clair de york thank you both for your continued coverage greatly appreciate it. and then fizzling we'll be here later with the reaction from the markets on a potential trade war all right the first i want to bring up to speed with some of the other stories making news around the world. spain's prime minister mariano rajoy looks poised to lose a parliamentary no confidence vote expected on friday spanish media say the socialist party leader petro sun just has enough votes to defeat were boy he's been under pressure to step down after members of his conservative people's party were found guilty of corruption that's a human rights group in nicaragua says eleven people were killed during anti-government marches on wednesday after reports put the total at two witnesses say armed groups opened fire on protesters then eighty people have died since protests started last month over plans to change the country social security system . the european court of human rights has found two e.u. members complicit in cia torture activities the ruling says both lithuania and romania

claire de york thank you both for your continued coverage greatly appreciate it. and then this is kind of your story because how have markets reacted to all these developments they've reacted pretty severely i would say business ties across the atlantic at a new low leyla financial markets tumbling there are fears this latest move would lead to a trade war and those hit by the times that immediately reacted with retaliate three measures the u.s. commerce secretary will ross makes it sound like european leaders are just blowing the whole situation out of proportion. so there are there are for our. own products the beer soft during soup it's all a fraction of a penny each of those in terms of an automobile it's also a fraction of one. for the economy overall it's a very small fraction of one remember we're in a scene surely and our economy the u.s. commerce secretary putting things into perspective for us he says everyone's going to get over this in june time the reaction from financial markets was livelier conrad i saw that dax dip below the. dip down quite dramati