Areas hit by sundays earthquake in iran and iraq thousands of people have lost everything and are now facing a difficult future. Plus exploiting the desperate right here in berlin Asylum Seekers male and female are being forced into prostitution by the very people who are supposed to be protecting them we have a special undercover report from the german capital also. Coming your way soon Climate Change we look at some artistic responses to the threat of Global Warming. And for the first time in nearly sixty years italy failed to qualify for the world cup they are eliminated by sweden in the qualifying round. Im sumi so much scandal welcome to the show reports are coming in from zimbabwe that tanks are moving near the capital harare a video posted on social media appears to show armored personnel carriers in a convoy heading towards an Army Barracks just outside the city now this comes amid heightened tensions in zimbabwe over an open rift between the army and president Robert Mugabe la
Point six percent in the previous quarter it joined spain as the Fastest Growing economy in the eurozone the average rise in g. D. P. Across the one nine hundred countries of the euro in the Third Quarter is a comfortable zero point six percent. On the other side of the contrie end of the world better said we all knew it was coming and now its finally here and as well have failed to make two coupon payments on monday and has now been declared in selective default by Ratings Agency standard and poors its also predicting more shortfalls president Nicolas Maduro had promised to negotiate a debt restructuring with creditors but apparently the answer he got was thanks but no thinks and eve of the country announced it started making Interest Payments on its foreign debt this tuesday most analysts are not convinced. Its venezuela running right out of money. The much awaited answer a decisive government meeting with creditors ended abruptly after only thirty minutes afterwards participants tal
Promised investors a good deal. But venezuelan Vice President sami wrapping up tuesdays proceedings with a press conference had nothing firm to say about his countrys future on state controlled t. V. Rather than laying out a plan he blamed the u. S. To venezuelas quandary talking of an economic war by donald trump against the country a few months ago the u. S. Imposed sanctions on venezuela the e. U. Hasnt followed suit but it did impose an embargo on weapons sales to caracas the e. U. Doesnt want to worsen the plight of venezuelas people who are suffering under catastrophic shortages. Inflation is running at fifty percent food and medical supplies are scarce. Venezuela still hopes to pull through. There is a little bit of perhaps. A rise in the courts that venezuela could. Be stacked with russia perhaps that could be announced. In the week an agreement with russia could keep the venezuela debt cliffhanger going for another few days at least. Time now for a quick check on the markets w
And welcome to power lunch. It is opening day for baseball. Actually it opened yesterday, but here in new york the mets are playing in about 15 minutes against the braves. Welcome, everybody. Im tyler mathisen. Stocks in the red to kick off this new quarter. Right now the dow down about 74 points. The dow, get this, its not seen backtoback gains since the end of february. More than a months time. Meantime the nasdaq did hit a record high at the open. As you see right there it, too, is down about a third of a percent or 23 points. Shares of panera spiking on reports of a possible sale right now. Pamera is up. Lets check. About 10 as you see there. Brian . Big move there, tyler. Thank you very much. Hi. Happy monday. Im brian sullivan. We have a jampacked show coming your way. Let us start with the markets and your money. Bob pisani is on the floor of the nyse. I saw an interesting report that the First Quarter was the least volatile quarter for the Dow Jones Industrial average in more t
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