we have wages rising marginally in the us. longest time was stuck ina spiral of that for the longest time was stuck in a spiral of low or no growth and no wage growth and now it is seeing better economic fundamentals. a lot of economists are telling me hold on, takea of economists are telling me hold on, take a moment to come take a deep breath and have a look at the economic fundamentals in both economies, in the us and asia, things are better than expected. do not get too anxious just yet. and the markets can notjust goes straight up. some traders are even saying this is a healthy correction because since donald trump took off as the dowjones industrial average has been up more than 30% and the s&p 500 has been up as well. we have heard about healthy correction a lot recently. it is the positive economic news that has caused this market correction. many traders are looking at the us central banker, whose job it is to tweak interest rates to ensure that the economy is not growing too fast or too slowly. it looks for a goldiloc

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entering this arena is the us president's daughter ivanka trump. arm reception for the north korean generals sitting behind her. there was no contact between the two, but it does seem that pyongyang is now ready to talk to the us. a victory for the south korean leader, president moon. but make the opening ceremony athletes from the two koreas blew their own country's colours. highlighting the division, despite the diplomacy. critics fear the north has been given too much of a platform at these games. the minister responsible for talks between the two koreas says pyongyang is being pushed on its nuclear weapons. we did convey the message to the north koreans multiple times. it's necessary that north korea and the us are to leave a talk to each other to solve this ina a talk to each other to solve this in a peaceful manner. but at the end of this olympic reverie there could bea of this olympic reverie there could be a dose of reality. the show of harmony has given south korea some breathing space, but tensions still lurks in the background. unfortunat

the sky's the limit. usable tv giant comcast makes a $30 billion bid for rupert murdoch's european tv operation. and the trading day has just begun in europe. this is how the main markets are faring. the new fed chairjerome powell is speaking in washington today. and how and why do things go viral online? we meet one of the firms that says it can do it all for you — for a price. we'll get the inside track on the world of online marketing. today, we want to know do social media ads reel you in or switch you off? let us know. just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. hello and welcome to business live. packed as usual so let's get started. does europe need to do more to protect itself from foreign takeovers? from german manufacuring to greek ports and uk data centres, there's growing concern about how to make sure investment doesn't cost know—how. and eu trade ministers are discussing this at their meeting in bulgaria today. foreign direct invesment into the eu — that's when companies invest their money in foreign coun

it does seem to yong yang is ready to talk to the us, a vidic rory for the president.nlike the opening ceremony, the country's their own colours, highlighting the division, despite the diplomacy. critics think the north have been given too much a platform at these games. the minister responsible for talks between the two koreas says pyongyang is being pushed on its nuclear weapons. we did convey the message to the north koreans, multiple times that it's necessary that north korea and the us talk each other to solve this in a peaceful manner. but at the end of this olympic revelry, there could be a dose of reality. this show of harmony has given south korea some breathing space, but tension still lurks in the background. unfortunately it's not going to last. north koreans are entirely separating, and we've seen it from the first meeting, and the nuclear issue has nothing to do with the cooperation between the two koreas and in this olympic games. these games are ending just as they began with a major diplomatic break through. north korea says it is willing to talk to th

the north koreans have now said they have no intention of using the winter olympics as a chance to meetamerican delegates, and they are also preparing a huge parade of their military prowess. us vice president has reiterated all options are still on the table, he said the us and the allies were striving to dismantle north korea's nuclear programme and alleviate the suffering of its people. he has already said the us will institute the us‘s toughest ever sanctions against north korea. well, here at pyeongchang, there was hope that it was possible that this high—level delegation from the united states and north korea, given that they're here at the games, might actually sit down and talk to one another. but we've heard from the north korean side that that delegation has, quote, "no intention whatsoever of meeting with the us delegation". we're getting this from north korea's official, state—run media, which said in an editorial, we've never begged for dialogue with the us in the past, and we don't intend to in the future. and all this as the north prepares a massive display of its militar

