department of commerce under president trump joining us from washington so it's china's fault apparently or at least that's part of it any validity to that. well it's important to note firstly thank you for having me tonight it's important to know that these complex negotiations take time the president did specifically mention china and it's important to note that chinese officials are here in washington d.c. this week for a continuation of the trade talks and the sixteen billion dollars of additional tariffs were placed on chinese goods just on thursday and so i think it's important to note that china does play a significant role in our strategy to the nuclear station of north korea but it does take time this is we're talking to denuclearization of the korean peninsula and so it's important to note that president trump is not like past presidents and he is going to take these very drastic steps such as canceling the trip remember he canceled his first trip to singapore the singapore summit was canceled and so i think we could we can look to this as a way of president trump negotiating v

embassy in yemen is with us on skype from washington d.c. if this is the case that we've got another situation of civilians and children it seems being killed in yemen what does that tell us about the coalition now does it just say that anything goes it doesn't matter what a target is it doesn't matter who the target is as long as it. is there some sort of destruction at the end of it almost well the short answer is yes which is what they've been doing for the past three years now. unfortunately well look because the reality is are dictating the policies of the great powers and moral or legal narratives and as long as there's no real pressure on the solidly to stop this war from their land and normally diplomatic absolutely you know diplomacy while the u.s. and the. endless war in yemen then i'm afraid we will she more of this sort of strategic do you anticipate a time when there are or and events unfortunately where there would be that sort of pressure you would think the killing of children would be enough. well sadly it doesn't seem to you

covering the story for us from washington stefan talk to us about the timing why is trump going after turkey right now. sir timing and opportunity those are the two key words in all of this the timing for the u.s. administration is or can be that as it is right now the turkish lira is in freefall as you reported as we have seen and heard the lira lost forty percent in this year in two thousand and eight team against the u.s. dollar and this is significant there is a tariff back and forth between turkey and the u.s. and so the timing is right for the u.s. and for the white house to push a little harder because and here we come to the opportunity it's all about andrew bunsen of a jolly old pastor detained or now under house arrest in turkey the u.s. had lobbied heart and intensively for his release that didn't go anywhere so far and i think washington lost its patience i gave it turkey and the u.s. or our nato allies and their concerns in washington that this could damage their relations. yes and no i think washington is a little bit wary of where this could all end this rift between tu

. >>> joining us from washington, d.c."politico's" daniel lippman, coau shore of "the political playbook." thank you for being with us on a friday that keeps off a historic week. >> the most amazing week in washington i have seen in years. >> yeah, a lot of people are sharing that sentiment. let's start off by talking about david pecker in a moment because he has been described in the past as one of trump's loyal friends, a gate keeper to t"the national enquirer", skilling stories according to some. does his immunity deal suggest he has a lot to tell about the president and could we see some of those stories come to light? >> i think it shows he definitely has some evidence against him or he wouldn't have given -- he wouldn't have gotten immunity. i think it kind of just reminds us that when you're a top businessman who wants to be president like donald trump, this is what happens when you are best friends with the publisher of supermarket tabloids. probably not the best idea for your long-term career. it just, i think, de

joining us now from washington with the latest, our correspondent. e president actually complained that powell has been a chief money fed chair -- tell us exactly what he said. >> we have heard complaints by twitter and his own economic advisers including larry kudlow, that he does not like the rate hike path jerome powell has put the u.s.o n. on. but now these remarks to a group

political reporter for think progress so web site that covers voting and election rights joining us from washington d.c. look i think the big question or the simplest question here is why why try to shut down the senate. yeah like you said there is an extremely high profile competitive election coming up in november in georgia stacy abrams could be the first black female governor in the united states and she is facing brian kemp who is currently the georgia secretary of state who has a history of trying to suppress voters throughout the state and republican election officials and lawmakers in georgia know that their path to victory is by suppressing certain voters namely african-americans the demographic in georgia is changing rapidly and they understand that in order to win elections they need to pick and choose their voters so last week in randolph county we heard for the first time this proposal to close seven of nine polling places the majority of them are located in highly predominately african-american portions of the county and we know that the people living in these jurisdictions are low in

