South koreas military earlier said the man went missing from a vessel near yeonpyeong island on monday, a day before he was spotted floating in the north waters of the yellow sea. They shot the man dead and burned his body. Officials said the north explained its troops fired more than ten shots as the man was trying to flee. The north also reportedly said its personnel didntt finthe mans body but burned the flotation material he used in accordance with covid19 guidelines. The north also said it would do its utmost to prevent something similar from happening again, to avoid damaging relations between pyongyang and seoul. For more insight we spoke to a doctor in seoul, a Research Fellow at the institute for north korean studies. From the standpoint of north korea, it must have realized that making the excuse that he was, and that he was for prevention of covid19 outbreak would not satisfy angry south korean public,c, so it needs to express at least a minimum amountnt of sincere apology a
250point loss for the dow the Chinese Government makes the rare decision to drop its growth target for the year as primier says they are facing great uncertainty. Into remote will remain for facebook around 50 of the employees will work from home in the coming years but warn those working outside of Silicon Valley may have to take pay cuts. A warm welcome to street signs. Lets get into our top story of the day. Hong kongs government will fully comply with the governments decision. The administration has rejected decisions the new laws will impact the rights and freedoms currently enjoyed by the hong kong people. Opposition lawmakers were removed forcibly a lot of escalations and tensions not only between Mainland China and hong kong but questions about what this means for relations between the west and beijing. Lets look at the Hong Kong Market hang seng index down on the back of this news eyeing the National Peoples congress the move has taken some by surprise the fact that they are p
Good thursday morning, happ new year jon fortt with Morgan Brennan and mike santoli live at the new york stock exchange. Carl has the morning off it is the first trading day of the month and the year stocks are rallying to kickoff 2020 fresh record highs for all major indexes. Bob pisani is with us to breakdown what could push the markets higher. What a different january 2nd makes. Remember this time last year, a year, what a difference. January 1st, last year, look whats going on, the market was pricing in earnings recession. Remember that phrase stocks were cheap. Fast forward a year. The opposite is happening. The recession didnt happen, earnings recession didnt happen, the economy is strong, stocks have gotten on the expensive side so the issue is whether we can finally return to Earnings Growth after an essentially flat year in 2019 most strategists are expecting mid Single Digits Earnings Growth which would take pressure off the higher multiple the market has now early reports fr
His men were apparently members of elite units loyal to the head of state in belarus that is Alexander Lukashenko their official mission combating organized crime. But the units where it also seems tasked with liquidating political opponents in order to bolster the offshore its hereon regime the president lukashenko still today rules with an iron fist one man whose name is your account of ski was a Senior Member of such a special unit and in conversations with our reporters hes provided some telling testimony. You read the says he was involved in the murder of belorussian opposition figures over 20 years ago now he wants to come clean hes currently applying for asylum where we cannot disclose. The belorussian secret service might come after him. I received information that they either wanted to arrest me or put me in jail. But i dont want to be locked up or give testimony or me and hues of something i did not even do. Them. With a rough ski broke his hip in a car accident and. He was o
Spreads a little holiday chiara. Very good holiday for this one name all right. Thats not obviously all thats going on today so let us begin with the latest developments out of washington, d. C. , we are looking at the live look at the house floor. Lawmakers are closing in on a vote to impeach President Trump. Kayla tausche has the latest details. And the likely time line for you now, kayla. Brian, there is roughly two hours left of debate and remarks from Party Leadership before the house takes up a vote on two articles of impeachment against the president of the United States we just heard from the two congressman from texas moments ago. Republicans have lebron jamesly argued that President Trump is falsely accused of wrong doing by a party who doesnt like him. Democrats tried to argue that history will be on their side. A few moments ago we from justin amash who left the Republican Party earlier this year and may have president ial ambitions. He is going to be voting for impeachment