Coming up later on the program prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of black wednesday. That is Norman Lamont at 9 30. Lets get straight to your data check. Quite a lot going on in the markets. We are seeing a little bit of risk off. Stocks are mixed in europe. Edging lower and then going higher. What investors are nervous about is north koreas latest Missile Launch, raising geopolitical risks. Gold and yen showing markets are becoming immune to the provocation and diplomatic reaction. There is not much of an impact on yen. We are seeing pound, the 25th anniversary of, of course, what we saw in 1. 34w31. There is a little bit of movement on treasury. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Sebastian President Trump says he likes and respects janet yellen not made a decision on whether he will re nominate the Federal Reserve chair for another term. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin sets janet yellen is among those being considered to run the central bank. In the u. K. That
Transferred where President Trump says duterte is doing an unbelievable job on the drug program. We will speak also with Glenn Greenwald about how the Media Coverage of the Manchester Bombing victims should be a model for all young victims of war from yemen to afghanistan. Plus, we will speak to toronto activist and journalist desmond cole. I think what was revealed is a certain naivete where we ignore very obvious problems of racial discrimination. We want to tell ourselves that it is not happening here and we especially want to tell ourselves we are not the United States of america. Amy up until recently, desmond cole was a columnist at the toronto star. Its editors told him he had to choose between being a journalist or a black lives matter activist. He decided to stop writing his column. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. We are broadcasting from toronto, canada. In new revelations about possible
Saturday night at 8 00 on cspan and www. Cspan. Org. This week the director of National Intelligence dan coats briefed members of a committee on current world wide threats. This testimony happened just hours after a terrorist attack in manchester. This is about two hours. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] good morning. Senate Armed Services Committee Meets this morning to receive testimony on worldwide threats. We are pleased to welcome our distinguished witnesses. Dan coats, the director of National Intelligence, and Lieutenant General vin stuart. Scheduling, a of unanimous request on part of all our members, we will conclude this hearing at 11 30 in the interest of time and to ensure members of the committee to ask their questions. I will be brief. I know that comes as a disappointment, especially to the senator from south ca
Driving in the vehicle that then collided at some point with this tour bus. We are not exactly sure what led up to this crash. What we know now is that police are here busy on the scene working. Nineteen people transported from the scene. Three in critical condition. And at least one person is dead. That is the latest. We will have an update tonight at 11 00. New details this evening on the gay nightclub massacre in orlando. Our colleague is on the ground live with the latest. Good evening, adam. Reporter bruce, good evening. This new day has brought new hope for families, and doctors addressing the media they say all of the injured they are treating now they do expect them to pull through and survive. But this has also brought new challenges for Law Enforcement who continue to investigate the scene. A very active scene at the investigators focusing squarely tonight on the suspects family. And with 49 people dead, the investigation is far from over. A Law Enforcement source says the wi
Current size. I would like to start by i very much welcome the deduction in youth unemployment announced this morning. [shouting] i would like to add that thats not the case in my constituency but the unemployment has lessened slightly. [inaudible] want everything to do honorable lady is if you look at scotland as a whole on the year an appointment is down by 20,000, and the rate of unemployment in scotland is also down. And as the rate of unemployment in scotland is lower than the rate of unemployment, for instance, in london. So the idea that this recovery is only being felt in the south of our country is simply nonsense. She mentions the issue of wages. One of the most powerful things we can do to help people with the cost of living is to take them out of income tax. And in scotland weve taken 23,000 people out of income tax altogether and over 2 Million People are benefiting from the personal allowance changes that have already helped people to the tune of over 700 pounds a year. M