Program the white house is turning up the pressure on iran but take a lead on the countrys Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini u. S. President donald trump signed an executive order slapping new sanctions on iran on monday he said they would deny irans Supreme Leader and his affiliates access to resources and the u. S. Financial system the white house added that anybody conducting transactions with sanctioned individuals may be exposed to sanctions themselves ok if youre not reigning in officials brushed off washingtons latest move saying it wouldnt hurt at all but by the looks of it the u. S. Is strategy of strangling irans economy by piling up sanction after sanction has had an impact. Iran is feeling the pinch the reintroduction of u. S. Sanctions has had a crippling effect on the economy the value of the reale has plummeted pushing inflation to over 30 percent and us president Donald Trumps attempt to destroy the countrys oil industry is having an effect to the influential middle cla
Years. We are seeing the dollar at fresh highs of the year. Consumer confidence hit a fouryear low in data out of the states today. Crude may be factoring into that. Wti crude north of 90 per barrel once again. Jon im glad you mentioned the energy trade because when you look at sectors, its hard to find gainers. We see names hanging onto marginal advances like occidental petroleum. He also had stories of companies with reasonably strong results like a uniform maker but the stock is down 4 , it feels like the Growth Outlook seems to be the concern among some analysts. Moving along to tech or the future of vehicles, we did see shares of biscuit moving higher today on encouraging delivery news but we have seen amazon moving lower. The market still digesting the latest headlines on the ftc antitrust suit targeting the company specifically its marketplace. And with the president joining uaw workers on the picket line, we are watching whats happening with the automobile stocks. We will look
President and c sow and thritted to welcome all of you to our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium this Evening Program is presented in con generation with our exhibition the vietnam war in 1945 to 1975. Which i hope youve had a chance it see. But its not, it is on view through april 22nd so i hope youll return during regular museum hours to see it. Our program edward and a the american tragedy in vietnam is the lecture on leadership. We created this series five years ago as a permanent way to honor two great americans roger and David Petraeus who won our history maker award in 2013. I would like to thank mr. Hertog for incredible for chair of New York Historical and general petraeus for his leadership and generous participation over past four years in this lecture series thanks so very much to both of you. [applause] thank and recognize some trustees who were in the audience this evening above all our chair pam i would like to thank pam for all shes done on behalf of this great instit
I mean this is al jazeera live from london also coming up evidence emerges of more mass graves a man well the u. N. Says the violence against her hindu muslims has all the hallmarks of genocide. Potence Senate Passes a controversial law that will regulate one a cold speech outrage in israel. And the memo that see talk of washington the f. B. I. Says a document suggesting abuse of power within its ranks is full of inaccuracy. So i can use high code as old of the government to reopen several t. V. Stations that it shut down on tuesday the countrys top three t. V. Networks were taken off the air off they tried to broadcast a mock in an old ration ceremony held by Opposition Leader writer doing to declare himself the peoples president claiming a president who to kenya election when last year it was great lets speak now to Catherine Sawyer whos live for us in nairobi catherine tell us more about this and what the government to say. Yes we were. One of this television stations that have been
High court orders the government to reopen t. V. Stations that blocks the brawl costing rather of doing is mock inauguration evidence of more mass graves and mammal the u. N. Says the violence against working to muslims has all the hallmarks of genocide the memo thats the talk of washington the f. B. I. Says it documents suggest the abuse of power within its ranks is full of inaccuracies. And im he is famous in the top story in sports the life time a limb pick bands of twenty eight russian athletes all lifted by the court of arbitration for sport thats just over a week out from the winter Olympic Games. So kenya is a high court has ordered the government to reopen several t. V. Stations it shut down on choose day the countrys top three t. V. Networks were taken off the air after they try to brawl costs a mult inauguration ceremony held by the Opposition Leader. The move provoked an outcry from journalists and human Rights Groups is catherine soy. Lunchtime news at n. T. V. One of three