i'm rico hizon in singapore, the headlines: us markets take a big hit. the dowjones industrial nosedives nearly 1,200 points in one day alone — making it the largest point drop in history. us vice president mike pence begins his journey to the winter olympics in south korea, as he seeks to counter warming ties with north korea. i'm sharanjit leyl in london. also in the programme: in 1987 she blew up a south korean plane, the bbc speaks to a former north korean spy about the country she was once prepared to kill for. the ultimate goal of north korea is to complete its nuclear programme. they have nothing on their mind but nuclear weapons. closing down 4.6% by nearly 1,200 points. it is the worst drop in points since september 2008, when a plan to rescue the us banking industry after the financial crisis was rejected and the worst single day point decline in history. with me is karishma wasvani, our business correspondent. in two trading days the fall of the dow has been more than 1800 points. what is because of this mayhem as i was talking to some traders

today, the us expressed his frustration. ical weapons use in syria. the besieged damascus suburb of eastern ghouta has seen for reported chemical attacks since the start of the year. —— four. without weapons inspectors on the ground, activists have taken to documenting them. this is one of them. three were hit today, in the morning. now we'rejust... boom! along with shelling and air strikes, they have become a terrifying prospect for civilians. translation: we were sleeping. my wife woke up and said, "i can smell the chlorine." we closed the windows and covered ourselves with blankets. we can withstand it but the children can't. we have to be rushed to hospital. the syrian government denies using chemical weapons. this war, now entering its eighth year, has devastated the country and its people. and with international diplomacy failing, syria's war seems far from over. nawal al—maghafi, bbc news. the us house of representatives is expected to vote later on tuesday. there was a partial shutdown for three days injanuary until r

that and i hate to say it but i think that if the left did start using it that what we'd see was just even more noise and spam we've got to figure out how to address the issue of bots and the issue of fake news and all of this junk content that's spreading over social media without fighting fire with fire so what do you think the solution is i think that the first thing that we need to have done is to have some way of authenticating users knowing who is who on the platforms at the verify that the person that we're talking to is not using automation to bolster their their presence online and that's as simple as having a little marker on the page that says this profile is highly automated and what it also does for twitter for facebook or for another social media company is it tells them that hey because this is a highly automated profile we need to keep it out of our algorithm that germans trends. google and facebook declined our request for interviews in the u.s. congress is considering legislation that would require them to make reasonable efforts to ensure

the asian markets. australia and japan are in positive territory. thank you for updating us on the markets. njapan on tuesday where he is set to meet with prime minister abe. in a press conference in alaska, pence told reporters that he would be telling the truth about north korea at every stop. this is the start of a visit to asia that will take the vice—president to south korea for the start of the winter olympics which begin on friday. werejoined by our were joined by our correspondence. stephen, is the vice president's visits to pyeongchang for the winter olympic games, is being anticipated that? here in the mountains of pyeongchang, people are naturally excited about the sport getting started. there is a lot of enthusiasm for the winter olympics which will begin in the next few days. in terms of the visit from vice president mike pence, there are different views. some people in south korea goal along with this view that north korea is being rewarded too quickly by having a joint hockey team and having a senior north korean politician visit, having the north and south korean teams march

the country. it is likely to bring us the country. at ten, another tough month for nhs england, as accident and emergency departments struggle to cope with rising demand. the winter pressure on services, continued into january, which turned out to be one of the worst months since records began. many people suffered long waits on trolleys, before being admitted to wards, as nurses expressed their frustration. there is a breaking point — we wonder how long our hard work and goodwill and our enthusiasm and care and professional attitude, how that can be sustained over a long period of time. we'll take a closer look at the figures, and at the problems caused by inadequate social care. also tonight... two british extremists, believed to have been executioners for the islamic state group, have reportedly been captured. the bank of england says interest