eli lake joining us from washington with the story. e been talking about montenegro after president trump made headlines on whether or not to protect them from a russian attack, and that it could cause world war iii. tell us about this story. had taken a contract to provide personal security consulting for an israeli pollster, political strategists who worked with the montenegrin opposition party. it is a coalition of three parties, two who were against montenegro joining nato, which is the russian position. the point here is that he was in the country on election day, the same day they announced the coup was foiled. he knew nothing about any of that, and i interviewed him over the weekend. now he is sort of caught up in this really intense prosecution of this wide-ranging plot. he says he is innocent and believes he is being dragged into it the cause of his former employer, the cia. the prosecutor is not giving much evidence, saying a lot of it relies on secret evidence. it will be up to the state department on whether they will grant

with us now an attorney with the lawyers committee for civil rights under law he's joining us from washington d.c. spoke to against a little bit earlier we were discussing the fact that it was apparently the american disabilities act which was being used as an excuse affectively here was saying they were the appropriate ramps or wide enough doorways for people i mean it's all just looks so incredibly transparent certainly from our perspective as to why they're doing this yeah that's absolutely right. we've sent an open records request to the county and the county has responded in response to requests that they haven't actually conducted any. compliance analysis of the existing sites so for them to say that. is the basis for closing these polling places is a total sham. the obvious thing to do would be to find some other polling places wouldn't it i mean it it seems like this could be easily solved if this was the real reason behind this. is that something being explored or being pushed by by by groups that that's absolutely right the board of elections if it was truly interested in complying

corresponding cost and phenomena joins us from washington d.c. custis good to see you so what's the latest that you're hearing from florida was the count of the victims now stands for the eleven injured according to media reports also as you say. a suspect down that at the scene there has been some confusion about the question whether there is a second shooter now it's important to point out that this has not been confirmed by the police they are looking for a second shooter if there is one but we know that these on these occasions very often people report there's a second shooter maybe mixing up plainclothes policemen who's drawn his gun with another shooter and so they have to sort this out there are lots of police on the ground trying to search the area and this happened at a video games bar a very popular nightlife district of jacksonville florida. and do we know any further details cost and i know that it's still very early days but any details at all about the suspect in this case. we don't have any official confirmation of the u.s. use chan

romaine: thank you, sarah, joining us from washington. taylor: let's get the first word news with courtney donohoe. >> white house counsel don mccann is stepping down, president trump says he will leave in the fall after senate confirmation vote on supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. reportedlyas cooperated with robert mueller's investigation and has said to be interviewed at least three times. homebuyers in the u.s. appear to be balking at higher prices and a lack of choices. the national association of realtors blames what it calls some overheated markets in the south and west. the u.k. and the european union may not meet their october deadline. brexit secretary said that talks may go beyond that and britain and the eu are trying to hammer out an agreement before the u.k. leaves next march. he says his confidence a deal is within our sites. italy may be relying on a new round of government bond purchases by the central bank. that could shield its public debt from financial speculations and the threat of a ratings downgrade. a newspap

joining us from washington thank you a jury in the u.s. state of california has found one son to guilty of causing terminal cancer in a faint if was exposed to its weed killer as they ordered the chemicals giant which is now owned by germany's bya to pay millions in damages court's authority is in some francisco fast tracked the case because the man is dying shortly after the verdict was handed down joy is written on dwayne johnson's face monsanto must now pay around two hundred ninety million dollars in damages johnson blames the companies we killers like round up for causing his cancer they contain the chemical glyphosate there i learned about ground up in. and going to say anything i'm glad to be here to be able to go with a cause is way bigger than me and during his career as a groundskeeper johnson used large quantities of the herbicide very schools but in two thousand and fourteen he was diagnosed with lymph node cancer the verdict was unanimous. did monsanto failed to adequately warn of the potential risks answer yes. was the lack o

