Sponsoring terrorist activities. As for another scandalous decision by congress to transfer frozen russian assets to ukraine, according to president ial press secretary Dmitry Peskov, if this really happens, it will cause irreparable damage to the image of the United States. And america will have to answer for all this. Our own us correspondent Valentin Bogdanov followed the voting process on the capitalist hill. Speaker mike johnson divided this 95 billion in aid to foreign allies of the United States into several packages, the package was voted on first, confiscation of russian assets, followed by taiwan, then ukraine, after the voting on ukraine ended, there were shouts, rejoicings in congress, republicans, half of them voted in favor, most of the democrats, holding flags in their hands , they called out the word ukraine, well, this. He is the leader of the democratic minority in congress. Ukrainians taught us that when people believe in freedom and democracy, they are able to overc
Of the kiev regime, this is how the kremlin commented on the vote in the house of representatives, where congressmen on saturday approved the allocation of a 61 billion financial package to ukraine for the purchase of weapons equipment. The same amount includes 23 billion to replenish american weapons stocks. In addition, the document states that washington will transfer its attack missiles to kiev with a range of up to 300 km. As emphasized by the official representative of the Russian Foreign ministry, maria zakharova. Military assistance to the kiev regime is direct sponsorship of terrorist activities. Another scandalous decision by congress on saturday concerns the transfer of frozen russian assets to ukraine. According to president ial press secretary dmitry peskov. If this actually happens, it will cause irreparable damage to the image of the United States, and america will have to answer for all of this. Both bills will not come into force immediately. They now have to be approv
Rishaad its going nuts, bitcoin. Im just going to show you what is happening here. 85,000 record, over earlier today. This shows you the progression of bitcoin in terms of gold lasts since november of year. We were trading below one ounce of gold. Now you need 6. 4 ounces to buy one bitcoin. Thats the story at the moment as bitcoin seemingly goes in just one direction. Is it a bottle . . Bubble will it survive the apocalypse doomsday some people have been betting on . Like gold, there is a finite supply of bitcoin. Sales of gold coins from the the most iniding the first three quarters of 2017 in favor of this cryptocurrency. Were even last week we wondering, is this about to come to a really messy end . Investors apparently brushing aside concerns over technology. We did see a drop in gold on account of that rebound of the dollar. To the rest of the markets. The financial markets, if you because we are seeing stocks recover from the recent pullback. Lets go over to sophie. Japanese mar
There is no signs they are prepared to go against the nras opposition. Says p administration that is according to the Associated Press that says the organization did not disclose the dollar amount. Mr. Trump has pledged to donate at this will experts have raised concerns about a potential u. S. Constitution violations. Angela merkel rallied her party today with the centerleft social democrats. She received overwhelming support for delegates to coalitions see say speak directly to core themes of family security and economic growth. Only 27 voted against the agreement. Global news 24 hours global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Live from bloomberg headquarters. We are 30 minutes monday close of trading here in. Levelp 500 at its highest since dozens of concerns brought on by the tax cuts and accelerating inflation. It is go big or go home for apple. Planning to release three new smartphones this year, including the largest ev
The subcommittee will come to order. Our minds are elsewhere because of what happened at the baseball practice field menn of one to once again mention those two Brave Police Officers ever injured with a member and former member of the staff so we do not forget them and we wish there full recovery. Still with that be welcome secretary chao with fiscal year 2018 budget secretary chao comes to this position with frankly one of the most to impressive records of Public Service having served as chair as the Maritime Commission the department of transportation director of the peace corps not to mention in leadership positions in the private sector and not for profit you have large and complex organizations were fortunate to have somebody of your expertise and experience and knowledge facing deity as we face some challenges but nobody is more prepared than we have agreed to come back to Public Service has to always have. I work look forward to working with you to maintain the safety of our Tra