This is r. T. International coming to you live from moscow im Kate Partridge thank you for joining us. Under stars in syria where terrorists have shelled a new humanitarian corridor in the war ravaged district of Eastern Ghouta thats according to Russias Defense Ministry which helps set up the route before it was a time just minutes later he was meant to allow civilians to leave the area just outside the capital damascus. Other pictures from the colorado checkpoint on the side of government controlled territory stooge of the terrorists shelling not a single civilian had been able to leave the area on tuesday r. T. Arabic correspondent. Is on the ground in damascus and has visited the checkpoint. At the had no civilians have come out of the corridor yet minutes after he was opened the area was shelled five time. Times several syrian soldiers were injured snipers have also been firing at those patrolling the corridor that could be why civilians are in using this route out. Well eastern g
The markets being as complacent as theyve been on all of Record Keeping that we have on hand once that volatility is introduced you have to pick only seen the top of the market for stocks and now were in the bumpy ride part of the transition that typically precedes a bear market is this going to happen before the march the twenty first i couldnt tell you i can tell you that the focus is going to be on jay powell when he puts in his initial testimony to congress on thursday the twenty eighth well let me ask you about him and about the poem see a meeting and i know that it would be unfair to theres so many variables between now and the meeting but. Just say things were pretty much the status quo that there were no no new wage numbers that surprised people the c. P. I. Didnt you know bugaboo again. If everything was like it is now do you think we would be looking at a rate increase at the march meeting and how much quarter of a percent so im going to give you a roundabout way of getting t
But the debt agreement failed so we discussed with the british you know what the british could do in a practical terms but to support this resolution you know whom they could talk and what kind of signals they could send to the. You whether its a neutral position whatever to be on to people in order to save lives and ill tell you that so that was a very pragmatic conversation and i think that the minister duncan. He received my message and he promised to send the right signals to the people with whom theyre connecting on the ground in order to to have this cease fire and to feel the resume loosen so basically that was the the key subject that we discussed today and that was the probably the first level meeting after the meeting go boris johnson. Foreign secretary with the Sergey Lavrov Russian Foreign minister since december last year i think its time to work a little bit closer and i was happy that at the meeting there was also the special representative on syria of the foreign office
Not just one little area that russia cutely tries to carve out it should be the entire country because that is what russia and those fifteen other countries agreed to in the Un Security Council resolution of the cease fire was agreed upon unanimously in the Security Council and it applies to all parties except isis and al qaeda so maybe the u. S. Should focus on peace efforts instead of criticizing russia but now its russia bashing took another interesting turn when he mentioned chemical weapons saying that russia failed in destroying syrias chemical weapons but even though it was a Russian Initiative it wasnt russias full responsibility to destroy syrias chemical weapons it was a un led effort and the opus e w the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which is the organization that was targeted with the mission has confirmed multiple times that all of syrias chemical weapons have been destroyed however it didnt end there now or compare the Current Situation in eastern g
Ussr to rush at the beginning. No one knows. There is a lot of love and hate. Cubans have one of the highest awareness is of u. S. Brands in the world and one of the highest preferences in the world so if u. S. Companies launching into cuba comes with less cost than some other marketplace that makes it attractive so and thats because the folks do have, the people of cuba many of them have access. We saw what no one expected with fidel. Most people, most of the modeling done in the u. S. Government was fidels speaking, he drops dead worries in his office and people drop dead and people know where they dont know but no one expected a succession and then a transition from brother to brother. I would say dont expect raul dies and its a switch. Its going to be more of a wave. Thank you. Bill lane. Good morning. Bill lane with caterpillar and first of all i want to thank you for a Great Program and great timing particularly the fact that this is two days away from the big anniversary. Some o