Cool our road map begins with walmarts minimum wage hike. Raising starting wages to 11, handing out some onetime cash bonuses. Plus, bitcoin tumbles one of the worlds biggest cryptocurrency markets is considering a trading ban. And deltas tax boost the airline raising Earnings Guidance by 20 . First up, though, walmarts making moves in the wake of tax reform the Company Announcing it will increase its starting wage for hourly workers in the u. S. To 11 an hour beginning next month and pay a onetime cash bonus to eligible employees those with at least 20 years of service will qualify for a 1,000 bonus walmart also says it will expand maternity and paternal leave benefits not breaking down the numbers, but theres a good chance more than half of their million employees are going to benefit somehow in these bonuses this is unprecedented and i think its a lot to do with why the market keeps rallying i mean, largest private employer in the world thats doing this i mean, david, i know that yo
Going to toss it to you. What are you talking about . Hey, good morning to you. You know what, the traffic is going to be slow sometimes. Slow right now. Not sometimes. What about sometimes. Its slow right now from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze. A 37minute wait which is about typical for this time of morning. It keeps getting longer and longer. I think by the time the month that january is over, we will see much more delay here on this freeway as more people come back into the fold. This is a look at the bay bridge toll plaza. It is backed up for a 20minute delay before you make it on to the bridge. Steve and i have been talking about fog. Earlier it was foggy here. It has moved away but it is definitely overcast. This is a look at interstate 880 in oakland. It is more full here. Driving southbound, it will be okay. Southbound or in the south bay, 280, 101 and 105 are starting to get filled in. Northbound 280, it is slow around the corner getting up to highway 17. 7 02. Le
And london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 5am in islamabad in pakistan, where police have offered a 10 million rupee reward for information leading to the killer of 6 year old Zainab Ansari. The discovery of the young girls body has lead to violent protests in the city of kasur, where around a dozen other children have been killed in the past two years. Secunder kermani reports from kasur. More anger on the streets of kasur. Protesters clash after the funerals of two men killed in the unrest. Residents of the city have reacted with fury to the murder and Sexual Assault of six year old Zainab Ansari. She went missing last thursday, while walking alone to a koran class. Cctv images show to be led away by the hand by an unknown man. Her body was found in this rubbish dump on tuesday. The killer did not even bother to try and bury her. Zainab ansaris father attended prayers in the mosque opposite his hours asking god to ease his familys su
Festival down under. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news its newsday. Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 6am in islamabad in pakistan, where Police Authorities have offered a 90,000 reward for information leading to the killer of six year old zainab ansari. The discovery of the young girls body has lead to violent protests in the city of kasur, where around a dozen other children have been killed in the past two years. Protests have also ta ken place protests have also taken place in other cities. Secunder kermani reports from kasur. More anger on the streets of kasur. Police and protesters clash after the funerals of two men killed in the unrest. Residents of the city have reacted with fury to the murder and Sexual Assault of six year old zainab ansari. She went missing last thursday, whilst walking alone to a koran class. Cctv images showed her being led away by the hand by an unknown man. Her body was found in this rubbish dump, on tuesday. Her
Hard to say where they got stuck since no information at all gets out of the talks during this night so we can only believe that theyre still struggling with the same topics that they struck a while ago we heard that taxation policy and refugee policy are the major obstacles where theyre still discussing and money the money question the new government in germany has a lot of money that they can spend on top thats forty five billion euros but thats apparently not enough there are projects on the table that cost some one hundred billion euros so everyone has to give up on some of these projects and thats certainly nothing easy and then the social democrats they definitely need a success in the field of social policy and everything thats available or that its thinkable there is very costly whether it would be a reform of the Health Care System or higher pensions all these things that the social democrats would love to offer to their voters is controversial and expensive. As you said theyv