Shot down a year ago. Day 2 of golfs open championship. An unfamiliar name and a rather more familiar one teeing off for possibly the last time after 40 years. Its the engine room of europes economy so getting its approval was crucial. A fifth of mps from Angela Merkels resuming party voted against that move and as agreeing to more money but merkel successfully argued the alternative was chaos unless germany backed the plan. Al jazeeras dominic cain is in berlin. Reporter less than a week after the marathon talks and the bundestadt is asked for its approval. Usually, legislation is easily passed but not this time. Friday was Angela Merkels 61st birth day but potential for rebem i dont rebellion. She wanted to soothe the fears of those who did not want more money to go to greece. Translator i know there are many doubts and worries that this path will be successful and if greece will have the strength to pursue this path. My sincere conviction we should at least try this. There is a advo
This is al jazeera live from new york city and im tony harris and former president jimmy carter is getting radiation treatment this afternoon for cancer that has spread. The 90yearold spoke candidly about his illness earlier today at the Carter Center in atlanta. I just thought i had a few weeks left. But i was surprisingly at ease. Ive had a wonderful life, ive had thousands of friends and ive had an exciting and adventure existence and i was at ease, but not my wife. This is the god of my worship and i will be prepared for anything that comes. Wow, carter called his pain so far very slight. He also said it is still not clear exactly where the cancer began. The 39th president did not give a prognosis but said radiation treatments will continue for the next couple of months and earlier Randall Pinkston spoke to a medical doctor about carters diagnosis. President carter announced today he had a very slow growing malignant melanoma and with slowgrowing cancers is this insidious and years
That describes the ships humanitarian mission. And at 10 30, the screaming eagles in vietnam, a u. S. Army big picture film episode, documenting the 101st airbor airbornedivision. That is tonight on American History tv on cspan3. Earlier this year, nprs prairie home companion host announced that he would leave the show by 2016, handing the mic to chris theeley, he spoke at the National Press club in may. Delivering a speech, titled 15 things that need to change right away. Applause. Thank you very much, john, you were much too kind. Dont make that mistake again. You will be held to account for it honored to be here. I went to the lengths of writing out a speech. Which i never do. Reminds me too much of being in college. 15 things that need to change right away is the revised title of my speech. I came up with this because i was thinking about another speech that i gave, which also was a great honor, i was invited to give the address at princeton university, i was up in princeton earlie
Good wednesday morning welcome to squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla along with sarahiz sarah eisen. First up, the president tweeting about jeff bezos thinking that the amazon Washington Post sometime referred to as the guardian of amazon not paying taxes, not new news. He criticized bezos for his purchase of the post during a speech in texas. I have respect for jeff bezos. But he bought the Washington Post to have political influence. And i have to tell you, we have a different country than we used to have. We have a different we owns amazon he owns political influence so that amazon will benefit from it thats not right and believe me, if i become president , oh, do they have problems theyll have such problems jason, we have the president of the United States targeting one of the soontobe richest men in the country and one of the richest men in the world. How important is this to bezos, to the post and to amazon . Listen, donald trump makes an extremely valid point. If it was 2008 amaz
Higher one and a quarter percent. Im glad you cleared that up. Me too. Kbupg after the bell. The results of Bank Stress Tests and a number of dimpbd and buyback announcements could follow well tell you what to expect. Bid up again today big moves there lets get to the market move today. The dow, s p having one of their best gains in two months the financials leading the way there, the nasdaq is the big leader with a gain the biggest game percentage wise here lets get to the Closing Bell Exchange right now leah bennett from Westwood Trust is with us today good to see you my friend. And Rick Santelli checks in from the see me in chicago. Rick, i want to start with you because yesterday we talked about this taper tantrum that the european treasuries had had after mario said, you know, used the word reinflammation instead of disinflation, and the ecb had to walk that back today. You know, those yields havent given up all the that much as a result of that, have they . No, and that really is