Gunshots the city as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew this comes after a peaceful protest was broken up by a shooting allegedly by nigerias security forces. Im told me a lot of welcome to the program pope francis has said that he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of same sex couples this break from the vaticans traditional position on the issue the pope made the comment in a new documentary about him titled francesco which premiered on wednesday at the rome Film Festival the film also tackles other controversial issues such as racism Climate Change sexual abuse and relations between christians muslims and jews. Knowledge joined by chicago based journalist michael of laughlin he is a journalist and author who covers religion and politics with a particular focus on the Catholic Church michael good to have you on the program how have the popes comments on same sex civil unions been received in the u. S. Its been a welcome statement to many of bt catho
Pose a threat to the chancellor. Clause in a mock shift for the Catholic Church pope francis says he supports same sex civil unions observers are calling it the clearest language yet from the pontiff on gay rights and christianity. Im told me a lot of ball welcome to the program with just 2 weeks to go before the u. S. President ial election intelligence officials believe that iran and russia have interfered in the upcoming vote they accuse iran of being behind recent intimidating emails targeted at American Voters to sow unrest in multiple states they also stated that teheran and moscow obtained Voter Registration details with the goal of interfering in the election democratic voters in at least 4 battleground states received emails that threatened we will come after you if the recipients didnt vote for donald trump. U. W. Correspondent is in washington covering events for us. Can you tell us more about these accusations well tell me what we know at this point is that groups from iran
Are preparing to go to the polls to vote in a referendum on whether to replace the countrys pinochet era constitution the present constitution is considered by many to prevent social progress and justice the vote comes after a year of mass and rest against social inequality. A suicide bombing in afghanistans capital kabul has killed at least 18 people and wounded many more the interior Ministry Says the blast struck an Educational Center in a Western District of the city the socalled Islamic State militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack. This is d. W. News from bolen follow us on twitter and instagram at news or this is our website w dot com. Org. For. This week on the world stories. British sheep farmers fear for their livelihoods. Dangerous apportions in kenya but we begin in the south caucasus where han conflict between armenia and azerbaijan continued this week despite a cease fire the 2 nations from the former soviet union are involved in a dispute over the not go
The ceo of sanofi says they are ready to produce a billion doses of its vaccine available next year. Making a vax on on a platform year in and year out. We are doing it in partnership and other Global Companies defend or delay the u. S. Government gets an ultimative President Trump says safety is his main concern they are working to see if they can make a deal if they make a deal, theyll need to bring it to me safety is the predominant factor a warm welcome to street signs. Lets look into the final markets. It is a mixed picture. The ftse 100 up a little higher. Yesterday, we did see that uk benchmark underperform falling 1. 3 overall the stoxx 600 fell by about 1 wall street plunged to the close on wednesday a bit of a catch up trade on wednesday to put these resent moves into context youve got the stoxx 600 trading slightly higher on the week. Down 3. 5 . On pace to win a resent win streak it has been a strong period on pace to break a twoday win streak looking at the process, weve s
Mcshane. Didnt quite get there on the s p. Were live from joe bidens hometown. Scranton, pennsylvania. Ahead of the presumptive nominees speech tonight at the Democratic National convention. I spent a lot of the day speaking to owners and Business Leaders in the area. You will hear a lot of that throughout the hour. First the top stories. Fox Team Business could have with gerri willis keeping an eye on markets blake burman at the white house as usual gerri, we start with you. What a difference in the markets and what a difference the a day makes. They are shrugging off recovery concerns. The dow powering ahead. The dow on pace to snap a threeday losing streak. It did just that. S p up three of the last four sessions. Nasdaq was the star here. You remember back in march we were under 7,000 . Closing at 11,264 to be exact. Apple, guess what, they have the two trillion dollar crown. That is new market cap for apple. Shares hitting alltime high. Unbelievable at 2,012,000,000,000. Apple is