st and now to a reuters investigation project brave. they learned the tools of their trade here in the halls of the u.s. national security agency but a group of former n.s.a. cyber spies is now coming under scrutiny after they left the n.s.a. to work here as hackers for the united arab emirates investigation by reuters found the group helped the u.s. spying on targets such as rival governments and militants in an operation code named project raided it also targeted human rights activists who were critical of the u.s. monarchy the u.a.e. ministry of foreign affairs in the n.s.a. both declined to comment but hackers reuters spoke to say project raven went even further putting some americans under surveillance correspondents joel shechtman and christopher big uncovered the story project raven hired people with deep backgrounds from the n.s.a. and other american intelligence services to serve as contracts by my thinking of them as mercenaries by mercenary spies will take a closer look at the investigation and the implications of cyber surve

focusing on the future of social security, and to do that were joined by mark miller, a columnist for reuters. give state of social security today in america? >> the state of social security i would say remains the most important retirement benefit for most americans. it is ubiquitous, the thing that most people rely out the retirement. retirement. but they faced challenges. a lot of your listeners, your viewers, probably heard about clipooming 2034 financial that social security is facing. there are financial challenges that social security is facing. they are fixable and i don't think anybody should be in a panic mode about social security. host: can you start with just how social security is funded in the first place and where the revenue streams are? guest: it is self-funded through the payroll tax and split evenly between workers and employers, and it totals 12.4%. and that is collected on wages up to about $133,000 this year. taxme above that level, no is collected, and that is how it is financed. that is the primary source of financing. a lesser important source is interest earned on t

it is quite interesting because you say that, reuters had a survey of showing this week that just you that, reuters had a survey of showing this week thatjust under 2000 jobs and move because the brexit and also sables, the real estate agency, have said they have had one of the best years they've ever had for leasing in the city since they started monitoring economic activity and a lot of their clients are committing the very long—term leases in the city of london, so that is a long—term future they are thinking of. yeah, and the commercial economy has been very strong. you think about the finn tech economy which london houses, would lop of strong start—ups in the —— and lots of strong start—ups. it could, we actually sold some of our holdings and financials recently because we arejust and financials recently because we are just worried about all of the costs. and banks and financial services, they have to hedge their bets for every single scenario, because this is the problem, we do not know what is going to happen in 50 days's time, what that means the brexit and what that then mean

. >> reuters s reported five chine begun refusing imports of australian coal.hina is he argest buyer of million tons last yyar.89 shipped from australia to these ports specifically account for 10% of coal exports to the the idea that australia's number one trading partner was curtailing imports of its most powerful resource briefly knockee 1% off the value of the australian dollar. china's statement offered little in the way of clarity. >>>chiiese customs are conducting risk detection nd analysis work on imported coal to ensure the safetyyand quality. the objective is to better protect tte legitimate rights and interests of chinese impprters and tooprotect the environment. insistingia is regulatory rather than political issues are at play although the reported ban comes at a sensitive tiie for chinese-diplomatic -- rerelations. >> t the nest talks aimed at -- talks aimed at anding the ongoing trade war are in washington. jump from 10% to 25%. vvce premier is set to meet with donald trump on friday after nine hoursrs of negotiations thursday w with steve mnuchin

for the report was put out by reuters quoting unnamed officials confirming that this was happening and it was enough information it would appear for us republican senator ted rubio to actually issue a tweet directed at the u.a.e. embassy here in washington pointing out that anybody who conducted such trade with the been as well and government in terms of moving gold out of that country would face sanctions in terms of u.s. treasury regulations not only the individuals with the state concerned but also the airlines that would be carrying out that gold so certainly there is an awareness here ted rubio one of the hawks on the senate when it comes to venezuela there's also been reports so that turkey is considering buying gold from venezuela turkey did buy a large amount of gold last year once again u.s. officials will be holding talks with the turkish counterparts towards the end of the week but clearly venezuela is attempting to move some of its gold reserves to get some cash the reasons for this obviously falling oil output but also of course the sanctions that have been put in place by

