Try to eliminate old traces of 2021, minutes past 8 pm here in the 12th hope we find you well, welcome to our 2 international. Russias foreign minister has given his response to long running allegations that all position figure was poisoned with a nerve agent speaking to an International Conference before leaving russia for germany. Back in august, the opposition figure had tested negative for toxins, meaning he could have been targeted after his departure. The story, it seems russia has had enough after months of what most go. So as groundless accusations, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov says in a volley could have been poisoned after he left hospital in russia. We have every reason to believe that what happened to him in terms of Chemical Warfare agents getting into his body could have happened in germany or on the plane on which she was flown to the charity hospitals. Exactly. How else can the sudden appearance of toxic materials in the bali samples be explained . He stressed the res
The data indicating what had happened in of, on the and why they believe that no, the truck was involved. This type of decent and legally correct approach did not pay off. On the contrary, russia looked weak and looking winter means russell. And so it is about time that mr. Level up on russian general would say to france and say to germany will say to the o, c w, thats enough is enough. But it is incredible to think that the russian government and its president who would be involved in poisoning, mr. Novelli, if you provided no proof for whatever. And we are sanctions imposed by the European Union are totally unreasonable and deserve a response. The point is that ever since the 2016 election of donald trump, russia has been instrumental, has been used by 1st by americans, by the Democratic Party, or for its fight as the mystic fight with, with mr. Trump and the republicans. But i see in the case of novell only is that europeans are taking that period. And that made a miracle is tomorro
Against a u. S. Company in decades. Google says the government case is deeply flawed. Late tradenges in after missing on subscribers last quarter. Its outlook for the current period is below expectations and investors are not happy. Haidi we are just getting a little bit more of an update on these ongoing stimulus discussions in washington, d. C. Nancy pelosi saying she is optimistic a deal can be done before the election and that she is calling on Committee Chairs to resolve some of the differences when it comes to funding levels and language so they can get back to negotiations between her and secretary mnuchin as soon as possible, crucially saying she remains hopeful an agreement will be safer, bigger, and better, and will be retroactive as well. We are seeing that reaction when it comes to the futures markets. Lets look at the asian trading day. Sophie kamaruddin is here with us in hong kong. Seeing s pare eminis gain ground and a muted start in asia with the asx 200 coming online
Since the beginning of september. As investors try to move toward the Health Care Part of the economy, it is creating choppy trading action as we can see with todays mixed action similar to yesterdays big move, lots of volatility. David we have all been fixated with the election, and some with covid19 and the vaccine. You pointed out something that happened in august that may be having ripple effects in the equity markets right now. It seems as though the surface issues, the very important issues, the election and the virus, a huge issue that can change the field. It seems that what we are seeing is a repricing of risk. In august, the feds policy framework shift back in august ,eeping rates lower for longer especially the short end of the curve, but putting the sentiment towards the idea of inflation or healthier economy, that has steepened the yield curve tremendously, again a repricing of risk. This is healthy, but when the yield curve steepens it does cause lots of different Asset C
Most recently published the spymasters which is a book about how the cia directors shape history. Its a really pathbreaking work at her book. Its the first book that looks at the modern directors of Central Intelligence and evaluates [inaudible] and how they have interpreted their jobs. Well have time later in the program to talk about all of those issues. There is a link available to brookings in order to purchase a copy of the book at a think youll find [inaudible] its really something quite [inaudible] were going to focus today at least initially on the pandemic. The Intelligence Community appears actually did a fairly good job warning and anticipating that the pandemic was coming. And ask you to give us some of the data that point in the direction . Yeah, bruce, first of all before i do can i just say that thank you for the kind words for the spymasters. I was lucky enough in doing this book to talk to almost every living cia director and i was even luckier to be able to talk to yo