And this is dateline london. They do say politics is showbiz for ugly people. This week, british politics was found to have something in common with hollywood sexual sleaze. In washington, it was financial sleaze under the spotlight. The special prosecutor investigating whether Donald Trumps president ial campaign was influenced by the russians. He laid his first charges, but is he any closer to proving a link . With me to discuss all that are marc roche, of le soir, a belgian daily newspaper, and the french magazine le point; bronwen maddox, director of the institute for government; the portuguese writer eunice goes; and henry chu, International Editor of variety. Good to have you with us today. Michael fallon was britains defence secretary in more ways than one. The minister in charge of the armed forces was also the first man over the top when political flak started to fly, the safe pair of hands when the government needed a reassuring presence at the microphone. Those hands and tha
All three major indexes taking a big hit. First intraday drop of more than 1 for the s p 500 in 64 days. That happened earlier today. That kind of call market has not gone back happening to all the way back to the 1960s. Nasdaq, intraday high at the open. It has now pulled back also more than 1 . Melissa said it, financials feeling the most pain. Beyond yields moving as well. Small caps are have thing the russell of all. Russell 2000 down the most of all the major indexes. Tyler . Im tyler mathisen. Second day of confirmation hearings under way for president Trumps Supreme Court pick, neil gorsuch. Preet bharara will join nyu law as a distinguished scholar in residence, he was fired as the u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of manhattan earlier this month. And days of heavy rains triggering the worst flooding peru has seen in decades. Look at that amazing video. A man washed away, as tries to drive cross, ill advisedly, obviously, a flooded road. More than 70 floodrelated deaths
Of our Advisory Committee members. I just would like to say thank you to her excellent Advisory Committee. One of the great ideas that came out of our Advisory Committee meetings this year was to try Live Audience polling, get into the new millennium son going to test that out now. If you look up the screen behind me, we have our first Live Audience polling question, the least important question that you answer at this years conference. But i think it would be, it will be interesting to see how we feel about it. So there are two ways that you can participate in this Live Audience polling. You can get on your phones, browser, your laptop come your tablet browser and put in pollev. Com food policy or text food policy to the number 22333 and so right out food policy in the message of the text, and as you see somebody coming must be a millennial already got on, answered. Were going to try this out, see if we get any yeses and let you experiment with that. While you experiment with that, i
Food safety. Cluded the federation of america posted this event. Good morning. All right. Good morning. Welcome. My name is thomas. I am the director of the Food Policy Institute at Consumer Federation of america. I would like to welcome you and thank you for attending our 40th annual National Food policy conference. Today is also the second day of the jewish passover holiday and so i would like to say happy passover. You know, Consumer Federation of america is an association of nearly 300 nonprofit consumer organizations. We were established in 1962 advance the form through advocacy. We focus on a lot of different Consumer Protection topics but particularly relevant to this conference is food safety, and agriculture policy. This Conference Provides an opportunity to hear from some of the key policymakers and players in the food policy world. And opportunity to explore food policy from a diverse range of perspectives. I hope you will agree we have a really Great Program for the shares
This is Al Jazeera America live in new york city. Im del walters. The Justice Department at this hour weighing its action after a federal court ruled that the president s action on immigration will remain on hold. This decision leaving them in legal limbo. Mike viqueira is live for us in washington. Mike, good chance this ends up at the Supreme Court. Reporter well, it probably will, and that is the Silver Lining that many proponents of the president s executive action see on this ruling from the fifth circuit of appeals court, a decision handed down last evening was 21. The republican inductees voting to uphold an earlier ruling from a lower court in texas who blocked the president s plan to expand the two programs known in washington speak as dopa, and darka, to allow those who have been in this country since they were young, brought by their parents or by other means, to stay here in the united states. In other words defer action on deporting them. Also those who are parents of u. S