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a department official telling reuters. ian, good morning. caller: hi. i have a question. not takeen advised to my cell phone over to china. and i wanted to get your attention to an article that recommend treating all devices as compromised after returning from china. sim cards.them or break them in half. host: robert, you have been to china many times, what is your advice? guest: it depends on what sort of work you are involved in. if you are in a business or government that has proprietary information, then you need to be extremely careful. i would bring a clean fun, not your personal phone or ipad to china. and have them wiped clean up on your return. it is true that you should assume all of your data is compromised, that if you bring digital devices to china. host: michael in baltimore. we are talking u.s.-china trade. caller: good morning. i just want to be sure i heard correctly, so the average person china, average person in the average middle-class person is earning more than the average middle-class person in the united states, did i hear that correctly? guest: no

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rights activists critical of the monarchy no big deal there just a deep dive bombshell exposé by reutersone of the biggest news wires about a despotic gulf nation monarchy co-opting u.s. intelligence assets to crack down on free speech the operative say over time the data collection became broader with americans data also being collected who see an n.s.a. spokesman declined to comment on raven and apple spokeswoman declined to comment a spokeswoman for you a's ministry of foreign affairs declined to comment the u.s. embassy in washington and a spokesman for its national media council did not respond to requests for comment that is a whole lot of no comments and wait why did reuters reach out to apple the operatives utilize an arson. all of cyber tools including a cutting edge as being a platform known as karma in which raven operatives say they hacked into the i phones of hundreds of activists political leaders and suspected terrorists. they used car i phone. the name karma after the fundamental buddhist doctrine of moral causation good thing i've been meditating so much lately or that w

reuters is reporting the two sides are working on an outline on the deal that would end the trade war. cheryl: president trump threatening to slap auto tariffs on the european union. >> we're trying to make a deal. they're very tough to make a deal with, the e.u. they've been difficult over a period of time, over many, many years and so it's something we think about and we're negotiating with them. if we don't make the l deal, we'll do the tariffs. cheryl: let's take a look at what's at stake with the trade talks. todd shelldy is joining us now. tori whiting as well. great to have you both here. >> good morning. cheryl: first, tori, i want to start with you on a little bit of a sticking point with what the president had to say just now that we heard. white house officials say there aren't discussions on the books with the europes, ongoing. the president, there's a report he's supporting 20% tariffs in the u.s. >> you've seen the u.s. and e.u. have an intention of some sort of trade talks. the e.u. sees it as non-auto, industrial goods, leaving a agriculture out. the u.s. came out with

so let's get more now on this case from melbourne where we can speak with reuters journalists and on the policy has been following the case closely so now what happens now because you know he's facing a long sentence here but there's also an appeal process. that's right so tomorrow there will be a sentencing hearing and that's where the lawyers will argue over how tough a sentence paul should face and then within a couple days after that we'll get the ruling by the county court judge on how long he's going to go to jail for and he's likely to be imprisoned then and meanwhile the appeal has been logged and that court of appeals still has to decide whether they're actually going to hear the appeal and then on which grounds they would allow it to go ahead. if that if successful then he could face facing retrial and it's interesting because the. sorry for interrupting you there it's interesting because you know this guilty verdict was actually handed down back in december but you know because media coverage of the case was subject to a news embargo and we're only just learning about it n

upon one shot one scene a correspondent for reuters in bangkok thank you very much thank you. over a dozen european and latin american countries of color men's villa to hold free and fair elections to solve its deepening political crisis after some five hours of talks in europe by the coalition of countries want against rash intervention in venezuela foreign policy chief medical already said the group was committed to finding a peaceful democratic way out of the power struggle between president nicolas maduro and opposition leader. the statement came as trucks carrying u.s. humanitarian aid arrived at colombia's border with venezuela the bridge into the country remains blocked by the military president nicolas maduro says the shipments are part of a u.s. led attempt. this is where their journey ends on the colombian venezuelan border desperately needed humanitarian aid as aboard these trucks but the gates into the crisis stricken country have been sealed on the other side venezuela's military still largely loyal to president maduro has been ordered to prevent any shipments cro

