But one Russian Airline was fining its Flight Attendants, for the extra pounds around their waist, until a court intervened. Hello and welcome, im Christian Fraser in london. Michelle fleury is in for katty today in new york. A chinese banquet at the white house. The invited guests on wednesday night were the top two democrats in congress. And the takeaway well, you might call it sweet and sour. After dinner the white house told us discussions had gone very well. But what exactly did President Trump agree to and did he betray his base . After dinner the two democrats, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer, put out statements. Theyd discussed they said a plan for tighter Border Security and new legislation to protect 800,000 young people brought to the United States illegally as children. The undocumented migrants are known as the dreamers. There was no discussion, they said, of funding mr trumps proposed wall along the mexican border. The republicans reacted with fury. Heres three tweets to g
Ina source. 2a people have been killed in a devastating fire that took place at an Islamic Boarding School in malaysia. Now, it happened in the capital, kuala lumpur, at a religious school. The fire took place at. Lets take a look. At this particular school. It broke out in the early hours of the morning. And, out of the 2a people that were killed, 22 were boys aged between 13 and i7, and also two members of staff lost their lives. This building only had one door, and it also had metal grilles on the windows. The people who came to try to help those people get out, well, they could only hear them scream. The bbcs and the hutton has this report. The dormitory of the school had just one way in. And out. Many of the bodies of the schoolboys were found piled on top of each other, indicating a possible stampede as they tried to escape the blaze. Blocked by bars on some of the windows. Unfortunately, this morning i had bad news. And then. I met him last night. A number of schoolboys managed
President just saying on air force one that after republican failure on repeal of obamacare, he is forced the work closer with democrats just to get something done. More on what he may or may not have agreed to with Chuck Schumer and nancy pelosi coming up. Also the rich may have to pay for. President trump doubling down, now saying wealthy americans are not his priority when it comes to tax cuts. Melissa the president just making comments aboard air force one on the surge in stocks and says that he respects fed chair janet yellen. The dow closing at another new record high. Lets go straight to Nicole Petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole, what was the day like down there . Feels pretty great. We did have that back and forth action. There was a lot of pressure on a lot of parts of the market. As you noticed, we had a mixed close. The russell is lower, but the dow brings it in, third day in a row of records. It was up four days in a row prior to this, up nearly
Any of them, because it is not my purpose to promote and encourage conflict, whether of ideas or of arms, but to try to promote harmony and understanding. I hope you will understand it and join us in our endeavour. As i said earlier, this isa endeavour. As i said earlier, this is a diplomatic briefings. This was intended to keep the members of our diplomatic community, the representatives of our friends from all over the world, in touch with what we are trying to do. But in some ways, it is more than just a diplomatic reefing. It is an appeal to all of those who wish myanmar well, an appeal to help us to achieve the ends that i think you would agree are desirable, notjust for this particular country, but for countries all over the world. Thank you. Thank you, excellency. Myanmars de facto leader addressing the country on a televised address regarding the crisis in Rakhine State. The Nobel Laureate has been criticised for her near silence regarding the rohingya crisis. The security crac
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