Has ordered china to close one of its most important consulates in the United States you see it there in the video the fires burning are apparently the folks there in the embassy burning some of their personal papers the chinese consulate in Houston Texas is shut down and china is responding with an apparent ultimatum already wow this shutdown of the consulate is only the latest sign in a growing trend of countries being punished by the u. S. State department in fact its not just china. As of this writing the United States has a whopping 7967. 00 sanctions and place 7967. 00 sanctions its a somewhat bizarre and almost a stunt to shing list that includes not to. Countries but even individuals People Stores Small Companies and tire corporations governments types of governments even branches of governments the usual suspects of course on the sanctions list are countries like iran and north korea russia venezuela turkey on and off and now the biggest target of all china but then there are
People the right to end their own lives even if they are not suffering from any medical condition. The u. S. Accuses china of sponsoring. American Companies Working on a vaccine for 900. On the back with more headlines in about an hours time but right now it is news with rick sanchez coming up. Live from the World Headquarters of the r t america our Nations Capital this is the news with rick sanchez. Hi everybody im rick sanchez i want to welcome all of you who are watching us from all over the world including those of you who are watching us on your phones using the portable t. V. You are there this morning in a dramatic escalation at apparent breach of diplomatic protocols the. U. S. Has ordered china to close one of its most important consulates in the United States you see it there in the video the fires burning are apparently the folks there in the embassy burning some of their personal papers the chinese consulate in Houston Texas is shut down and china is responding with an appa
Is just over an hour and a half. I see that we have a quorum present. I really want to thank everybody for joining us, its an important issue that i now recognize myself for opening remarks. Pursuant to the notice, were holding a hearing to discuss the american lives on the line come lessons for managing the russia threat. Two weeks ago startling revelations that russia put bounties on american troops serving in afghanistan. This week in the Foreign Affairs committee weve been examining this egregious attack on americans and the Top Administration failure to handle it probably. Its important for the public to know this. Ive personally been involved in four earrings. This week alone that ive with this issue and that doesnt include the actions of other committees working on their own. I just want to underscore to people listening that they should know that we in concert taking over some of this matter very seriously. The one thing if we do nothing else, the most basic and fundamental dut
Ins a draw as they say soccer right now. Jonathan im not sure anyone calls Bank Earnings season the great derby. Darby. Y the fixed trading revenue number. Equity sales and trading revenue. Message fromng the the city ceo. Balance sheet a has plenty of capacity to serve clients. This is the continued message that the Balance Sheet is not an issue, this is an earnings issue. The Balance Sheet is still strong. Tom every bank has different language. 20 some billion dollars of cost of credit. Citigroup and jp morgan lifting a little bit. Wells fargo is its own story. Sonali basak joins us now. We have citigroup out here now i want to go back to wells fargo. How broken is wells fargo . A 2. 4 just posted billion loss. Down to is being cut . 10 compared to . 20 expectations and . 51 where it was before. They are putting up a fraction of what they had before. They are jp morgan with relatively solid results in the face of a tough time. Jonathan is there a broad take away yet for all three . A
To. A very warm welcome youre watching R T International with me the care and. Police officer has been suspended in the u. K. After being filmed kneeling on the neck of a black man he was arresting. The locals in front of. You it looks like you got your. Front loaded. According to police the man being detained was suspected of having a knife as the officers struggled on the ground a crowd of people gathered and then filmed the incident well whats happened is being investigated it has reignited debate. Im deeply concerned about todays incident and it is right that met police u. K. Have referred the case of the independent Police Watchdog black londoners still face discrimination and we must work with the community to build trust in the police video footage that i have seen today and is circulating in social media is extremely disturbing some of the techniques used cause me great concern theyre not taught in Police Training well former head of british counterterrorism say the officers fr