struggling first republic, the hope is that this massive cash infusion will calm markets and stop a panicky selloff. plus trump special koubl takes sweeping steps to get questions answered. subpoenas for workers from trump s communication handlers to the staff member caught on video helping move boxes in ask out of a storage room. and next week china s president makes a state visit to russia. the trip has consequences for ukraine s war of survival, and it happens the day the hague issues an arrest warrant for the russian president. up first, another bank saved from ruin. 11 banks, $30 billion, that s how much money is and how many lenders it took to save first republic from going the way of silicon valley bank. $5 billion from bank of america, wells fargo, jpmorgan and citi, $2.5 million from goldman sachs. this deal from the mega banks included behind the scenes talks between the treasury secretary, the fed chair and the jpmorgan chase chief. the goal, the rescue retur
has now issued an arrest warrant for vladimir putin. prosecutors accuse putin and another official of illegally deporting ukrainian children to russia. we expect to hear from president biden perhaps reacting to this at any moment but first cnn s ivan watson is in kharkiv, ukraine and nic robertson is in london. ivan, walk us through exactly what the icc is alleging here. reporter: they re issuing arrest warrants for none less than the russian president himself, vladimir putin, accusing him of alleged war crimes for what they say is the illegal abduction of ukrainian children, forcibly deporting them to russian territory. they ve also issued an arrest warrant for a russian government official, and she is kind of the children s right official in the russian government. she has already issued a statement. the kremlin have already issued statements basically calling this these arrest warrants null and void, saying that moscow is not a signatory to the rome statute, that they
atrocities during the invasion ukraine. first, a new bomb shell in the hunter biden s investigation. a third member of the biden s family to receive payments with the chinese firm. baeu biden. she s the third member. hello, everyone, i am emily compagno. and charles payne on this st. patrick s day. hunter s associate, rob walker, wired more than a million dollars to hunter, james, and hailey biden in 2017. after he was paid $3 million from a chinese energy firm. well, hunter got the line of share of this. hailey worked as a school s counselor received two payments totalling $35,000. a spokesperson for hunter biden s legal team confirmed the statement saying this. hunter biden had every rights to pursue his business partners and seeking a joint account in chch chchina. chairman comer s questions remained of the services rendered by the biden s family. there was a lot of money that transferred from china to the bidens and what we want to know is what did china get in return
that panic can spread to other banks, it is called contagion. the fed has to tip toe very carefully through what is certainly a mine field at this point. donald trump lahad a very specific strategy and approach. at the end of the day donald trump needs to be held accountable for hils dirty deed. we have absolute evidence of the contact and it was very aggressive. it is important that great powers be models of transparency and communication. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, march 16, 5:00 p.m. in tokyo, 4:00 a.m. in new york where all eyes are on global stock markets as they react of yet another bank collapse. and here is how u.s. futures are looking. as you can see, everything is ticking up after was what was a very volatile trading session. credit suisse will borrow up to $54 billion after a slump in its shares left investors on edge. saudi national bank rolled out further support. credit suisse s
turmoil is spreading. credit suisse will borrow almost $54 billion from swiss bank. the bank stock surging in the first few minutes of trading today in europe as shares plunged to a record low on wednesday after getting cut off by its biggest shareholder. anna stewart is live in london. markets are now open there. what is the latest? reporter: i think that we re seeing a bit of relief now on the european indices particularly with the banking stocks. let me show you how the european market opened. all the major indices are higher by around a percentage point led by the smi in switzerland. credit suisse closed down yesterday 24%. and today you will see share price is now up around 23%. i think some investors saw a little bit of value early this morning as a result of what the swiss central bank has decided which is that they would provide liquidity back stop and credit suisse have taken them up on that offer, $53 billion in terms of the loan. and they will be buying back arou