joining us from london. are people going to be voting again in a general election i mean is may's position herself in jeopardy right now. opposition is different in germany were a few stages away from general election but thing is we're going to see whether she can survive these that says that now being sent by conservative m.p.'s if she manages to survive that process which is in no way guaranteed she did and she put it in front of parliament now at the moment there's no way parliament going to vote for the deal i mean she's not getting support from anywhere she's managed to find the sort of no man's land of splitting the u.k. away from the e.u. so much that remain as and soft boxes will never accept it and yet still keeping it from the mentally within a sort of ecosystem for tyrants and upsets the brits so there's no support there in parliament what happens when this thing falls down and that is something that we don't really know the answer to could be a general election it could be another referendum see

thank you for joining us from london.llie has been looking at what the consequences are and the potential elements of interest for the business community. allie: after over two years of wrangling a draft brexit deal, itit is finally on the table. but what w with this divorce settlement mean for business -- what would this divorce settlement mean for business? hope is that a new trade deal could be agreed to by this time. it would allow the u.k. to trade deals with other countries. it doesn't happen, the customs union would be e extendd indefinitely and the banks would avoid a hard border in ireland. it also covers geographic indicators, a special eu protection for products like champagne and feta cheese. according to the draft text, the u.k. will stick to these rules until a new trade agreement is done. ther the transition period, city o of london could face a downwngrade as manany banks exi. financial services will be governed by the same rules as countries outside the block. a framework known as regulatory equivalence,

speak to a mad indian and his ability is a political commentator on saudi affairs he's joining us from london via skype a lot to unpack with you thanks for joining us on al-jazeera so first just your reaction on what we heard from the saudi arabian deputy public prosecutor and spokesman on the it's saudi arabian part of the investigation we're all with you now the job is more clear of them before. they accuse eleven from live in they find five proof that you will directly. so obviously we hear that they want more evidence from the top to should start to apply to the so we do so out of clause two to two why aren't more doing the skerries. it just seems though to many people that the saudi arabian narrative has changed several times over the past few weeks for example on the third of october the saudi crown prince said that he had left the consulate an hour after his arrival on october the eighteenth they said that he died in a fistfight and today november fifteenth the saudi prosecutor says he was killed and dismembered it side the consulate is the narrative changing over the weeks no no do yo

analysts craig golden joins us from london is this the breakthrough we've been waiting for craig. i think it's one of the breakthroughs we've been waiting for necessarily resolve the issue of the irish border in the stop hopefully those discussions all ongoing i think is still an extremely important one though because this is the thing that may help it get through pollens ultimately this is a hugely important sector to the u.k. as you've just alluded to it contributes around three and a half the u.k. employment and seven percent of you calpol and eleven percent of u.k. tax receipts so naturally this is going to be one of those things that's going to get m.p.'s on science but what about the savings here for the banks and financial institutions how much could a deal like this actually save them. well it's huge i mean not really we have seen policies and procedures put in place in order to deal with the possibility of a no deal breaks it will all ultimately these banks and financial institutions would rather avoid having to do so the costs associated with opening a new office in the

reporting for us from london. the united nations is marking the international day for the elimination of violence against women on sunday several thousand women marched in rome on the eve of the occasion they were called victims of violence demanded greater rights for women and chanted slogans against the far right league party activists in turkey are also gearing up for demonstrations on sunday just last month at the european council warned ankara to do more to protect women and girls against domestic violence correspondent yulia han met one survivor. my name is hundred nashton i was born in one thousand nine hundred six in istanbul i was always very strong. this is me h sixteen or seventeen with a friend we were very happy that day. to hand and looks back at her old pictures as she likes to remember her teenage years but she has torn one person out of the voters and her husband the man who almost killed her. in our ten year relationship he slapped me he beat me he insulted me. why this happened in the bedroom as

