A twenty six year Peace Agreement to stop the countrys civil war is dead in the water the paris peace accord was meant to bring democracy to cambodia but theres a crackdown on government opponents an International Commission is calling for the treaty to be reviewed. Well those were the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after the listening post things are watching. Where every u. S. Ally and producer Harvey Weinstein the heat off of actual arrest. Is coming home i was told i shall not be a wise man but when i think youre a york times reporter honestly like a woman on. Well. One of the Sexual Misconduct against Harvey Weinstein. A lower Richard Burton youre at the listening post heres what were looking at this week exposure what the Harvey Weinsteins story the one that u. S. Media failed to report until now says about the relationship between the Film Industry and the News Business some people do stand up to hollywood they work at the cia and the pentagon iranians say goodby
Announcer this is nightly Business Report with Tyler Mathisen and sue herera. Retail wreck. Will this earnings season be the sectors worst in nearly a decade . Staying focused. The markets brushed off the firing of the fbi director, and stocks are oddly calm. Why . And what moves if any should investors like you make . Modern medicine. How Artificial Intelligence could one day predict what diseases we might get. Those stories and more tonight on nightly Business Report for wednesday, may 10th. Good evening, everyone, and welcome. The talk in washington and on wall street was about yesterdays firing of fbi director james comey. More on that in a moment, but we begin tonight with retail. Some say the industry now faces its biggest challenge since the great recession. And as the sector gets set to report earnings, investors are preparing for the worst. Weve already seen a growing number of retailers file for bankruptcy. And if the pace keeps up, this year could see highest number of such
This white house is erratic, its bizarre. The way he was fired was outrageous. He heard about it on the news. Its crass, its wrong. Reporter lee admits she and other democrats were vocal critics of comey last october when he announced the fbi was reopening its probe of Hillary Clintons emails. Just 11 days before the election. Trump claims comeys handling of the clinton matter was a major reason for his firing. Lee points to the probe in the possible intervention of russia in the election. It is never a good time to fire an fbi director. Reporter the former chairman of the California Republican party. Clearly he had become too political. He was too political last july, and he kept going that way and thats not the position of a Law Enforcement official to be political. I think having lived through watergate, we are at a watergate moment. Reporter with comey gone, bay area democrats and congress say it is imperative that a special prosecutor be appointed to lead the russia investigation.
Idea it was about to happen. We have the letter he sent to his former fbi colleague. Less than 24 hours later the president welcomed in the Russian Foreign minister into the oval office. Abc 7 news learned as many will find no surprise it was the president himself that set this in motion. Washington post reporting mr. Trump would not back his claim that was formerly wire tapd. The day after the president decided to fire the man in charge of the investigation in the meddling in the presidency. Comey was leading the investigation in whether the Trump Campaign colorado younclu the russians, serious offense was it getting it close to home. The white house timing impeopleable. The president maintains this. He wasnt doing a good job very simply. The white house now saying the president watched comeys testimony on tv last week and went from questioning comey to feeling, quote, strongly inclined to remove him. Early monday afternoon the president met with the attorney general and deputy genera
Getting through as many as we can. Its a jampacked two hours. Why niles shorts amazon on the back of the deal, and former walmart ceo, bill simon, why walmart has more to worry about other than amazon. Bill miller, a bull on the stock, and talking to him about valeant, and alexander accosta reacting to President Trumps comments on cuban policy lets get to it we have details of the amazons deal to buy whole foods and what it means for rivals. Mike, this is a little bit of what it means because ramifications have many, many ripple effects, but the deal to buy whole foods makes it amazons biggest acquisition to date, and one thats royaling grocery and retail stocks. Amazon says it will maintain the whole foods brand with the ceo and cofounder somedaying at the helm, for now. The overlapping is high already, and the stores are are located close to many amazon distribution centers, which is an interesting point the partnership certainly arms whole foods with logistics and data expertise, an