On cybersecurity, as the president courtney efforts to iowa to give you an update today on the Ransomware Attack thats been known as wannacry. We continue closely monitoring the situation on the clock. The highest levels of the government when bringing all the capabilities to bear on this issue and a working sidebyside with the partners in the private sector and our international partners. I spoke months ago with my counterpart of Great Britain and learned an update from them that they have the feeling of control over this ransomware event and that as theyr their infected cs can be tied to the fact that their Healthcare System so large a network, they are painfully aware that what effect this is a Global Attack as are we. As of this one is as rich approximate 150 countries and affected more than 300,000 machines. The good news is that the infection rates have slowed over the weekend. We had been concerned about that. Last we talked. The ransomware has disrupted telecommunications compa
Leave barcelona. Claire after being mocked by Nicolas Maduro in the wake of sanctions, donald trump said he holds venezuelas president personally responsible for the safety of the two Opposition Leaders seized from their homes and hauled off to jail. Big protest is planned for thursday, which is when the controversial new assembly, which could change the constitution, will get to work. Alison sargent reports. Allison the people in this crowd are Holding Photos of antonio medina, the former mayor prisoncas was taken to in the early hours of the morning on tuesday, as well as former Opposition Leader leopoldo lopez. Or, it was not a surprise. Already under house arrest, were lopez made this video one week before. If you are looking at this video now, it is because they came and illegally imprisoned me again unjustly. I am a prisoner of conscience, a prisoner for my ideas, a prisoner for wanting a better venezuela. Alison the Supreme Court accuses the two Opposition Leaders of violating y
The down the s p looking like they are at session highs are than half his just off of its session highs right now. The most by 8 . All of this coming off of the back of janet yellen speaking in front of the reserve today. We saw a leg down and five at talk but she said the u. S. Jobs report is disappointing. Something we saw last friday, as we should not take that one significant point in time, that it is much bigger in terms of a larger fabric. Lets look at what is happening with the s p 500. You can see a clearer picture, what i am just talking about. We see the markets turning around from the losses we saw on friday, generally across the board there, and at the 12 30 hour, that is when shery ahn was speaking. After that, we saw a rebound and we are near session highs up about. 6 . The markets are shrugging off any negativity they thought might have been coming from chair yellen. To note we att 2111. The closing record high as 2130. We are within 20 points or so less than one percent
Sunday. Speak to his attorney Clive Stafford smith. Then to benghazi. The fact is, we have four dead americans, was a because of a protest or guys out with a walk and decided to kill some americans . What difference, this point, does it make . It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, senator. Amy as Hillary Clinton prepares to testify again today on capitol hill for up to 10 hours about the 2012 attack in libya, which killed four americans, we will speak to friends of two of the men killed in benghazi. The first, we go to st. Louis where six predominantly black churches have been set on fire. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Last month was the hottest september worldwide and 2015 is now virtually guaranteed to be the hottest year in recorded history. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the first nine months of this
The leaders of china and taiwan are set to meet saturday for historic talks. They will mark their first top level meeting in over 60 years. Hour,oming up this Stephen Carroll will be reporting live from the web summit in dublin. Stephen he has been ceo of some of the worlds biggest companies. We will be live from the web summit in dublin, finding out what john scully is going to do next. Genie we will start at the vatican, a place that has been rocked by a new scandal that some people are already calling. Atileaks for more on this, i am joined from rome about josephine mckinnon. What did you learn . i just came from a press conference releasing the book called the merchants in the temple. He found the vatican is at war with itself. He says pope francis and the reformers are trying to introduce radical changes with greater transparency, facing extraordinary obstacles and resistance from conservatives and others in the vatican who do not want to lose their position and power and do not w