The russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky is released from jail. And this Canadian Team has struggled with a stutter all his life. I i its my its my way to co come come communicate. But youll see what happens when he gets behind a mic. The lists of countries that will attend peace talks on syria has been unveiled. The Un Special Envoy says 26 countries including saudi arabia has been invited but iran remains the sticking point. Lets go to james bays who joins us live from geneva. James this is the list, but its not the final list, i understand. No, there is still discussion taking place. We had the meeting taking place here inning geneva, the last preparatory meeting. They are insisting that the peace talks are taking place on january 22nd. There is no stopping them, but most of the unresolved issues were not sorted out at this meeting. As you say they announced a list of 26 countries, but there is one country that is still under debate. This is what the ambassador had to say. Trans
Defense minister and five others. The United States and Un Security Council already condemning the attack. Reporter a daring attack in the heart of the posh downtown area. The car bomb killed former finance minister, Mohamad Chatah, his bodyguard, and four others. He was a close aide and top advisor to former Prime Minister, rafiq hariri. The explosion took place just a short distance from the residence of rafiq hariri. Thats where he had his office. Translator we were inside and felt glass breaking and coming in, and an explosion happened. We waited until it was all broken and then went out and saw this. Translator as you can see, all of these shops here are damaged. I consider all of this terrorism. All of this is terrorism. Damaging the country and the people. What more can i say. God help us. God help this country. Reporter as investigators looked for clues, politicians said they already knew who was behind the attack, and pointed the finger to iran and hezbollah. Rafiq hariri who
To intervene with his country right now and that seems to have taken the wind out of the sails. The dow was up 125 points at its peak today, and now up just 27, and the nasdaq has turned negative. The s p 500 in danger of reversing as well. Well keep an eye on that closely. Yesterday we put in the new closing high for the s p 500 at 1848. Today it looks that could be called into question. Of course, the nasdaq, and this, bill, will be the question, was losing some steam even before this round biotech was pulling back. All of that well get into. If 2013 was the year of the activist investor, is 2014 the year theyre overplaying their hand . Theres been pushback against the likes of carl icahn and nelson peltz. Sometimes even blistering public criticism. Now a battle with Darden Restaurants. We will have a special report coming up. Its very, very intriguing. Then a new report that shows employees of the s. E. C. , the securities and exchange commission, you know, the regulator of the stoc
Mums the word on the air forces secret space plan set to blast off today. Secret but we have some details. We know all about it. Good thats right. Good morning and welcome to early start, everyone, im john berman. And im Zoraida Sambolin. Tuesday, december 11th, 5 00 a. M. In the east. We begin this morning in the south where more storms are expected today. This after residents are left cleaning up from the aftermath of yesterdays storms. The rain was so intense. Take a look at what happened to the home of one man, this is birmingham, alabama as he was being interviewed by a local tv reporter. We had dogs. He was in the cage. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. You all okay . You all okay . You all all right . Look at that, the roof of clint thorntons home collapsing due to the soaking rain. He believes a tornado touched down in his neighborhood. Lets check in with alexand exe ste steele. There were 12 reported tornadoes yesterday, 2 have been con dining roomed by the survey teams. Mor
Thats former secretary of state Hillary Clinton discusses recent International Affairs including china and the syrian civil war. She spoke with chatham director Robin Niblett and was awarded the 2013 Chatham House price for her contribution to International Diplomacy and her work on gender equality. From london, this is about an hour. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen welcome to Chatham House. Thank you very much for joining us today. Before anything else as i said secretary clinton please make sure you have your phones on. It would be ashamed to be peeping through this and it would be a shame also for you to interfere with the microphones to please make sure you have them switched off. I dont usually say it but please dont walk out on me. [laughter] he will be spotted if that is donegal. Now let me say its my great honor to welcome Hillary Rodham clinton to Chatham House. Welcome to institute. Its a pleasure to welcome you here not just have a conversation with us but as winn