This is state of e. U. News coming to you live from berlin tens of thousands pleat as volcanic eruption in Bali Indonesia authorities fear amount of boom is about to blow forty thousand people have been evacuated to safety in the airport has been closed causing travel chaos will get an update from bali also coming up pope francis flies into controversy hes been given a warm welcome in myanmar but the real hinge of Muslim Minority there have been fleeing violence attacks francis will also meet a group into refugees in bangladesh. And it looks like germanys chancellor is going to try to lure the social democrats into another grand coalition with her conservative party will the s. P. D. Go along with her and if it does will the new government be any different from the old. Fellow im terry Martin Thanks for being with us. A red alert has been issued on the indonesian Holiday Island of bali as fears rise of a major paul kelly corruption authorities have evacuated forty thousand people aroun
On kurdish fighters in Northern Syria opening up a new front in the conflict. North korea will send 22 athletes to compete in three sports at the Winter Olympics in south korea in february. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are kate andrews, news editor at the institute of Economic Affairs and sebastian payne, whos political leader writer at the ft. Many of tomorrows front pages are already in. The times says allies of the labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn are planning to get rid of 50 labour mps. The telegraph which leads with comments from the foreign secretary borisjohnson that the uk should welcome a visit from president donald trump. A poll in another newspaper suggests that we do not want that. The sunday express says that more than 100 tory mps will demand the Prime Minister End Free Movement and leave the Single Market as soon as we leave the eu in march 2019. The mail on sunday leads with a plot to target three ex conserv
Alix lets take a look at that. Yields have lost 13 basis points this week. The dollaryen as well, the lowest level since november. Of gold is getting a bit it, up five dollars. Copper is getting hit along with other base metals. Of there is not enough to impact weaker dollar. Up, we getng secondquarter results from kroger. We will spot talk to the cfo. President will be speaking on consumer finance. Right now, lets get enough date on the business world. Taylor the hurricane weakened overnight. It is still on a collision course with florida. It will bring potentially deadly storm surges. It has been downgraded to a category 4. Has triggered a record evacuation from the miami area. Could become the most expensive Natural Disaster in u. S. History. It is already tattered small caribbean islands. A major mexican earthquake has killed at least 15 people. It hit near the border with guatemala. President called it the biggest mexican earthquake in a century. In israel, the wife of Benjamin Ne
But we still saw a higher climbed by the end of the day. That run is continuing here. It is being fueled in part by earnings we have been seeing, being fueled in part by higher rates. It is a positive week for the s p 500. In fact, not just this week, but it has been on a sixweek run of gains. Some of the game, as you can see, have been modest. This is the longest streak we have seen in about three years. A streak of weekly gains that we have seen in about three years for the s p 500. Some of the movers we are watching today include materials companies, Building Materials specifically. We have seen lumber prices and prices for other types of Building Materials rise recently. We also have existing home sales data today that came in ahead of estimates. Mark arrieta of Eagle Materials , eaglein marietta materials, and Vulcan Materials companys dating today. Proctor and gamble is leading the way downwards, after the company came out with numbers that sales beat forecasts, but numbers met e
Senate rules will be changed because the gorsuch vote was blocked, 60 votes necessary blocked. Republicans say they have no other choice, simple majority, changing the rules, going nuclear, as it were. A development behind the scenes could have you going nuclear. Talk about bodies agreement not only to proceed on health care, by greater extension with the tax cuts. Were getting late word the president is very keen on marrying infrastructure, talking of building more roads and bridges what he can do elsewhere when it comes to Getting Health Care reworked through. Mitch mcconnell in the meantime talking about this measure, to get a simple majority vote goingnd soo neil gorsuch. I raised a point of order vote on cloture on precedent set on november 21st, 2013, is majority vote on all nominations. The precedent of november 21st, 2013, did not apply to nominations to the Supreme Court. Those nominations are considered under the plain language, rule 22. The point of order is not sustained. I