with the cessation of hostilities is demonstrated by intensified attacks target of critical infrastructures such as hospitals. a russian foreign ministry spokesperson says the u.s. was trying to shift the blame to her country. u.s. secretary of state john kerry and sergey lavrov have been speaking to try to keep the cease-fire alive. the civil war in syria has killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced over 10 million. the islamic state militant group has claimed responsibility for two attacks in the country on monday. the suicide bomber killed at least 30 people. syria state news agency says the attacker detonated an explosive device at a wedding. 90 others were injured. a leading kurdish party figure was among those killed. the islamic state group released a statement on the internet which says they targeted the gathering of kurds. it seems retaliation. they took over a town that had been under the control of the islamic state group. the militants are also cla
most opponents that he previously faced, watch out when tim kaine comes in. he was flustered and off his game. mike pence came with his a game and demonstrated a contrast. the important thing for voters to understand that the single most important thing a presidential candidate does is choose their vice presidential candidate. tonight, donald trump proved that the kind of people he will put around him are people like mike pence, solid, solution-oriented folks. mark: thank you, and i know some are agreeing he had more good moments. is there a single good moment you would point to, hoping that is what gets replayed over and over. there are several. a couple one line zinger is, the he said, you have worked on that a lot. i think the substantive exchanges, where he bested him on contrasting his record in indiana bringing down taxes and unemployment, two tim kane kaine s record of bringing up on employment. would you prefer donald trump perform more like mike pence did tonight
negotiations with the eu. anna: a very warm welcome to countdown everybody. manus: the torch paper of risk is back on the table. what do i mean? the damage is almost throwing fuel on the fire. european central banks considering winding down bond purchases before ending quantitative easing.are they ? they e-mailed a statement to say manus: the story says they have not excluded suspending the past of the current sorry extending the current program, at the end date of march 2017, at the price of 480 billion euros per month. not saying it is ending by giving us clues, talking through the officials at the ecb, how they will do it when they do it? this is when mario draghi said we do not have a conversation about quantitative easing. 0%. yields back above this is the critical thing. is it a push to steepen the yield curve? the euro would strengthen, if this is the case, if the european central bank s are indeed generally considering how to change, how to change and take what
this time warning of a breakup. and small manufacturers are embracing i.t. and the clouds transform the way make things. typhoon chaba has been downgraded to a severe tropical storm. it s roaring off the coast of japan after leaving five dead in south korea. chaba is now moving east off the west coast of the country. it s packing winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour. it struck jeju wednesday morning. it moves on to busan. at least five people were killed. local reports say one person died at a construction site while another was blown off a rooftop. tens of thousands of homes are still without power. officials in southern japan closed public schools in nagasaki prefecture on wednesday. air and sea traffic has been disrupted with more than 140 domestic flights to and from the region canceled. japanese weather officials are telling people to remain on the alert. sayaka mori from our weather desk has been monitoring the storm and has this update. yes, dangerous typho
blooming philippine market running out of steam. me on twitter. markets in hong kong getting under way at the bottom of the hour. malaysia just coming online. a is about the pound, recovery, the biggest plunge since the brexit. the pound just plunging, as much as 1% one point. the big question, what happened? because of sensitive worries about a possible hard brexit. first we heard from mitsubishi, this drop could be treated as a wrong order. of course, we saw a plunge, and it is retracing those losses. now we are hearing from dealers that it was a failure of the algorithm, that things got worse because liquidity disappeared and we saw those deals not being able to load the bids on their platforms. and in the over-the-counter market being triggered, 1.23. , a cap tradersy theept traders japanese yen against the dollar was not even moving. that is not the case anymore because it is strengthening .25% for the first time in nine days, reversing eight days of a recess and halti
joining us, who will provide more details shortly, and there will be some sessions organized over the course of the next few days. so, we believe that with strong, domprehensive, consistent an cooperated or coordinated action, countries and actually lift that growth, which needs to be more inclusive, in order to resist the political dynamics that are not helpful. i will be happy to take questions. muchice: thank you very madame lazardgarde. i was asked you to keep your questions very brief. let us start with jeremy. you mentioned the debate on globalization. i was wondering if you think the imf has given too much attention about the losers of globalization. it seems to be we are one month away from the u.s. election, the you think that the anti-trade policy promises by the republican candidate will cause a big damage to the u.s. and world economy? thank you. dir. lagarde: well, we believe that the international trade, that is what i will call it because globalization is sor
was a front-runner in all the security council s polls. on wednesday he received 13 favorable votes and 2 expressing no opinion. guterres served as u.n. high commissioner for refugees for a decade. he worked on issues in iraq, myanmar, somalia, syria and elsewhere. the general assembly held public hearings in april to select the next u.n. chief. during them, guterres expressed his resolve to tackle refugee problems. russia s vitaly churkin is serving as council president this month. he said the security council will meet thursday morning to formally approve guterres and recommend his candidacy to the general assembly which must give final approval. u.n. officials released satellite images of the latest situation in the northern syrian city of aleppo. the photos show heavy destruction of houses and a school caused by air strikes. on wednesday, u.n. agencies released the images of seven locations in and around aleppo. the photos were taken from the middle of last month into e
that, right? hispanics and latinos. we had tremendous response, just tremendous outpouring of love. and you know, people that are here illegally, they don t want people coming across the border illegally taking their jobs, homes, where they want to take. and we want people to come in. i want you would come in so bad, but have to come and legally. we have a country and we have laws. we have a border. and if you have a border, you don t have a country. i think the biggest surprise, two surprises, we are going to do great with african-american. you look at what is happening with inner cities, it is a disgrace. and the democrats have been running the for up to 100 years. and the african-americans, believe me, i think we are doing you see how the numbers are changing. one thing they don t have a lot of confidence in hillary clinton, she has lied to them for years, she does not produce, she just does not produce. but i think we re going to do great with the african-americans. you
but conditions have not changed. we believe there has to be very significant structural reforms in place, and we also believe there has to be a debt that is sustainable going forward. and we have demonstrated flexibility in the past, in order to assess the debt sustainability, but we clearly believe that as is, the debt is not sustainable. mr. rice: thank you very much. i am turning to our friends from the british press. ed conway. ed: everybody is our friend. [laughter] madame, at the time of the uk referendum on european membership, you wanted that the rangedvote would hav from bad to very very bad. seeing the numbers come in, do you have that assessment? dir. lagarde: we have done a lot of scenario planning work, in the weeks that preceded the referendum. and that was clearly our job. we had various scenarios. one was our baseline. one was as a result of the referendum, and a determination for the european area the european community, one was a mild scenario. and one was
eastern here on c-span. and a new poll shows hillary clinton continues to gain on this question who cares more about the needs and problems of women? that is our focus this morning. women callers only. tell us what issues are driving you this election year. here are the phone numbers. you can also weigh in by social media. our twitter handle or you can post a comment to facebook. caught ours poll attention saying that hillary clinton is gaining support among eight key set of voter. voters. hillary clinton enjoys strong support from women. she now leads hillary clinton she now leads donald trump by 18 points. voters are more likely to say that clinton, 72%, rather than donald trump, 41%, here s at least some about the needs of women. they also say that women voters are far more likely to say that clinton, 76%, here s at least some about women then it say that about donald trump, 48%. 40% of the voters say that donald trump does not care at all about the issues of women. d