Attempt to quell protests, she said the controversial extradition bill that sparked the demonstrations is, quote, dead lam said there is no plan to restart the legislation and earlier work to amend the bill has been a failure lam suspended the bill but protests continued with calls for it to be withdrawn completely lam did not say that she is officially withdrawing the bill. She said the bill is in the coffin, the bill is dead and no one needs to worry that there will be any tactics to resume the bill in the lenggislative council term Richard Bransons Space Tourism company now planning to go public. That is according to a wall street journal report it will list shares as part of the deal with social capital company, spac. Weve talked about it in the past it was created by a friend of squawk box, spac will invest 800 million in Virgin Galactic, it will get a 49 stake. The stock market listing is expected to take place later this year. Virgin galactic so far sold 600 tickets to space at
You picture that in power lunch starts right now. S. Hey, everybody welcome to power lunch for a wednesday. Thanks for joining us. Im tyler mathisen, stocks on track for the first down day maybe for 2018, and you want to be volatility you wont see it there look at those moves. The dow just peeking into positive territory by 0. 01 of a , led by the airlines, american, united, delta all flying a new tenmonth high and breaking news on the tenyear auction results Just Moments Away were above 2. 5 Home Construction stocks tracking for their worst day, folks, in more than a month. Morgan i am Morgan Brennan are Rising Interest Rates a threat to this rally we have all the angles covered Rick Santelli in chicago watching an auction of tenyear notes. Steve liesman here on set on the rapidly Rising Interest Rates, but we begin this hour with bob pisani where stocks are rebounding bob, whats going on slowly but surely, about you it started out rather rocky. Preopen, the futures contract, where ab
4. I understand the deadline but the funding is the problem. I wish i knew. We have been in discussion with your office and the house snort leaders office. We have been talking with governor i met with governor brown. It is an issue there appears to be split opinions on this project as well. Are you saying they cannot issue the ffga . So far it has not been issued. I cannot issue it if the funding is not there. How do we i dont think its your problem, our problem. It is a big problem. We dont have the funding for it. I would urge your department to help us resolve this before june 30th. We are talking about nothousand of jobs and infrastructure. I would also like to ask you about the west line project. They requested funding in this years report and are seeking to enter later this summer. Can you commit this years project will follow the expectations and recommended projects for funding if. I dont know that yet. He needs 1. 3 billion in purple line funding. I understand the significanc
Well, this is al jazeera and these are the top stories. The cell syrian state media says israel has carried out is strikes that have killed 5 soldiers. The attack happens near the capital, damascus. Israel has conducted numerous ear strikes inside government controlled areas of syria over the years. Investigation is underway in the ukrainian city of zoom, where the bodies of hundreds of civilians have been discovered and a mass burial site. The bodies are to be exempt for forensic examination. The carry off these Healthy Ministry says 24 people have been killed since the fighting broke out on wednesday. A ceasefire between knickers, extern, and touch extern has reportedly been violated just hours after a meeting between their lead us on friday. Those tensions, along with the conflicts in ukraine overshadowed the summit of the shanghai cooperation organization. And as big as stan whistle sorta has more from the summit, is 2 companies have engaged in a wide range of conflict alongside to
Colonized the audience with the when nobody its thing ah, its good to have you with us. Hello, Adrian Finnegan here. And so how the headlines on al jazeera, at least 24 people have been killed and fighting this week on the border between kirsten and tajikistan. No major incidents were reported overnight friday and saturday, but a ceasefire was reportedly violated on friday. The United Nations is planning to send monitors to the ukrainian city of ism, following the discovery of a mass burial size. Ukraine says that 450. 00 bodies were found days after its forces retook the city from russian forces. Iran as ordered an investigation to the death of a woman who died in hospital after being arrested. The family say that she was detained by so called Morality Police. The police deny the allegation was that she was beaten shortly after her arrest dorsal jibari reports from tat ron. Her brother says that she was arrested by the Morality Police who are known as gosh, they are shot in iran. They