A half years ago and m. P. s have been debating this for that amount of time so i dont think any of the ideas in there are particularly new or will be that challenging for m. P. s to understand and i think this this kind of ties into the frustration that people do of course in the u. K. Do feel with members of parliament in terms of their you know actually being able to agree a way forward but actually being very good at what showing what they dont agree with and what they want to oppose i think this is part of the thing to look out for and part of the problem for the votes on saturday you know theres lots of opposition m. P. s invitees saying theyre going to vote it down but actually thats only half the story you what is the kind of parliamentary sweet spot almost where where were the numbers actually agree in coalesced to show people including our e. U. Partners what will get through parliament and when louis was talking about an extension and. I think probably you know some kind of
And assumed his office in august of 2018. He will make some opening remarks. Following that, i will preside over some questions. And then, have anybody here who wants to ask a question to be able to do so. We will go until exactly 9 30. Everything is on the record. A question,have stand up, identify yourself, your filiation, and ask a question and not a long statement. That would be appreciated. One question per person would be appreciated. It is my honor to introduce the president of columbia. [applause] thank you so much. [applause] okay, its my honor to do you introduce the president of colombia, president duque. Thank you so much. Good morning. Its a great pleasure for me to be here with you. I want to thank you, david, for your introduction. I want to welcome friends from different think tanks, former public servants, members of the International Development bank organizations. So my great purpose of this morning is to, in ten minutes, try to describe where is colombia heading to,
Merkel its going to get very very gloomy. This is d. W. Business live from berlin im good how the elf as well come asian stocks are down after a weak u. S. Manufacturing report heightened fears about the Global Economic outlook but its not the only factor worrying investors throughout the region theyre also concerned about the situation in hong kong tensions are high after an 18 year old protester was shot as close as close range during tuesdays antigovernment demonstrations the protests were triggered by a controversial bill but have since morphed into a Broader Movement demanding more autonomy from beijing. The impact of those protests is also being keenly felt in the Business World with china putting pressure on companies to crack down on employees taking part in the protests no one has this been more apparent than at hong kongs flagship ally and Cathay Pacific we met kathy. Employee who supported the protests and lost the job correspondent. This instance of for one month ago Flight
Now out of germany. I have my screen here on the bloomberg terminal. We can see the number coming in a little bit better than expected. The business number at 94. 6, the survey was for 94. 5, and that is better than the 94. 3 that was the prior meeting. The expectations worse than expected, this is where we thought we might see the disappointment. Indeed we got it. We were looking for 92 and we got 91. 3. Course lower. This is better than the estimate of 96. 9. But bottom line is the is atations down at 90. 8 disappointing reading. Lets look at what is going on in markets, a little data check, the stoxx 600 is up 0. 2 . It has been up all morning long. We even have the dax showing gains, 0. 1 . The cac is up as well as the. Tse, 0. 2 we see the individual indexes rising. The euro falling a little bit in dollar terms. Down . 48 a barrel. Crude coming down as we see the u. N. General assembly get ready to hear Donald Trumps speech later today. The u. S. 10 year yield also coming down as
This is the kaiser report where were you september 3rd 2009 thats a question well be asking kids grandkids for years to come down was the 1st episode of the kaiser report yes 10 years ago today because a report began broadcasting all over the world under the countrys billions of people. 10 years ago this month indeed we started here in paris so while were here in paris i wanted to record this special there are some controversies about when the 1st episode actually aired of course because of a you tube and how they upload and date things but nevertheless i want to you know look back a little bit at a what we experience here in paris at the beginning of our journey of kaiser report 10 years ago and what i realized looking back and anybody could do that because its all on you tube go report episode one episode to episode 3 episode 4 just watch those 1st episodes im going to look at episode one and 3 at the moment because it napa said one we interviewed Danny Schechter the news the sector