istanbul thank you let's speak to bill last he's a journalist and middle east analyst he's joining us from london via skype so from what you heard the attorney general had to say. including that saudi arabia is now seeking the death penalty for five people who are accused of the. murder but the investigation is still going on is this enough for the international community and specifically for turkey who is continue to ask who ordered the murder. no i suspect it's not enough but there is enormous pressure right now on mom an installment just yesterday lindsey graham described as unreliable and unstable lindsey graham a senior republican democrat republican senator and the chair of the of the foreign relations committee bob corker has called for an immediate end to the arms deals that america has in the yemen who are and has also said that as far as he's concerned mountains on is the person responsible so the response i think today reflects that pressure coming from the american senate and congress however donald trump i think is still anxious to try and keep mom and bin solomon in play and therefo

correspondent barbara basler who's been following the break at negotiations and joins us from london barbara given the opposition that theresa may faces in getting her break the deal through parliament does she really have any reason to be optimistic. not at this point in time terry because she really faces a wall of criticism from all sides from inside her own party opposition politicians from different strands of the conservatives have been making the rounds of the radio studios this morning and have said we don't want this we want something else maybe we want an already solution staying in the single market but not this particular deal that she has brought back from brussels and also if you look at social media people here don't buy this optimism thing they say this is the most important decision within generations that we in britain have to take you can't just tell us to sort of wipe this off the table and move on we're not satisfied. e.u. commission president john told us he insists there will be no renegotiations of the brig's a deal saying this is the only deal possible you me

stage thank you so much for shedding light on the situation for us being at mass reporting for us from london thank you. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world the u.s. border patrol. has shut the international crossing between california and after several hundred central american migrants pushed past a blockade of mexican police standing guard the migrants want to pressure the u.s. to hear their asylum claims in another area u.s. agents fired tear gas at crowds trying to breach a border fence. ugandan divers have retrieved thirty one bodies after a boat capsized on lake victoria dozens more are feared dead the vessel was on a routine pleasure cruise and believed to be overcrowded with nearly one hundred mostly young revelers when it sank saturday evening at least twenty seven people were rescued. iran says it has deployed rescue teams to the country's western border with iraq following a magnitude six point three earthquake the epicenter was near the town of star paul the hub where a powerful temblor killed over six hundred people last year authorities said at leas

this stage thank you so much for shedding light on the situation for speaking mass reporting for us from london thank you. and now to some of the other stories making news around the world the ukraine. the navy says russia has seized three of its ships in the black sea after firing on the vessels to vote for damaged and two crew members were wounded off the courage straight near russian controlled crimea ukraine president petro poroshenko has called an emergency meeting of his top military brass. and ugandan divers have retrieved thirty one bodies after a boat capsized on lake victoria dozens more are feared dead the vessel was on a routine pleasure cruise and believed to be overcrowded with nearly one hundred mostly young revelers when it sank saturday evening at least twenty seven people were rescued. iran says it has deployed a rescue teams to the country's western border with iraq following a magnitude six point three earthquake the epicenter was near the town of sar paul is a hob where a powerful temblor killed over six hundred people last year authorities said around two hundred people we

i did reporting for us from london thank you very much. thank you. let's catch up on some other stories making news around the world sri lanka's political crisis has intensified after lawmakers voted out the country's newly appointed prime minister in a heated session the move follows a decision by the country's top court to suspend a presidential order to dissolve parliament and hold fresh elections the rajapaksa was appointed prime minister last month after the president kicked out his predecessor. u.s. vice president mike pence has told me and our leader aung san suu kyi there was no excuse for the violence that's caused hundreds of thousands of to flee her country and it was meetings hoochie on the sidelines of a regional summit he also pressed for the release of two jailed journalists. and egypt has brokered a truce between israel and palestinian militants in gaza cross border violence flared up after an israeli raid in gaza over the weekend palestinians responded by firing hundreds of rockets into southern israel killing one and injuring dozens

