Amy oxfam is facing a growing crisis for covering up sex crimes by its aid workers in haiti i afr the devasastating 20 earthquauake. We will speak t to a reporter at the times o of london who exposed ththe scandadal plus the hehead of the coalition against trafficking in women and the haitian writer Edwidge Danticat in miami. Then we look at the role of army junior reserve officer Training Corps program after nikolas cruz, a former jrotc cadet, carried out one of the Deadliest School shootings in u. S. History. Cruz was on the schools jrotc team when it received a 10,000 grant from the nra. All of that a more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The Syrian Government is continuing its deadly barrage of airstrikes and artillery fire against the rebelheld enclave of eastern ghouta, outside the capital damascus, with aid workers reporting at least 200 people have been killed over the last 48 hoururs. Mamany of the victims are
Justice . This was interesting. Obama has gotten attention for his comments on court cases particularly before theyre decided, as well as after where i think its perhaps a bit more typical for president to speak after decisions are made. But it did seem interesting that i mean he actually went as far to criticize the cert stage when he said the court shouldnt have even taken the case. So it was interesting. And just by coincidence i happen to have sitting in my inbox a study of president ial comments on pending Supreme Court cases since 1954. Looking at this study and seeing how really rare it was, although not completely unheard of for president to comment when they had cases of which they took some interest before the Supreme Court, i dont think it is going to be a very typical thing. I think this as one factor that the study itself observed, president s most likely to comment on pending cases tend to be lawyering who think they know a lot about the law and are in a position to discu
Customer. And sell them straight to the customer. A decade after the financial crisis, is the world ready to be taken off of financial and support . This is bloomberg surveillance and im Francine Lacqua in london. We go to a suburban paris, where six people have been hurt after a car rammed into them. Police are still searching for the driver and the car. This is according to police reports. Place aftere sentinel operation since n was declared to remain until it is no longer useful. This occurred in the northwestern suburb of levall ois. We will keep an eye on that. On to geopolitics and the impact on the market. We see a very clear movement into havens. This is what we are seeing the goldyen gaining on the tensions in north korea. European stocks, slumping following declines across most of asia. The vix is up. Does get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Reporter the South African rand has led declines among major currencies after president jacob zuma survived another bid to ou
For the first time, but economics continue to struggle. And hsbc chairman says china is managing change extraordinarily well. He tells us what he thinks of trump policies. Indeed, thats going to be tracking markets, front and center, we have the whole Federal Reserve issue to be dealt with in the next 24 hours. Theres a 100 expectation that there will be a rate hike, its about what is going to happen in 2017. They say two rate hikes coming up. We can dive into it and see what weve got right now. The next rate hike possibly being as soon as february there as well. 86 chance of that happening after this one which is nearly a 100 probability of the high taking place there. Fed pretty much front and center. Seems like its going to be normalizing. We are 30 minutes from open in china and hong kong. Singapore, taiwan, just coming online. Heidi, how are the markets looking . Were looking a little bit mixed at the moment. Tokyo shares falling into the red, extending losses over the last couple
Members have been notified through customs and border patrols that a relative is being held after President Trumps executive order. Now volunteer attorneys came here to sfo earlier today. There are several of them. They say what theyre trying to do is help the family members that they say are from at least, they believe, four people they believe iranian citizens with visas may be being held here. They say that at this point its kind of difficult to confirm because theyre getting very little information. For some people here the situation is rather unclear. Shes on a flight from due buy coming back. I talked to her when she lanltded but we dont know if she can make it or not. Reporter shes being told that he should not get on a plane because if he does he may be detained or if he is not detained or turned around and sent back. Reporter now what a number of attorneys told us is that immigrants instants group did put out a request for attorneys to show up. One told us that she came out of