according to reuters, the investmant would given and gm minority stakes in the start-up and would val ryvan between $1 billion and $2 billion. reuters add that theeal isn't final, it could fall through. >>> nissan has cut its forecas for its profit and vehicle sales. it also took an $84 million charge related d toerred compensation it says was pr to former chairman carlos ghosn. as you know, tokyo prosecutors have charged mr. os with underreporting his pay. the out your maker said that it's facing a decline in global vehicle sales, especially in the it will in europe, and reconsider its plan to deepen its alliance with france's renault. >>> everybody loves buying something on sale, of course, but according to a new all of those markdowns cost retailers $300 billion in revenue last year. that equals about 12% of sales.p thist does not include gr >>> well,e are just a few weeks in to 2019, but already it's apparent that the year is not starting the way hollywood would li but are things about to sdmange julia boorstin takes a look at the box office challenges and why things may be about

treatment equal madness among everyone involved dried up on one shot one senior correspondent for reuters in bangkok thank you very much thank you you're watching the news coming up ahead football in million no sun as for means identify following a plane crash in the english channel as tributes pouring and we look back on a tragic story. lines underlying truths in the kindness of strangers the film opened this is billy not a film festival. now for us to a lack of digital learning in germany holding back students that's the question many are asking german school was a lag behind when you compare the digital educational equipment to that of other european countries but according to the latest world wide tests on student performance school of the pisa germany still ranks within the top twenty globally for math reading and signs germany's federal government aims to invest five billion euros in tablets and high speed why five schools but look at governments up pushing back. and maurits what's known as digital natives but they spend most of their time in a rather analog and wiring and their sch

you can see that list as reported by reuters. the meetings are due to wrap up on friday but they could be extended as the end of the month deadline approaches. meanwhile donald trump appear to hold out something of an olive branch to chinese tech giant far away. here's president tweeted that he wants american companies to take the lead in rolling out five and currently nonexistent six g. wireless networks. but he said they should win through competition not by blocking out currently more advanced technologies. his administration has been leading a campaign against walleye encouraging its allies to power it on security concern. let's check inn on today's trading action n now is all m md close for the major european indices at the banking sector was the weakest as a swedish lander was d drawn into danske bank's money laundering scandal. for the one hundred down eight over eight tenths of 1% in london -- on wall street we saw a negative a close there at the nasdaq snappiping an eight day winning streak at close below the flat line.

officials who spoke to reuters news agency the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or the i and f. is a nineteen eighty seven control pact between the united states on the phone and soviet union the treaty banned all lung based missiles with a shortened intermediate range the u.s. is accusing russia of violating the treaty in december the u.s. warned it would withdraw from the i.m.f. if russia did not comply by february the second will such a project is a project leader of the civilian research and development foundation global and specializes in nuclear security says if the u.s. turns up the i.m.f. package it'll send the wrong message to other world powers. it's been a long time coming donald trump is not known for his love of international agreements especially ones that restrain the united states in any way shape or form i think for a long time after he became president his advisors were holding him back particularly jim maddis being the voices of reason but i think the real tipping point was when john bolton entered the cabinet he likes international agreements.

upon a one shot one senior correspondent for reuters in bangkok thank you very much thank you the body recovered from the wreckage of a plane in the english channel has been confirmed as that a footballer in indiana was zinah the twenty eight year old in time was on his way to wales to sign for cardiff city when contact was lost with his flight now his family's vast fears have been confirmed. after nearly three weeks of pain and uncertainty the search for a million is finally over british police identified the body recovered from the wreckage of the plane off the islands of the law. the twenty eight year old archon time had been missing since january twenty first when his plane disappeared in route from france to wales shortly after he had left his father a voice message saying he was so scared that they were about to crash the plane now confirmed to be that of salon pilot david if it was discovered in the english channel earlier in the week the body has yet to be found. so i was headed to wales to join new club cardiff city after they broke their club record signing him from both club