we're joined by minutiae talk an international or than energy consultant and he is joining us live from london very good to have you with us on al-jazeera i want to talk more about the eight countries that have been exempt from sanctions and can continue to buy iranian oil all of which we just mentioned iran's deputy oil minister said that these waivers show that the markets need iran's oil is that true. of course that is true you see even if the quantity of crude oil is almost balance it is the type of oil that the refinery is in the say in south america in south korea or in china but surely japan has a long term customers those refineries are tuned for this particular quality of your on the oil beaches being explored to and to change to crude from kuwait or saudi arabia and so on would not be that easy in adjusting the advantages in practical terms so there is that as well as the actual supply demand balance that still is in question whether there is enough supply available so it is the fear i do agree that there is a fear that there will be shortage of supply demand balance short shortage o

thank you for joining us from london, bloombergs guy johnson. emma, we say an american politics you cannot beat somebody with nobody. her fellow tory members, who would replace her inventory party, what with the chances -- in the tory party, and what with the chances be that it would bring jeremy corbyn on? he was one of the people who said that he had no confidence in the prime minister, but we see those mp's, of mp's, tory have said they have not reached that. mp,said no confidence in the but he did not put his name forward. the brexit secretary resigned this morning, or is johnson, michael jos name has been put out there. we have not seen anyone and coming to the floor at the moment, so they had not been able to reach that number of mp's who say no confidence. david: are any of those possible? when it comes to dominic raab, he has only been there a minute, every short period of time. boris johnson is very established on the former mayor of london. i have heard he does not have a lot of support within the party, very controversial. emma: while

with me to discuss some of these issues is henry peabody, mary bowers and alberto gallo joining us from londonry, many people might've missed it. loans -- it is the busiest month since may and october. that is when everybody was going crazy. yet the market was still that busy. mary: i think they posted a small positive return in october and outperformed much of fixed income this year. over 4% year to date. we have had over $100 billion in issuance this year. all the new issue supply out of high-yield. the technical has been good despite the -- in the market. for now it seems like the leverage loan space will be able to print a lot of new issuance. jonathan: is this attractive for you? mary: we think it is getting a little frothy. there is a lot discussed around the light. there has been around for a long time. we are seeing top-heavy secure ca structures that c -- secure cap structures. that arose values -- that you roads values -- that erodes values. while we have seen some choppiness in the third-quarter, i would say we are rolling over. it is certainly getting late in the cycle. jonathan: i

all right let's bring in a varchar he's following the story joining us from london as well just to talk us through what more aware said in parliament needs. well let me put all this happened here into context has been pretty successful in the past few days in brokering two component portions as it were for her plans firstly a brokering proposal or draft proposal for the withdrawal agreement and now a declaration on the future political relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. going forward it will now talk about the practicalities of it all go before the e.u. twenty seven of the all important summit on sunday for further consideration for also a crucial decision but to reason planners also face an absolute mauling in the british parliament over the course of the afternoon the british government accused of failing to provide key details of also contradicting some of its earlier plans overstepping some of its red lines as well we now know that for instance e.u. and u.k. nationals may need to apply for visas if they want to stay for long periods on each other's territories no mention too

former advisor is banned from traveling and is under interrogation let's speak to billow once again he's a journalist and middle east analyst is joining us now live from london via skype is there something to be said about the timing of this press conference that was given by the prosecution. yes i think it has everything to be said about it. the fact is that pressure is building in the united states and the fact that very senior members of the republican party are calling obama been solomonic pointing the finger of blame at him directly. lindsey graham very senior senator very close to donald trump said that the moments online is unstable and unreliable so i think this is a response to the pressures that are coming from outside the white house because that's my dog trump is remaining supportive hasn't spoken directly about the situation we'll wait to see whether the response to this press conference of the saudis. coming together i think there as your as your previous commentators have said that there are many many unanswered questions and and contradictions that undercut really any attempt by the saudis to patch a narrative that keeps mountains on out of t

