President s aides for her removal from her post. Was also in the news no letup in the public fury even though chiles government has agreed to a referendum for a new constitution. Loaded mind my. Bringing hope as a court in the u. S. Or does a retrial for a black man on death row for killing a white woman 20 years ago. So u. S. President donald trump is facing accusations of intimidation after attacking the latest impeachment witness on twitter and she testified before congress on friday maria von of it was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine until she was recalled earlier this year the inquiry is looking into whether trump withheld military aid to ukraine and exchange for the promise of an inquiry against his political rivals back home well start with this report from heidi castor in capitol hill. President trump has said he too busy to watch the impeachment inquiry. Hearings threatening to end his presidency but he found time friday to catch some of the hearing unfolding on live t. V. And
Agreed to a referendum for a new constitution. Sri lankans voting to elect a new leader with ethnic divisions on the rise after the deadly bombing its. Like im. Bringing home as a court in the u. S. Or as a retrial for a black man on death row for killing a white woman 20 years ago. The u. S. President donald trump is facing accusations of intimidation after attacking the latest impeachment witness on twitter while she was testifying before congress Marie Evanovich she was the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine until she was recalled earlier this year with all inquiries looking into whether trump withheld military aid to ukraine in exchange for a promise of an inquiry against his political rival back home as reporters from. On capitol hill. President trump has said he too busy to watch the impeachment inquiry hearings threatening to end his presidency but he found time friday to catch some of the hearing unfolding on live t. V. And he tweeted about the witness on the stand his former ambassad
Bullish expectations before. To our stop story at hand. That is what nancy pelosi said or certainly seemed to insinuate in remarks made to reporters not more than 20 minutes ago. Blake burman on the implications of those remarks. What it means for getting anything else but impeachment done. Blake, what have you got . Reporter neil, when you take comments that nancy pelosi made specifically on the the on usmca on possibility Congress Passing that it seemed rather bullish. She said she would like to get it done this year. I ran that by a source in the administration, neil, emersed with all the talks involving usmca, trying to get it passed up on the hill. That source told me they feel that indeed things are happening. There are Smoke Signals right now but the administration is also looking toward a 4 00 meeting up on capitol hill among democratic leadership what is said after that meeting that takes place this afternoon. Nonetheless as it relates to pelosi and usmca she talked up the tra
This in northeast in egypt and we are starting to see a few people on the streets there perhaps not as great as the sort of numbers that we were saying last night we have to be also cautious about exaggerating the the presence of those on the streets were not talking about wide scale protests a toll on the scale that we have seen in the past or in 2011 this is not that but nonetheless dalia it takes a great deal of courage for people to make an appearance like this on the streets given the threat that this poses to their safety. We have seen that the generation of 2011 which used to be called generation protests they call generation jail because over 60000 prisoners exist in egypt you see the thousands of disappeared persons those who have been actually usually killed and those are rounded up in the streets and been disappeared so the cost of protest today is very critical as its very dangerous and so the fact that even if you have broken the fear barriers is interesting but i think as
Of impeachment still hangs over the president. He releases the ukraine transcript. Shery lets get a check of how markets close. As you mentioned, we saw impeachment drama play out in washington. That weighed on markets a little bit, but there was more optimism for potential trade deals, not only with china, but that limited trade deal with japan also boosting market sentiment. We had the s p 500 gaining. 6 , to stop a threeday decline. Banks consumer stocks, leading the gains. Also tech stocks, nasdaq gaining 1 . The Energy Sector was unchanged in the session. We had crude following for the last two sessions. At the moment, opening higher, up. 3 , but Still Holding at that 56 a barrel level as we heard from saudi arabia that they are ahead of schedule in restarting operations after drone attacks on their facilities. Futures at the moment not doing much. Lets see how we are setting up in asia. Hintingasia futures are at a risk on start to the session, but emergency currencies may come u