joining us from washington thank you a jury in the u.s. state of california has found one some two guilty of causing terminal cancer in a plaintive who was exposed to its weed killer now they ordered the chemicals giant which is now owned by germany's bya to pay two hundred fifty million dollars in punitive damages plus thirty nine million in compensation court authorities in san francisco fast track to the case because the man is dying due in johnson had used the chemicals in his job as a grounds keeper. did round up pro or ranger pro to perform as safely as an ordinary consumer would have expected when used or misused in an intended or reasonably foreseeable way answer yes was the roundup pro or ranger pro design a substantial factor in causing harm to mr johnson answer yes. what amount of punitive damages if any do you award to mr johnson answer two hundred fifty million dollars i'm glad to be here to be able to help with a cause is way bigger than me so hopefully this thing will start to. get the attention that it needs to give rise to

maya shrader joining us from washington thank you. let's now have a look at some of the other stories making news around the world a powerful explosion in north of syria has reportedly killed at least thirty six people including many children the force of the blast toppled buildings burying many of the victims the origin of the explosion is to the british based wanted to group says a rebel weapons depot in the basement have detonated. the five countries bordering the caspian sea have reached a landmark deal on its legal status the convention signed by russia run by a german kazakhstan and turkmenistan decades of dispute over the world's largest enclosed body of water and its huge oil and gas reserves iran says dividing up the seabed will require additional agreements. jordanian security forces have pulled the bodies of three suspected militia militants from the rubble of their collapsed hideout following a deadly shootout for soldiers were also killed in this same as opened fire set off explosions late on saturday the clash west of th

joining us from washington thank you. time now for some of the other stories making news around the world human rights groups have called on european governments to allow the aquarius rescue ship to dock and let one hundred forty migrants and to europe this off to italy blocked exports to migrate ships it accused the charities of colluding with human rights which human smugglers to run a migrant taxi service that encourages legal immigration. a powerful explosion in north and syria has reportedly killed at least six people including many children the force of the blast toppled buildings burying many of the victims the only engine of the explosion is still unclear but a british based wanted to groups rebel weapons depot in the basement might have detonated. the five countries bordering the caspian sea have reached a landmark deal on its legal status the convention signed by russia iran as a by kazakhstan a man's son and decades of dispute over the world's largest enclosed body of water and its huge oil and reserves iran sa

joining us from washington is robert daly from the wilson , kissinger institute on china and the unitedou for joining us. as we talk about this, let's dive into the bloomberg terminal and get us up to speed on the tariffs between the u.s. and china appear $50 billion from where we're at. the yellow line indicates the new 200 billion dollars. we are team -10. will that be triggered? is looking more likely after the failure of last weeks talks. it is more likely in part because is is not just about tariffs or economics. both sides seem to believe this -- we're only talking about the economic aspect of a long-term struggle for balance of power throughout the world. economics is one facet of that. yes, it is likely to get worse. ramy: earlier in the past hour, we were talking to terry haines at ever core isi. he was saying china's big mistake is focusing on the deficit. do you think you would agree, and what else needs to be in focus? focused on theas deficit in that it is willing to buy more american products to address the deficit. america's other request are from china's point of view, r

such threatening language or robot pearson's a former us ambassador to turkey he's joining us now from washington d.c. thank you very much indeed for your time sir just give us some context first of all would you is this an argument over the u.s. posture or are the wider issues at stake here i think at the moment it's an argument over the kind of relationship that turkey in the us are going to have going forward there are three other u.s. employees of the our embassies in turkey and consulates who have been arrested and imprisoned for some time mr bronson was arrested two years ago and i have seen text of the evidence presented against him and it looks really very unbelievable and so i think this is the test of how these two countries are going to get along the two presidents talk the foreign ministers talk to a number of times and i'm sorry that they were not able to come to a solution but i think this is about the relationship i want to talk to you in a moment about the strategic them politically the military strategic element to this but let's talk about the sanctions first of all given the na

