Im sam is a dan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up after a chaotic start interruptions and delays the russian sponsored talks on the war in syria finally wrap up. With. Two days of fighting in yemen and southern secessionist say theyve taken control of the port city of aden plus. Any one and a half million afghan refugees living in pakistan face an uncertain future. The u. S. President has delivered a wide ranging speech to a joint sitting of congress it was Donald Trumps first state of the Union Address he spoke mainly about domestic policy trump highlighted his successes in tax reform and the need to change immigration laws to protect u. S. Interests oh i thousand correspondent Kimberly Halkett was following the address from capitol hill. Most of donald trump speech certainly focused on domestic policies and what he sees as achievements on that front that he has scored in the last year in office there were certainly some very pronounced Foreign Policy messages as well t
Because of some strong gains from unh, Johnson Johnson and Goldman Sachs. We will keep an eye on futures this morning as we continue to get the Earnings Reports ibm today lets look overnight in asia. We have seen japan close higher. Youre looking at a gain of almost 27 points, 21,363 hang seng closed marginally higher the hang hishanghai was up by a quarter. In europe, in some of the early trading, the dax is the leader, up over 0. 6 cac up by a half percent the ftse is up by a third of a percentage point if you look at crude oil prices, you will see at least this morning crude oil prices are up 16 cents 52. 04 for wpi. Brent crude up by 41 cents ibm shares are jumping this morning on better than expected results. The company beat on both the top and bottom lines but ibm still saw its 22nd straight quarter of revenue declines the cfo addressing those declining revenues on the Earnings Call last night as we said at the start of the year, and reiterated again in july, we said we would se
Those nations led by sunny river and have a ties series of demands including shutting down the al jazeera network. The newsump attacking media showing him hitting a man with a cnn logo for a face. Up, and business a landmark interdigital energy deal being signed in i run iran. First, top stories macron said to make a speech to parliament today. Mps are criticizing that speech later today. You can see live pictures of the president ting for macron to arrive. Billed as aeing state of the nation style speech, Emmanuel Macron will lay out the objectives for his fiveyear presidency, but there will be absentees. Macron is accused of taking an authoritarian approach and of overshadowing onet is used as an serves purpose. It macron is saying im a boss. He wants to crush his Prime Minister. Say helitical analysts is redefining the distinctions between the president and the Prime Minister. The president of the republic and Prime Minister have two different jobs in the acted s both have has acted
An august day maybe because its a cool august day what a fantastic turnout on capitol hill and that is due to the extraordinary lineup of people who will be presenting and talking and that brings you here. Five years ago maybe before five years ago the United Nations with the corporations of the United States and many countries around the world began to plan for the future of world Global Developments and it would apply not only to the least developed countries but equally university to the critical space and affairs and human rights for development in the best equipped countries including the United States. Out of that conversation became this extraordinary set of Sustainable Development goals to lead the way for all countries voluntarily to collaborate and how we will achieve the outcomes of those goals as set forth for the years 20152030. We are two years into this and already theres significant progress to talk about the build on the progress of the millennium the following goals t
Spoke to the same crowd, vowing allegiance to gop priorities as lawmakers preparing to go to battle over a timeline for tax cuts. Coming up, steve moore, Economic Advisor to donald trump, Austan Goolsbee, former advisor to president obama sound off. David all right. We have the ateam. Meanwhile back to the markets. The trump rally is marching on. New record close for the dow. Phil nine, price futures fox business contributor and watching action in oil and gold and lori rothman on the floor from the new york stock exchange. Forget about the nasdaq and s p, another record on the dow. Why . We sure did. All right, david. It was kind of touchandgo here. For the second day, david thedown closes above the milestone 20,000 mark but off the best levels of the session. Just up 31 points. That is good for a second consecutive record close. It was a broad based rally for the dow but we saw a lot of weakness. There is a lot of concern given the political atmosphere out there and were in the height