Delivered to the senate for the trial will take place only the 3rd such trial in american history. And germany has one of the lowest word in donation rates in europe and today Parliament Debates a controversial new law designed to make Organ Donations easier but critics say it poses an unprecedented violation of individual rights well talk about the ethical dimensions. Im brian thomas great to have you with us we begin this program in australia where record heat and bushfires have been devastating that country weather conditions now threaten to swing from one extreme to the other heavy rains bringing much needed relief to eastern australia although the Fire Services are saying the downpours will not extinguish all the places and authorities are warning that severe thunderstorms and rains well they could trigger flash flood. This comes as scientists predict more extreme weather events are on the horizon after the warmest decade ever recorded experts well theyve been calculating the effe
Irans generals. VowSupreme Leader retaliation. Equities dip read u. S. Futures hardest hit, pointing to big losses at the start of trading. Golden touch a fourmonth high as investors flee to safety. Just under an hour away from the trading insh equity europe. We dont have the big drops now we are starting to an european futures that we do in u. S. Futures. Ramping up bigger and bigger losses. Ftse, only half of the sarah down only 0. 5 down. That is like the u. S. If you take a look at s p and nasdaq futures, you are going to see substantial losses. Dow futures down almost 2. 5 0. 25 . Interesting the way we have not seen asian equity markets showing up. The overall level of flights to safety. Money going into old. Gold. Around disruptions commodities expected. We have not seen equity markets selling off wholesale. We have some inflation data out of turkey. Iskey is one market that underperforming. We will speak to colleagues about why it is the European Equity market in terms of the f
The strategic gains of our adversaries in tehran, moscow and damascus and most troubling, the potential resurgence of is isis. The president has failed to articulate any strategy at all. We have asked to have secretary pompeo, secretary esper, director haspel come before us. Theyve canceled again today because they dont have a plan. Now, this is america at risk. We in new york know better than anybody else how a small group of people, thousands of miles away, evil people can cause terrorism and hurt us. And there is no strategy about what to do with the tens of thousands of isis prisoners and their fellow travelers who had been locked up and guarded by the kurds. No one believes and ive talked to the top military and intelligence people that either syria or turkey has the interest in preventing isis from escaping that we do. Erdogan in fact hates the cirdz far more than kurds far more than he hates isis. So every day that this lack of policy, this lack of just common sense from the pre
He. Live from new york where business never sleeps, this is squawk box. Good morning welcome to squawk box on cnbc. Im becky quick along with joe kernen andrew is off today. Weve been watching the u. S. Equity futures, things are still in the green dow indicated up by 60 points. The s p up 7 and the nasdaq up 27 the dow and the s p 500 for the month of june are Still Holding on to their gains. For the month, dow above 26,000. Look at what happened overnight in asia. The nikkei was down by a half percentage point the stocks were flat for the hang seng and shanghai composite. In europe in some early trading, there are green arrows across the board. The biggest gainer of the three major averages is the dax in germany, up 0. 4 in italy, stocks are up 0. 6 watching the treasury market in the United States, the tenyear is yielding 2. 112 . The u. S. Navy is assisting two tankers reportedly attacked in the gulf of oman. According to the fifth fleet, u. S. Navy forces in the region received tw
Changed his mind. From there reporting, a little more this morning. Officials said the president initially approved attacks on a handful of iranian targets. The operation was underway in the early stages when it was called off according to a Senior Administration official. Planes were in the air and ships in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down. Reuters is reporting overnight this is what happened according to the headline. Tehran received a message from President Trump warning attacks were imminent. Also from reuters, iran told the United States via the swift ambassador that washington will washington for former had no here is how the president sounded yesterday midday in the oval office before a meeting he had with the canadian Prime Minister on irans bringing down that u. S. Spy drone. Here is how he sounded at this point yesterday. [video clip] when i came here, iran was in 14, 18 different sites of confliction, extremely hostile. They were screamin