jonathan: joining us are gershon distenfeld, kathleen gaffney, and coming to us from london is james athey, senior investor from aberdeen investments. kathleen, let's begin with you. talk about the price of the story and the size of the problem in investment grade. kathleen: we are at the beginning. i do not see it as something systemic, but we are going to get knocked about for quite some time. i am so happy this time is here. gershon: this is what happens late in the credit cycle. i have been waiting for this. where are we in the credit cycle? i'm tired of saying seven innings. it feels a game three of the world series. i agree with kathleen. it will be idiosyncratic, ge has some very specific things wrong with it. we have the wildfires in california that are impacting things, but that is what you have late in the cycle. you start to have specific companies or industries with problems with the high amount of leverage they have. jonathan: do you take the same argument? james: yeah, to some degree. i would throw macro factors in. i think what is happened is a confluence of things. th

stephen: thank you for joining us from london.et's check in on those numbers craig was just talking about, sterling rallying strongly against the dollar despite the mixed signals on the prospect of a financial services deal. sterling up over 1% on the dollar. also stronger against the euros, a you're aware of $.88. -- bureau worth -- euro worth $.88. business with the update, thank you very much. time now for the press review. dt joins me on the set. you are starting with a gruesome story, the mysterious deaths of two saudi sisters in new york. >> a mystery that has left investigators puzzled. dead floating in the hudson river last week. a were fully closed, facing it -- they were fully closed, ,acing each other -- clothed facing each other and duct taped. they were alive when they hit the water. their mother told investigators the day before their deaths, she received a phone call from the saudi embassy that their application for u.s. residents was under threat because they applied for immigration asylum. the saudi paper also hea

chalk and he joins us from london. seems to be upbeat doesn't she today so far but it's still a long way to go isn't there before this breaks the deal could become reality. absolutely andrew indeed to recently seems to have been doing her absolute best to remain beat but the toughest period now really lies ahead now today to receive me the british prime minister and her e.u. counterparts are meeting in brussels of course too big to put a big check mark on the last two years of torturous negotiations over breakfast and in brussels now they have agreed to support this deal to be clear it's almost six hundred page pages of legally binding text and also a non legally binding sort of political declaration that they've agreed on in brussels earlier today and there were no surprises there it has to be said that all of the leaders indorsed this text but this is seen as the calm before the storm because now that things have gone smoothly over in brussels it's back home that's the most difficult and tough headache lies ahead for

government is accused of placing gagging orders on experts investigating the tragedy and joining us from london now an associate should you know live with more on this. just us more about these accusations and indeed the reaction to them as well. well and did the critics of the british government have dubbed its actions shameful following some revelation coming into the spotlight about the government trying to prevent a company that was hired following the ground felt fire to analyze and investigate u.k. a state government building safety to basically keep their mouth shut when it came to theresa may and her government this was disclosed just part of a comprehensive investigation carried out by the times newspaper which disclosed that among hundreds of other contracts there was one specifically that was worth one hundred thousand pounds with an engineering company called w s p that's in a clause had indicated that this company should not create quote adverse publicity about the cabinet or other crown bodies and of course as you can probably imagine this idea of putting on. a gag order on two cl

quentin pale is an associate fellow of international policy think tank chatham house and he joins us from london next forest whiting he did lose his princely specialist a welcome to you both let's start with you quentin poo in london can spain veto the steel does it does the withdrawal agreement require unanimity. no it doesn't and spain can't veto it on the other hand nobody wants to go away feeling furious and and upset and indeed betrayed by the deal so i think that there will be a big effort to find a way to meet the spanish objections after all what spain seem to be so say is that they can be no inclusion of gibraltar in the final trade deal that the u.k. negotiates with the european union and less close in and britain agree so that on the whole does not seem insuperable the problem really is that the brits and i feel probably the european union to. really rather ignore this problem for far too long it was always going to be one of the most difficult issues to deal with. given that one wonders why the spanish representative at the negotiations did not say something earlier why has spain lef

