And the discovery of oil in congo has environmentalists concerned about what drilling will do to the rain forest. And in sports olympic organizers insist the cancellation of julys tokyo games isnt being considered the torch relay through also set to start this month despite the coronavirus so. We begin this news hour with the latest on the diplomatic tensions due to turkeys intervention in the syrian conflict and the European Union Foreign Policy chief joseph brellier is an honor to meet with turkeys foreign minister. They are there and to president richard type bell says he told turkish officials the situation at the border with greece was unacceptable turkey and greece a trading accusations about the growing crisis there thousands of refugees and migrants at. Trying to cross into Greece Athens has dismissed reports its Border Security shot dead a migrant on the battlefront Turkeys Defense Ministry has confirmed 2 of its soldiers were killed in syrias if the province Turkish Forces re
A fast flowing river. And billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg drops out of the democratic president ial race and gives his backing to joe biden. Is schoolin pick organizers insist the cancellation of joys so kill games isnt being considered the torch relay through japan also set to start this month despite the coronaVirus Outbreak. A very warm welcome to news our top story italy is closing all schools universities and cinemas until march the 15th as it battles to contain its corona Virus Outbreak the death toll there is jumped to 107 now this is the largest number of confirmed deaths outside of china Public Events have also been cancelled across parts of europe asia and the middle east also the International Monetary fund has issued a warning that the outbreak is likely to slow Global Economic growth this year there is john hull begins our coverage. Contagion is spreading quickly across europe and the world and that means anxiety as much as the covered 900. 00 virus itself staff at
Another day and another announcement is expected from the chancellor, this time about the timing of his Medium Term Plan for the economy. As Kwasi Kwarteng says, he is listening and the much awaited detail on his radical measures to boost Economic Growth will now come sooner, possibly this month. The government had previously insisted the fiscal plan would still be published on November The 23rd despite the market chaos that came with the announcement of the chancellors mini budget. On monday, he revealed a plan to drop the uks highest rate of tax for top earners would no longer go ahead and addressing his party conference, he acknowledged shortcomings in the initial presentation of his economic plans. Ifi if i can be frank, i know the plan put forward only ten days ago has caused a little turbulence, i get it, i get it. We are listening and have listened and now i want to focus on delivering the major parts of our growth package. Because with Energy Bill Skyrocketing and a Painful Cov
Games once again hire for a fourth day in a row with the dow, s p 500 and nasdaq set for record highs, putting in another round of alltime highs today. Take a look at dow transports, leading the major averages about. 6. The animal spirits seem to be stirred and on the week, big gains. 4804, theset g btv are the weekly games or declines for the s p 500. , the best game going all the way back more than one to last december after the election. The year starting off with a bullish bang. Said noago, one person matter the negative news, citing President Trump talking about nuclear war, the market still goes up. It will be interesting to see whether that happens and what triggers it. 500 and to the s p nasdaq gains, we have a nice rally for the railroads, especially union pacific. Analyst at Wolf Research upgraded this space on the possibility of strong precash flow. That is a similar mark to what we saw yesterday out of citi, where analysts say the Railroad Business is set to benefit from ta
The president says wait a second, what, financing . Then he has to explain it. The president did not know about this before this conversation at least with regard to the transaction that were talking about. Julie kevin corke is live from the north lawn with us this morning. What a morning. You can imagine if there are, julie dozens perhaps or at least a dozen such taped conversations you can imagine how you would snip at this story to death between now and the 2020 election which might explain why the president is on twitter this morning asking the question why would Michael Cohen tape their conversations . Take it to the president s social media platform. What kind of lawyer would tape a client . So sad. Is this a first . Never heard of it before. Why was the tape so abruptly terminated, cut while i was presumably saying positive things . I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped. Can this be so . Too bad. Here is a clip from one such recording again about we be