Youre watching daybreak. Asia coming to you live from new york, sydney and hong kong. Were counting down to asias major market opens the top stories this hour. Asian stocks set to follow wall street lower as strong us retail sales signal rates may be higher for longer. Dollar strength sinking apac currencies to this years low decision day for the reserve bank of new zealand. With cooler inflation and higher unemployment supporting another hold. Plus, china said to mull cutting stamp duty on stock trades as defensive reaction to a surprise rate cut shows president xi facing more tough choices. Lets take a look at us. Futures now down. The stock market had kind of a tough day today. Were seeing now some green on the screen. However, just basically still pretty much unchanged. And in fact, the the feeling here was that retail sales in the us stronger than expected. Why wasnt that good for stocks . Because Neel Kashkari, part of it at least, president minneapolis fed says he doesnt think t
Oh. Oh. Welcome home. Oh, my god, thank you. Todd The Rock Surprising Uufc fighter with 7 to his name with a brandnew house. Video has been going viral, we have update on which is probably the best story weve heard in a long time. Ashley and it means soming to dwayne johnson, too. Todd you are watching fox and friends, im todd piro. Ashley straight to a fox news alert. Former President Donald Trump pleading not guilty for allegedly conspiring to overturn the 2024 election. Todd support is growing. Brooke singman was in dc for all the festivities and joins us now. Brooke just yesterday President Trump pled not guilty to four Felony Counties relating to january 6. Former president calling it political persecution. Listen. This is a very sad day for america. This is the persecution of the person that is leading by substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading biden by a lot. We cant let this happen in america. Brooke trumps Defense Team Pointing out the odd timeline coinciding
peter singer, welcome to hardtalk. thank you, stephen. it s good to be with you again. it s great to be here and have you here with me, and partly the reason is because you ve written an updated, rewritten version of that book you almost five decades ago, animal liberation. it s called animal liberation now. is the publication of this update recognition that your call, your demand for a new relationship between humanity and all the other creatures on this planet, that that call failed? well, it failed to achieve what i had hoped it would achieve and what i believe ethically it needs to achieve, that s true. it didn t totally fail because there is now an animal rights movement which is a powerfulforce in many of the countries in the world and many people kindly credit my book as having triggered or inspired that movement. and that movement has had some achievements in some countries, i wouldn t deny that, but if we look at it globally, there are more animals in factory farms t
it just came up. 20 seconds later, it was gone. tornadoes and golf-ball sized hail pummelled the southern u.s. there s another rournd of severe weather on the way. plus to conviction, the prison sentence for alex murdaugh and what he had to say during his sentencing. and a man accused of plotting to murder, we ll look at the rise in semitism across the u.s. we start this hour with the extreme weather hitting huge parts of the country. at least ten people have died as the powerful storm system marches across the south and into the northeast. the next western storm will be you shalling inland saturday bringing another round of snow to the pacific northwest, northern and central california. in some places, new snow will be measured in feet. the system that brought tornadoes, damaging winds and flooding to the season central and eastern u.s. will be offshore by later this morning, but the cold part of the storm is going strong. winter weather alerts are in places across p
Desi welcome to the daily show im desi lydic. Weve got so much to talk about tonight. Everyone is debating about the debate, bob menendez has found a new way to get divorced, and youre not going to believe this, the south did something racist but first, breaking News Donald Trump is still on trial lets get into it with another edition of b americas most tremendously wanted. [applause] the whole thing is a scam. Desi day 18 of Donald Trumps porn star hush money trial was another star turn for Michael Cohen. Former trump fixer and all of long island distilled into one man. Cohen is the linchpin of the governments case because his testimony directly ties trump to the falsification of business records, which, remember, is the actual crime here. The porn star hush money part is just a little thing we keep saying because its fun. For the last few days trumps Defense Attorneys been doing their best to make cohen seem less credible than a boeing inflight safety video, and i have a lot to work