The pound is leading the way across the u. S. Dollar. Thes up about 0. 7 against dollar. It is time now for the global exchange, where we bring you todays market moving news around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with todays top stories. Lets start by going over to hong kong, bracing for more this option after christmas protests led to clashes between demonstrators and riot police. Igh joins us on the telephone. Give us a sense of what is in store. It sounds like theres more planned for friday and going into the new year. Karen theres protests planned for this evening in an area of the city that has seen some of the worst protests over the past six months, and again over the weekend in an area near the chinese border. All of this is leading up to a day, rally on new years led by organizers that have led some of the biggest protests since this began. The level of anger we are going to be seeing at the clashes willen protesters escalate, and we are looking for what this
Inquiryndpresent, a lot of the questions centered around the work of the president s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. Nancy cordes reports the president is still in giulianis corner. Rudy was a great prosecutor. He was the best mayor in the history of the city of new york as far as i can see. Reporter President Trump defended his embattled personal lawyer today, even as House Republicans backed away. I think there would be other people i would have represent myself. Reporter a top adviser to the secretary of state told lawmakers today that fallout from Rudy Giulianis ukraine pursuits prompted him to resign last week. Michael mckinley said he was stunned by the mistreatment of marie yovanovitch, the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine who was removed this spring because giuliani viewed her as an obstacle. Rudy giuliani was seeking out , d what hap 16election. Reporter the president tried to reframe giulianis mission today, though he, too, had urged the ukrainian president to investigate former Vice Presid
Good morning from the studio beyou. Im annemarie green. Were going to begin with wildfires raraging across california. The fires are destroying homes, and mandatory evacuations have been ordered for some areas outside of los angeles. The saddle ridge fire is burning in sylmar, thats about 20 miles north of l. A. The fire has prompted the shutdown of at least two major freeways. So far it has burned about 1,600 acres. Containment is 0 . At least a half dozen wildfires are burning across california this morning. Earlier this week, electricity was shut off to hundreds of thousands of customers in Northern California to prevent wildfires. Overnight, the states largest utility company, pg e, says more than half of those customers power has been restored. Yesterday California Governor Gavin Newsom criticized pg e for neglecting its power supplying equipment. Over the course of years and years and years, the kind of hardening of the grid was not done. Those were decisions that were made by pa
And the kurds. He says he would prefer that to other options like hitting turkey with sanctions or sending in more american troops. I dont think the American People want to see us go back in with our military, go back into that area again. We won. We left the area. I dont think we want to go back in. I want to bring in margaret brennan, our chief Foreign Affairs correspondent and moderator of face the nation. Margaret, i know you have been talking to your sources. The president claims its an effort to bring u. S. Troops home, but in reality the troops were just moved south and as we just heard, the kurds feel abandoned. How much concern are you hearing . Norah, it was a significant acknowledgment tonight by a Senior State Department official that they are confirming they are concerned about ethnic cleansing being carried out by the turks, and acknowledge that is what the u. S. Means when it calls for humane treatment, especially of the kurds. And it is the abandonment of that u. S. All
Hello everyone, youre watching press tv live from the studios in tefan, thank you for joining us. In todays top story, the death told from israels savage attacks on the gaza strip continues to rise as the regime carries out new strikes on the besieged palestinian territory. Israel says it attacked 750 targets on friday alone, including 12 highriseed buildings. According to gazas health ministry. Nearly 1800 palestinians have been killed since the strikes began on saturday, around 800 are women and children, thousands have been injured too, while more than 420,000 garzans have been displaced. The Palestinian Resistance movement, hamas says at least 13 israelis and foreigners being held by the group have been killed in israeli ear strikes as well. In the meantime, human Rights Groups have confirmed that the regime has used white. Phosphorus munitions and attacks on gaza, the territory remains on the israels complete sie with no access to electricity, water, food and medicines. As part of