Live from moscow whats your team to national and Daniel Hawkins thanks for joining us this out. There right now the streets of tehran remain packed with tens of thousands of mourners for the funeral procession of cassim salomone the countrys most powerful general was assassinated in a u. S. Airstrike Baghdad Airport on friday the Supreme Leader earlier said prayers over the slain commander scoff and these are live pictures just bring you from the capital tehran has been a huge outpouring of course of grief across the middle east and beyond as well one of the 1st repercussions for the United States has come from iraqi m. P. s who voted on sunday to expel Foreign Forces from their country but donald trump then wants it or wont want to rock to brace itself for heavy sanctions if it does kick the troops out. We have a very extraordinarily expensive. Billions of dollars to build long before my time were not leaving unless they pay us back for it if they do ask us to leaf if we do it in a ve
At 110. 18. Asian markets were volatile or a little mixed mother has to do with the trade war and how markets interpret whether we are closer to the deal. 1. 7u. S. 10 year yield at flat. Coming up we speak to jim oneill, former commercial secretary of the treasury, that kingdom conversation in just a couple of minutes. Lets get to the first word news in new york city. U. K. , the chief rabbi suggest people avoid voting for the labour party due to antisemitism, he says sanctions from the top. He is not calling on people to vote labour party, but he says british are concerned about a labour government, and the labour party says antisemitism has no place in the party or society. The president claims donald covered by president ial immunity, but he has been ordered to testify to the panel as it investigates, carrie lam isong, not offering any new concessions in her first Public Comment after prodemocracy forces won a landslide election. Lam is calling for dialogue in line with the plan sh
Whether we are any closer to a phase one deal between the u. S. And china. The s p 500 hitting another reluctant record, i would call it, and u. S. Futures on the front foot. The euro study. We sought strengthen steady. We saw it strengthen against the dollar yesterday. 1070 right now. General concern about growth in u. S. Stockpiles, meaning it is trading at 56. 96. Coming up, we speak to the managing director of the fund,ational monetary Kristalina Georgieva. Dont miss that. Markets pushing down the 10 year treasury yield last week. Lets get the bloomberg first word news. Today, the public hearings of the impeachment inquiry start again. The u. S. House Intelligence Committee plans to hear from 8 witnesses this week. They are examining if the president lied to special counsel robert mueller. This comes as President Trump says he is strongly considering testifying in the investigation. The u. S. Reversing its stance that Israels West Bank settlements are illegal. The move is a big pol
The stoxx europe 600 pretty much flat. We did have a bit of a move on the u. S. 10 year yield, currently up 1. 82. We had renminbi, a little move actually that became a bigger move, strengthening past seven since the First Time Since august. S p futures gaining some 0. 2 . Ourng up, much more from exclusive conversation with the Goldman Sachs chief executive, David Solomon. He talked about negative rates, the industry, and of course, about trade. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. U. S. Tariffs is what china wants before president xi signs a potential trade deal with president trump. Ft reportsafter the to grease the wheels for an agreement. Washington is reporting removing some tariffs on chinese imports. Now to the u. K. Election campaign. Prime minister Boris Johnson and Opposition Leader Jeremy Corbyn trading barbs. The house of commons elected its new speaker, mp lindsay oil. Hoyle. He was a member of the labour party but is now not affiliated with a party. Chinas
Does the president have a point . Lets ask my next guest, florida congressman greg steube. A member of the house Judiciary Committee. What do you think of what the president said . He claims the base and some democrats will be emboldened by this whole charade. What do you think . Hes 100 right. I spent the last week in my district. And floridian are not talking about the things the democrats are doing because they are doing nothing to improve the lives of floridians and instead have been focused on impeachment. People are getting frustrated. I met with voters in charlotte county. They said they read the transcript and dont see anything impeachable. David you have got the transcript. Why do you need all these people to translate the transcript . You have witnesses who have their own motives. Then we are moving to this public phase. But the people testifying in the public phase have already testified behind closed doors. So you have the democratic leadership in adam schiff. And doing evi