Fever. They have seen some of the worst outbreaks of the disease. Tech screen computers developed a Japanese Community will have people enjoy ancient art. U. S. President obama has rallied other nations behind the campaign to crush Islamic State. Members of the u. N. Security Council Passed a resolution aimed at blocking foreign fighters from joining extremist groups in conflicts a broad. Its part of a broader strategy to end insurgeon say that knows no borders. More from nhk world craig dale. For weeks u. S. President barack obama has been making the case for the fight against Islamic State. This group has terrorized who they come across in iraq and syria. He made his latest pitch before the u. N. General assembly asking for help to destroy what he calls the network of death. Islamic state militants have storm add cross syria and iraq taking control of large chunks of territory. Theyve killed, raped and terrorized residents. Obama started after them last month. This week he extended t
Especially endless whining about the strong dollar and how it is killing the translation. That is all i heard today. It was the proximate cause of the downturn in the market. Nasdaq plunging 8. 9 now look i get that the dollar is strong against a number of currencies and that hurt. Believe me if this were not an hermes tie and if this booze were not actually worth drinking i would be pouring the wine of all of these great countries all over this dirty floor, which is usually meant for sipping cheap scotch after a hard day at the office. I mean some of this whining, just consider my whine list its perfect. Microsoft has a bad vintage. Nasty, whining about execution in china, when i hear it about china it better not be about earnings. And the whining, what the heck went wrong in china and japan. You know what . That is your job, microsoft. I dont want a darn crisis about sales in china. Hey, by the way, a lot of whining going on at Procter Gamble. Dont know how it could have been worse.
Welcome back to squawk box here on cnbc first in business worldwide. Im Andrew Ross Sorkin with joe kernen. Becky enjoying the day off. And for viewers outside of the United States, happy boxing day. It comes from a tradition where boxes were given to people and the box would include a gift or two and perhaps some leftovers from the tables of the wealthy. I used to think it was boxing day. I didnt know. I learned this about a decade ago, but every year we get emails from people saying thank you for explaining that. We didnt know. Its said some of the boxes include gifts. Do some of the boxes people just give boxes . I think sometimes it was leftover food. Food or but not just boxes, right . I have to tell you, my children jumped into an empty box yesterday. Thought it was a rocketship and thought that was the greatest gift they could have gotten. Remember in splash he gives Darryl Hannah a box and she goes its beautiful. No, open it. Because you dont know for sure if its wrapped nice.
Guy good morning. Welcome. You are watching the pulse. I am guy johnson. Francine lacqua will be here a little bit later. She will be rejoining. Talks about greece and creditors are dragging on. The reports of progress, no breakthrough to guarantee the flow of liquidity to greece francs and they are doing to make a payment of around 200 made euros tomorrow. Lets bring in our reporters. We are joined by phyllis. Lets start with you. Where are the differences and the gaps . Reporter the same a red lines of the labour front and reform on the cell of state assets sale of state assets. And these sides are talking about during the negotiations and we will have the differences by the European Commission latest economic forecast. Those are to be released in the next hour. Maybe we can understand why there is israel difference in a fiscal assumptions between the two sides. Guy looking for to that data. Talk me through this imf eu disagreement we seem to be seeing at the moment. People are talki
And how it works when the media bistro chief executive joins us. Biotech, how the nylon investeutical ceo will 700 million in his biotech firm. All of more and next hour. First, lets go to su keenan for headlines in the newsroom. Center stage with google reporting fourthquarter profits that fell short of estimates. I drop inies advertising profits and profit excluding certain items was 12 and one cent a share, ms. Lane missing analysts projections. Meanwhile, amazon reported profits that trailed estimates. They saw a surge in costs to ship gifts over the holidays. Shipping costs accounted for 4. 7 of total sales compared. Ith 4. 5 a year earlier zynga will cut 15 of its staff and by popular mobile developer. They reported a narrower quarterly loss. Ceo, lloyd sachs blankfein, got an 11 larger stock bonus for his work last year. He received more than 80 8000 restricted shares of the january 28 valued at 14. 7 million. Thank you very much. Now some breaking news surrounding microsofts se