the story then spread and picked up by bloomberg and by reuters and by "the guardian" and by the "walltreet journal." and the details were a little different in each of the outlets and stories but the basic idea was simple. federal prosecutors had subpoenaed the bank that held hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to president trump. the bank that somewhat had done hundreds of millions of dollars of business with him years after he had been blackballed at every other major financial institution in the country. a bank that perhaps coincidently was also admired in a huge on going scandal over its role in a multibillion-dollar russian money laundering scheme. back in july of 2017, that summer, the president had said that any effort by prosecutors to look into his personal finances or his business finances would be a red line, a line that could not be crossed. we later learned months later in reporting from "the new york times" that that day that that german newspaper broke the story of that subpoena and news outlets then sub kwensequently their own version, december 5th, 2017, the pres

and some of these iraqi reuters a rather good at it. is a member of the iraqi equestrian team he writes an eight year old arabian far abroad called she has our old. says the fall of saddam hussein in two thousand and three until now i have one around forty five medals and four of them were gold but the equestrian sports here are no longer taken seriously they suffer lack of government support and of private investment iraq's equestrian federation used to be a sporting institution that the country was proud of his club was a favorite hangout for saddam hussein's sons to show off their wealth both owned horses worth millions of dollars which they kept at the stables years of war the political instability means the club's facilities for foreign on hold times. iraq's a question federation was set up in one thousand nine hundred twenty two during the year is of iraq's short lived monarchy the six thousand horses here that scion were raby and sorra braids the envy of the questions and breeders around the world now during the war that toppled

coming is the european commission will cut italy's growth forecast for 2019 to 0.2% aaccording to reuters, and the media agency the e.u. is due to unveil its latest forecast and block at 11 cet. italy has ended its third recession in a decade after data showed rome's economy contracted at the end of 2018 let's get out to willem for more on that. there are also growth concerns around the powerhouse of germany. talk us through what to expect >> well, we'll be getting these numbers in under an hour's time, karen, and what we're expecting to see based on those leaks to reuters, at least around italy, it's essentially an almost imperceptible amount of growth expected for this year for that economy that we've seen so many difficulties associated with, of course, and specifically when it comes to a disagreement between the italian government and brussels, the commission specifically here. what we've seen over the last few months, of course, is the commission insisting again and again to the italian coalition government that they should reduce their deficit spending targets. they did that under a

accuses pyongyang of doing the opposite the three hundred page confidential document seen by the reuters news agency alleges that pyongyang is taking steps to protect its nuclear ballistic missiles from military strikes they do so by storing weapons in civilian facilities such as airports and the government is using separate sites to assemble and test the missiles so they're harder to trace the report goes on to say that the north korea also violated sanctions by trading in coal and petroleum products circumventing efforts to block funding for its nuclear program gordon chang is an asia analyst and says that president trump should focus on sanctions against north korea instead of another summit with kim jong il. there is an escalation and the real story here is not that the north koreans are violating u.n. sanctions or they are continuing their arsenal building up their arsenal the real surprise here is that the united states is not enforcing sanctions vigorously the u.s. since the middle of may of last year has basically allowed the north koreans and the russians and the chinese and the

fabulous especially the origami swans now the royal opera house in london and by reuters fresh beer how's have got a bit of a shock in store tobias' kurtz is on his why of course they know what to expect as the young german director is shaking up the opera scene with his innovative and we see productions and he's getting a new audience interested in what is sometimes perceived as middle east to start for. our two neighbors fight over a garden fence this new take on john philip from those baroque opera zoe last time is a revelation. by director toby s cuts of the thirty nine year old is breaking boundaries and setting new standards in opera he's in demand all over europe in twenty eighteen he received germany's top theatre prize the fast for best musical theater direction. his productions are fast paced intelligent and often political the prophet tells of a christian baptist sect at a french housing project it's an educational piece about religious radicalization holy water we learn can also be used for waterboarding. then there's opera new art mozart. featuring a desperate narcissism and

