The chinese army has just started the largest Largest Scale military exercise striking targets in the east and taiwan straits. This comes of the us tries to down play house be can nancy pelosi recent visit to ty one saying there is no reason for beijing to overreact. There is no reason for vision to turn this visit, which is consistent with longstanding u. S. Policy and into some sort of crisis. Artistic aaron takes a closer look at the consequences of policies visit to taipei. China is already taking action as it warned it would fall out from pillows. These whirlwind trip has been swift and brutal to quite rightly. People are asking the question, we have seen the chinese authorities take multiple economic actions against individual chinese companies. An entire sectors of the economy here, taiwan has already paid your visit and is likely to continue to do so. The coming days and weeks. What concrete tangible benefits can you promised high one offset the cost of your trip. A tricky ques
Bella wilson and russia with welcome to to the point. It is a great pleasure to greet our guests. A katerina schulman is a political scientist and associate professor at the Moscow School for the social and economic sciences, left russia in april to take up the fellowship at the robert bush, stiff down here in germany. And its a pleasure to welcome olga concierge that she is from ukraine. Shes currently journalist in residence at the Berlin Social Sciences Center w. C. B. Shes been overseeing reporting for the online news portal. 24 tv for me here in germany. And also with us is bella russian freelance journalist and author, marina clay. She works with the German Marshall Fund and has written extensively home in his speech on ukraines Independence Day. President soleski said ukraine is quote, a nation reborn. Would you say thats true . And if so, what is new about ukraine since the war . Yes, thank you for this question, because now i feel that way i united more than ever. And i can sa
Kevin, can i 0, she is. Hi, she i to feed europe of the faith and decorate over her ties with russia. I was forced by various carbs, so Public Institutions have to call them a russia. You have to take the spence from president put then you have to regret that you ever had contact with president putin. Yeah, i said, im not going to do all that with hello and welcome talk to international. Were coming to you from our studio here in moscow. Im point clear. Its a pleasure to be with you. How words coming from the Chinese Foreign ministry who caused the u. S actions anti one, a well planned for the ministry added that these publications are not accidental and the key was actions in the region will have consequences to why the u. S. Is acting treacherously on the taiwan issue, blatantly playing with fire and blatantly becoming an enemy of one wouldnt be 4000000000. 00 Chinese People and it will never and well, the chinese army has just started the largest Largest Scale military exercise stri
Mostly green arrows across wall street today as we near the 1500 mark on the s p 500. And a 0. 1 contraction is expected for the German Economy in the Fourth Quarter. Those figures will be out in just under 30 minutes. The governors of the banks of italy trade in siena. And imfs Christine Legarde tells us that Central Bank Stimulus is still needed. We have the central bank on the one hand which have done quite a lot, which have been the fireman, in a way. And you have the policymakers on the other hand particularly in the eurozone who have made some progress and need to keep the momentum. Now, any minute now, were expecting the results from germanys ifo institute. January Business Climate index survey is expected to rise to a reading of 103 from 102. 4 in december. This, of course, follows an increase in expectations in the dew survey earlier this week. Weve seen an increase in the pmi surveys for germany over the last couple of months. As the German Economy particularly looking to cli
Saturday night it sure is. 40 years of late night laughs a look at whos ranked number one of all time cast members in a new survey. Hey, there, its high noon in the east 9 00 a. M. Out west. We have developing right now this massive winter storm unleashing a onetwothree punch. Heavy snow and brutal cold and potential for hurricaneforce winds. Boston is reporting record snowfall with more than 12 inches already fallen. Parts of massachusetts are still digging out from 6 feet of snow from the other recent storms and it is making for a terrible travel day so far, more than 16 1600 Flights Canceled with bostons logan being hit especially hard. A blizzard warnings is in effect for portions of five states those include, massachusetts, rhode island New Hampshire and maine. Lets take a look at how battered boston has been this winter. This city has already seen nearly 7 feet of snow in season. More than 144,000 man hours have been spent plowing roads and highways and more than 72,000 tons of s