healthy economic growth in the us and the jobs market picking up with wages growing slightly and thensudden money is being pulled out of aus sudden money is being pulled out of a us dog market and correspondingly here in asia. the reason for that is that as the economy strengthens in the us, the expectations for inflation, the price of goods going up, has increased. so traders are expecting the us federal reserve, the central bank bear, to increase interest rates at a faster and 30 pace than they expected initially. that means the cost of borrowing goes up and things could come more expensive and money is buff pulled out of the stock market. it is a delicate balance. it is like investors wait, they are excelling, that moment has not happened yet. many are probably selling as a result of the fact that they are up by so much. we have seen such a sharp rise in us stocks out here in asia as well. many people think let me get out now and enjoy some of that money. go on a holiday, maybe. another reason why people are selling is because other people are selling. a herd mentality? exactly. th

us about the us economy? what will it tell us about the global economy? i'm not sure it tells us much about the global economy. the global economy. pricing in in terms of good news on the economy, which we know about. the economy, which we know about. here and appetite has increased and at an all—time high. at an all—time high. all of that was flashing dangerously. flashing dangerously. terms of reaction, how authorities should react, the central banks? should react, the central banks? there is a problem here, we should do something about it? do something about it? that is an interesting question. interesting question. the latter camp of letting the markets play out. markets play out. at various times in history is that central banks do come in. central banks do come in. in to calm the markets and step in the measures to support the markets. the measures to support the markets. over in march with his first meeting. meeting. have been that the us would continue to raise interest rates. to raise interest rates. message would be, hold on, hold tight. the fun

the use military force. is solidarity and this is what really has to be recognized by our viewers i mean russia is there by invitation by the legitimate syrian government as is iran. in in the in the in this is the crux of the whole thing we have a president that appears to be appears to be at least asleep at the wheel he doesn't know what his generals are doing he doesn't understand the policy he makes himself feel good by giving them all the money that they want but you know syria is ignored as a sovereign state it's really reported on and what is reported out exactly as you say it seems as if the u.s. has a right to be there and that the u.s. should be governing in damascus you know what is assad doing there when the americans should be there running the country and that's the position. presenting or israel or is it on whether it's m.s.n. b.c. or fox and saudi arabia and turkey i mean you let me if you want a topic that both of these networks agree on it's how the us has the right to be in syria because ba

the set there? sackable offence! jane foley is with us. entine's day, then easter, and it seems like a constant cycle. if you don't want to pay for what the flowers today, you can do what the flowers today, you can do what my husband didn't buy them for days early so that you don't have to get them full price! that is better than maybe getting them tomorrow, and getting reduced flowers i! be grateful you got some at all. that's talk about what is in the papers, and this is a story we mentioned earlier about sky and bt paying over £4 billion to share these premier league tv rights. is it more less last year? i think there are two aspect of this. the first is cost, because per match, it isa first is cost, because per match, it is a lot less, so they are paying together $4.46 billion, three years ago it was $5.4 billion, and they say that there are declining viewing numbers. and that i think is something that the industry does need to address. why are there declining viewing numbers, is it because there is so much choice, or is it perhaps beca

between turkey and the us. ng time. those tensions are rooted in the nature of the regime president erdogan is trained to implement and is fuelled by anti— americanism. the ambassador clearly misses the point. the us, pkk for turkey is an existential threat because pkk is a direct threat to turkey ‘s territorial and prosperous future. we are talking about what is happening in a sovereign nation, syria. you are trying to reshape northern syria. not only do the syrians say it is unacceptable... no, no, we have 900 kilometres of water with syria. what happened in syria is a concern for us because we are having to live with the consequences. 3.5 million syrian refugees, largely on the back of ethnic cleansing by pkk, turkey cannot sit on the fence. this operation is clearly raising tensions. looking at what is happening in northern syria, how long will it last? it will last as long will it last? it will last as long as we push all those terror groups out of the area. we are also trying to stabilise idlib area, one o