correspondent barbara basal who has been covering the breaks of negotiations and joins us from london barbara given the opposition to theresa may places and getting her brakes a deal through parliament does she really have any reason to be optimistic. she at least tries to convey the image and that's not easy for her because she's not the best of communicators even under better circumstances and her own party dreads sort of sort of going out to campaign in the country and trying to speak to real people that usually doesn't end well because she can't really connects oak trees i'm a trying to be optimistic it takes all her effort and with sears say what she's trying to do now is to rely and to appeal to the bob's that's not the roberts off great britain now that's the people board of breaks it and she hopes that they will sort of turn around things for her. well we heard john claude younger that you commission president earlier making it clear that there would be no renegotiations of the braggs deal let's have a listen. i'm invited to go. to work if i just did in the house of commons to

many thanks us political reporting for us from london earlier from rag as the in coach and we've asked a writer broadcaster married a jet ski why western countries are immediately backing ukraine. i think it's because there is a very often there is a tendency to believe the smaller party rather than the bigger party and to assume that the bigger party is wrong in a smaller part is right also i think that i don't know about other countries but certainly in terms of. western europe the ukrainians were very efficient about getting their version of what happened out first so the first account everybody heard of what had happened in the. in the hours of c. or getting into the us of c. that came from ukraine and once the first version has got out it's actually very difficult to contradict it. only months of rumors it's been confirmed a chinese feel giant is replacing francis to iran's multi-billion dollar southpaws gas project as the new bushell explains the move might come as a surprise to some. self pars is the angelina jolie of gas fields with by far the biggest reserves on the planet it'

the country which is something they want to avoid at any cost will rise in the reporting for us from london thank you nicole. now to some other stories making news around the world israel's defense minister says he is resigning over a cease fire agreement with palestinian militants in gaza after lieberman called the deal brokered by egypt a capitulation to terror his shock announcement significantly weakens prime minister benjamin netanyahu government of the cease fire follows a deadly escalation and cross border violence in the wake of an israeli raid in gaza over the weekend. political crisis has intensified after lawmakers voted out the country's newly appointed prime minister in a heated session the move follows a decision by the country's top court to suspend a presidential order to dissolve parliament and hold fresh elections my head there rajapaksa was appointed prime minister last month after the president kicked out his predecessor u.s. vice president mike pence has told me in mar leader aung san suu kyi there is no excuse for the violence that's caused hundreds of thousands of mus

sta nley stanley joins us now stanleyjoins us now from london is to co m plete stanleyjoins us now from miss you mean you have had a chance to talk tojoe have you? i haven't had a chance to talk to him,i you? i haven't had a chance to talk to him, i have exchanged a couple of text messages but i have had a chance to listen to him on the radio this morning and they have to say i do agree with his analysis, i agree with what he said yesterday and i agree with what he said this morning. i reminded myself of denison ‘s fantastic pawn the charge of the light brigade, canada the left of her, cannot do the right but the prime minister charges onwards into the jaws of death. it has to stop and i think that is whatjoe has done, he has said we have two get out of this brexit, this check list deal, it is the wrong deal, it is the wrong deal on the wrong time. we should pause and go somewhere else. and theresa may's words, the referendum in 2016 was the biggest democratic exercise and come to's history. we will not under any circumstances have a second referendum. she could not be more categorical.