lakee: thanks to eli joining us from washington, d.c. get some insight on the latest legal political turmoil, how it is affecting the markets. joining us now is mark is a at -- marcus ashworth. is he, or then you might have -- calmer then you might have thought? >> i suspected it could be a very wild day and i think it was nonplussed as to what will happen next. it was surprising but not shocking. the dollar took a hit. that is what mr. trump has been trying to do. i think the markets are not sure how to react. day, it does the not affect what the fed will do but at some point, i think this is a -- ark: the legal process takes long time, so we are looking ahead to the midterm? marcus: i think that is probably what everyone is thinking, that this will play out in a few months. it is just another nasty twist. data,focus on the fed, minutes later. what will the message be? just gradual and carry on? marcus: i cannot see how powell does anything other than stick to the mantra that the economy is running pretty hot and he does not see reasons

president onil trump's former personal attorney michael cohen sharma times he joins us live now from washington d.c. this is this is someone who donald trump goes back a very very long way with she have what else do we know. right so as you said this is all part of the investigation into michael kirby who's admitted that he was part of a conspiracy a criminal conspiracy to break campaign finance law by paying money to women who claim to have had an affair with donald trump during the presidential election it breaks the law because paying enormous sums of money to women i thought of as campaign campaign contributions and there is actually a very strict set of set limits on campaign finance contributions actually weisel has already spoken about this he actually testified before a grand jury in the summer and there are allegations that some of this money was paid through the trump organization so being the chief financial officer of the troubled dissection he would know how those payments payments were made to other questions that are still circling is when the don't know how much did he know and

associate deputy attorney general joining us from washington d.c. regular contributor on al-jazeera nice to see you can you answer that question is this directly now implicating donald trump. it certainly does now the only defense would be mr trump you know didn't intend it in some way obviously intent is something that only is within mr trump's head it's not something that mr cohen would know about for certain but it may well be that in the discussions cohen had with mr trump mr trump said i can't let this information out about my affairs it will damage my campaign and if he testifies to that that is direct evidence of intent and this is not a novel i remember john edwards who was a presidential candidate two thousand and eight he also was charged and prosecuted is ultimately acquitted for money to his mistress to silence information about having a baby so this is not stretching the law here and i do think it places mr trump in great jeopardy and it also it discredits his idea that all of this is a witch hunt or whatever you want to parse with rega

welcome back to politicking bill press is still with us from washington d.c. progressive commentator and author host of the build pressure on the young turks network and we. turn g.o.p. strategist former spokesperson for the california republican party jen joins us from new york all right general what do you make of what's going on at these rallies to see people cursing and screaming and giving the finger to the media jen what's going on. well i hate to say it larry because i love you and i like bill press an awful lot but the democrats started this let's remember it was rahm emanuel top adviser to barack obama who talked about bringing a gun to a knife fight and that's how he wins political battles all of this lip service that michelle obama gave us about we go high they go low it's actually the opposite because democrats are the chieftains of deflecting and they always want to make it look like republicans are the agitators here look no further larry than the twitter feed this morning of the politico reporter for this state of florida he was the one who who c

for more on this latest rift over russia nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington. >> reporter: some mixed messages coming from the president and his national security team. the president at that rally last night talking about not only what he now believes is a hoax but also about russia's interest in the last election. listen. >> that's a really good thing. now we're being hindered by the russian hoax. it's a hoax, okay? i'll tell you what. russia's very unhappy that trump won. that i can tell you. but i got along great with putin. they wanted me to walk up -- here's aodiu they wanted me to o like this -- son of a -- they wanted me to go up and have a boxing match. i said whatever happened to diplomacy? >> reporter: so the president calls the russia investigation of russian interference a hoax. but hours earlier his united national security team, the fbi, national security agency, homeland security, his director of national intelligence and his national security advisor all convinced that russia's up to something. >> make no mistake the scope of this foreign influence threat is both