there is a story in reuters but basically a series of mous are drawn up, memorandums of understandingd technology and cyber theft. intellectual property protection. services. currency manipulation. agriculture. and nontariff barriers. apparently these six documents are being drawn up and that both sides, it is a way of moving from not only the general picture in terms of unfair trade practices, to get to the nitty—gritty of what they see as the problems on either side. now, this deadline is looming, though, and six documents, these are the areas and very complicated, especially when you are talking about commitments to, i don't know, protecting intellectual property and the like. you imagine you could spend months and more —— months and months talking about that one subject. i think many pundits expected that march one deadline could in fact be pushed out to give negotiators are more time on both sides. we had to leave it there, but being given an hour. today's talks follow on from the talks that happened at the end of last week in paging. today's talks are taking place in washington

nonetheless, as you mentioned, that report by reuters yesterday has taken a huge toll on the marketsi% on thursday, coal and other resource related stocks also falling. the trade minister, mr birmingham, denied that australia has been unduly treated over fears the move might have been politically motivated. that's after australia rescinded the visa of a prominent chinese businessman in relation to theissue chinese businessman in relation to the issue of huawei borrowing equipment for its five g network. the australian dollar recovered after a ll the australian dollar recovered after all these comments from various dismissing these claims but stocks continue to trade lower, stocks continue to trade lower, stocks like woodside continuing to trade 4% lower. ford says it has hired outside experts to investigate its fuel economy and emissions testing procedures — after a group of employees raised concerns. the auto giant points out it hasn't found any inaccurate fuel economy ratings as yet and that the probe doesn't involve looking for emissions test cheating devices as used by volkswagen

. >> reuters reporting that the u.s. and china have started to outline memorandum of understanding. >> wow okay go ahead >> go ahead. >> no, no. >> i don't want to take over i'm just a substitute. i'm here temporarily i can leave right now. it's fine. >> it's nice that you are here, and you were here two days ago too. you're always ready. >> it's very sweet >> i know. >> they're working on memorandum of understanding on six of the stickiest issues this marks the most significant progress yet towards ending a seven-month trade war. kayla joins us now prosecute washington with more kayla. >> good morning. i think it's important you point out those are some of the stickiest issues the work is still being done the rubber is meeting the road it's a crescendo of sorts here in washington as the cabinet level official from each side are going to open this last series of meetings before the march deadline and really try to put that pen to paper here china's delegation is being led by vice premier leo hub, but this time he is best

that's according to multiple reports, including from reuters and the wall street journal.an to list shares on the nasdaq. brexitng to the conversation, you mentioned this idea of the fundamental shift in the way people are thinking about not only brexit, but about the u.k.. is there a leader or some sort of political force that could speed up the process of the u.k. reconciling all of this? george: no. that is the problem. there is no leadership. corbyn and may along to the generation that was dealing with politics before this split happened, before brexit. they are trying to fit it into framework they understand. it does not fit. it will take time for this move it -- movement. it's about what britain is and before theyine organize themselves to something politically. until that happens, it will be difficult to have a meaningful dialogue. the current dialogues aren't relevant to the problem. caroline: is the u.k. deemed uninvestable -- if the uk's deemed uninvestable, do we see the u.k. breakoff in chunks? are many issues, but for a world that invested in china in 1976, an

australia, because the australian dollar has been on a bit of a roller coaster ride, that is after a reuters report that customs has been banning imports of australian coal. it says it can also recall imports from all sources to the end of 2019 and i2 from all sources to the end of 2019 and 12 million tonnes. australia's treasure it has played down those concerns, saying treasure it has played down those concerns, saying the move is unlikely to be politically motivated. last month, australia rescinded the visa of a prominent chinese businessmen after barring huawei from supplying equipment to its 56 broadband network. let's take a look at where the australian dollar has been trading, because it is currently recovering somewhat after those comments. at $1.14, and earlier i spoke to david lennix, a commodity analyst, who says there has been real impact on the markets. the other night we saw crisis, but if you look at the broader picture, this story actually has been around since august or september of last year when we started to notice that coal shipments going into china were starting to ban

