And, we hearfrom the british veteran whos collected thousands of pounds to build a new memorial for the heroes of d day. The former brazilian president , Luiz Inacio Lula da silva, has been released from prison after 1. 5 years behind bars for corruption charges. He was greeted by a crowd of supporters outside the Police Station in the Southern City of curitiba where he had been held. His release comes after Brazils Supreme Court ruled that convicted criminals should not go to jail while their appeals are heard. Katy watson reports from the former president s traditional heartland of sao paulo. Chanting and singing. Lula walked out of prison to an emotional crowd. Free lula, these people had been chanting, keen to witness what has been an extraordinary day for brazilian politics. Translation i cannot tell you the importance of me being here with you. After spending a lifetime talking to the brazilian people, i never thought that today i could be here talking to men and women who, for 5
With abal easing trend surprise half percentage point. James bullard says the u. S. Central bank cannot react on a daytoday basis. Failing to stem the flow, net outflows at aberdeen were greater than analysts estimated in the first half. We will speak with the ceo shortly. The german lender says its profit target for the year is looking significantly more ambitious. Matt commerzbank has brought me here. I will talk to the finance chief in a little bit, and i will ask if calling your target ambitious is the new profit warning. That seems to be a trend for german company. They say their targets are ambitious. They make it clear they have been hardhit by the Sales Forecast and then they bring them down. It is a difficult environment for banks, and i will ask what the hardest part is. I am sure local rates are not helping, and what their plan is to get out of it. Time cutting costs. We will ask for clarity on that from stephen englels. We could see equity indexes rise again today at the op
[inaudible conversations] the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. We will do a little bit of the front end and hopefully will take care of the business quickly and i know people have other meanings and it will move to the hearing itself. We think our witnesses for allowing us to do this and were glad youre here. We have a number of items on the agenda today ander we will movea number of nominations and Foreign Service officer led and will also take up as 1928, multilateral act of 2017. I want to think senator coons for his leadership and hard work on this bill. L. I want to also recognize isaacson, rubio, young, cain and merkley for their contributions to thisct bipartisan important legislation for the committee. This bill will establish a process for conducting injected reviews on how well multilateral institutions carry out their missions with our funding, the authorities after review. Eleven years. Through this process we will be able to evaluate their performance
Of the day at westminster. Coming up in the next half hour the government sets out the changes its making to universal credit, but labour urges ministers to go further. This is a comprehensive package which response to concerns raised inside and outside the house. These measures are not enough. They must be brought forward amended and added to. The chancellors accused of missing an opportunity to tackle air pollution. And the shadow chancellor says wednesdays budget shows the governments a shambles. But, first, the work and pensions secretary, david gauke has set out the details of the changes the governments making to its controversial welfare payment, universal credit. After weeks of pressure from mps across the house the chancellor announced in his autumn budget that hed be tweaking the system. Universal credit combines six working age benefits into one and is meant to make the system simpler, whilst helping claimants move more easily into work. But critics said a six week wait for
This conversation is going to stay focused on the department of justices approach to data and technology policy. There Something Else going on . Deputy attorney rosenstein is going to stick to talking about those topics. With that i thought i would open with an issue that everyone in this room is talked about a lot and is familiar with on encryption. In a recent speech you talked about her support for encryption and the ability of government to access that information when needed. You also dont want the government to micromanage the engineering of technology. Can you maybe start us off by elaborating on striking the balance of privacy and Public Safety . Absolutely and i fully appreciate the perspective that so many have and from a Law Enforcement perspective as well maintaining confidentiality and electronic information is really important to us but the more we are able to secure information the less likely we are to have fraud cases and criminal referrals so encryption is really crit