well it says on joining us from washington d.c. is j.d. westby who's chief executive of the advisory firm global cyber risk j.d. welcome to the program and this is an ongoing problem is now would you agree with microsoft that this has the russian hand in it. yes i think that they felt quite confident in saying that they thought this was a fancy bear or a p t twenty eight as it's been called which was the same group responsible for breaking into the democratic national committee so. i believe that if they came out and said they identified it tracked activity back to this group they're pretty certain of that so to me it does seem that they have solid evidence that this was a group that's been linked to russian intelligence tell us more about the challenges they're all for the king sites preventing the security threat that they represent. it's hard time tracking in each cybercrime today is hard but microsoft has good relationships with a long force in the community they have very deep ties into our research community and they are themselves i

expelled dozens of russian diplomats from the us might including many from its embassy in washington. and since then, members of congress have been pushing for the state department to make a definitive statement that russia had broken international law by using a chemical or biological weapons. in making that determination, sanctions are being automatically imposed that will prevent the sale of some electronics and sensitive technology to russia. that could put a strain on relationships at a time when donald trump appears to be trying to reach out to vladimir putin, especially as the second wave of harsher sanctions will lower our most harsher sanctions will lower our m ost m oscow harsher sanctions will lower our most moscow provides reassurance of that will not use chemical weapons against and opens up some sites to inspectors within 90 days. the kremlin is likely to resist. it continues to deny it was involved in the intended murder of sergei skripal and this daughter. however, the us isjust one of more skripal and this daughter. however, the us is just one of more than 20 countrie

assign joins us from washington -- hassan joins us from washington.t the convoluted way they seem to unionize and in the long-term they lost. >> thanks for joining me. i would not say if they lost in the long-term. our reporting was based on freedom of information act request and it documents received that illuminated the back story of what happened. the company called line bridge, a group of workers there -- lion bridge, a group of workers there formed the union and after that, the workers were bug testing microsoft apps. lionbridge informs them that they would be layoffs. microsoft said they had less need for this service and they would be moving into a different office location. the union filed a labor report complaint on the national relations board filing against microsoft based on an obama era law allowing some companies to be tagged as a joint employee of their contractor workers. essentially alleged it is illegal under federal law to fire them because of their union activity. they alleged there was not less of a need for their services and tha

she joins us live from washington d.c. of course there's no way to quantify the president's speculation about what would happen because the economy is more than one person but having said that does he have a point that if things are in etc etc ad that maybe there would not be an impeachment well i think he's right to be confident that there will be no impeachment for now that all depends on the democrats taking the house of representatives in the november midterm elections but there's an irony that the democrats don't want to run on impeachment by the fact the democratic leadership is telling its cons it's not to even mention impeachment in the election campaign because there is this fear that that will that will embolden and scare trump base and make them go to the polls in droves because this will turn into a referendum on impeachment and that will be the democrats have no chance of taking the house it's quite probably pretty safe right now anyway as far as as far as impeachment is concerned and a lot depends on those no

here with us from washington is stephen monroe. thank you for joining us. what happens now?oposal goes into public domain for comment. and the two sides arm up and get ready for a battle. alix: who has the leverage? >> the regime in place has been in place for many years. there is a lot of momentum behind it. what the trump administration is attempting to do is upset the apple cart in a big way. the support it has is largely on the side of the automobile manufacturers who have been looking for this change, and the oil industry, that stands to sell more gasoline domestically should the efficiency standards be slashed. alix: drilling down on the electric vehicle component in california. if you look at the percentage of ev sales, you're looking at a huge jump. in 2015, it was 3%. now it is 8%. the industry is still reliant on the subsidies by state. many states have followed california's example. what does it mean for those states going forward? >> it is almost impossible to overstate the importance of california in the ev market. it constitutes about half of u.s. sales. a numb

