The former president. Speaking after day one of the trial, mr trump sought to cast doubt over the legitimacy of the court. Its a scam trial. If you read all of the legal comments, from all of the legal scholars today, theres not one that i see that said that this is a case that should be brought to trial. Its a scam. Its a political witchhunt. It continues for ever and we are not going to be given a fair trial and it is a very, very sad thing. Live now to new york to speak to our correspondent john sudworth. John, bring us up to date with what happened today . When Donald Trumps motorcade left the precinct here in a man well used to breaking the norms of political life hit another milestone, this time a legal one, becoming the first us president to face a criminal trial. When it did get under way, as is often the case, the business was pretty humdrum, procedural discussion, the defence raising a number of issues and discussions over the timing. Donald trump suggesting he needed a day o
Welcome to power lunch, im contessa brewer. Another strong day for stocks as all three indices look for a winding streak the dow is up about 143 points, a slight pullback from where we were a half hour ago both the s p and nasdaq are on pace in more than six years and both indices up 5 health care the best performing sector today johnson johnson, pfizer, eli lilly among the big gainers. A couple beatendown names moving higher, ge back above 15 a share despite being hit with a shareholder lawsuit and snap is now up 50 so far in february. Three hours left in what has been a huge week for stocks. Bertha coombs is at the New York Stock Exchange bertha it has been quite a big week. Its been two weeks since we had that downturn starts and after consuming a lot of rocky road ice cream, today it feels like vanilla. If you look at the major averages in terms of where they are from their highs back at the end of january, the nasdaq here within 3 of its all time high in january as weve seen a big
The Senate Armed Services Committee Mike rogers says russian president Vladimir Putin sees little price to pay for such actions. And only President Trump and defense secretary james mattis have the daytoday authority to respond to russian activities at their source. Humanitarian convoys are ready to move into warravaged syria, waiting for the ceasefire to take effect. It is immediate and given the situation on the ground, we cant wait any longer. They fail to stop the carnage in the Eastern Region that killed more than 500 people since last week. Naples, italy, was hit by heavy snowfall today as cold weather gripped parts of europe. The siberian weather fronts nicknamed the beast from the east is causing the drop in temperature and producing rare snowfall all over italy. The unusual weather has caused School Closings and disruptions to public transportation. By Mark Crumpton, this is bloomberg. Julia live from bloomberg World Headquarters in new york. Stocks selling off for the first t
A catastrophe we have we have something which is close to a million cases of suspected kolarov maybe by the end of the year and but this is i told you its only possibly do an external illustration of something more serious we could have an outbreak of Something Else a new initiative is being launched in the republic of ireland in support of freedom of thought and speech in saudi arabia saudi opposition groups are aiming to form an organized body calling for reform conference coincides with a Large Scale Campaign of arrests in saudi arabia over the past few days to myla shelves and this update. Young saudi activists have launched what theyre calling the citizens without change Grass Roots Movement here in the Irish Capital dublin they say the fact that this event had to take place here or not in saudi arabia speaks to the fact that there is very little freedom in the kingdom over the stress that they are the aim of this group is to call for greater freedom greater political reform in sa
Hello im watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes United States pulls out more than half of its cuba embassy after what it describes as specific attacks on its diplomats iraqi stage atomic protestors baghdad stopped International Flights into the region in retaliation for monday secession vote. A final day of demonstrations in barcelona as catalans to vote on becoming independent from spain and the United Nations says its setting up a group to investigate Human Rights Violations committed in the war in yemen. And forest smile ill have all the sport including taking a united stand the latest action from n. F. L. Teams in a race with the United States president. United States Government has ordered sixty percent of its staff in cuba to leave its embassy in havana is said to be because of quote specific attacks on u. S. Diplomats some of which have taken place in cuban hotels also used by american tourists the embassy is now expected to stop processing v