homeland. - i usually don't use the term rogue state, i think it's too liberally used, but in the case of north korea, i think it fits. you have a country with a very unpredictable leader. it's not clear when or how or why he would use nuclear weapons, but he is slowly developing their nuclear capability, not only with land based missiles, but with sea based missiles and so that's a real danger. (piano music) - this is a perfect example of a 21st century security challenge that no one nation can solve alone. - [narrator] most analysts say the weight of the international community is the best tool to stop nuclear proliferation. they point to the successful use of sanctions and incentives that persuaded libya, south africa, and most recently iran to severely limit nuclear enrichment capability. - we've seen under president obama the effort to try to contain those countries who can acquire nuclear capabilities. in those negotiations, presidents have at their disposal all kinds of gambits and tools from the liftingf sanctions for example, to the offering of greater aid and trade. - i f

rex tillerson said the us would supply some $200 million extra to syria for the stabilisation processpetive. that relationship is improving. north korea's state media said that leader kim jong—un is delighted with the outcome of his country's attendance at the games. accompanying the report was this unusually relaxed picture of mr kim with his delegation that had just spent three days in south korea. you can see here his sister kim yo—jong and to the left the north's ceremonial head of state, kim yong—nam. both are linking arms with him and kim yong—nam is practically holding his hand. the report also says mr kim thanks the south for "specially prioritising" the north's attendance at the games and gave instructions on how to "liven up the warm climate of reconciliation and dialogue." the question is whether this charm offensive is working beyond the two koreas. today the south korean president president moonjae—in said the us is open to talking with the north. laura bicker is at the winter olympics in pyeongchang. over two months ago, kim jong—un fired his last missile, and here we ar

the founder of goeuro, naren shaam, joins us now. have both had a 90, with the website. we have both had a go, and we struggle with it a little bit, it kept pinging me to booking.com. we are starting a new partnership, so you hit on an edge case, we try to bring all trans built in europe together, operating in12 built in europe together, operating in 12 countries. —— all transport. we have partners built in, what we try to do is bring all of this inventory online, makes it easily bookable. what strikes me is extraordinary, something people are not aware of, fragmentation of the european travel market, we think of european travel market, we think of europe as a single market, people talk about the single market, it is not yet, it is not in travel, can you explain it to us. that is the purpose of me founding this company, if you look at other industries, netflix, you stream almost all movies in netflix, when you want to order, amazon, song, spotify, travel... ten different websites. airline websites, trained is mostly state owned in mo

the founders' uses of the bible, they used the bible for a variety of reasons, and for diverse reasons ranging from the primarily literary and political to the profoundly theological. they used the bible as we sometimes use the bible today, first, to enrich a common language and cultural vocabulary through distinctly biblical references. let me give you a few simple examples. in counseling a patient rather than an intemperate approach to the crisis confronting the tolerate -- colonies, john adams wrote to james moran in 1776 -- "the management of so complicated and mighty a machine as the united colonies requires the meekness of moses, the patience of job, and the wisdom of solomon added to the valor of daniel." you have to know a little bit about your bible to appreciate what is being communicated. i think a fairly simple illustration of what i'm speaking here. let me give you slightly -- a slightly more substantive example. i turn to weigh familiar biblical metaphor. -- to a familiar biblical metaphor. we are all familiar with abraham lincoln's implication of a house divided, drawing

security council statement condemning the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government u.s. ambassador nikki haley says there's obvious evidence of recent chlorine gas attacks by the assad regime but russia is accusing the. u.s. of waging a propaganda campaign as that debate was taking place at least forty nine people were killed by syrian and russian airstrikes in the province and eastern ghouta according to activists outside syria aid agencies are warning hundreds of thousands of displaced syrians are at risk of being forcibly returned home despite the violence more on that later in the show but first our diplomatic editor james pays reports from the u.n. on another heated debate at the security council the attack was brazen and blatant at least eleven people were treated after an airstrike in syria chlorine was probably used this the latest in a series of what seem to have been chemical attacks it led to a war of words in the security council a meeting you were not supposed to see this regular monthly session on the issue is usually held behind closed doors but an angry us

