Washington many. But it is stronger than expected much more on china coming up in a few minutes. European equities, again, sliding in the last few hours. Germany basically flat were taking that to 3 decimal points here. France, uk, spain slightly negative, italy essentially flat as well. Finally treasury yields, the tenyear hovering right around 1. 7 1. 69 is where we have it right now. So certainly something that investors are watching. Yeah. You have yields slipping again a little bit this morning, but were off the lows of last week, which briefly dipped below 1. 6 on the tenyear. Thats encouraging yields had such a big effect on equities as we all know. I think on europe the interesting thing to note this morning is that were not seeing a gap up again in terms of the spread of italian over german yields and talk about the potential new election coming up hong kong, is down 9. 5 , shanghai down 5. 5 it is weighing more on the shanghai market. We saw that elevation escalation of conce
cnn newsroom, the message from ukrainian president vlodymyr zelenskyy to western allies gathered in munich, a live report just ahead, the murdaugh murder trial enters a new phase as the prosecution rests its case. and concerns about artificial intelligence after microsoft s chat bot gave users dark unsettling responses, you ll want to see it live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with paula newton. few hours from now, u.s. vice president kamala harris is expected to deliver a major speak at the munich security conference, the u.s. has been a big supplier of weapons and equipment to ukraine and harris is leading a large american delegation to that conference. friday, she met with french president emmanuel macron who said europe s stability depends on defeating russia in ukraine and worth noting that no russian officials were invited to the conference, cnn nick robertson is covering it for us in munich and joins us with latest. i have to say nick, you re a veteran of t
Place and find out why some of the locals are not happy. So it looks like Benjamin Netanyahu will remain the Prime Minister of israel. The Opposition Leader has called netanyahu to congratulate him on his election win, the next step will be for israels president to invite netanyahu to attempt to form a coalition, here are numbers at the moment 99 of the votes counted and 29 seats giving it a lead over the main rival center left union party which looks like 24 seats. Mr. Netanyahu promised not to allow the palestinian state if he wins a fourth term and backed twostate solution. We should make note of the newly formed union of israeli arab parties on course to take 14 seats. And we are live in nazareth to talk about this and we will talk about the joint list in a moment but first what happens now. Benjamin netanyahu has his majority and now falls to the president to invite him to form this coalition but this whole process could take a while. Correct, the president would be sitting with a
Battles ranging in iraq have u. S. Officials concerned. The Iraqi Government is fighting alqaedalinked militants for control of parts of western iraq. You can hear the gunfire in fallujah where 8 have been killed. Fallujah is one of the two main cities in iraqs rambar province. Ramadi has been under siege. They are affiliated with alqaeda. They call themselves, the Islamic State of iraq and lamont. That grew wants to set up a sunni Islamic State in iraq and across the border. Alqaeda has taken over control of parts of syria as well. For more, we go to imran. The fighters claim they have taken over the main highway into the town of fallujah. One man shouts god is great as he gestures to a burntout vehicle they claim to be from iraqs army. They say they isnt reinforcements to battle tribuntribal fighters there. If the front line has moved to the outskirts. Sunni tribal leaders have so far not allowed iraqi fighters to enter the town saying they should head any operation. Its a sign of ho
Offitsis, ariel sharon has died. The deck rated ex general and leader has left an indelible mark on the mid east, he passed away in a tel aviv hospital. He was 85 years old. In 1984 at the tender age of 13, he joined the underground Para Military force where he fought in the battle for jerusalem during israels war for independence. In 1967 he was in battle again, commanding a division during the 6day war. During the yon space kippur war, they surrounded the Egyptian Third Army which turned the tide of the army. He was appointed defense minister in 1981 just in time for israel to invade lebanon in 1982. A commission indirectly found the Defense Force responsible for a massacre of palestinian simpleians, eventually leading to shareons reluctant resignation. He stays a political staged a comeback in 2001, winning a victory to become israels 11th Prime Minister. The he ordered the withdraw of the military along with settlers from the gaza strip as part of a disengagement plan. Then, on jan