And busier today the count is 90 once heads of state 6 Vice President s 45 heads of government 5 deputy Prime Ministers the number of meetings requested is now climb to 630 this part of the u. N. The visitors lobby is normally open to the public to join the high level week its one of the most secure places on earth all around the u. N. Temporary rooms are being set up these are what are known as bilateral booth so you can see the leather chairs the table theres room here for 2 or more delegations to meet a short notice if necessary in some privacy. Organizing this event is a mammoth operation insiders have told me just getting the motorcades of president s Prime Ministers and Foreign Ministers here so they can speak back to back on the podium is an operation akin to a Traffic Control jamesburg days out 0 of the united nations. The weathers next and then still ahead a break from the past israels main arab parties back former military chief benny gantz the Prime Minister to keep him in t
A very forceful press conference designed right out of the gate to lay the blame at irans feet now much of the evidence displayed in there was a large volume of it might be arguably circumstantial thats certainly what iranian leaders are likely to say but the fact is that the sheer volume of information presented will be hard for anyone to ignore be irans enemies or their allies anyone trying to get to the bottom of what happened will find it difficult to ignore the sheer volume of information even though as you said when given the opportunity a saudi spokesman refused to point the finger squarely at iran now what irans government has been saying since the 1st bits of allegations came from the United States that iran was behind the attack on these saudi aramco facilities last week iran has said that that simply isnt the case they completely denied any responsibility and in the last 24 hours both irans foreign minister zarif and irans president Hassan Rouhani have said that the reason t
Stolen by greed and arrogance. Growing concern about containing shortterm rates for Balance Sheets. We hear exclusively from bill dudley. Kathleen later in Bloomberg Technology global link, a new report says juul is the target of a criminal investigation. Another major setback for the ecigarette giant. Now a quick reminder on how u. S. Stocks ended on this monday. You can see nearly mixed. We have to say flat but it was a bit of a recovery after fridays a slump. Volume about 28 below average. 0. 06 . At any rate, people are watching markets. People are watching the economy and the purchasing Managers Index is, from the market group. They were pretty good for the u. S. They held it above 50 for manufacturing and services. Not so for european look at what happened to the euro after the week numbers from germany. We were looking at the Bloomberg Euro index. On the far side, quite a draw at the end but if you take a look the more, you are seeing index is at its weakest level since 2017. Ge
Public life included 2 terms as president and Prime Minister period he became a champion of the european single currency and a vocal opponent of the u. S. Led war in iraq they also served 18 years as the mayor of paris so this period was marred by allegations of corruption. Reports. People gathered outside former president Jacques Chiracs home in central paris to remember one of frances most famous politicians whose career spanned 5 decades in a t. V. Address to the nation president emmanuel macro pay tribute to the conservative leader know. The people of france have lost a great statesman that we love as much as he loved us became a familiar face after being in politics for more than 40 years and whether we share his views or not this is all recognize this man who resembled us and assembled us there of paris Prime Minister twice and president for 12 years he held nearly all the top jobs sure i was born in paris in 1932 his political prowess was clearly evident he spent the 1950 s. Wor
Or not they had any evidence what was there evidence to suggest that iran was in any way shape or form involved in those attacks on Saudi Aramco Oil facilities he said World Leaders told him that they had no evidence of that kind they simply did not think that yemens hooty fighters were capable of carrying out an attack of such magnitude and of such sophistication irans president said his response to that was that the information about the ground reality in the middle east in that region that the World Leaders had was simply outdated. And our correspondent roslyn jordan joins us now from the United Nations so do you think were hearing a shift in rhetoric from the iranians here and if so why. Well im not sure that there is a real shift and rhetoric certainly what you saw on thursday the u. S. State department issuing yet another round of sanctions this time. Against several brainy and high level government officials and their families essentially banning them from obtaining visas to com