to provoke possibly the use of nuclear weapons by accumulation by the retard that is been using and he putting he's putting him in a corner also i feel the same way i have to say about russia even if one sees them as being just as aggressive one sees also these corners that they're pushing each other into through particular kinds of retard but i'd like to go back to what you said before about it's worked for forty five years the fact is that to terence's not kept the the peace in forty five years because there are several instances where it failed and and we can say at least one we know of with standard stuff petrof way he saved the world not to terence because they actually thought that. there was an antidote to that sorry yes that's absolutely true stanislav petroff saved the world in i can a country member the day in the late ninety's in the moment where he thought that there was a rocket attack coming in a missile attack coming in from the united states and he was absolutely sure that this could not be the case and so he didn't give that up to the line of

to describe the country isn't legal system also known as the common law the us department of justice responded by saying the time reflect shed american english heritage. and former president barack obama has also referred to the anglo american legal system in fact the term was widely used by other members of his administration as well but it seems no one took notice of that in washington sooner kong ages reaction to controversial comments made by u.s. leaders and politicians. i'm going to say donald trump. as sounds like something he would say is actually obama says. he actually correct. you find it offensive i don't know. i just thought it would be him. but i mean. i like president obama so i'm glad he said that. why do you think that because he is offensive towards immigrants. is actually really wow. interesting but i wouldn't know because nobody who can do this with. my kids or our address each. other first where she told. me you're correct a. bunch of them i didn't get no outrage so i guess it's all about the messenger and not so much about the message. the

are pending should they conclude that they are they have been the use or likely use of chemical weapons in any of those and the alleged incidents obligation to enact a meaningful response will be further intensive fight it is my hope and the hope of the sector general that such a response will favor unity not impunity as always the obvious for disarmament affairs stands ready to provide whatever support and assistance it can thank you very much for intention. so you then i commit so i will be on the. line now give the floor to those council members who wish to make statements i give the floor to the distinguished representative of the united states. thank you mr president thank you as in me for your briefing the news out of syria this morning is following a troubling pattern there are reports of yet another chemical weapons attack on sunday victims of what appears to be chlorine gas or pouring into hospitals a few things have horrified my country and the world as much as the assad regime's use of chemical weapons against its people this council has been outspoken on ending syria's use o

the us market and the chinese market. and driving forces for the japanese. but this year, the us market is expected to decline, and the chinese market is set to slow dramatically. what about cost pressures on brawl materials, and skyrocketing research and development investments? will there also impact the bottom lines of japanese automakers? yes. that is another issue coming into play. they will be pitched at both ends. costs are rising in some ways for the material. and at the same time, they need to spend more for investment in these new technologies that are becoming the forefront of the industry. we are talking about time as driving, rectification, connectivity of the cars. that is all demanding huge investments from these companies, and it is all coming ata these companies, and it is all coming at a time when sales are beginning to slow. and that was hans grimel joining beginning to slow. and that was hans grimeljoining us on the japanese carmakers that will be reporting their earnings this week. moving now to indon

the bond markets, t—cell off. tell us the bond markets, t—cell off. tell us more? cting consumer price index inflation to go to 2.9%, it didn't. that led investors to think that maybe the outlook for interest rates, the federal reserve, is for more increases than we were currently expecting. as a result, bond yields we re expecting. as a result, bond yields were rising, the longer term interest rate which partly reflects what people expect is going to be the path of the federal reserve interest rates over the coming years. it is quite a move upwards in what it costs, basically, to borrow in the us. you mentioned the inflation rate in the us coming in higher than expected. normally, people would conclude that increases the likelihood of interest rates going up and that then pushes the dollarup? going up and that then pushes the dollar up? it is more attractive to invest in assets in the dollar. but it hasn't had that effect? the immediate impact was exactly what you would expect, the dollar going a little bit. it quickly reversed that entirely. there was a bit of rea

