Hello good afternoon youre watching r. T. International now the president of iran has moved to quell mass anger over a 50 percent hike in fuel prices and rouhani said on sunday that the government will compensate those who are worst affected however there has been trouble in at least a dozen cities so far with buildings vandalized and pictures of irans Supreme Leader bert. Will have more details on this story a bit later on in the program. Now the u. S. President has intervened in the cases of American Service personnel convicted of or king of war crimes in afghanistan and iraq donald trump pardoned 2 u. S. Army officers and restored navy seals rank u. S. Democratic president ial candidates have attacked his decision. Theres nothing promilitary about overruling military Justice System to prevent it from delivering accountability for war crimes the president has again dishonored our Armed Services trumps intervention in the American Military Justice System to Pardon Service members accu
Under way former President Trump new york Criminal Trial on the stand right now Executive Director of archives. We are also learning that the courts decision on the gag order violation, the judge actually to throw him in jail. We will have a live report this hour. But first we are waiting to see what happens next at Columbia University. Antiisrael agitators now occupy a building on campus that happened last night. The mob took over hamilton hall. Around 1 00 a. M. Smashing glass, barricading doors, and raising the depositor and flat. Even keeping a few workers at the university barricaded for short time. They had a band of but this we are getting a new reaction. This is outnumbered. Here with michael ojos Harris Faulkner and Emily Compagno. Also joining us we are so excited to happen. Cohosts of the five and arthur f get it together, jesse watters. First he is like a Columbia University good afternoon everyone, we saw four protesters and heres the building that has been occupy for goin
But it did not close above that level. We saw the major averages give back by the end of the day some off the morning highs well keep a close eye on this this morning green arrows indicated once again this morning dow futures up by 57 points. S p up by 4. 5 points the nasdaq up by 8. 5 points. Look at asia, the nikkei gave back some grounds. Hang seng up by 0. 7 the shanghai was up by 0. 9 . Then if you check things out in europe, its a mixed bag ftse up by a quarter percentage point. The dax and cac are weaker stocks in italy are down stocks in spain slightly higher. Check out crude oil prices you will see that crude oil looks like it is up about 29 cents. 47 57. 45 for wti. We are watching a couple big stories this morning were learning more about that deadly amtrak crash in Washington State yesterday three people were killed, nearly 100 more injured when the train derailed the ntsb confirmed that the train was traveling at 80 Miles Per Hour in a 30mileperhour zone the crash left sev
Russia is undergoing change at a phenomenal pace economy has boomed over the last two decades and a new affluent class arose together with the new cathedrals of glass and steel but down on the ground in the shadow of that wealth the shadow economy has also been flourishing and with it exploitation and modern slavery on a massive scale now stuff i was scared theyd kill me if i run away. You know i had freedom hope the victims are complete good other peoples mostly the third version of that what would a now do this appalling situation no rants. But although the politicians are doing little to address the problem we meet the people who are taking action. The horrible thing is that in russia people are being in slave by fellow russians you dont find that anywhere else in europe. This is one of many illegal brickyard in the dogs down region in the south of the Russian Federation not all the workers are here voluntarily many were abducted to toil away in punishing conditions and without gett
Say they have shot dead the suspect a sixty four year old man from nevada. And well get the latest from spain after a chaotic day in catalonia plunge the country into crisis the catalan Regional Government is meeting right now to consider what steps towards independence can take thats after ninety percent of voters back to separating from spain and a referendum disrupted by police and dismissed by madrid. Im sumi so misconduct good to have you with us a gunman has killed at least fifty people injured two hundred more in the u. S. City of Las Vegas Police have confirmed that the suspect a sixty four year old white man from nevada was shot dead the incident took place on the citys famed strip of the attack. Her had checked in as a guest at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and casino and from the thirty second floor he began firing on an outdoor concert Authorities Say they have also located a female person of interest she was a seen accompanying the suspect before the attack. Last vegas sheriff jo