Higher. Heres the big stories you need to know about this morning. Greece topping your headlines. Athens widely expected to ask for an extension of a loan deal with the euro zone. Well talk about the implications of that. The bank of japan leaving it unchanged. The worlds third biggest economy is on the lend. By the way, the nikkei 225 is up 4 this year. Here at home a number of economic reports are set to role out this morning beginning at 8 30 eastern when we get the january Producer Price index. Housing starts as well as Building Permits. Later on in the morning we get Industrial Production figures and breaking at 2 00 p. M. Eastern time we get the minutes from the last months fed meeting. Thats at the top of the power lunch which im told is a fine program. I saw that in the prompter. Did you write that into the prompter . I script everything. Lets tell you whats going on. Fossil with weaker than expected earnings revenue and offering a less than rosie outlook. The company cites a d
Statements that crimea should be returned what sort of influence washington has on kiev. And how can the United States use that influence to resolve this conflict. I have not had a chance i have not read the speech. I havent seen any context i have simply heard about it in the course of today. But if indeed the president is advocating an engangment in a force. Effort at this time, we would strongly urge him to think twice not to engang in that kind of activity. That that would put minsk in serious jeopardy and we would be very very concerned about what the consequences of that kind of action at this time may be. Now, it may be he was talking about in the long term, he may have been talking about the context of the final resolution, or settlement, i dont know the answer to that. Resort to portion would be extremely destructive, the working groups have met, and they have an ability to try to provide a path forward on all of those issues that many ofs have been concerninged about over the
Visits russia for the First Time Since the falling out over ukraine and syria. Hello the saudilead coalition has targeted a rebelheld munitions depot east of yemens capitol. These are the latest pictures east of the capitol sanaa. This air strike took place on monday night a day before a saudiproposed ceasefire is due to take effect. The new u. N. Envoy as arrived in the capitol a few hours before the ceasefire begins. Iran says it is backing a truce. Its foreign minister has called for an immediate resumption of talks. Translator any ceasefire and any halt on the military operations is supported by iran to help the victims of this war, which are innocent children and women. This ceasefire must turn into a permanent ceasefire and talks to form an inclusive government should be immediately resumed. Meanwhile iranian warships will accompany a cargo ship bound for the port held by the houthis. It is packed with aid workers and journalists. Its part of a humanitarian mission being carried
Another day of chaos in burundis capital as protests against the president go on after a third week. And the stalemate in spanish football continues. Barcelona threw the final of the Champions League while is real madrid get ready for the event. Ment. We begin in yemen where a fiveday humanitarian ceasefire when begins. Were getting reports of houthi tanks shelling residential areas in the southwestern city of taiz. And this was the city of taiz just a few hours before the truce. Ten people were killed and 60 injured including dozens of children when houthi struck the struck. The u. S. Is warning iran from staging a stunt that could threat the ceasefire. The pentagon said all aid supplies need to be redirected to an u. N. Distribution hub in djibouti. Hashem ahelbarra is standing by in riyadh. Lets look at why the truce was called for in the first place. 1400 people have died since the campaign of saudiled airstrikes began on march 19th. The sea air and land blockade led to severe shor
Will send back every boat carrying rohingya migrants. And a top u. S. Diplomat visits russian for the First Time Since the falling out over ukraine and syria. Hello the saudilead coalition has targeted a rebelheld weapons and munitions depot east of yemens capitol. Take a look at the latest pictures east of sanaa. This air strike took place on monday night a day before a saudiproposed ceasefire is due to take effect. The new u. N. Envoy has arrived to sanaa just a few hours before the ceasefire is set to begin. The foreign minister of iran has called for talks. Translator any ceasefire and any halt on the military operations is supported by iran to help the victims of this war, which are innocent children and women. This ceasefire must turn into a permanent ceasefire and talks to form an inclusive government should be immediately resumed. Iranian warships will accompany a cargo ship bound for the port held by the houthis. The cargo ship is packed with aid workers and journalists. Its p