As nbc confirms a report that the president ordered Robert Mueller fired, but backed away when the white House Counsel threatened to quit. Im willem marx in london. Lvh shares beat expectations for the Fourth Quarter as Chinese Shoppers buy more handbags and champagne. And shares in swiss fragrance and fragrance manufacturer rise in net profit and a planned hike for its dividend welcome to street signs. We are awaiting President Trumps speech later today, but the president ahead of that speech telling cnbc that he would consider rejoining the Transpacific Partnership speaking to joe kernen in davos, he said he was here to negotiate. I like bilateral because if you have a problem you terminate. When youre in with many countries like with tpp, so you have 12 if we were in, you dont have that same you dont have that same option right somebody asked me the other day if i would do tpp. Heres my answer i would do tpp if we had a much better deal than we had. The deal was a horrible deal naft
The has accused the us of distorting the facts. This report on child abuse saying it had not taken into account the many changes introduced to protect children. Un committee on the rights of the child accused the Roman Catholic church of adopting policies that allow priests to children with impunity the report was drawn up after a landmark hearing last month between human rights experts and senior members of the chair. Roses has promised to take action on child abuse is in the catholic church. Me weeks ago it was revealed that new ti ful hundred priests had been dismissed in the last two years because of suspected molestation of children. The Church Policy is to investigate the allegations in tennessee the un Committee Says thats not good enough. Im not an activist a code of silence that was imposed by the attacks on children youth and the fact that according to National Enforcement authorities has never been made compulsory. The un report estimates the number of victims in the tens of
Markets here in the asia pacific. In australia where the asx 200 is in the green, fractionally higher as gold futures jump on speculation that the fed will load the stimulus reduction. The Australian Dollar is weakening at 89. 9 u. S. Cents. Adults. S become today there will be no Market Action in japan. Windows have been given reprieve at least lightly. World regulators have agreed to buff the debt restriction on banks to help boost lending to smaller businesses. Joins me now. Aw there are three areas that come into action in 2018. They will be gathering at the gsc in 2008. Ease off of fierce lobbying from the banks. Bank of america, merrill lynch. They have been campaigning. Enough to hit lending and saying were going to have top capital on our debts again. The smalling to business. To ease it off, you can avoid double counting of derivatives. You can dilute the rule off speculations. Aey are going to ease its off little bit more. The banks do feel a little bit more of less pressure.
One would suspect that they might be awfully forgiving if you miss your flight based on the circumstances on the ground there. Thats exactly right. Going to be hard to take off unless you can fill up the flights with passengers who including one of our own producers is stuck in that long line right now. We have a witness who saw this episode unfold. Hes joining us by phone. Can you walk us through where you were and what you saw . My wife and i had just landed from albuquerque and our in laws were picking us up as we walked out of baggage claim we heard a long honk from a car. Probably lasted about 20 seconds and i thought maybe there was something someone had cut someone off. Shortly after that i heard a car being like, thud sounds. I looked to my right and i saw the guy who got shot beating a car, i couldnt tell with what. I thought it was with one of those cones at first then i saw he had rocks. I was quickly trying to get to my in laws car who had pulled up. I saw the Officers Hold