Inconvenience. British Prime Minister theresa may says the uk will build the closest, freest trading relationship possible with japan as she continues her postbrexit trade building mission. Difficult to stomach carrefour shares sink to the bottom of the stoxx 600 bringing rival casino down after issuing a profit warning on declining margins. Battle stations. President trump hits the road to campaign for a tax overhaul, but theres a lack of specifics and plenty of opposition in Congress Good morning welcome to the show. Lets look at how european markets opened theres more green than red on the screens. Taking the lead from a positive u. S. Close overnight and positive momentum out of asian equities this morning. The overall market up by 1. 28 points, so just over a third of a percent so far today lets look at how the individual bourses are trading across europe its really the xetra dax which is at the highest, crossed the 12,000 point eventually and is now up again around half of a perc
Remains the same. The stakes this time around could not be any higher. Right now more than 170,000 american lives have been lost to the pandemic. Millions are out of work. The president who openly talk bed about delaying the election repeatedly suggested it may be rigged, impeached for seeking foreign help to win, is accused of crippling the Postal Service, at least attempting to at a time when it may not be safe to vote in person. Late today House Speaker pelosi said shell be acalling on members to return early to address that issue. All of it factors into the conversation tonight, new cnn polling that shows a tightening fourpoint race in voter enthusiasm at a 17year high. It also shows a statistical tie in 15 battleground states and the president with a 42 job Approval Rating which is a slight uptick from june and about on par with his performance for the year. So, with all that, theres Kamala Harris groundbreaking role as the first africanamerican and asianamerican woman to share th
Ukraine better. Takes sides. Prominent u. S. Senator john mccain speaks to people in kiev demanding integration with the european union. Also ahead a glimmer of hope in Central African republic. Can a deal with done to end the cycle of violence . And syrias forgeten children. We meet the young people in desperate need of special care. South africas first black president has been laid to rest at his ancestoral in qunu. It has brought to an end ten days of mourning across south africa. President jacob zuma said its been long and painful. Reporter the final moments of a sad farewell as Nelson Mandelas remains were lowered into the ground out of public view. The raw of a military flypast bearing the flag of the new south africa that mandela himself did so much to create. In the eastern cape hills of his birth and boyhood, it had been a funeral ceremony emack lately planned, executed with precision. Beneath a giant dome built in the place he called home, invited guests, dignitaries, celebri
Production act, that is a law that was enacted in 1950 during the korean war. It gives the president the authority to mandate that private industry produce and manufacture certain things for the national defense. The president and the white house lurched to the invoication of this. As weve heard, he hasnt triggered it yet. My guess is that when they announced that they were going to be invoking, the president probably heard from his friends in private industry to say please hold off on this. And i think that what is required here is not so much the invocation of these things but what is it were actually going to do to surge mask equipment, test kits, hospital beds to state and local communities to address this very, very serious crisis . Kristen welker is at the white house. Of course, was part of that briefing. Kristen, we have a number of issues to cover, but i also wanted to just touch base with you on the state department announcing this professional alert which is stage 4 as i und
Russians come within the 20mile limit, the u. S. Backs off. Not that they think the russians will shoot them down but the russians are aggressive flyers. They are uncertain. The u. S. Doesnt want to have any mistakes happen and certainly, not until both sides reach that Technical Agreement on how they will both fly in the skies over syria but keep themselves safe. And i understand they have also launched naval strikes in the sea. Absolutely. The u. S. Noticed ships moving into the southern caspian launching two dozen highly precise missiles in a naval bombardment of targets in western syria. Again, what this is under scoring the u. S. Says is the overwhelming majority of the targets that the russians are hitting now from the sea and from the air are in fact not isis targets but are anti regime targets, people trying to get rid of Bashar Alassad and the russians trying to keep assad in power. Barbara starr, appreciate it. Thank you. Sure. Troubling developments back here in the United S