V. A. Is absolutely held accountable for how to help care for our veterans, and im continuing to press them on that issue. We must work tirelessly to restore hope in the institutions that have asked so much of our nations heroes. Plain and simple, veterans must have reliable, quality mental and physical health care. There is no option. Folks, as we take a moment to reflect on the work weve done and continue to do in congress on behalf of these men and women, we should also pause as we do every year on veterans day to simply honor their service and the sacrifices theyve made for our country and for our freedom. Serving in the military provided me some of the best years, the best friends, the best experiences, and the best memories of my life. Each year veterans day serves as a stark reminder of the daily sacrifice made by those who have served this country bravely and selflessly. Veterans in iowa and across our nation, you have my support and my deepest gratitude today and every day of
Clashes come after Spains Supreme Court delivers long prison sentences to catalonia separatist leaders. Researchers reported troubling a rise in Global Hunger a new study on hunger and malnutrition says Climate Change is a key factor driving the world Food Shortages. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us of turkey is a pressing ahead with its operation in Northern Syria against Syrian Kurdish forces occurrence have lost the United States as their ally so theyve turned to syrian dictator bashar assad who was moving his troops north towards the Turkish Border now we have some of the latest footage here taken from syria looking across taken from turkey sorry looking across into syria turkish shelling of russell and continue. This morning at least 160000 civilians are believed to have fled the fighting in the border area and they have headed deeper into syria but opposition to turkeys assault is growing u. S. President donald trump is imposing economic sanctions to pressure tur
Road map begins with china trade concerns, retails biggest sales decline in seven months, corporate earnings in focus. B of a rallying on a beat, futures point to a muted open. Capitalism under fire a bit democratic president ial hopefuls square off and taking aim at big business and personal wealth. And billionaire marc benioff will join us at post nine. Well talk tech regulation, capitalism, ipos and who he is eyeing in the 2020 race. Stocks are on track for a modest open a day after the dow close the above 27 k for the first time in almost a month s p finished shy of 3,000. B of a beats the street with quarterly results. On the economic front, retail sales were down. 3 in september. Revisions were better. Gas stations down. 7 people say maybe this has to do with gas prices. Perhaps it does when i take a look at what is going on, if you read between the lines with bank of america, which is just a gigantic bank, gigantic consumer bank, talking about 5. 7 growth in Consumer Spending ye
It is not clear when the vessel will leave. The ships crew has not turned on its satellite tracking equipment in newly two months, but there has not been any signs it has left its position off of the iranian coast. The World Antidoping Agency is giving russia three weeks to explain possible signs of tampering with data from its doping laboratory. It is an accusation which russian officials fear could lead to a ban from next ares olympics. Over the data was a key requirement for reinstatement of russias antidoping agency. The computer files were critical in prosecuting cases alleged of cheating at major events. Global news 24 hours a day, onair, and tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im Mark Crumpton. This is bloomberg. It is 1 00 in new york, 6 00 in london, 1 00 a. M. In hong kong. Im vonnie quinn welcome to bloomberg markets. From bloomberg World Headquarters in new york, here are the top stories on the bloomberg we are follow
Rescue ships in the mediterranean. To hear both sides of the. Meat. Hes a fisherman and one of millions of children who call goes to school because his familys too poor. Promises from World Leaders to change his situation. Welcome to the program. Hong kongs leader carry law has announced that a highly controversial bill that would have allowed extraditions to the chinese mainland instead the pro beijing chief executive described the governments work on the bill as a total failure but she stopped short of saying she would give in to protesters demands and withdraw the proposal hundreds of thousands of people have protested against the law in the territory over the last months but here is the whole call the chief executive now 1st of all the cause of all these. Grievances and confrontations is an exercise to amend the fugitive often this ordinance. I have almost immediately put a stop to so the amendment exercise but there are still lingering doubts about the governments sincerity or whe