early december while twitter says it will respond in the coming weeks and most exacting maria's claims of russian meddling in the u.s. in late october the same tech giants testified to congress. we determined that the number of accounts we could link to russia and that were tweeting election related content was comparatively small. aggregate these ads and posts were a very small fraction of the overall content on facebook but these videos most. of commitment and a lack of genuine effor

euro zone's growth will be slowing down at only two point one percent growth that's mostly due to bragg's it and the unsolved debt crisis in southern europe for the first time a decade the world is growing in sync. this is none of the large economies are experiencing a recession despite the positive outlook there are some risks an a-list say investments are too low around the world to maintain long term growth and the problem is that indebtedness of households and corporations has reached record levels in many countries particularly worrying the high levels and continued growth of corporate levels in china given the importance of china to the world economy also concern the high levels of household debt in a number of advanced economies mainly associated with mortgage lending economists are also calling for wages to be raised that way ordinary people can also play a bigger role in driving economic growth. germany still doesn't have a new government but apparently that isn't hurting business german companies are still posting profits in the latest figures from germany's society for consumer

bragg, where soldiers prepare to go to war. two institutions, two professional military men, one woman. and that woman, michelle fear, now found herself caught between two men, her husband, and air force captain john diamond, who wouldn't go away. >> i told him i didn't want t leave my husband. i never told him i want to be with you, i think i was pretty straight up. >> now with the holiday season in full swing and a new commitment to their marriage, the fears were on their way to raleigh. >> they had gone to this christmas party that she specifically asked her boss if marty could go. >> it was a sedate christmas party and they left early, since marty had to leave early in the morning. then an interruption, michelle excused herself, made a brief phone call, out of earshot of the others. then the drive to fayetteville, one hour. they dropped the other couple at their home. stopped on the way for gas. michelle told marty she had forgotten something at the office. >> i needed to go back to the office to get some stuff that i neede

. >> the breaking news from fort bragg in north carolina, where a military judge ruled army sergeant bowe bergdahl will not face jail time. he pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior before the enemy after abandoning his post in afghanistan. he will be stripped of his rank and dishonorably discharged. he was captured by the taliban and and held prisoner for five years. for army sergeant bowe bergdahl. also breaking now, abc 7 him has gone details on that report about whether or not there was great fixing going on at prince george's county schools. we are live in landover with what we found out. this course come all of started when a group of school board member started hearing from teachers. they made an allegation that there was a fixing of grades, being done on purpose. it is my understanding that the report did not find an order to fix grades. i have not seen the report. but i have been briefed by officials with knowledge of the report. essentially, what it did was across --e graduating class of prince george's county high schools. that was 7500 students. they found one third

the deputy prime minister on this comes just three weeks before a crucial european union summit on bragg's it were ireland. expected to play a key role prime minister ileo car has threatened to veto progress to the next stage of regs that negotiations unless britain provides a written guarantee there will be no hard border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland. meantime of britain's prime minister theresa may has hailed progress and begs that negotiations with the e.u. she made the comments after meeting with e.u. president. but she can say that there are still what she called outstanding issues speaking to reporters may avoided questions on whether she was prepared to pay up to forty billion euros to settle britain's outstanding obligations the e.u. says britain has to increase its offer before the two sides open talks on future trade ties and may is very keen to get started on those of course i will be having other meetings i will be seeing president to escape today talking about the positive discussions opposed negotiations we're having looking ahead to the future deepens

if he shows up and tells bragg what to do he is superseding bragg in command of that army. so that problem existed from the beginning. finally davis interferes and sends an order saying, look, take 3,000 men and go rescue pemberton. and so off he goes. he said, look, 3,000 men aren't going to do anything against grant's 40,000, 45,000 coming from the southwest up toward jackson. the only way this is going to work is if i combine my forces with pemberton's forces. so he sends pemberton an order saying chaot saying evacuate vicksburg. this is long before vicksburg is besieged. he calls the counsel of war and he says, i have orders to evacuate vicksburg and march to join with joseph e. johnson so that collectively as an army we can attack grant. this is before the battle of raymond. so it would have been possible, perhaps. he says, i don't want to do it because i know jefferson davis wants me to hold vicksburg at all costs. vicksburg is the key, lincoln said. have to hold it. can't let it go. so he says, no, i won't do it. but -- he says, i can't just stay here because that's

