To war. The nightmare stage of trumps rule is here, says michelle gold berg in the New York Times and paul krugman simply calls our president a bully. Democrats lining up to attack the president , Bernie Sanders says hes like putin. Assassinating dissonance. Meanwhile, theres real chaos, where hundreds of thousands on the streets for the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani and then a stampede. Iranian state news media says more than 30 are dead. Overall this is a morning of confrontation, war talk threats and military preparations and as for the market, a shrug. Monday the dow made a 200point uturn and actually closed higher. This morning were looking at futures, minor loss for the dow and the s p, a 10point gain maybe for the nasdac at the opening bell but look at oil, another shrug on that market after the Soleimani Killing the price of oil moved to 63 64 a barrel today its back to 62 and the price of gas, Holding Steady the National Average still right there at 2. 58 per gallon.
Do is allowed into parliament after a standoff with security who tried to block. Womens activists slammed the cypriot Justice System after a british teenager is given a suspended sentence for making false accusations of rape. And incest for african gets ready to celebrate its best footballers and all 3 nominees for the continents footballer of the year award star in the English Premier League. Its been another day of dramatic developments in iran where the burial of the top iranian commander assassinated in the u. S. Airstrike on friday has been postponed for at least 50 people were killed in a stamp a stampede during his funeral procession huge crowds that packed custom salaam on his hometown of command and the congestion in the streets led to a crush of people its not clear when the burial will happen now in the capital tehran the parliament passed. A bill designating the u. S. Army and the pentagon as terrorist organizations its also boosted the budget for the elite could force that
Tripoli except to takesh off a military support while battling forces loyal to the world Khalifa Haftar and donald trump is impeached but House Speaker nancy pelosi refuses to say when shell send the articles to the senate for trial. With all the base court. To appeal its 4 year ban from sports for doping offenses president Vladimir Putin says the sanctions. And politically motivated. Will begin with breaking news from moscow where theres been a shooting near the headquarters of russias Security Service the f. S. B. And hes one person whos been killed and several others have been wounded theyve s. P. Says there was only one attacker in the incident and theyve now been killed the fokker reports. The sound of gunfire echoes through the streets of the russian capital. Sending people running to safety and initiating a major security operation by heavily special forces you to get position on street corners. According to Russian Media report a man attacked the reception of this building a lo
In the Eastern Mediterranean might have spilled over into an altercation. Welcome. President donald trump has unveiled an historic peace deal between israel and the United Arab Emirates, which the us helped broker. Here he is announcing it. After 49 years israel and the United Arab Emirates will fully normalise their diplomatic relations. They will exchange embassies and ambassadors and begin cooperation across the board and on a broad range of areas including tourism, education, health care, trade and security. Only two arab nations egypt and jordan have previously signed peace deals with israel. Lets hear from israels Prime Minister. This is the greatest advancements toward peace in israel and the arab world in the last 26 years. And it marks the third formal peace between israel and an arab nation. Formal peace between israel and an arab nation. Lets look at reaction from around the world. The palestinian authorities have rejected the deal and called for a meeting of the arab league
Intelligence Community Joining us later on today. We have our team covering from washington and around the world, but i want to start with Andrea Mitchell who is in the room at the state department. I know we expect secretary pompeo in a matter of seconds. What do you expect to hear from him . Well, he has a prepared statement that hell deliver and take a few questions. As you know hes been in the center of this. Hes long pushed for a strike against iran and for retaliation against iran. There was reporting in the Washington Post he was morose last summer a few months when iran struck the Saudi Oil Fields and the u. S. Drone and when there was no retaliation and theres been some criticism that the president reacted too weakly against iran and then encouraged their aggression against the u. S. And then overreacted by taking out soleimani. He has been defending it and in particular language hes defended on meet the press the language that the president had used denying that the president