us there here in washington thanks very much orion grimmy is the washington d.c. bureau chief with the intercept a u.s. based online news publication he joins us now from washington as well thanks very much for being with us so what do you make of all of this. is there a sense here that the dam is kind of. if not broken at least showing signs of cracking up. yes and no it's this these particular convictions haven't touched on the the russia collusion part of this but this is its own major scandal in its own right you know if prior to the election a lot of evangelical voters in the midwest became aware that the president was having an affair with a porn star right around the time that his wife was giving birth that may have been enough to move some of them away from him we know first we know that a lot of evangelicals made a kind of deal with the devil and said that as long as we're going to get what we want around policy on president trump then we're going to ignore his his personal flaws that may have been a personal flaw that was a bridge too far and may have cost him the election especially in the context of the sixteen or so women who were at the t

relationship was these women and that had a it.tle purpose to >> mroomberg congress editor joins us from washington, d.c. resident how is the p responding to this so far? diversioned ad a response to conviction of anafort and the plea deal by called er attorney and killed man and his d.terview was somewhat subdue he issued a denial any money came out of campaign funds when side stepped allegations against co hen. also is this coulding to turn into a he said, he said kind of thing? > there is evidence that that can seem e there's is a tape that michael hough the date of clear.hat was made is un hat wrud have to expect prosecutors to, if they're going paper andrges town on there may be additional evidence. >> joe, to earnings coming analyzing profit for pillin there seeks.02 and we're waiting for implications ays out into mid term. there. >> joe? > we're going to go to the affairs.s of tout the trauma continuing. fresh tariffs loom on thursday. make progress? >> up hechlt running with the pulls where now? we'll ask river front investment kevin nicholson in the bloomberg. bloomberg. >>> here in sydney

joining us from washington is daniel lippman.ant to ask you first of all here, how are the latest sanctions imposed on russia going to affect president trump's budding relationship with his russian counter part? >> it is not going to help, but trump seems to have his own personal foreign policy with russia and then his administration has a totally different one that's much tougher. so trump is right in the sense that they have pursued sanctions and other aggressive actions to hold russia accountable, but he has not done that in -- with his -- you know, his voice and trying to hold putin to account for his actions, you know, in his press conferences. so it seems like trump continues to buddy up to putin even though his state department says, you know, that they push back on these sanctions. >> daniel lippman, i want to go to the other story involving robert mueller, the back and forth that the white house and president trump's lawyers have had with bob mueller and his team over the prospects of an interview with president trump. h

bill lee, thank you so much for joining us from washington. we want to share breaking news with you. cuttinging to -- targets credit rating with a stable outlook. this is after the markets closed for the week and after a week where the turkish lira was the best-performing currency. no reaction in the turkish lira right now to this news. joe: and the outlook is stable. scarlet: we should mention turkey is closed for a public holiday next week so the rating won't make that much of an impact at least in the near term. we will have to wait a little before we get to reaction. coming up, we mentioned has a and the shares are running out of gas -- tesla and the shares are running out of gas. this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: i am mark crumpton with first word news. jurors in a fraud trial of paul manafort asked the judge for permission to end deliberations at 5 p.m. today signaling they likely will not reach a verdict before then. the jury asked for the early dismissal because one panelist had an event this evening. the judge says he will not release the na

kris jenkins joins us from washington d.c. to explain why this could now become a legal fight. good morning. >> reporter: i suppose we could have seen this was going to get ugly, especially when two reality tv stars trade insults and one is the president with eighth. what twitter have it. now things make it legal and had to arbitration. >> he is trying to silence me. he is afraid of what i will share. >> reporter: omarosa newman has been barnstorming through the media promoting her new behind- the-scenes book about life in the trump white house. her tour is at odds with a nondisclosure agreement she signed and now the trump campaign wants to haul her into arbitration. >> i'm not surprised. donald trump brags about using litigation to intimidate people. >> reporter: allegations are swirling that the president is heard on a recording using a racial slur. >> there is no evidence. we are saying in this transcript that there is absolutely nothing we can find. there is just rumors and innuendo about this tape. >> i cannot guarantee anything, but i can tell you the president addressed

