Week ago. Eight crowd. A crowd. Fixing a financial meltdown. Samsung electronics looks to rebuild its reputation with its first new smart phone since the exploding battery scandal. Good morning. Glad you could join us for this edition of Asia Business report. We start with toshiba and shares are down less than 1 toshiba and shares are down less than1 in toshiba and shares are down less than 1 in tokyo trade news overnight that it is us unit westinghouse filed for bankruptcy protection. Investors are waiting as Shareholder Meeting due to start shortly. Toshiba are now warns that the delos mao may widen to over 1 billion us because of the problems of westinghouse. It has twice delayed reporting earnings until april 11. And toshiba shares have lost over 60 since it first acknowledged that the problems in december. The Japanese Firm may now look to sell a Majority Stake in westinghouse. Earlier i spoke to rupert in tokyo. I asked him how ha rd rupert in tokyo. I asked him how hard it will
Have ever met. He was sweet and kind. At the European Parliament, a debate on the brexit talks, as nigel farage accuses meps of presenting the uk with mafia like financial demands. Jeremy corbyn says labours National Executive committee is to review comments made by Ken Livingstone after his suspension from the party over hitler remarks. And showjumper nick skelton, who became britains Second Oldest Olympic gold medallist in rio, announces his retirement. Its 5 oclock. Our main story is that the United Nations Security Council has been meeting in Emergency Session, to discuss the suspected Chemical Attack, on a town in syria. More than 70 people are thought to have died and hundreds were injured in the rebel held town of Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib Province. The british and us governments say the evidence points to an attack by Syrian Government forces. But president assads regime has denied responsibility. At the un today russia is objecting to a Draft Resolution and claims that civilians
Claims, its always possible that a highlevel russian defector will appear sometime in the future with documents proving that Jeff Sessions is in fact a foreign agent, perhaps of a sleeper cell sent to alabama during the cold war and activated at Vladimir Putins request during the last election, that would be a game changer. Otherwise the russian conspiracy seemed to hit a culdesac this afternoon in the senate, but that doesnt mean there are no scandals for congress to investigate. Maybe the biggest one about, our Intel Services are corrupt and politicized and theyre making very hard to run u. S. Governmen government. They are running it themselves to some extent. Consider how much of American Politics now revolves around information that has been strategically, often misleadingly and illegally released for political effects. If the hearing he watched today are just one example. They took place in part because former fbi director jim comey told senators last week that sessions may have
I love you. But, but come on, come on, buddy. Jesse fresh off that embarrassing prediction, donald trump quote hired a group of prostitutes to defile a hotel room where obama slept. It turned substitute to be fake news. February 14 the New York Times flashed this socalled school. Trump Campaign Aides had repeated contact with russian intelligence. James comey was asked about that and he said quote it was not true. He went on to say this about whether there was any Obstruction Of Justice. Did the president at any time ask you to stop the f. B. I. Investigation into russian involvement in the 2016u. S. Elections. Not to my understanding, no. Did any individual working for this administration including the Justice Department ask to you stop the russian investigation. No. This is the president speaking, i hope you can see your way clear to letting flynn go, you dont know anybody charged for hoping something. I dont as i sit here. Jesse its revealed james comey was the source of the leak. L
This is so far looking at the reelect, they seem to have a rule about who has the legal fees paid for by campaign donors. You have to be named donald trump. Did good thing for the trump family is they have two of those guys. Two people. Junior and senior. Ivanka needs anything, uhhuh. Kushner, do you get any money . Exactly. Poor mike pence, next week, is going to be raising money for the trump reelection fund. Hes raised money for his own pac and donated that money to the trump reelection fund paying for juniors legal fees and mike pence pays for his own. The funniest part is he then has to sell the plasma to help jared and the other non donald trump Family Members pay their legal fees. Running out of blood. Yeah. You know that the president s going to volunteer him. Tap mike. Hes healthy. The paler he looks, the more hes pumping into the trump
family legal fees. Thank you. Have a great weekend. Thank you. You too. All right. I m in for launs odonnell. To rally tonight in alabama, don