Rights think Government Faces growing criticism over its handling of the crisis. China signals that its attitude towards. Beijing proposes new goals to criminalize sedition secession and subversion in the territory. Of the chinese territory. Of the program u. S. President donald trump says his country will withdraw from an important control treaty notice open skies and justify the move by saying that russia had not been complying own. With the deal which was signed to you decades ago to increase military transparency among 34. 00 countries this will be the 3rd the arms control pacts with the trump was pulled out of since taking office the other 2 were the i. M. F. A Nuclear Treaty with russia on the Nuclear Codes with iran. On the w. s that Washington Bureau chief is alexander of norman welcome alexandra. Put this in context for us how important is this open skies treaty and why does the president want to leave it. Well this treaty has been a very important for stabilizing relations be
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Actions. The Government Faces growing criticism over its handling of the crisis. In china. Towards hong kong. To criminalize sedition secession under subversion in the territory. Welcome to the program u. S. President. Will withdraw from an important arms control treaty known as open skies it justified the move by saying that russia has not been complying with the deal which was signed 2 decades ago. To increase military transparency among 34 countries this will be the 3rd arms control president withdrawn from since taking office including the i. M. F. Nuclear treaty with russia the good nuclear code with iran. On the w. s that Washington Bureau chief is our exams of norman welcome alexandra. Put this in context for us how important is this open skies treaty and why does the president want to leave it. Well this treaty has been a very important for stabilizing relations between the you asked its european allies and russia because it grants mutual permission to send reconnaissance fligh
Growing criticism over its handling of the crisis. And china gets tough on Hong Kong Beijing wants a new law to crackdown on civil unrest after violent prodemocracy groups protests lawmakers saying its an attack on the citys autonomy. To topple the 1st debate into the local communities but of course the overall fall doesnt spread what has been consistent look at all the protocol that. Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show President Donald Trump is pulling the u. S. Out of an important arms control treaty trump says russia has not been compliant with the open skies agreement the deal was signed 2 decades ago to increase military transparency this will be the 3rd arms control pact. Has scrapped he also canceled the i enough Nuclear Treaty with russia and the Nuclear Accord on iran. Lets go now to alexandra phenomenon in washington d. C. How important is this open skies treaty and why does President Trump want to withdraw from it well the treaty has been very important for stabilizin
Teams and teams and delivery of cars for 2020 and so forth. Were starting to get a clearer picture on whats happening in technology as well. This is a big earnings week in general but we got the alphabet earnings last night. And one of the stark things was the difference between direct response advertising and general brand advertising. We heard direct response is doing better we heard it from snap. Heres the general idea from alphabet, gives you a read through whats going to happen with facebook. There were other numbers that alphabet talked about that could have implications for apple, certainly for amazon and microsoft in their cloud numbers. So that data, that intelligence were getting not only for what happened in q 1 but the trends in beginning of q 2, morgan, are so important. Yeah, potentially read through for apple when we get those results after the bell tomorrow, too. We started the week talking about the outsized leadership of these names, microsoft, facebook, amazon, alpha