Secret tunnels of a london landmark as its transformed into a luxury hotel. Hello and welcome. The us secretary of state mike pompeo is on his way to the middle east for talks with both saudi arabia and the uae and an offer to negotiate with iran. There have been days of extreme tensions between washington and tehran. It includes reports of an american cyber attack on iranian weapons, apparently in retaliation for the shooting down of a us drone. Our washington correspondent Chris Buckler reports. Having backed away from military strikes, america is trying to show it is not afraid of conflict with iran. Officials say they launched cyber attacks, which they claim disabled iranian systems controlling rockets and missile launchers, exactly the kind of hardware that was responsible for shooting down an american drone over the gulf. With tehran showing off the wreckage and President Trump threatening iran with obliteration if this ends up in confrontation, the International Community is inc
And filmed for the first time, secret tunnels of a london landmark as its transformed into a luxury hotel. The us secretary of state mike pompeo is on his way to the middle east for talks with both saudi arabia and the uae and an offer to negotiate with iran. There have been days of extreme tensions between washington and tehran. It includes reports of an american cyber attack on iranian weapons, apparently in retaliation for the shooting down of a us drone. Our washington correspondent Chris Buckler reports. Having backed away from military strikes, america is trying to show its not afraid of conflict with iran. Officials say they launched cyber attacks, which they claim disabled iranian systems controlling rockets and missile launchers, exactly the kind of hardware that was responsible for shooting down an american drone over the gulf. With tehran showing off the wreckage and President Trump threatening iran with obliteration if this ends up in confrontation, the International Commun
This week is shaping up to be a big one for global trade which is in its biggest state of flux for decades. As World Leaders prepare to talk trade at this weeks 620 summit injapan china has repeated its warning that tariffs are a threat to the Global Economy. The remarks are aimed squarely at the us and come ahead of President Trumps scheduled meeting with his chinese counterpart xijinping at the 620. Its a meeting that many investors are hoping could lead to a breakthrough in resolving their trade war. Thats the biggest of several battles President Trump has started to try and resolve what he sees as unfair trade practices. Its led to tariffs on 360 billion of goods. Thats 250 billion worth of stuff the us buys from china and beijings retaliation of tariffs on 110 billion worth of the stuff it buys from the us. President trump has also threatened tariffs much nearer to home. Last year 346 billion worth of goods came north over the mexican border. Levies have been averted for now but c
Also on the programme. Taking on trump 25 Democratic Candidates are in the race. We hear from them in South Carolina before they debate head to head in florida. The womens world cup is into the knockout round it was a nail bitter for hosts france and the same today for the us team. Hello and welcome im jane obrien in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. Theres no let up of pressure on iran as President Trump signs an executive order preventing access to billions of dollars of assets and imposing sanctions on the Supreme Leader himself and other officials. After reversing course on military strikes at the last minute mr trump is making it clear his maximum pressure strategy will continue despite escalating tensions. Iranian leaders say the Trump Administration is waging Economic Warfare on their nation, and some analysts say the sanctions, which have been done with no substantial diplomatic outreach, strengthen the hand of hard liners in tehran who are arguing for retaliatory m
Was checking in around 6 00 a. M. To squawk box but still looking up road map this morning, it starts with a potential trade boost, stocks as you saw pointing to what would be a pretty good open at least if youre long after treasury secretary mnuchin said there is a path to a deal with china. Plus, trade head winds hitting home, fedex saying the ongoing disputes are creating, quote, significant uncertainty for its business outlook. Micron surging this morning, this on strong Quarterly Results. The chipmaker also resuming some sales to huawei and forecasting demand recovery this year. Stocks are looking to rebound this morning, this after treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin expressed optimism about trade talks in a cnbc interview. Here is what he told hadley gamble in bahrain. Im hopeful we see a deal there needs to be the right efforts in place this isnt a deal for having the sake of a deal we were about 90 of the way there. There is a path to complete this but well see where we get. Quo