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used american made bombs in an attack that killed forty children in yemen earlier this month there are growing calls from politicians in washington to track american made weapons that are being used what they call work crimes in the middle east's poorest country. the russian president vladimir putin is in germany for talks with chancellor angela merkel they are expected to discuss tensions in ukraine the war in syria and a planned gas pipeline link between russia and germany well the u.s. president donald trump has criticized berlin for cooperating with moscow on that project dominic cain following the story for us out of berlin and we heard them both speak right before they went into the meeting what did they say. well from the perspective two really important issues there and one as you say the north stream to gas pipeline the other syria the humanitarian situation in syria regarding the pipe. he said look this is an exclusively economic projects one which will link russia with germany through the baltic sea and allow gas to be transported that way remember one of the central problems from donald trump's perspective is the amou

from the politics may last longer. to walk us through what it means is alex conant. he comes to us today from washington.ood to have you. i want to start with a quote from a man named brian walsh. "serves as another tremendous distraction for republicans running for reelection and already facing tough headwinds. every day they are be asked -- being asked about legal questions they are not delivering the message they want to run the campaign trail." alex: there is no way to spin yesterday's events as good news for the president or republican candidates. brian is right. this is not what republican candidates want to talk about 76 days before the election. we want to be talking about the economy, the deregulatory agenda, and how electing democrats would undermine all that. instead, here we are talking about corruption within the party, the president's own actions vis-a-vis things in 2016 that may or may not have been illegal, it is off message and a big distraction. the good news if there is any, is that it is happening now and not 70 days from now when voters head to the polls. 70 days is a long time in po

roslyn jordan well scott paul is the humanitarian policy to the charity oxfam america he joins us from washington thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us important to point out the there have been violations of an international humanitarian law by all the parties in the war in yemen but we had today an attack in the northern province of saddam the red cross saying that the bodies of twenty nine children all under the age of fifteen were brought in can i start by getting your thoughts on this attack. of course marian thanks for having me on all of us who work in yemen with yemeni communities and people we see in the faces of the children who died today our children our brothers our sisters our nieces and nephews and of course we're heartbroken but we're also outraged and we're outraged because we see this kind of carnage on a daily basis like you said from all sides and it's not just attacks on civilians it's also attacks on the businesses and farms and factories and roads and bridges and hospitals and schools that keep civilians alive and for the united states and the united kingdo

sanctions will have we can now speak to sarah mcgregor, markets editor for bloomberg, who joins us from washingtoning with us on bbc news. we saw the ruble fall to a two—year low today, but it then regained some of those losses by the end of trading. so a certain amount of kind of shock reaction to this. but how worried the longer term do you think russian investors are going to be? as you said, we saw this immediate knee jerk going to be? as you said, we saw this immediate kneejerk reaction in stocks, the ruble earlier, and i think that those were an immediate reaction to the sanctions. investors reacting immediately to what happened. but i think what we want to look toward a bit longer term is what next. the sanctions that were put in place don't affect a large pa rt put in place don't affect a large part of the russian economy, but in 90 days, the us under the same law that used for the sanctions this week needs to revisit and look to see whether to expand the sanctions, and if they start hitting things like the energy sector or the financial sector, and congress is also looking at some tougher