are all transactions between the bank and they will company have also been halted the reuters news agency says gazprom bank is trying to reduce the risk of falling on the u.s. sanctions imposed last month. you know our venezuela's president nicolas maduro continues to block food and medical supplies from the united states but has been allowing in aid from cuba and china despite this truckloads of goods are still crossing the western border with colombia every day that's on us under n.p.t. reports from kuta the image of oil tankers in shipping containers blocking this bridge on the colombian border has become the symbol of the standoff for control of venezuela. president nicolas maduro remains firm in his opposition to allowing the food and medical supplies from the united states into his country but the reality of the border is more complex than the blocking of a single bridge. every night at eight o'clock the last venezuelans hastily make their way home over two other bridges in the city of. their open to foot traffic during the day and as they shut down at night trucks filled with proje

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major nuclear arms agreement with russia that's according to american officials who spoke to the reuters news agency the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty or i n f as it's known was an arms control pact signed by the us and the then soviet union in one thousand nine hundred seven the treaty banned old land based missiles with a range of five hundred to five and a half thousand kilometers and now the u.s. and russia are accusing each other of violating the treaty and donald trump warranty leave the pax on february the second russia failed to comply we have two correspondents covering this story will go to moscow enrich allan's in a moment but first kimberly houk at following the story from washington so really some say china's missile development is behind the u.s. pullout from i n f as well what are you hearing. well the u.s. position and it's long been held given the fact that china. is not bound in any way by this treaty that addresses the intermediate range missiles for both the united states and russia what has become the great concern in the eyes of the united states is that

reuters polls suggest we were looking for 51.1 that also marks an acceleration from january that is a three-month high for the composite. the manufacturing side, however, was less encouraging the manufacturing pmi for the euro zone come in at 49.2. that is slipping into contraction territory. in january that number was 50.5, and expectation was for 50.3 a negative number on the manufacturing front. a more positive number on the services front, and all together, that means the composite number was slightly ahead of expectations. now, just to break down the regions, as i mentioned, we already have the france and germany figures out earlier today. france was quite strong relative to expectation they beat on both the manufacturing and services side of things. germany, however, while they beat on services, they missed on manufacturing. that is in a contraction territory. take a look at the sterling. the euro is trading slightly stronger versus that on the day. now, getting into some corporate news today, barclay's, firmly in focus after reporting a beat on fourth quarter profit before tax.

reuters is reporting that the u.s.nd china have started to outline memorandums of understanding on six of the stickiest issues in the trade dispute. according to sources, they include forced technology transfers, cyber theft, intellectual property rights, services, currency, agriculture, non-tariff barriers to trade this does mark the most significant progress yet towards he wanteding a seven-month trade war. we expect more to come as negotiations from both the u.s. and china resume high level talks as they kick off in wash wash this week now, here's how the markets are reacting to some of the trade headlines. futures right now pointing to a slightly higher open you can see the dow opening up by about 45 points the s&p by just about five, and the nasdaq by about 20 or so on the asian side of things, a bit more of a mixed session. you can see with japan's nikkei just up fractionally about .2% the hang seng and hong kong one-half of 1% to the up side, and the shanghai composite and kospi both just slightly lower in the e

shares of magellan health, which are up about 8% on roughly 350,000 shares of volume, this after a reuterst says that magellan health is going to look into the possibility of selling itself that's according to sources familiar this is after the activist hedge fund, starboard value, which is the company's third biggest shareholder, has exerted some pressure on the company to find ways to unlock value that has sent it up to session highs. we'll continue to watch those shares as trading progresses, john, back over to you guys. >> thanks, dom >>> netflix, amazon go, hulu, the battle between streaming services for control of your content is heating up, as amazon says it's going to ramp movie output to 30 films a year and netflix is spending big to win an oscar julia boorstin joins us now with why distributors this the real value in the streaming wars is becoming the base of the bundle. julia? >> well, john, the latest battle for your living room is the battle to become your entertainment hub. while you can sign up for services ala cart, media, tech, cable, and teleco companies all want to becom