thank you so much for speaking to us and giving us your thoughts on this jonathan a fancy joining us from london. as saying with the democratic republic of congo a newborn babies in the country are now being infected with the border virus according to the world health organization the u.n. health agency says seven newborn baby. among thirty six new cases of the outbreak babies don't usually catch the disease but experts suspect they may have caught it from infected parents the break in the d.r. c. is the worst in its history with three hundred forty six confirmed cases including one hundred seventy five deaths. there's plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including. so a sad attack us talk at china's consulate in karachi pakistan plus the u.n. envoy to yemen returns from the portsea for date as he makes a fresh push for peace talks and book a journey as fans pack into the stadium in bias eyes just to watch a training session at saturday's big final against river pates more on that coming up in sports a tale of the. first a politician and former militia leader accused of war crimes in c

breck's it secretary has resigned let's bring in paul brennan who is following this story for us from london poll as we've been saying this clearly is not finished i mean theresa may is not out of the woods yet. oh no oh no i'm just scanning down on my phone the letter that dominic robb the bricks that secretary has sent to the prime minister in the last ten minutes his resignation letter he basically says that he cannot support the proposed deal for two reasons firstly because the regulates rearrangement proposed in northern ireland that presents a very real threat to the integrity of the united kingdom and secondly because of the indefinite back stop arrangements in which the e.u. would effectively hold a veto over our ability to exit now this is a bombshell frankly for the prime minister she thought that she got the whole cabinet on board we knew that there were several members of the cabinet who were unhappy but would go along with it and the unity of the cabinet this collective responsibility that the prime minister spoke about when she stood in downing street on wednesday night it's st

portfolio manager from blackrock joins us from london. good afternoon. is a lot of speculation around the fed at the moment. i talked to a bunch of central bankers and finance ministers from emerging markets over the years, and they always tell me, the fed is the big focus for them. there are many that think the fed will raise rates 3, 4, 5 times from here. we saw a report suggesting that maybe the fed could cause or stop the cycle early next year. if the fed is getting closer to neutral and closer to the end of this hiking cycle, what does that mean for your universe? >> that will be a very positive development for emerging markets. if the fed starts slowing down the pace of hiking next year, perhaps the u.s. economy starts slowing a little bit and that will open more opportunities. i am referring particularly to the local market space. in that kind of and by my, what you are seeing is a softer dollar -- in that kind of environment, what you are seeing is a softer dollar. we saw down returns in the local components of the asset classes. they could see a

over the rules that will continue to apply a no certainty of the future on the barker is joining us from london so terrorism may need seems to have made a crucial step forward but what further challenges remain for bucks a plan. you know this is a crucial step forward so she's had quite a few good days over the past week or so she's been able to come up with two draft proposals allowing breaks in to go before the first on the would draw agreement on the second now a declaration on the future political relationship between the e.u. and the u.k. going forward according to one government official that there is now no further demands in breaks in negotiations from the u.k. at least ahead of this all important vote in brussels on sunday but saying that these plans as we've just seen there have been somewhat mauled in the british parliament particularly from political rivals and also by some politicians within her own party as well the british government's been accused of crossing red lines of being a little bit too vague when it comes to the details of these plans we now know for instance that e.u.

cabinet has said a deal could happen within the next two days more on this lawrence is joining us from london this her saying it could be the end game lawrence may herself finds or soften a precarious position with attacks from both leaders as well as remain. yeah that's exactly right it really is i think during the moment a question of so near and yet so far the british government and the european union keep insisting that it's all ninety five percent agreed but the bit they can't see gree and frankly they will never be able to agree satisfactorily is what to do with the irish border for the millionth time because the u.k. can't leave the european union in the way that it wants to while having to keep the border open as the european union demands under the terms of the good friday peace agreements and that's why it's a reason why has had to confect this deal to keep the u.k. in a customs union with the european union for an unspecified period of time and as you say that's attracted a sort of pincer movement really hard line baxter's can't stand it because they say that the u.k. would be in h

