Youre watching are to International Coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 11 am a come to the program. Russia and the u. S. Have traded violent accusations at the u. N. Security council as turkey with western backing warns its a matter of time before it intervenes militarily in syria. Its like the end of the world breaking point babies freezing to death amid push these people are begging the world to listen to their plight and so i ask how much longer will we tolerate these headlines that will live there the recall the United Nations Security Council meetings cold that often when militants were marching towards damascus with the full backing of some western states playing the card of suffering civilians and a longstanding truce every time your cherished terrorists come under threat candidly it is a marvel to me that our russian colleagues can speak of ceasefires and Political Solutions in this chamber with a straight face when their own 4 planes have struck
Air force one was on the runway and that was our meeting our arrival here in las vegas saying air force one again weve seen a 2 or 3 times on our travels and its very impressive its a great prop when youre running for president and thats some of the all that what you have when you are president is the bully pulpit and thats going to weigh heavily in this 2020 election well in the nevada debates there was something that Bernie Sanders said on stage when he was you know going back and forth with mayor bloomberg when mayor bloomberg imploded on stage you know they were talking about billionaires and the problem with billionaires d and should billionaires exist i tweeted that i said is the u. S. Federal reserve bernie you cosponsored an audit the fed bill talk about the cantillon effect how did bloomberg go from a net worth of 3000000000. 20 to 60000000000. 00 in 2020 at least half of that gain in my opinion is from q. E. The problem is that nobody really knows anything about money its har
Significant rally, up eight at the opening bell, a gain of 55, urging the fed to cut rates. We wait to see when the fed is. Some money coming out of treasuries. I want to see it but cant, dont have it but it is up from the historic low of one. 03 , it is one. 12 as we speak. Politics. A mad scramble by the democrats to support joe biden and beat back the bernie challenge. Amy klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg throw their support to biden, beto reappears to back him up. This is desperation time. Today bernie is expected to win the california and texas primaries, all hands on deck for the moderates, they are panicked at the thought of the bernie nomination but there is still bloomberg. He says even if he doesnt do well today he is not bowing out. Democrats are locked in a 3way battle, totally split, at war with themselves. Just wait till you see joes latest gaffes, that is plural. Varney and company is about to begin. Tomorrow is super tuesday. I was waiting for a black man to pick me up and
Policy correspondent. This is more than the fed might have done. Michael last time i remember a 50 basis point cut was 2001 no, 2008. , the initial cut the last time no, 2008,rise the initial cut. The last time we had a surprise rate cut was 2001. When they do it before the markets open, heres the money quote. Coronavirusout the posing evolving risk to economic activity, and say in light of these risks and in support of achieving its maximum employment and price stability goals, the committee decided today to lower the target rates for the federal funds rate by one half 1. 25 . Age point to a major move by the fed today to put a floor under markets and maybe try to get ahead of any damage out there, although, as a lot of people will tell you, it isnt clear that the fed is going to be able to really do a lot with this except help the markets. The statement goes on to say the committee is closely monitoring developments and their implications for the economic outlook, and will use their
Thanks for joining us this is art. This is affected shooter who killed 9 people in the west of germany was said to have xenophobia motives 5 of the victims were turkish nationals chance of the machall condemned the attack branding it far right and racist. Its too early to give a conclusive assessment everything is being done to find out what was behind this murder but a lot already suggests far right of the attacker he apparently acted out of hatred towards people of different descent religion or appearance racism is a poison hatred is a poison and this cloisonne exists in our society and has led to many crimes. Well at a press briefing from the interior minister of the state peter but we found out more information relating to what went on on wednesday evening through to thursday morning thats left 11 people dead including the main suspect in the shootings on wednesday evening 9 people were killed after 2 separate incidents at different she should bars in the city of her now a man then