we can see asia has followed the us lead downwards. spoke yesterday. he gave an upbeat appraisal of the us economy — of course this combined with higher wage growth is worrying investors that there could be more interest rate hikes than they had expected this year. now looking at oil — we can see both brent crude and west texas continuing their fall. that's after industry numbers showed us crude stockpiles are rising — that's amid surging production in the country from shale producers. of course that's making it much harder for the likes of opec to end the global oil glut. up next — newsbriefing — we'll take you through the stories making headlines in the global media today including... the uk is waking up to another morning of freezing conditions after temperatures as low as minus ten overnight. the cold weather has already caused major distruption, but forecasters say the worst is yet to come, with warnings in place until the weekend. here's our correspondent jon donnison with more. the so—called beast from the east has already left m

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this is deja vu news laws from berlin russia and the us clash one nato and the e.u. search for unity at the munich security conference the us national security advisor claims pyrrhus indisputable evidence that moscow interfered in america's election a claim russia's foreign minister dismisses as blather and germany's foreign minister says berlin no longer knows what to make of washington's policy who's also on the program. to turkish german journalist denis you jealous says he's glad to be free after a year in a turkish prison but he expressed concern for the many other journalists still behind bars. and live from the red carpet of the berlin film festival all how all the glitz and glamour coming up for you later on the show. welcome to the program i'm michel henery thanks for joining us security in the european union after brics it and transatlantic ties in the trump era those were the topics dominating a second day of speeches at the munich security conference here in germany german foreign ministers of mark gaboriau and british prime minister choices made were amo

the test. glad you could join us this exciting addition of asia business report. st economic figures have just been released. its gdp grew by half a percent in the last three months of 2017 compared to the same quarter a year earlier. the numbers we re quarter a year earlier. the numbers were a little softer than expected. it is the eighth straight quarter of expansion forjapan‘s economy. earlier, we were told why the economy is building strength. there are some seasonality, some volatility but the big issue is, for the first time in 30 years, it's 30 yea rs, the first time in 30 years, it's 30 years, you've got wages, jobs, the quality ofjobs are improving so the overall environment for consumption is now a positive one. while over the last 30 years, it was a negative one. that's the key point that was driving the steady expansion of japan. driving the steady expansion of japan. in the financial markets, there is one word that is making investors shake in their boots right 110w. investors shake in their boots right now. inflation. it is the benchmark which measure

senior officials from pyongyang will be there, the us vice president too. and just before the opening of the so—called peace olympics, the north will be holding a massive military parade. human rights groups say more than 25 people have died, including at least 12 children, in eastern ghouta, where the syrian government has carried out more airstrikes. the area is home to about 400,000 people. it's one of the last areas still controlled by rebels fighting president assad. party leaders in the us senate have struck a two year budget deal that should avoid any repeat of last month's federal government shutdown. but it still needs approval from the house of representatives, and many are questioning a $300 billion increase to the federal deficit. it has just it hasjust gone it has just gone half—past three in the morning, it must be time for click. this week: robo cops... accessible togs. .. and surgery goggles. welcome to dubai, the desert kingdom where there's no such thing as too much. this city has spent more than a decade making a name for itself for the ou

to unite against the us sure but the evidence does not at the moment present that the turks as hard as russia turkish us relations really complicated their crisscrossing ties with the kurds with the two countries as three countries on other levels so i am sure they want to avoid a repeat of what happened two years ago when the turks were blamed for shooting down a russian plane so we may see them blame the us but beyond that i'm not expecting any formal action in some reports say it was brought down by machine gunfire there are a couple of reports out there saying was shot down by a missile the rebels are not known to have a surface to air missiles with this kind of range it's possible they managed to get one on the black market or something but it machine fire is caught is pretty constant but for the most part during the russian air campaign has not had many casualties the rebels shot down a helicopter they did have a successful sabotage raid apparently with drones a few weeks ago at an air base but shooting down an airplane i think it's the first time it's occurred and for now i wo

