Fed president Robert Kaplan this hour. President trump orders chinese to shutdeo app tiktok down in the u. S. Next month unless there is a deal with microsoft or another leading american company. Breaking news out of south korea. The cpi numbers for the month of july year on year, a growth of 0. 3 . This is of course after inflation remains flat for the previous month year on year. We have seen somewhat muted demand. Perhaps weighing on the month on month numbers. We are seeing inflation at zero growth. This really missing expectations that prices would rise 0. 1 if also inflation is decelerating from the previous month of june. Core cpi take out oil prices, and you get a rise of 0. 7 , in line with estimates, and slight acceleration from the previous month. We have seen brent crude prices recover somewhat from aprils slump but still down 38 year on year also. The are also expecting tokyo Inflation Numbers within the hour so take a look at what japanese futures are doing at the moment.
Quicker reform from sudans Transitional Government. Nothing in the briefing that we have just received led me to believe it is a hoax Democrats Press the white house on just how much donald trump knew about allegations that russia paid taliban fighters to kill american soldiers. European union is opening its doors to visitors from 14 countries but not the u. S. Amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases that. Everybody has to chill and revisit a town and bresson where work is becoming increasingly scarce as paris johnson lays out his plan to rescue the economy. China is just about to impose a new security law on hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised a one country 2 systems policy its now been signed by chinese president xi jinping and will be enforced in the coming hours critics say the legislation erodes hong kongs freedoms our correspondent adrian brown reports. It normally takes a year for Chinas Parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time ju
Historian survey. Visit our website and order your copy today wherever books are sold. Remarks from secretary of state from the World Health Organization. This is about 25 minutes. Secretary secretary good morning everyone. We remember of those killed scrilanchinga. This is the 75th anniversary year of the liberation of nazi concentration camps that were murdered including six million jews. And repugnant acts of evil will never happen again. Third and in light of the secretary germs message to turn our recovery to do the right thing, i want to remind everyone that the right to achieve a greener, cleaner Brighter Future is to unleash free market competition. Its what we have done here in the United States and continue to be a model and we are a world leader. One simple data point from 2005 to 2018, recently we have data. U. S. Emissions decreased by 10 as our economy grew by 25 . China has been the largest annual emitter since 2006 and expects its initiatives will continue to grow until
Thanking our witnesses, secretary esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley for appearing before us to testify. The purpose of this hearing is to discussour policy in syria , particularly in light of the tevents that happened just a couple months ago in turkey when they invaded and drove the kurds out of portions of that but its our first hearing since congressman brendici has joined the committee. We have a lot of new faces but theyre not new faces anymore but its good to have another freshman added to the committee. I appreciate him serving, welcome. As i said the purpose of this hearing is to look into the events around syria and as a bunch of questions and the other big issue for us is just the ability of members of this committee toask questions directly of the key policymakers in an area that is of enormous importance and give them an opportunity to learn more about policy and also express their views and that is a huge part of our oversight role in congress and i th
Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not the yeas are 83. The noes are 9. The motion is passed agreed to. Mr. Grassley madam president . The presiding officer the senator from iowa. Mr. Grassley ive got a couple of issues i want to speak on. One would be trade and section 232 issue. That would be my second one. The first one, i want to speak about commonsense entitlement reform. In the past year weve seen a flurry of drug pricing proposals. Im encouraged by efforts from my colleagues here in the senate, especially Ranking Member wyden, colleagues in the house that agree in the house of representatives who agree with this effort to reduce drug prices and the president of the United States who has already been involved for a year and a half in lowering drug prices. All have made lowering Prescription Drug costs one of the Core Principles of our efforts and particularly a core principle for this administration