Close proximity to a president ial election. We will hear from him throughout the day and the focus will turn to the jobs report. After u. S. Unemployment claims figures even this reading of the labor market we will be joined by larry kudlow from the white house for his reaction. Lets get to our main markets story. U. S. Stock futures continue their slide after the main gauge clocked its biggest plunge in three months, tech shares took in a selloffeating that knocked down the highest flyers. To put it all in context is dani burger. 750 billion wiped off the nasdaq, a painful day especially for a lot of the retail favorites, like tesla, falling down. Let me show you how this breaks down the chart. I want you to concentrate here, the nasdaq composite versus the s p and the equal weighted version. You can see most of the past month on the way up the nasdaq leads. The green day is the biggest so far. This little chunk at the end of the chart, you can see the biggest chart is the nasdaq fal
Just trying not to thinkne tively and being around positive people. Nick and the district of champions. The Washington Nationals finally bring home a world series win. L that and more on the pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has bn provided b bnsf railway, consumer cellular. And a by thered p. Sloane foundation, supporting science, technology, and improved performance and literacy in the 21st century. Carnegie corporation of new york , supporting democratic advanceme and the of International Peace and security at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and contributions to your pbs station fromiewers like you. Thank you. Nick in u. S. History, the house of representatives only pursued impeachment three times. Today, the house took a major step toward initiating the fourth effort and laid out where the process proceeds from here. Lisa de chardin begins cove
welcome to the programme. ukraine has been a common theme at two major leaders summits. we will cover it all here tonight on the context. on the first day of their annual meeting injapan, g7 leaders agreed new sanctions against russia. meanwhile in saudi arabia, president zelensky made a surprise visit to the arab league gathering, urging those attending, to support ukraine. also making the headlines at that summit president assad of syria it s the first time he s been invited to the arab league since the devastating civil war, that s blighted the country. and later in the programme we have a special report from the new york times which has uncovered shocking evidence of the greek coastguard abandoning asylum seekers in the sea. but first let s focus in on the g7 summit injapan. the leaders have agreed new sanctions against russia. they said the measures would starve moscow of their technology, industrial equipment, and services that supported its war against ukraine.
Floating over londons Covent Gardens. Talks in vienna to tackle the refugee crisis, up to 50 found dead in a truck not far from the venue. The victims may have been dead for up to two days, when it crossed into the country on wednesday. Reporter it looks like nothing out of the ordinary, a truck parked on the side of the road. When police approached the vehicle, the driver was nowhere to be seen, they saw drug seeping out of the back. They were overwhelmed by a terrible smell. Inside they found the decomposing bodies locked in. We dont know the country of origin, counting them is a slow gruesome task. Translation how many people from in the struck at this point in time i cant tell you, we fink it may be more than 20 people, 20 to 50 transported in the truck, and all the people have died. Its likely they are refugees, and likely they are people trafficked from east to west. Reporter the summit in vena was likely to be dominated by the refugee crisis, the latest tragedy drought an urgenc
Networks. N. A. T. O. Orders warships into the agean sea to crack down on networks smuggling refugees. Holocaust trial. Its about justice, a cart faces 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. And cosmic breakthrough. We have detected gravitational waves, we did it. Scientists detect space time ripples that ian stain predicted 100 years ago. Im antonio mora, this is al jazeeras news. We begin with breaking war. This evening in munich, secretary of state john kerry joined Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov to announce a cessation of hostilities, they are hoping it can be implemented within a week. In the meantime the Syrian Opposition continues to lose ground in aleppo due to an offensive succeeding because of air strikes. N. A. T. O. Is getting involved in the crisis, deploying ships to the agean sea. For more on syria and the cessation of hostilities, here is al jazeeras diplomatic editor jaiment bay. It was interesting that Stefan Demistura was told by syrians, we dont want meeting