We are waiting for a 10 45 press meeting with the signatory of state the secretary of state. Guy that is going to be fascinating. We have an emergency meeting of european Foreign Ministers as well today, but that story in washington is one to watch. Im sure the crude market will be. European stocks up a little bit today. We saw a little bit of action around the payrolls number, but not much. Saw our way back from earlier highs. The dollar continues to push on up. I am going to show you some charts later on talking about some of the Technical Levels the. Ollar is facing now to the upside. 1. 11 now. A little bit of movement in the bond market. We are looking for next weekend the signing of the phase one trade deal. How good could that be for europe, and what is already priced in . Vonnie sticking with jobs, the u. S. Labor market closed the year with a little less momentum. Nonfarm payrolls rising hundred 45,000, compared with a median estimate higher than that. Unemployment held steady
World, from hong kong to vienna to u. K. And to washington. We are on the ground with all this mornings top stories. The u. S. And china are moving closer to agreeing on the amount of tariffs that would be rolled back in a phase i trade deal according to people familiar with the talks. This to be expect reached before december 15. Joining me is chief bloombergs chief asia correspondent. We have some takeaways from our colleagues in washington and beijing. They are making the point that President Trumps comments yesterday do not necessarily indicate that these talks are stalling, even though he was downplaying the need for an urgent deal. On the flipside, we have in hong kong and xinjiang are not going to derail the talks are these talks to continue to push forward. We now look at the december 15 deadline. On the chinese side, they have a redline around tariffs. There are some details on which tariffs are to be rolled back. Before we get too optimistic, i would say we have had some stri
New developments in washington as the impeachment inqury against President Trump gathers pace. Mr trumps dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry, and testimony has now emerged, from a senior american diplomat, whos told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a Smear Campaign against the former Us Ambassador to ukraine, to try to get her removed. George kent, whos in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused Rudy Guiliani of spreading what he called lies about marie yovanovitch. She was later recalled from her post. More on that and other developments from our north america correspondent david willis. Firstly we should say that he testified last month but a transcript has only just testified last month but a transcript has onlyjust been made public. Yes. And it is a long and comprehensive transcript. He gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim that there was a Smea
New developments in washington as the impeachment inqury against President Trump gathers pace. Mr trumps dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry, and testimony has now emerged, from a senior american diplomat, whos told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a Smear Campaign against the former Us Ambassador to ukraine to try to get her removed. George kent, whos in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused Rudy Giuliani of spreading what he called lies about marie yovanovitch. She was later recalled from her post. George kent testified last month before the house impeachment inquiry and the transcript has only just been released. The bbcs david willis has been taking a look. And it is a long and comprehensive transcript. He gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim that there was a Smear Campaign orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani against the Us Ambassador to the ukrain
Announcer live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. U. S. Officials now believe russia has assembled about 70 of the military force it needs to launch a fullscale invasion of ukraine. The latest Satellite Images show Russian Forces gathering strength in belarus. Some are positioned less than 50 kilometers from ukraines northern border. In neighboring poland, senior u. S. Military members arrived on saturday, as nato looks to reinforce its eastern flank. This as the head of nato is due to meet with the polish president. French president Emmanuel Macron heads to moscow on monday in part to try to revive negotiations between kyiv and prorussian separatists in eastern ukraine. Russias Chief Negotiator recently offered this dismal assessment. Translator we hope to be more constructive there and will have something to tell you, because today, we have nothing to brag about. As much as we want to move forward, the progress that we have equals almost zero. Cnns Melissa Bell