countries will also have to apra approve the proposal lawrence lee is joining us from london so can may then get this draft plan through the cabinets and if she does is that the end of that's. well she she she's got a chance i think i mean certainly there are a lot of skeptics inside the cabinet ministers who are deeply unhappy and they're being. hardliners to show some backbone and another resign or say they're not prepared to accept it i think i think stories amaze argument and if you're trying to be benevolent is to try to find a form of brick seats that can try and bring the country together effectively she said of her own party conference a few weeks ago that she didn't like the way that politics in this country have become very shouty with people arguing loudly with each other and the country being so split and i suppose her arguments is that by leaving mostly then britain can take control of things like immigration and its own laws and stop giving money to the european union which she assumes would pacify the hard rex's but by staying within the sort of all bits of the european u

from brussels and london. welcome to the program e.u. leaders have endorsed a dude on britain's departure from the european union the announcement comes less than an odd up of the heads of the used twenty seven remaining e.u. nations arrived at a special summit in brussels e.u. officials stress the need for a continuing partnership with britain after the u.k. his departure in march next year they also sent a clear message that the british parliament also needs to accept the deal. for more i'm joined in the studio by john murtha political advisor and in brussels is our correspondent mark says the other i'd like to begin. do you first the e.u. have endorsed the break that agreement it's pretty predictable what is the mood in brussels right now. certainly not relief or celebration here because it was pretty much expected this that this would be signed off today a lot of praise for michel barnier the chief negotiator who has prepared this over the period of the of the past years he has done the extraordinary work yes there was a short moment whether it was a storm in the teacup. but the ministers today made clear the number of the sticky points remain but we'll have to talk about th

theresa may says she's achieved the best horse steel possible so negative ones us live from london so tell us more about what donald trump's been saying. and as if it wasn't enough that prime minister may had faced that bar show of opposition from politicians in parliament on monday now she has this to contend with these comments from president trump say see that in effect that if she does insist on sort of maintaining those close links that it's going to be difficult but of course while this is been played down by the governments these sorts of comments there's no doubt about that this is a blow and effectively what president trump has done has handed over i mean ition to not just to reason may's political opponents but to opponents of the deal as well. sounds like a great deal but the you and i think we have to do this. i think we have to take a look at seriously whether or not the u.k. is allowed to trade because you know right now if you look at the deal they may not be able to trade with us and that would be a good thing. while president trump has of course come out and said simi

also with us is jeremy who joins us from london. set the scene.s was an extraordinary hearing with nine countries. what was it like and how did he -- how did it go for facebook? jeremy: as you said, the u.k. parliament invited lawmakers from other countries like singapore, argentina, brazil as well as small european countries to this hearing. with the idea that maybe they could draw mark zuckerberg out. the committee has asked zuckerberg to come several times. he has always refused. he did not show up again which may lawmakers angry. instead, facebook sent richard allen reaches their chief -- richard allen, who is their chief lobbyist in europe and is head of policy for them in this region. he tried to answer their questions but a lot of lawmakers were not happy. at times, the exchanges got heated. brad: i thought you started a tweet with the word woah. i think you were referring to revelations that facebook knew about interference back in 2014 from russia. why did the committee think that and why is that important? >> that served as documents tha

cabinet has said a deal could happen within the next two days more on this lawrence lee joining us from london so are you hearing then that a deal could be imminent lawrence. well it's all noise in all honesty the been saying a deal is imminent for weeks and weeks and weeks and keep pushing it back this morning's cabinet meeting is finished without any news reports or a particular sign of progress and it remains a case i think of that they've got a long way but still there's still enormous sticking points over the irish border and the customs arrangement this deal that series of mayors try to confect to keep everybody happy by the u.k. staying in the customs union to keep the border open for a limited amount of time that send it up effectively creating a pencil movement where both people who wants either to remain in the european union or keep a close relationship with it and those who want to leave entirely are both saying that the deal is in it is entirely unacceptable and i think the mistake that everybody keeps making is to think that if and it is still a big if at some point a deal is str

