Welcome to the stream colombia desk beata colombia awake that is the hashtag connect to the countries of biggest protests in years and people still raising their voices after nearly 2 weeks of demonstrations ive ever had hey im a league of thousands of people take to the streets again today we want to hear your thoughts on whats next for colombia get in touch through twitter and you tube and you can be part of todays conversation. Its now 13 days since hundreds of thousands of people held wide ranging protests against colombias government and paid for back out on the streets again the demonstrations have been joined by people from all walks of life with labor unions student movements and indigenous groups among those leading the way protesters are now leading a 3rd general strike after talks between the government and the National Strike committee failed to make progress and they have a long list of grievances. We are protesting because of the new reforms that the government has tried
Hall seattle and we are set up in the cafc right over here and our special guest tonight is you know howard, theyve been set up in the library showing off really cool mask games and im so excited to welcome you to tonights very special math theme doubleheader with Eugenia Cheng and Amir Alexander. This event is presented by townhall as sort of our big homecoming festival. Im hoping many of you might be returning for the first time after a couple of years while weve been remodeling the space and for a lot of you this might be your first time at town hall. This is the type of things we exist to do. Im excitedto present these fantastic authors tonight. We love all our lecture programs, all the political costs, all of the art programming that we do but i am especially fascinated by mass, mathematical approaches to thinking. Im a reformed college math student so having a chance to present Eugenia Cheng who we posted and a couple of times and Amir Alexander as a doubleheader was a great oppo
We begin with breaking news on bricks that in the u. K. Prime minister bars johnson will suspend paula meant until mid. Many a saying this is a bid to ensure the u. K. Leaves the e. U. By the end of the deadline the opposition is calling the move a code saying it would leave members of parliament a little time to debate breaks it promises johnson and sists that this is the right thing to do. This is a new government with a very exciting agenda to make our streets safer which very important we bring Violent Crime down we need to invest in our fantastic n. H. S. We need to level up Education Funding across the country we need to invest in the infrastructure thats going to take this country forward for the decades and we need to deal with the cost of living moving to a high wage highly productivity economy which is i think what this country needs to be and to do that we need new legislation weve got to be bringing forward new and important bills and thats why we are going to have a queens
Social media giant. Mornings with maria begins right now. Maria big show this morning, fox news senior strategic analyst jack keane is with us on taiwan arms sales, texas congressman joining me on iran and china, u. S. Secretary of commerce under george w. Bush, Carlos Gutierrez and former white house director Anthony Scaramucci, joining us, mlb baseball commissioner and author is here talking about new book for the good of the game, lots of stories to tell when he was the commissioner and allstar game on fox, dont miss a moment of it, big 3 hours coming up. Joining the conversation Fox Business Network Dagen Mcdowell, wall street journal economic editor Jon Hilsenrath and Washington Examiner editorinchief hugo gordon. Getting exciting about that. [laughter] dagen im just laughing we will talk about that today, i think, but the fed is in a top spot because Economic Data looked pretty good right now but led the market to expect it to to go ahead and cut Interest Rates, so we have to wat
Points at the s p. The dow up 72 points the nasdaq looking to be higher by 32 points in asia we saw a pull back from yesterdays gains off the china u. S. Trade truce hang seng is off just a fraction over in europe, european equities are mostly higher the dax is up by 0. 8 . Perhaps europe is still digesting the news that Christine Lagarde will head the ecb. The first woman to do so treasury yields fell back below 2 yesterday and remains there right now. 1. 895 the global story here, the benchmark german bund yield has fallen to a new record low, negative 0. 385 right now. It was negative 0. 4 earlier. The italian tenyear has gone from 2. 8 to 1. 7 in the space of about three weeks. Lagardes appointment seen not just in the german bund yield as not potential hawk, she will be more dovish, but someone who can operate politically and avoid a clash on the italian budget. Both appointments being European Commission president and ecb president being german and french shows the power brokers,