The topic of this episode of your spotlight. Joing us now for our program, is mahmoud rafat, International Relations expert joining us from paris. And mr. Abimi is ekua, researcher and political analyst joining us from detroit, michigan. Gentlemen, welcome to of the program to our. Spotlight here to the both of you, im going to start with you, mr. Abikue, um, weve seen minorities in france here screaming racism and systemic uh violence by police uh for you for years, mostly muslim citizens or those of african descent, your initial thoughts on how pervasive you think the problem is, and what authorities you feel in france have done to address it . It is pervasive, and uh, according to statistics that have been released over the. Last several months, dozens of people have been killed uh by the French Police over the last several years, last year there were over 20 people who were killed, there were others who were wounded as well, and i dont think uh the residents of france uh would be u
Every news channel claims that it covers the latest breaking news as we do, so that alone is not what sets pcv apart. What mainstream news outlets conveniently leave outs with breaking news from around the world, we are here to bring to you, we fill in the blanks. We are the other side of the story, the less represented side of the story. We are tellers of inconvenient truth. While they continue to silence our website, our live broadcast and in our social media platforms. Are persistent always perseveres and it makes you wonder what is it were saying that they dont want you to hear . We are the shadow band, we are the censored, we are the voice of the voiceless, we are pressed tv, welcome everyone, france has been plagued by nationwide protest against systemic racism and police violence. This comes after another unarmed young man of color was killed by of police during routine traffic stop. Now paris alone saw over a week of riots against the Police Killing and controversial law which
The United States designates north korea a state sponsor of terrorism. Yvonne geopolitics with north korea. All Political Risk and uncertainty in germany. Markets quite resilient in the last 12 hours or so. It seems to be the case of that this will not derail the global synchronized growth. Sophie you saw the muted reaction even though it was a whipsaw in europe. Europegiant or hard in given those headlines coming out from germany. Here in the u. S. And there is uncertainty over taxes for the markets continue to rise. Aheade several more weeks until the end of the year. Lets get to the first word news with emma. Confirmedt yellen has she believed the fed once her successor is sworn in. Governor doese not end until 2024. She was said to be vice chair fore that he was chair of the San Francisco fed and chair of president clintons council of economic advisers. Yelle merkel said she would face another election rather than form a coalition. Merkel said she would rather go back to the electo
That the ecb is continuing crude getting a nice bid on the iran conversation. Looking at the banks, bank of america up 6 10 of 1 . Wells fargo unchanged. It feels like a really solid quarter for bank of america on earnings. It was the Consumer Banking unit that felt really good. Loans and deposits were up. They werely only at 834 million. David it looks very solid but we looked back to yesterday and thought citi and jpmorgan were doing well and they turned over. Alix fic was down 22 . Is the focus for banks turning to consumer loaning, which will make wells fargo allimportant . We want to turn to Michael Mckee with a very special guest. Michael good morning. Washington federal and Eric Rosengren joins us on the boston fed annual Monetary Policy conference. A special welcome to the Bloomberg Television and radio listeners, particularly those on one of 6. 1 fm in boston. Thank you for joining us 106. 1 fm in boston. Thank your for joining us. Nice to have you in boston. Michael we know h
Ussr to rush at the beginning. No one knows. There is a lot of love and hate. Cubans have one of the highest awareness is of u. S. Brands in the world and one of the highest preferences in the world so if u. S. Companies launching into cuba comes with less cost than some other marketplace that makes it attractive so and thats because the folks do have, the people of cuba many of them have access. We saw what no one expected with fidel. Most people, most of the modeling done in the u. S. Government was fidels speaking, he drops dead worries in his office and people drop dead and people know where they dont know but no one expected a succession and then a transition from brother to brother. I would say dont expect raul dies and its a switch. Its going to be more of a wave. Thank you. Bill lane. Good morning. Bill lane with caterpillar and first of all i want to thank you for a Great Program and great timing particularly the fact that this is two days away from the big anniversary. Some o