recovering, steep losses yesterday, wti in lowest ever in over a year, craig senior analyst joining us from londonorning. >> good morning. lauren: what's behind the turnaround for oil that we are seeing this morning? >> i think that's a brief bounce, you seen aggressive selloff and we hit new lows overnight. we have seen bounce, good inventory numbers which may be helping it. near term i think it's still on downside. cheryl: theresa may heading to brussels to pitch proposal to leave eu, what will she come back? >> get mp's on side ahead of a vote but whether she can achieve this it's quite doubtful in this stage. lauren: thank you very much for your insight this morning. cheryl: we send it over to maria bartiromo, good morning, maria. maria: hey there ladies, thank you so much, good morning, happy wednesday to you, it is wednesday november 21st, your top stories right now just before 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. stocks this morning looking to bounce back after yesterday's big selloff, futures indicating gain at the start of trading, up 72 points right now. i should point out is off of the lows --

economy are growing joining us now from london lorenzo could own a renzo is the founder of london based l.c. metro advisors and chief economist there there is a great to have you with us on counting the cost doesn't this this draft agreement actually do enough to attract investment to the u.k. and to allow the u.k. to do the trade deals that it says it wants to do outside of the european union. well let's push away i mean it's negative anyway i mean blacks it is negative is negative for the u.k. deeply negative for the u.k. it's certainly also negative for the rest of the e.u. so there's no adapter that any kind of deal that you can actually strike with the u.k. and the you on the other hand is going to be negative but at least it's less negative that other options that are on the table for instance i think you would be highly disruptive if there is no deal and the u.k. ends up with the kind of damage to your backstop with no effective. no not dream and on anything for that would be very disruptive in my view would increase the sharply uncertainty so this solution today did with the one

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with alan keenan he's three lanka project director for the international crisis group he joins us from london alan thank you for joining us here on. the government is in crisis this is a complex situation we had the president dissolved parliament last week the supreme court reinstated it yesterday today the parliament effectively sacked the prime minister who is in charge of sri lanka right now. well it's unclear i think we're in legally uncharted territory here and everyone is awaiting the next move by president cirrus sr as your report just said the supporters of mr rajapaksa don't accept as valid the parliament's rejection of of matchboxes the no confidence vote because they say they didn't follow proper procedures that's probably because they didn't let the house actually convene probably but even it even assuming serious seen except the parliament's no confidence vote is as valid it's up to him to name a new prime minister and rajapaksa and first last years in has said he never worked with the missing again. but also the crossing is still has to be endorsed by the parliament so there's a

let's go to our colleague joining us from london.cebook and google menaces to society in davos at the world economic forum. sandberg was there but not present for the comments, and then e-mails and wants to know what's his financial stake in facebook? is he shorting the stock? what is the significance here? >> a coo of a company asking for research into why a billionaire is saying such bad things about their company is not that unusual. and most coos would want to know backgrounds into what is going on. the issue here is sort of the shifting stories and shifting narratives we're hearing from facebook about how much sandberg knew, how involved she was in the research into george soros, and what that says about facebook's leadership at this moment. let's go back. a few weeks ago, woo had "the new york times" investigation about sheryl sandberg, mark zuckerberg and the leadership at facebook, and they hired definers to do public relations for them. they said you should look into george corose and his campaigns against facebook, which so

independent evens party and the driving force behind brexit, joining us from london.n though the highest level of leadership in the country was implicated in the murder, appear to have gotten away with it as far as the world is concerned. >> yeah, that's right. i do understand, for those in the usa and the uk, saudi arabia is a very important market to us. hundreds of thousands of jobs linked. with selling airplanes, munitions. i also get the strategic alliance with saudi arabia against iran, you know, who have been trying to spread a very extreme form of islamism right across the region. i understand the reasons for it. but imagine if any other country behaved like this. if russia had behaved like this, there would be a much bigger international outcry. my real problem, mark, is that in the wake of the syrian crisis, vaish did not take a -- saudi arabia did not take a single refugee or displaced person. but we're happy to fund the building 2600 mosques in germany. what we have seen. what we have seen, is it's being spread using saudi money. fine, let's go on doing tr