regulation and believes the frankfurt exchange will grow as a result of bragg's it else that is the largest of siemens divisions by revenue and is also the most profitable it sells machines to hospitals and practices as part of the initial public offerings even as is expected to sell a minority stake of up to a full listing of the stock exchanges to take place in the first half of twenty eighteen. in the u.s. the republican party is split over donald trump's plans to cut taxes to the tune of one and a half trillion dollars over a decade now senate republicans have put forward new demands to cut the proposed tax rate even further from twenty two percent down to twenty percent the bill was passed in a house vote two weeks ago in the senate is set to vote on the measures later today president trump most of the legislation at an event in st charles missouri on wednesday saying the changes would cut waste from the tax system. critics say may need the rich would benefit but the president doesn't agree. america's tax code is a total dysfunctional mess the current system has cost our nation million

to pay between forty five and fifty five billion euros in a bragg's a bill to the e.u. the payment has been a sticking point in the recently stalled negotiations led on the british side by briggs it minister david davis the e.u. was demanding sixty billion euros from the u.k. as a kind of tap to be settled before brags that a collection of budget commitments and pension promises expected from the u.k. through the year two thousand and twenty the e.u. has vowed not to move forward until that bill is settled the new offer has been expected in recent days the u.k. needs to move beyond the divorce phase of talks before it can negotiate a future trade pact with the bloc a critical issue for its post breaks economy the possibility of leaving without a deal is widely viewed as an economic worst case scenario e.u. chief negotiator for breaks that michel barnier said he was hopeful a deal could be reached before a december council meeting. cover you know we're working hard on these issues so that i can say to the european council on behalf of the european commission did a few da

british prime minister theresa may will talk to you present donald tusk to try to close the deal on bragg's that divorce terminals british media are reporting that may could be willing to pay up to forty billion euros for her country's outstanding obligations but still far short of the e.u. is estimate of sixty billion to science three weeks to agree with or they can move on to discussing post regs that train. and before we go just a reminder of the top story that we're following for you here today on the news ceremonies are getting underway in zimbabwe as the nation prepares to inaugurate a new president emerson god wot is due to take the oath of office shortly as zimbabweans look forward to a new era with robert mugabe. that's all you news for now sumi will be with you at the top of the next hour with another full bulletin and of course you can get the latest on all or stories online on our web site that's at d w dot com thanks for watching.

the euro zone's growth will be slowing down at only two point one percent and that's mostly due to bragg's it and the unsolved debt crisis in southern europe japan's economy will grow by one point two percent according to the o.e.c.d. and china will grow by six point six percent and twenty eighteen. experts are predicting strong growth for export champion germany the number of positions for skilled workers is rising but refugees won't be able to fill that gap many of them remain unemployed the o.e.c.d. has suggested including more women in the workforce that's why children's daycare and kindergartens need to be built the o.e.c.d. is also calling for lower taxes and special tax breaks for working couples. it all sounds great but let's talk to the o.e.c.d. days chief economist catherine mad who joins us from the group's paris headquarters we've got wind under the wings but with flying catherine what did you mean by that . right. what i mean is we've got twenty seven thousand looks very good in terms of growth that's the wind under the wings but you know we are flying low in the sense that we

is great to have you along for the european union is stepping up pressure on a great britain over bragg's it and has given london a two week all to made up to make clear how much it will pay and when it intends to leave the bloc michelle bettany the chief briggs it negotiator insistent that real progress must be made in the next. two weeks if britain wants crucial talks on trade to take place next month while there are also differences on issue with the irish border while the u.k.'s aggressive negotiator david davis confirmed the u.k. will not create a border between northern ireland and the republic to the south as part of a deal with the e.u. well let's listen now to why david davis said about the progress made at these latest talks there's no doubt that we have made and continue to make including this round significant progress across a whole range of issues across the board that may prove progress towards resolving some really difficult questions and the course will continue to place between now and december. are where we can go now to brussels or to the w.c. gave a much to say garric