the bbc‘s stephen mcdonell is there. bring us up to date. t at pyeongchang there was hope that it was possible that this high level delegation from the united states in north korea, given that they are here in the games, might actually sit down and talk to one another. but we have heard from the north korean side that that delegation has, quote, no intention whatsoever of meeting with the us delegation. we are getting this from north korea's official state—run media, which said in an editorial, we have never begged the dialogue with the us in the past, and we don't intend to in the future. and all this as the north prepares a massive display of its military might. yes, i mean, just as north korea is about to achieve something of a propaganda coup here at pyeongchang, with its unexpectedly high level of engagement, sending along kim jong—un‘s sister, and the like, the joint hockey team, what would you do to try and counter all that goodwill? how about a big, scary looking mass military parade, just across the border, to remind everybody of you

not satisfied is all with the approach or her bike us. we have discussed this situation had links yesterday and today. we feel. this decision shows the urgent need. for reform in the internal structure of costs or we're just a few days to go now until the olympics begin in pyongyang a more optimistic story surrounding these games involves the combined north and south korean women's hockey team south korea have the strongest squad but at least three players from north korea will participate in each match in the olympics they played here their first woman game against sweden finished three want to sweden as well as the joint hockey team the two koreas were marched together under unified flag at the games opening ceremony. we've what we've been able to practice as a team for over a week so we were viewing all of our systems it's been great for our players as well. and the north korean players learn quickly they've been great to work with they work really hard so we've just been reviewing our systems and we'll keep teaching and keep getting be

that could spell relief for people in the us and around the world. ike this, it is hard to predict when it might end. bbc news, new york. let's get more on this now. our asia business correspondent, karishma vaswani, joins us from singapore. what a day. give us a sense of how things are going in asia right now. well, sally bundock, very much following on from the lead in the us markets have had, the fall on asian shares is what asian investors have woken up to. the same sea of red gci’oss woken up to. the same sea of red across asia, with the japan nikkei at one point falling 7%. it has now recovered slightly. many of the traders i have spoken to today have said all the positive news in the us and the expectation interest rates will rise in the us, why is that effect asia? when interest rates go up, hot money pouring into asian stocks, that tends to disappear, find better value returns elsewhere. we have seen that for some time. but i think it is the nervousness that has affected asian investors today. that is despite some government ministers in japa

the buyer employees in the u.s. used what is called a political action committee to donate five hundred forty four thousand dollars to climate change deniers employees of another chemicals giant b.s.f. donated five hundred fifty one thousand dollars. the sums account for some thirty percent of donations made by both companies in the past six years both companies also a stance ablaze support climate protection we asked them why they support climate change deniers and why they're involved with us politics doesn't want to name couldn't bush also often pointed to german companies can definitely profit from the political shift in the us that is because the conversations that are started there are against climate protection in favor of climate change denial or efforts to reduce emissions that want to postpone all that and buy time for conventional business models that's how the companies benefit and often what's in the end on the . wire tells us that the donations are for different reasons. those reasons include health and agr

the world again crushing. where. crossing head luck to us is actively helping to shift the tax burden away from the the richest entities to corporations on a global scale and it's hurting countless people know what's not i mean according to the tax justice network financial secrecy provided by the us has caused untold harm to the ordinary citizens of foreign countries whose elites abuse the united states as a bolthole for looted well. yeah that's awful i don't know i mean a bolt hole sounds pretty go with. me in hiding place. i thought i'm going to glory over a lightning bolt. and i mean get on a do and not iraq. i don't know so why sceptically is the us number two is a tax haven well a major reason is that we don't comply with the o.e.c.d. common reporting standards and i'll give you one hundred dollars if you can tell me what o.e.c.d. stands for organization for economic. cooperation development then how did you probably know that this is only a dollar no it's not it's a hundred dollars and it's a tax write off. anyway because the u.s. doe

