prove otherwise. it s the most commonly used herbicide in the world in europe farmer sprague life is saved on around half of all fields used to raise commercial crops but the weed killer is highly controversial due to concerns that could have an impact on human and environmental health today the e.u. once again postponed a decision on whether or not to ban it activists in brussels hit the streets on wednesday to push for a one year they say its institutions have colluded with the industry at the expense of the public they want the commission to come out with a non-renewal of full band any number of years whether it s one year five years ten years as long as it s revenue it s not a ban and european citizens have been clear they want to ban studies don t agree on whether glyphosate is a long term cancer risk or not the world health organization has said it could pose a danger the e.u. s food safety authority has proclaimed the chemical harmless but
indonesia. in fact human rights activ t activists were are detained in china where they were trying to you had a it the faudit the fac. wall street s optimism has not translated in to economic growth. s&p and dow look at this, record high closes on friday even as turmoil in washington stalls the trump economic agenda. here is what is driving stocks. corporate profits. corporate profits are keeping the bulls running. a number of big name companies report this week including netflix, american express, microsoft. expectations are high. last season s profit growth was the best in years. investors are also banking on a fed that is more cautious about future rate hikes. cautious because of low on inflation and slow consumer spending. consumer spending makes up the majority of economic growth and americans seem to be cutting back. retail spending dropped in june for the second month in a row, consumer confidence fell to the lowest since the election which
murrah. christina, all but three republicans in the state legislature voted in favor of this bill. what will the governor do? well, it s unclear what she is going to do. her political advisers are saying it s not necessarily that likely she is going to sign it. but she is in a tough position and it s one little piece of this gay marriage argument that s playing out across the country right now where you re seeing a lot of different legislatures make these decisions that people are calling discriminatory. and as the supreme court will ultimately be the final arbiter of what exactly is going to be allowed state by state by state, the decision last june was really just the beginning of this. and you re going to see actions like this in all kinds of states both react to go it in both a positive light for gay rights it activists and in a negative light in their mind, as well. david shi gave the veto a year ago. and you heard christina say she is in a tricky position here. what kind of p
the runway when that truck was responding. it s still not clear if that victim was already dead or not. from the white house to the kremlin. don t do it, don t give asylum to nsa leaker edward snowden. cnn s phil black tells us about snowden s new moves to get out of the airport. reporter: this is the first video of edward snowden since he fled hong kong and arrived at share met ved airport. a little over a month ago, i had a family, a home in paradiez. reporter: he excited activ t activists to meet him. they returned after an hour, announcing that snowden has changed intentions. he now wants political asylum in russia, but only temporarily. he wants to move on to latin america, but he feels the only way he s going to be safe in
xl.com website, keystone itself, they said 9,000 permanent jobs. environmental act it activists say activists to guaranty the safety of this thing. they worry about the aquifer. that somehow the pipeline could end up polluting the shallow water table beneath it. are you confident it is safe? i m certainly confident of that. the president even acknowledged when he came to visit with us again, that he said that the environmental concerns had been overstated. i m certain that opponents of a fossil fuels and our use of fossil fuels will use any argue meant that they can and arguing about, you know, how many jobs will be created, the ish issues is the opportunity to create thousand thousands of new jobs. that is not a small number. the labor organizations are behind this effort.