President as Vice President temer takes power. Faces rousseff, temer corruption charges and has just appointed an allmale, all quite for the first time 1979. Then to syria. The member of the Security Council expressed outrage at all recent attacks inyria dirted agains civilia and civian obcts, incding medical facilities. As well as all indiscriminate attacks and stress these actions may amount toward crimes. Amy as the death toll in syrias fiveyear conflict reportedly reaches 500,000, well look another story that receives far less attention. That of syrians working at the local level to survive and organize in the midst of war and to keep the revolutionary spirit of the 2011 syrian uprising alive. Well speak with yasser munif, a syrian scholar who specializes in grassroots movements in syria. He is cofounder of the campaign for Global Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution. Then bird feeding. That is the charge prisoners are leveling against guards who are cutting back on their food in
Has brexit shaken the foundation . We speak to the ceo at 7 00 a. M. U. K. Time. A very warm welcome to countdown. We are live from london. It is 6 00 a. M. Here in london. A quick look at what is happening. The asian equities session is underway, fairly flat. Weakness coming in through some oil related asset classes. Let us look at the risk radar. Oil prices weaker, down by 1. 3 . Weakness across the oil markets meaning the asiapacific energy is down for the fourth day. Prospect of increasing crude supplies. We talked about that story coming out of iraq. Prices are retreating from a sevenweek high. We talked about this a lot yesterday and last week with regards to the hawkish commentary coming in from fed officials. A little bit of a retreat from the highs we saw yesterday as we focus in on jack jackson hole where janet yellen will be speaking on friday. The fed needs to consider the cost of leaving Interest Rates low. We will talk more about that team as we go through the program. In
Two main parties are pushing for the presidency for the First Time Since prepares to face an independent in next months runoff. Protesters a group of lawyers says dozens of activists have been arrested ahead of the rally and the arrests continue. Coming up over the course of the next hour, a lifeline to certainly energy giant edf, but will it be enough to save the Nuclear Project . We will have the details of that in business and yet another loss for the music business. We will have more on his life and legacy, coming up. The american president has made an impassioned plea for european unity in the face of rising populism and skepticism about the eu. Barack obama was speaking in hanover at the opening this morning of the World Largest Worlds Largest technology show. I have come here today to the heart of europe to say that the United States and the entire world needs a strong and prosperous and democratic and united europe. Your compliments your , in one European Union, remains one of
Dominating the headlines with president obama describing the shooting in california as an act of terrorism. Success inont party the first round of Regional Elections in france. The latest from paris with caroline. Hans nichols joins us. Let me take you to washington. The me take you to your former home turf. What you think the president was trying to do with this speech . What did he try to communicate . Hans he is trying to reassure the public. He uses the oval office for very somber occasions. Part of that was other rooms in the white house were occupied by christmas holidays. Publicrying to brace the. Here is how he put it. Quit the threat is real. The overcome it threat is real. We will overcome it. Wont depend on tough talk or abandoning our values or giving in to fear. That is what groups like isil are hoping for. We will prevail by being strong. Resilient and relentless. By drawing upon every aspect of american power. Hans he did announce a strategy review. Unclear what sort of
Welcome. Lets get straight to some of the big market moves. First up, as we said to you in he headlines, jacob does a u turn and so does the rand. He appointed his second finance minister in four days. Bringing him back so what we saw was the rand jump almost 6. 5 . That is the biggest interday gain since october 2008 and his goes back to last week when fitch had downgraded the countrys debt, really having quite a dramatic impact in terms of the rand. Its about commodities and currency as we go into this fed week. This is west texas intermediate, sifpks to the lowest level in seven years, iran pledging more oil for the market. This is the performance over the past month. I can tell you 11 of this decline was implemented last week by the market. There is absolutely no chance that iran will decrease the plan in shipments. Traders, data, this is how we benchmark how negative the traders are there, the most bear issue ever. Ets get the bloomberg first trade. The latest data out of china ho