A post mortem examination has concluded that the death of the disgraced financier, jeffrey epstein, was suicide. The 66 year old, who was being held in a new york prison, was awaiting trial on child sex trafficking charges. 60 year old. The chief medical Examiners Office said that epstein had hanged himself and that a full report would be issued later. Our north america correspondent, peter bowes has more. This is an official statement that the cause of death was suicide by hanging and of course they had been a considerable about amount of speculation regarding circumstances of his death and it looks like that speculation will continue. Weve had a statement from the legal team in which the talk about the mediaeval conditions at the prison where he spent his final hours. They go on to say that the defence team, fully intends to conduct its own independent and complete investigation as to the circumstances and causes of his death. If necessary, legalaction circumstances and causes of his
Shape as i keep saying, then how the heck can i keep calling for a rate cut i dont need a rate cut. On a day when the dow gained 50 points, the nasdaq dipped 3. 6 , i think this is an important question especially given the feds yearly jackson hole con fab getting Coverage Today and tomorrow on our network. As the consumer well, lets just say, what do we know about the consumer consumer shops at watch, which is my acronym for walmart, amazon, target, costco, and home depot. What do we know about the consumer at these stores doing quite well we know the Unemployment Rate is at its lowest level in 40 years, so why in the world is President Trump trying to hector the fed into cutting interest and why do i believe in the president because its not that simple, people as i explained last night, weve got two economic world views colliding here you look at the big retailers and it seems like business is booming. You look at whats happening in the rest of the world in the bond market it looks l
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A natural response let the military council see this is a strong message that the people cannot remain silent as the Investigation Commission was formed not to establish the truth but to conceal the truth and speak to him or going to our correspondent who is in addis ababa in neighboring ethiopia we heard the reaction there from the opposition there before says a handful of officers but no mention of the a military general who is widely thought to be responsible for the attack on june 3rd tell us more about what else is new is in this report. Well holy weve heard from the head of the investigation on the teach its had a mans aid and he said that at least he said that 87 people were killed and that about 200 people were injured now this number is very different from the numbers that we got some the Sudanese Central Doctors Committee which said that over 100 people were killed and more than 700 engines so the opposition and protesters on the street are disputing this report there is sayi
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