South africas battered economy tries to recover from a double downgrade, but it wont be easy especially trying to borrow money from its internationalfriends. And all on board. Yep, how a group of enterprising berliners, fed up with paying ever more for their daily Train Tickets clubbed together to crowd fund their own train line. Were going to take a ride with them. Welcome to World Business report. Im aaron heslehurst. Welcome to the programme. If you give me your eight minutes, i will give me your eight minutes, i will give you an exciting snapshot of the world of business and money. We will start south, south africa in that. As South Africas president jacob zuma celebrates his 75th birthday, festivities may be rather more low key than usual. In less than a week, the countrys members of parliament are scheduled to hold a vote of no confidence against the president. Why . Well it comes after he ousted some of his key political opponents in a recent cabinet reshuffle. Today, members of
Im howard kurtz and this is mediabuzz. Julian assange and, of course, the media and punching back on twitter, lets get back to my interview with sean spicer, i spoke to him from trump tower. Sean spicer, welcome. Thank you, howie. Donald trump tweeted, im asking the chairs of the house and Senate Committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with nbc prior to me seeing it. I can understand his concern, but does that signal as president he will be ordering Leak Investigations to find out Reporter Sources . Well, its not the Reporter Sources, its trying to figure out where it came from. Theres a big difference between reportest doing their job and
sourcing thicks and people in the government improperly giving Classified Information to people or potentially doing that. I think theres a big difference whether youre targeting the source or recipient. Right. Trumps twitter Feed Paralyzes and some seem say, hey, we shouldnt cover tweets which is ridiculous, why do you think the sho
And tonight, a u. S. Senator, marco rubio, has called his death murder. Back on american soil, Inka Pass Tated after 17 months in a north korean prison. His fathers first words to his son. What did i say to my son . I knelt down by his side and i hugged him and i told him i missed him and i was so glad he made it home. Reporter but the 22yearold was in a state of unresponsiveness waitfulness, damaged throughout his brain, rendering him able to brink and at times move, but there was nothing left of the adventurous young than that had departed nearly two years earlier. Otto, i love you and im so crazy about you, and im so glad youre home. You are such a great guy. Reporter the north korean government claimed that warmbier contracted botulism, took a Sleeping Pill and fell into what they call a coma. A north korean mri confirmed the
he was accused and tried for hostile acts after the north korean government claimed he took down a Propaganda Poster in the hotel where he was staying on the
He refused, threatened to resign and thats when President Trump backed down ultimately deciding not to fire the Special Counsel. But again, were seeing this new point of frustration from President Trump with these new attacks. Again, the most direct at robert mueller. The backdrop is important to point out. A few days ago, the president s former Attorney Michael Cohen spoke to a number of sources who then told cnn that he was ready to testify to the Special Counsel that President Trump approved that june 2016 meeting between russian nationals and his son donald trump jr. And other members of his campaign. So the president responding to that coverage. He also tweeted angrily at the media today we should point out. Yes, he did. He tweeted all over the place. Boris sanchez in new jersey where the president just head back to the white house. Thank you. A lot to discuss on this sunday evening. Joining us now is cnns senior
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David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Wideranging conversation the two of them had. Let me play a tape here from senator Lindsey Graham, senior senator from south carolina, responding to all of this. When it comes to Michael Cohen, you should be very suspicious of anything he says. Hes on the hot seat. Mr. Cohen, if youve got something new to say, you need to come to congress and say it under oath. Everyone is a lawyer. I should say, Lindsey Graham is actually a lawyer. So he has some justification there weighing in, i guess, on what happens on the hot seat. Sara, give me your perspective on this. We have seen teases here from Michael Cohen, lanny davis releasing that tape, memobly on tuesday night. We listened to it in realtime as it was played out on cable news. Weve heard it subsequently. Whats your sense here of what Michael Cohens thinking, his frame of mind here as we approach a new week . Well, its true that cohen is in the hot