many also want to forge new relationships with the us and china. latin america, next on great decisions. (jubilant orchestra music) - [announcer] great decisions is produced by the foreign policy association in association with thomson reuters. funding for great decisions is provided by pricewaterhousecoopers llp. (soft music) - [narrator] the 1960's in latin america was an era of political revolutions. the reverberations of which are still felt today. - latin america was really defined, the 1960's by the cuban revolution. there was a greater push for independence, sovereignty, autonomy from the united states. - it was a region where some of the battles between capitalism and communism, between democracy and authoritarianism, played out with the greatest drama. it was an era of military coups everywhere from central america down through brazil and argentina. - there were movements not just in latin america, but in other parts of the world in the 60's and 70's to bring more left progressive government into power and in reaction to that, military dict

the trumpet ministrations legal authority to be there well there is using the exact same authority that obama used to be there quit unsupported use to be there so tim kaine's objections come off as more learn a little bit artisan you know my first question to you why is it important alex is really really important because. what we had on the as a backdrop of the pentagon papers in one nine hundred seventy one about u.s. behavior in indochina and i rank everyone here by age but i remember the talk of the imperial presidency where the president has the right to do on a whim like we saw the missile strikes i think in april the trump conducted against syria this is what i find really quite disturbing because we don't we yeah exactly but you know you have congress you know when it is trying to used to hang cling on to hits it's authorities when it came to foreign policy now they're just giving it away and for. democrats and liberals. this is very strange are the ones that wanted accountability from the imperial presidency but they're only adding fuel to this and the congress has essentially

united states is extremely concerned about yet another report of the use of chlorine gas by sea. the syrian regime to terrorize innocent civilians in east gouda syria outside of damascus if confirmed the attack is the third reported instance in the past thirty days in east ghouta we take the allegations of chemical weapons use very seriously and are working with our partners on the ground to investigate the reports so beyond raising public awareness about the security situation inside syria the trumpet ministration is trying to see if they can somehow come up with a new way of verifying that the syrian government still does possess chemical weapons there had been an organization known as the joint investigative mechanism which should have been renewed according to the u.s. at the end of december so that it could continue its work trying to verify what syria is doing and what it's not doing in terms of using chemical weapons russia which is serious closest ally took action and said no we don't want to reauthorize this body so now u.s. officials are trying to figure out

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i think the taxing of this use is imminent. the state will come up with a number in the city and county of san francisco because of a lot of the needs in regard to health and equity and all the other desires. it is a conversation that is going to move forward in a rapiden maer, probably after the june election. but maybe even sooner than that. so we should engage in that conversation. and other than that, i appreciate the conversation. i would like to echo what supervisor tang said because of the expansion of retail use, the knowledge and the access and the exposure of youth has gone up exponentially and i think it is important we have a real conversation because the folks that will be exposed to a broader variety of cannabis on the market, whether it is the secondary or tertiary market after folks that are buying it through the expanded retail accessability, we have to have a full-blown conversation about how we're disseminating that information. it's important to include, as you said, the department of children, youth and fami

the us kept pressing japan to capitulate. a compromise was reached the u.s. backed off its insistence that japan's emperor hirohito step down while in return hirohito declared that atomic bombs were what had brought japan to its name whose. he conveniently omitted the fact that before this he had allowed hundreds of thousands of his subjects to be burned and killed by napalm bombs. the emperor had got what he wanted now japan could surrender. but the ruins of hiroshima and nagasaki were not quite like other bombed out cities . the americans quickly discovered the deadly legacy of radioactive poisoning a slow long term killer. to many hiroshima and nagasaki where indictments of the victors inhumanity army reports about conditions in the two japanese cities were classified top secret the american general staff began arguing that the bombing of hiroshima and nagasaki was a necessary evil. leslie groves the head of the manhattan project formally presented the official story before the senate. made it impossible for the japanese to continue their war despite their