A hit squad to canada to kill him and donald trump signs an executive order banning americans from carrying out transactions with the chinese only its up to. You. Thank you very much for joining as the governing party of sri lankas president go to buy a rajapaksa has won a landslide victory in parliamentary elections and along with its allies it has security 2 thirds majority giving the president the power to enact sweeping changes to the constitution the sri lankans peoples front is led by rajapaksa brothers the rajapaksa grab brothers. Who Service President and Prime Minister respectively the results now look certain to strengthen their dynastic rule but its raising fears of weakening government institutions such as independent commissions for police and Public Services that speak to our correspondent in colombo me now fernandez me now so a super majority for the rajapaksa brothers how are they able to achieve this break down the numbers for us focused. Basically its a reflection of
Waste of time and he is going to do what must be done. And even though some of the major markets are closed, investors are going to keep eyes on simmering tensions in north korea. We are going to get the Hong Kong Survey for the Fourth Quarter out of japan. Theyll get a glimpse of how businesses are feeling about the economy. You were just mentioning the top of the headline about shinzo abe and his prospect. Represented by the blue line here. That certainly has benefited exporters. Recentlyn see, as of we have seen that. With thehat has to do Dollar Strength we have been witnessing. We are going to look at how businesses field. Sincest monthly gain february. Losing a it of speed wrapping up the Fourth Quarter on friday area we see record profits from japan. Here is how we are faring so far in asia. Not a whole lot of action with markets in new zealand kicking things off. Down a fifth of 1 . Strength easing on this monday. We are seeing up a fifth of 1 . Looking for a slight improvement
Pounding residential areas. Its civilians who are paying the debt you price. Ukrainian side meanwhile, says its seeking to amass an arm, a 1000000 troops. So on to the point we asked after capturing large pods of don, boss, will putin had enough tide for more with a warm welcome to to the point with these guests city. Liana fix is a political analyst focusing on russia in eastern europe. More its gutman is chief reporter with the german magazine, cicero and joining us from bon is my ukranian colleague, groman gone to ranko, who works with t ws fresh and language service. Thank you so much to all of you for joining us today. Liana, id like to start with you, your cleaning president followed you, mister lensky, speaking of this massive counter offensive to regain territories in the country south. Is it possible . Is that even possible for ukraine to do that . Well, you quite obviously needs, at this point, some kind of success and at the moment it would be easier to achieve the successes
And his son hunter in ukraine. House yjudiciary chairman sent barr a letter serious concern and demanding know about what barr is calling an intake process for Rudy Giuliani information. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. Lets get straight to the white house. Boris is joining us. We know that Rudy Giuliani does have a channel to the Justice Department. Reporter thats right. We learned the attorney general has this review process that hes developed to try to verify some of the information that Rudy Giuliani has gathered. The dirt on joe and hunter biden. The attorney general acknowledges he is skeptical about all of this happening as President Trump is still attacking those that he feels betrayed him during the impeachment saga. Tonight attorney general william barr confirms the Justice Department has been receiving information from the president s attorney, Rudy Giuliani about his ongoing operation to dig up dirt on joe and hunter biden. The doj has an open door to anybod
Knife. The suspect was shot dead by the police officer. About 9 52 a. M. , a male suspect drove the vehicle over the curve west 19, struck pedestrians, he exited the vehicle and used the butcher knife and started slashing people. My thoughts are with the victims on this attack right now. I pray for their safety. I am grateful for our First Responders before further harm could be done. I want to begin with nbcs justice correspondent, Pete Williams and well talk with jim cavanov. Pete, lead us off on what you are hearing of the sequence of event. They believe this was planned. Theyre trying to find out the motive if they can establish one. There are indication that is the suspect left some kind of message before the attack and they are searching this americans media and looking at previous people that he was in touch with and talking to friends of his. They know who it is, we believe we have a name, we are not reporting of it yet until we can be positive of it. We believe this person is