Already embroiled in a war for years d in yemen faces an unprecedented environmental disaster a damaged Oil Storage Facility is not really threatening in the red sea who is to blame and can catastrophe be averted before its too late this is inside story. Hello there and welcome to the program im laura kyle years of civil war have torn yemen apart the fighting has divided the cities destroyed the economy and triggered the worlds worst humanitarian crisis now the country is also on the verge of an environmental disaster for 5 years the fleecing Storage Facilities has lain idle off the coast on border more than 1100000 barrels of oil as yemens who feel rebels battle with the saudi backed government for control of the country the facility has been left to rust United Nations has described it as a ticking time bomb one that will eventually cause an ecological and humanitarian disaster if nothing is done but doing something is proving difficult but who fees who control the area where the fac
A surge in coronavirus cases. Tensions run high in mali several protest leaders are arrested after thousands of people demand the president step down. Also ahead remains of some of these revenues the genocide victims are finally laid to rest a quarter of a century later. Millions of syrians displaced people there will now have only one Turkish Border crossing through which to receive a pass after several attempts to keep a 2nd crossing open failed to pass at the Un Security Council permanent members russia and china abstained from the latest vote allowing it to pass they both use their veto to stop the previous proposals going through. Today is yet another date its a sad day for this cancer but mostly it is a sad day for the Syrian People of that region borgia rubio and both of them where vital cross is to deliver in the most efficient way possible the humanitarian. Those people deserve ok lets talk about those 2 crossings the u. N. And humanitarian groups say 2800000 people in syrias
Exports from france and the u. K. In what could become a wider transatlantic trade fight. Just what everyone needed. Correspondent mike mckeen is going to break down those details. You missed it right . Terrace man, he is back. The Trump Administration getting ready for another round of tariffs on the European Union. This time legally permitted by the wto which the administration billion ino 7. 5 tariffs because of illegal subsidies to airbus. The initial round only targeted half of those. Ony put in 15 taxes aircrafts and parts, 25 and including Gourmet Foods like scotch whiskey. Also industrial goods like pipe cutters. Now they want to impose a new round using up the rest of the money, they would put tariffs on things like all lives, be your, trucks, beer, clothing. Good news for guy, bad news for alex. Edition jin would get more expensive at the height of gin and tonic season but maybe an excess of supply would help guy in london. This is something called carousel retaliation. They
Return especially in texas is a factor. Now look at this. Five stocks at or near record levels. Apple, microsoft, google, facebook. What you are looking at is premarket prices. I see apple and amazon up again. Not much of a selloff in the other three. Facebo facebook, google and microsoft, after yesterdays stellar performance. Put together, these five make up 22 of the s p 500. Now, that is dominance. The news from the street this morning. It is not good. In atlanta, armed men took over a small area and refused to let the police in. In wisconsin, a state senator beaten when he took a photo of demonstrators. In our Nations Capital, the flag burned by a cheering mob. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart a political bombshell is unfolding. Longtime democrat congressman of new york, elliot engel, is fighting for his political life. The 16term incumbent is trailing by double digits against a progressive. He received the full support of congresswoman alexandria ocasiocortez. Engel was su
A pandemic the recovery plan. Anger in serbia over the governments handling of the coronavirus outbreak up plans curfew is now in doubt. And pulling out thousands caught in the flood waters chinas war han province back on high alert. The u. N. Security council is holding a virtual session to discuss the war in libya as the conflict enters a new phase the head of the session russias foreign minister says hes in talks with his counterparts in turkey about a possible cease fire this isnt the 1st time that welcome for hof doc has considered a ceasefire it is so last month after his forces began losing their major strongholds the libyan conflicts been fueled by a number of international backers. The u. N. Recognized government in tripoli has been backed by turkey will have to report from russia egypt and the u. A. E. Lets go live to a diplomatic editor james bays whos at the United Nations james going from the list of people that are going to be on this at this meeting were going to have co