Im stephen sackur. One of the most extraordinary features of the first months of the Trump Presidency has been the deepening sense of a war between the white house and the so called Mainstream Media, and top of the president s enemies list, well, its the New York Times, The Grand Old Lady of american newspapers which mr trump portrays as a purveyor of lies. Well, my guest today is the Executive Editor of the times, dean baquet. Is what is printed in here fake news or fair . Dean baquet, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Good to be here. I think we have to start with the relationship between President Trump and the established, he would say mainstream, media. This is something you said, even before he was elected, the month before he won the white house. You said, trump says things that are demonstrably false, i think he is challenging our language he will have changed journalism, he really will. Yeah. How do you feel after more than 100 days of the Trump Presidency . He has. And i think
Killed in what is described as a Freak Accident involving a tiger. The park will be closed today while investigations continue. The zookeeper was mauled to death by one of the tigers inside the enclosure. It is not known how. The park was full of holiday visitors, and several posted photos of the Air Ambulance Landing nearby. The park was shortly close by Zoo Officials who later handed out a short statement which said, this appears to have been a Freak Accident, at no point during the incident did any animals escaped their enclosures, and at no point was Public Safety affect it in any way. Nine years ago affect it in any way. Nine years ago a cheater escaped through a broken electric fence. Cheetah. It was later recaptured nearby and nobody was hurt. The forensics fans have now left and the police say there are no suspicious circumstances surrounding what happened. A full investigation is under way, where this evening, the animals are being prepared for the night. The gates are locked
Im stephen sackur. One of the most extraordinary features of the first months of the Trump Presidency has been the deepening sense of a war between the white house and the so called Mainstream Media, and top of the president s enemies list, well, its the New York Times, The Grand Old Lady of american newspapers which mr trump portrays as a purveyor of lies. Well, my guest today is the Executive Editor of the times, dean baquet. Is what is printed in here fake news or fair . Dean baquet, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Good to be here. I think we have to start with the relationship between President Trump and the established, he would say mainstream, media. This is something you said, even before he was elected, the month before he won the white house. You said, trump says things that are demonstrably false, i think he is challenging our language he will have changed journalism, he really will. Yeah. How do you feel after more than 100 days of the Trump Presidency . He has. And i think
If you happen to be watching from the u. S. It is a bank holiday in the u. K. , too. Chinese markets are closed as well. The stoxx 600, pretty flat there, bearing all that in mind. The dollaryen, pretty unchanged at 111. 31. We did see a little strength earlier after those comments from John Williams. Cable is up. 2 . That has been moving fairly strongly ahead of the u. K. Election and a sterling did have its worst week this year last week. And keep your eyes on the 10 year italian yield. It looks like it is down two basis points. It was moving higher earlier, after comments from the Prime Minister. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Reporter north korea has conducted another missile test. South Korean Military Officials Say the missile, which appears to be a scud variant, was fired off of north koreas east coast. It comes just days after World Leaders vowed to take tougher measures against kim jong un. British airways says many of the Computer Systems a running again. That is as
Since world war ii, says Angela Merkel, are somewhat over. Matt lets check in on the bloomberg first word news. First off for that we go to taylor rigs. Taylor starting with the story in germany, the german commands lower Angela Merkel is signaling its a new era in europe when it comes to ties with the u. S. She told a Campaign Rally that relyal reliable relations forced are somewhat over and europe must take destiny into its own hands. During President Trumps trip he called germany very bad and blasting allies for not spending enough on defense. A member of President Trumps cabinet is downpraying reports that white house advisor jarred kushner was seeking secret communication with russia. The u. S. Homeland john said is was no big deal. They spoke to russians ambassador and proposed a back channel between the Trump Transition Team and the kremlin. Many of british airplanes computer problems have ended but the chaos is lingering. The airline is trying to recover from a Massive Technolo