Make a deal President Donald Trump has delivered on the promises that he made to the American People and the world is more peaceful as a result. Mr president mr secretary general distinguished delegates fellow ambassadors and World Leaders my commander in chief and president of the United States of America Donald j. Trump thank you. It is my profound honor to address the United Nations General Assembly 75 years after the end of world war 2 and the founding of the United Nations we are once again engaged in a great global struggle we have waged a fierce battle against the invisible enemy the china virus which has claimed countless lives in 188. 00 countries in the United States we launched the most aggressive mobilization since the 2nd world war we rapidly produced a record supply of ventilators creating a surplus that allowed us to share them with friends and partners all around the globe we pioneered lifesaving treatments reducing our fate tally the rate 85 percent since april thanks
A new zealand recorded 0 new code 1000 infections on tuesday there are now only 61. 00 registered active cases in the country. If youre just joining us youre watching to debut new special coverage as we track the opening of the general debate at the u. N. General Assembly Meeting in new york and we have some live pictures of whats happening at the moment coming up in the next 15 to 20 minutes were expecting the head of the state head of state of the host country of course u. S. President donald trump who will be delivering a video message President Trump is a harsh critic of the United Nations so bill will be watching to see what he has to say this is a very different u. N. General assembly this year around the World Leaders to live delivering their message via video because of coronavirus restrictions as we said we will return to the u. N. When it is time for President Trumps speech. That was the one from london with a chair of the European Parliament Justice Committee meanwhile the r
A few days ago it was the nasdaq at 7,000 overnight in asia, the nikkei, if you think these numbers have been good here, up by more than 3 . It had been closed for a bank holiday over the last two days so it had some catching up to do right now you can see the hang seng closed up by a half percentage point as did the shanghai if you look at whats been the early trade in some of those european markets that we watch closely, up across the board gains of almost a percent for the dax in germany and the cac in france. Ftse hanging in there. Still in the green with italy and spain, each up by 1 and look at crude oil prices yesterday a rally in crude oil, up by 2. 1 this morning additional gains of 11cents. 61. 74 a barrel for wti big corporate stories of the morning. Tesla is still struggling with production the carmaker releasing Fourth Quarter delivery numbers that fell short of expectations again, pushing back production targets for the model 3. Tesla delivered 1550 units of the highly an
Is adent trump soninlaw focus into the russian meddling in the election. Investigators are looking into meetings Jared Kushner had with the Russian Ambassador and a banker for moscow. He is a senior white house adviser. Alloy or set it coast or will share what he knows about the meeting. The president met with the japanese Prime Minister before the start of the g7. They disagree on areas such as trade and Climate Change. Its believed the others wont gang up on him. To focus onng terrorism and issues where there is common ground. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, this is bloomberg. David the president is completing his overseas trip. There are a host of issues for agreement or disagreement. He went to the heart of one of them when he talked about german car exports. He said the germans are bad, very bad. Look at the cars they sell in the United States. We are going to stop that. Matt miller is covering the challengi
Other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Next come historians discuss u. S. Foreignpolicy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. Chileters focus on iran, and cuba. They also examined the american stance on womens rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960s on. This session was hosted by the American Historical Association at their annual meeting. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. My name is amanda moniz. On the curator of philanthropy at the Smithsonian National museum of American History. Until recently, i was associate director of the National History center of the American Historical Association, which sponsored this afternoons panel. Amanda perry is the new assistant director. We are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. Panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, wh