Actions around the islands. Shebra tansy reports from washington, d. C. After days of expectation, nancy pelosi landed in taiwan the 1st time a u. S. How speak has visit type, pagan, 25 years at the airport. She was greeted by taiwan, foreign minister and stuff from the American Institute in taiwan, the de facto u. S. Embassy and i pay i pay Storage Building also proclaimed its welcome. Soon after her arrival, pelosi tweeted that her visit was part of an ongoing effort to support democracy against autocracy. Comparing it to a trip to ukraine in april. But also after she touched down, there was swift condemnation from beijing. Allan announcement that live ammunition drills would take place surrounding tie one of the White House National security spokesperson, john kirby emphasize as he has for several days that theres been no change in policy. The u. S does not support taiwanese independence and Speaker Pelosi was acting in our own capacity. United states will not and does not, will not
Your channel 0 with me. So robin in doha, reminder of our top news stories. Ukraine says its ready to dispatch the 1st shipments of grain from its black c ports. Present. Go to his lensky says hes waiting for the go ahead from the u. N. And turkey. About 25000000 tons of grain have been stuck in ukraines polls since russia invaded in february. 1200. 00 is in the port city of odessa. We have been able to confirm that not only are the 1st ship loaded up, but that it will leave to date if it hasnt already. And we know its either going to come from the port of turn, a mores or the port of odessa, which is where im standing. You cant see it because of the rules here for press, say we cant show it, but i promise you, its right over there. They want this site to be on identical and identifiable for obvious reasons because they know russians are watching. This is, well, this was all actually announced in a News Conference earlier today, but it was embargoed until just now the infrastructure mi
That shinzo abe could cut Corporate Taxes to offset a planned sales tax hike. Chinas microblogging alternative to twitter boost shares of the Internet Firm in after hours and beats the street by a mile thanks to a new tieup with alibaba. Good morning, everyone. Yes, youre watching worldwide exchange. It is we are about one hour into a brandnew trading day and the stock europe 600 is seeing modest gains over. 3 . This is the fourth straight session in which we are seeing gains for the european markets. We are currently at a 2 1 2 month high. This is a look at the individual indexes, all trending higher, the german market, though, outperforming off its session highs. We saw it trading higher by around 1 just a few moments ago. But the xetra dax still adding on a nice. 8 . We did get some very strong earnings reports which well talk about throughout the program. The ftse mib also adding on. 4 . And similar percentage gains for the spanish market. Now, heres a look at some of the best and
U. Secretary of state john key hasn inng up support for the american plans to combat Islamic State in syria and iraq. The cia puts its combat strength at 31 thousand fighters. John kerry was in turkey today, a country the u. S. Wants to use to launch air and road attacks against i. S. , but ankara has so far said no to joining any military action. Will be live in istanbul with our correspondent. First, this report. John kerry has been continuing to seek support for a coalition to combat the Islamic State in syria and iraq. In on correct, he tried to persuade his host to get involved. Not just in nato, we have concerns with respect to what is happening in libya and throughout the middle east. Of course, now, events in iraq. Turkey remains reluctant. Washington wants turkey to tighten its borders, but the movement is limiting any turkish appetite for military action. John kerry has received support from france. President Francois Hollande said while visiting baghdad that france would joi
Good morning, and thank you so much for joining us. Its now exactly two weeks until the election. President obama and mitt romney met last night for their final debate, and the topic was Foreign Policy, though they did bring up domestic issues. While they agree on several issues, including afghanistan and syria, it was the president who took the more aggressive line. The race remains too close to call, though. A cbs news poll of likely voters taken before last nights debate has the president holding on to a twopoint lead. But thats within the polls margin of error. Randall pinkston is in boca raton, florida. Good morning. Reporter it was contentious from the start, mitt romney accusing the president of a series of Foreign Policy failures, including failure to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon, failure to bring peace to the middle east, failure to deal more harshly and directly with china. Meanwhile, president obama said that romneys Foreign Policy positions were wrong and at time