thank you very much, the political analyst eric ham, joining us from washington.s of 29 children killed in an airstrike on a bus in yemen are preparing to bury their dead, as the un calls for an independent investigation into the attack by the saudi—led coalition. since 2015, unicef says nearly 2,400 children have been killed. and today, 11 million are in need of humanitarian aid. our correspondent caroline hawley‘s report contains distressing images from the start. man sobs. this is the moment a father identifies his son among the dead. and this is a boy crying out for his father and mother, one of the survivors of thursday's air strike. "thank god i'm alive," says the boy, "but some of my friends and my teacher died." husain says they had stopped to buy water when they were attacked. the un children's fund called the attack unconscionable, a low point in yemen's brutal war. it says its calls for humanitarian law to be respected, for children to be protected, have been met with utter disregard. the saudi—led coalition, which buys arms from britain and the us, has

arlette saenz joins us from washington with more. good morning, arlette. >> reporter: maggie and kendis, good morning. well, they faced off years ago in the boardroom on "the apprentice." now the very personal war of words between the president and omarosa is turning into a legal fight.n shes to keep her quiet, omarosa manigault newman is fighting back. on "the daily show." >> document what i saw as an opportunity to kind of blow the whistle on a lot of the corruption going on in the white house. >> reporter: and on msnbc. >> what is he trying to hide? what is he afraid of? was derogatory or demeaning to y would he go to this extent to try to shut me down? >> reporter: campaign lawyers say she violated her 2016 nondisclosure agreement with the campaign. >> i don't believe that i violated. i'm going to leave to it the wyfis tot sbrt orewthing,at pr is on the attack, calling his former aide a crazed, crying low-life. kelly for quickly firing that dog. among her most explosive claims, she says there is a tape of trump using the "n" word

of this is in the coming weeks i'm sure for the moment bruce fein thanks so much for joining us from washington d.c. thank you now a new study has found that nearly three thousand people died in puerto rico in the six months after hurricane rita destroyed much of the our last october the figure is doubled is double the government's previous estimates of fourteen hundred deaths it's also in sharp contrast to the sixty four deaths announced immediately after the storm puerto rico's governor says lessons need to be learned from the disaster . while. it is time to show solidarity with all those who've lost a family and friends it is also time to reflect on what we've done will and what we did we need to find it hard to correct what we didn't do so that we can respond in future. also jordan has more from washington d.c. . for nearly a year after hurricane maria plowed through puerto rico the official death toll there has been set at sixty four that's on an island of several million people well now a research report conducted by the george washington university and the university of puerto rico has d

he joins us from washington. thank you so much forjoining us.ould you just start by explaining what exactly is going to happen. well, in terms of the currency, that is just something to deal with the currency problem. 0bviously when prices go up this high, this fast, you need a suitcase to buy a dinner, and the currency is not usable. so they have to recalibrate the currency. that's not really a measure to deal with the inflation. and so how exactly do they plan to do this? what exactly is the mechanism? the mechanism for inflation? well, they have introduced some things that would be pa rt introduced some things that would be part ofan introduced some things that would be part of an overall project to reduce inflation. for example, just now, the government has apparently announced that they are going to have an exchange rate system. so we will see what that is like. it is going to be fixed to the pedro. they are talking about raising fuel prices. but all that is not enough. to get rid of hyperinflation they have to have a credible plan, so peop

he joins us from washington.for the best pa rt this has been going on for the best part of three years. why it is it this is getting so much attention? they are a couple of reasons. one has to do with the fact that there has to do with the fact that there has been a growing criticism of saudi arabia in recent arms over its role in the yemeni law, especially since there is a growing perception within the international community that the saudis are to be blamed for the lack of any peace efforts and, more importantly, for the horrendous humanitarian situation and the crisis emerging in the form of diseases. it seems like secondly that saudis are on the defensive before because, clearly their forces have been responsible for this carnage. what did you think, will this mark a turning point for the humanitarian situation which is dire and the conflict itself? this moment will be forgotten, unfortunately, because, in your report, they have mentioned we have been here before and we will be see similar situations down the