host: reuters put together a study on this about two years ago and pointed out a lot of this. importantly more did not happen in those two years of that brought us to the table today? shelley: thank you to reuters, they have been doing amazing work at speaking to families and really seeing how this works. we are wondering if perhaps it was sort of the localized stories and not understanding the big picture until right now, until we did our national study. we fielded the study over one week which as a researcher, to get that many responses is shocking. thatit did for us was show i looking at the geolocation of all of these responses, it is everywhere, not just localized. it is not a rare situation, we are seeing it all over. host: on the line from harrison, michigan. caller: good morning. thank you. thank you, shelley, for going to bat for our military families. what you are bringing up and what is going before the senate now touched a nerve. this for approximately two years. myself and my family, we did not have the mold issues, we had excellent maintenance, but what i did exp

state oil firm predecessor all transactions between the bank and the oil company have been halted the reuters news agency says gazprom bank is trying to reduce the risk of falling under a u.s. sanctions imposed last month. yes as a marco rubio has led a delegation to the city of kuta on the border between colombia and venezuela the visit comes twenty four hours after two u.s. military planes arrived in colombia with aid destined for venezuela the aid is being blocked by president nicolas maduro. those are the top stories face to face is up next more news for you after that i found out. freedom is not free. every day people die for freedom freedom is not free and in these two guys these two men died just so would we could have basic rights just so i could walk down a street. and not be arrested be able to you know do normal things like everybody else these were the watchman of the tatar if they came and they received a life when you told martin if you go out and speak to your people you're going to dad martin still had the determination to do that for what he was going to say they told malcolm

they're clearly looking for foreign currency reuters is reporting that they're doing it to try to remain solvent with some of their foreign debt obligations which might be what they're doing because they have tried to stay as solvent as possible trying to forego the possibility that their tankers and their oil and other assets will be embargoed and so they may be trying to do that marco rubio on the other hand to say that this is just another example of venezuelan government theft which it also may be very well very well be the case for could be somewhere in between because the reality is the all major transactions over the past twenty years with venezuela there's been giving off the top either but it's on government is the corruption there has been a you know just a believable or he can survive this one the reality is look at cuba cuba has survived of the communist government ninety miles off the coast of florida for sixty years despite u.s. sanctions so there's no question that he can survive the difference with cuba however is that this is a country that now had a real a long traditio

we were expecting based on reuters stories released over the weekend to hear from individual europeanion states about that. we have not heard from spain, pedro sanchez, the spanish prime minister confirmed he will recognize juan guaido as the leader of the venezuelan government and expecting to hear from other european nations the next day or so julianna. >> thanks, willem. it's worth recapping where we left off at the end of last week it was a fairly positive week for markets worldwide. u.s. stocks all three major indexes there as well as the stock 600 ended in positive territory for the week and this included march hire for the most part on friday last week's narrative was driven in large part by encouraging rhetoric over u.s./china trade talks and payroll on friday which was impressive and exceed analysts expectations. don't forget, we got some very weak data on the economic side of things particularly out of europe as well as out of asia and perhaps that is why european stocks this morning are a little bit more cautious. we're seeing the stock 600 struggle for further gains right

venezuelan state oil firm transactions between the bank and the oil company have also been stopped reuters news agency says a gas from bank is trying to reduce the risk of falling on the u.s. sanctions and the sanctions imposed. aimed at blocking president nicolas maduro as access to the country's oil revenues. well u.s. senator marco rubio has a delegation to the city of cooter in the border on the border between colombia and venezuela the visit comes twenty four hours after two u.s. military planes arrived in colombia with a destined for venezuela now the aid is being blocked by president to row rubio described the duo as an illegitimate and unconstitutional leader. what is happening here today what is happening in venezuela is a man me right. now power find out for the south by a manmade a criminal regime that's wanting to start killing some people before it gets a power we are inspired by the way they remind us how valuable the very young men. they remind us our part is always the result. of why we are willing to fight for dark matter how hard. the delivery of aid to venezuela has adde