Sympathies and support to all of those members in their electorate. I want to thank you for the work you have done. The member raise the matter recommendations regarding the assets, what the government has done to respond to that with two separate actions of funding which matched what they originally asked for i dealt with this during the bushfire season, in addition to those funding allocations of 11 million, on top of that we announce that further 20 million over and above the 15 million being provided each and every year as part of the arrangement we had. We are pleased to do that. Ongoing funding was addressed in this years budget. The house of representatives, the primacy was asked about preparedness and how they acted on this, and related to the catastrophic season. The leader of the opposition. My question is addressed to the primacy. Does the primacy regret saying volunteer firefighters dont need economic compensation for lost income because they want to be out there. Once agai
Record employment for the for the year of 2019. That is the Silver Lining as well. We are still waiting for new credit data out of china which deadline, within the the 17th of this month. That is when we get to gdp numbers as well. Su keenan in new york. Su lets start with proand antigovernment demonstrators facing off in central tehran over the shooting down of a passenger jet last week. All 176 people on board the ukrainian plane died when it was head by two missiles asked fired by the revolutionary guard. Iran initially blamed technical issues for the crash. Is calling forni a special court to investigate the disaster. The entire world is watching. In the u. S. , the senate is withg closer to a review democrat tim kaine saying he has enough republican votes to pass a bill limiting the president s ability to launch an attack without congressional approval. The news reflect bipartisan dissatisfaction over the administrations very best varying justifications for the drone site strike i
For goldman. There is the idea that goldman got out of the uber stake when the period expired. Target, it is down 7 . A big dragon the s p 500. The holiday sales were not as good as anticipated. Guy absolutely. Missing the target. In europe, we are off on lows and negative territories when it comes to stocks. The cables rate is positive despite stunningly weak inflation data and more evidence in the bank of england we are likely to see an imminent rate cut. The ruble story is getting more interesting. We have seen the resignation of the goldmans today. It looks like we will see a referendum in russia that could save the presidency of president boudin beyond 2024 president 2020 four. D that has political implications, but i think it is still being assessed. In half an hour we are going to see the United States and China Signing the phase one trade deal. It will leave significant tariffs in place, but for the first time will punish beijing if it fails to deliver on key pledges. Spoke abo
Its the first time anyone ever said that to me. I said who is this guy hes the governor of iowa. He just said dont say bad about china. So i had to rip up about half of my speech. Right . I said why he said we do a lot of business. Ive been dealing with china for 35 years with corn and Different Things he told me a story that was amazing. 35 years ago when i started, i met a man named xi he wasnt president it then. He was a young man and the governor came back he told his wife, he said this is 35 years ago and its documented. He said, i just met the future president of china and nobody thought much about it you know what . 28 years later, you turned out to be right. And you have been an incredible ambassador and they like each other so much so when it came time to pick the important position of ambassador, i said havent you had enough after 24 years being governor of iowa he said if you want me to do that, and its been a great youve been a great help thank you very much, ambassador. I
All that and so much more on making money. Charles President Trumps big beautiful monster, phase one of a trade deal with china is officially in the books. It is a big win. We know now there will be big repercussions if beijing doesnt deliver on its promise. Edward lawrence joins us from the white house to lay out more details of the agreement. Edward . Reporter the report right here goes into effect in 30 days now but within 60 days, with a notice from either side this report can be canceled. U. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer says this is a very detailed trade agreement. He says that it is a binding one, because every chapter starts with china shall follow through. Now, every chapter again starts with that, key phrase there. Now one of the key point in this, protecting intellectual property. The scope of that section is huge, according to u. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer. He says that it deals with breaching of systems to take in intellectual property. It deals