Over foro pay half 1 billion contributing to the states Opioid Crisis. This marks the first time a drug company has been held responsible for the crisis, which has led to more than 400,000 Overdose Deaths since 1999. We will get the latest. Then to kochland the secret history of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in america. Is theland in one sense history of one corporation, and it happens to be one of the largest corporations in the industries. S, coke this company hasevenues every year that are laer than that of facebook, Goldman Sachs, nus beall combed. It touches on most every aspect of modern life from energy to the food system to Building Materials. Amy following the death of billionaire rightwing donor david koch, we look at how he and his brother charles koch transformed the American Economy and political system from funding Climate Change deniers to fighting organized labor. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report.
Discuss with his European Partners other partners to see where we can go from here the french would like to take these talks and go into the g. 7 summit in b. Of its over the weekend able to sell the idea to the americans that something should be offered to tehran as a sweetener now the british in the form of an unnamed diplomatic source on friday have backed them up saying that the deal is the best way to prevent iran acquiring a Nuclear Weapon and has to be supported but its very unclear whether President Trump and his National Security advisor john bolton will actually bite and will actually go for this diplomatic approach to resolving the crisis still ahead an aljazeera rangar refugees react to u. N. Evidence revealing genocidal intent by me and mars military and environmentalists are calling it a potential in some noble on ice the Floating Nuclear reactor. On its way to the arctic. Hello again to welcome back well here across parts of northern turkey we have seen plenty of weather
Lets see how things did overnight in asia. Asia was leading the declines yesterday. This time a little different story. Nikkei closed up by 1. 5 hang seng was up by 0. 6 shanghai was flat. In europe, at least at this early trading hour, there are green arrows across the board. Barely hanging on for the ftse the dax and cac each up by better than 0. 6 looking at crude oil prices, at least right now, crude oil looks like its down 7 cents 55. 26. Couple big stories were watching, mattel has rejected a takeover approach from rival hasbro reuters reporting that mattel believes the offer undervalues the company and doesnt take into account the potential for regulators to rejected the deal on antitrust grounds reports saying mattels new ceo who took over in february may be trying to drive a harder bargain in talks with hasbro the company cut its fullyear revenue outlook. You are looking at both of those stocks now time inc is reportedly restarting talks to sell itself to publisher and broadca
Percent. Shanghai stocks down by close to 1 a decline of more than nine tenths in europe there have been some green arrows the dax is up by. 2 the cac is up by a quarter percentage points. Stocks up in italy, spain and london crude oil prices which ended last week just shy of 59 a barrel, check this out right now, down by about 44 cents. Still, wti trading above 58 at 58. 51 a barrel. Now this morning the big news of the day. Publisher meredith buying time, inc. , for2. 8 billion thats the price meredith will pay 18. 50 for time, inc. It publishes wellknown magazines such as time, peopl people. Meredith received 650 million a lot of people raising questions about what this means. Raising 650 million in backing from the billionaire Koch Brothers, charles and david koch are widely known for supporting conservative causes. They say the magazine business is a good investment in the press release koch industry says it will not have any seat on merediths board and will have no influence or e
Squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt. Retails are stories once again, with Online Shopping soaring to a record 5. 3 billion on black friday alone cyber monday is set to possibly become the biggest internet shopping day in history. For more on that we send it out to our Courtney Reagan whos at Amazon Warehouse in robbinsville, new jersey hi again, court. Good morning to you, carl cyber monday has always been a really big day for amazon, but now that they have the prime day, they are going to have to beat their own record in order for it to be the biggest day of the year for amazon. You can see were in this Fulfillment Center in new jersey and its just one of 75 of amazons Fulfillment Centers like this in the country here it covers a million square feet there are 14 miles of conveyer belts running 24 7 thousands of both human employees, as well as robots fulfilling those cyber monday orders last year amazon said 64 million items were ordered on its website. They are not givi