Just interviewed the president , blake. Reporter melissa, we did indeed speak with President Trump earlier this afternoon for about 12 minutes or so here at the white house. Covered a host of topics with the president. First and foremost in that interview the president says he will be talking about Mitch Mcconnell tonight regarding next step face four relief measures and the president says he does support another round of direct payments to individuals let me start with phase four and what might potentially come later this month. Another round of direct payments for individuals, do you support that at this time . I do support it but it has to be done properly. I support actually larger numbers thant democrats but it has got to be done properly. We had something where they wanted, it gave you a disincentive to work last time. It was still money going to people and helping people i was all for that but we want to create a very great incentive to work. Were working on that. Im sure well a
Resilience in the hong sang this morning. The u. S. House of representatives passes a fresh china sanctions bill. Welcome to daybreak europe. We could use the word resilient to talk about the markets right now. Second day of the new quarter and the second half of the year. We did the Risk Appetite pick up a little bit yesterday after a slow start. The data helping a little bit. What is driving the positive sentiment overnight in asia but also in terms of european and u. S. Futures today is an early trial of an experiment to shot from pfizer showing that the shot was safe, prompting patients to produce antibodies. Thats giving a lift to the markets. Equity markets are moving on that. The 10 year yield this study. Not a lot of movement on the headline level on the bloomberg dollar index. Yesterday withn wti going above 40 a barrel on a u. S. Stockpile drawdown. U. S. Stocks climbed after a double dose of optimism from positive Vaccine Developments and betterthanexpected manufacturing dat
should be here in a couple of minutes. i don t believe it. all of a sudden the door opened up and she just ran. it was beautiful. just like in just like i imagined it, you know? running together. what an interview. you will hear much more of that soon. good morning, everyone. glad you are with us this hour. that was the father of 9-year-old emily hand describing the moment he reunited with his beloved little girl after she spent more than seven weeks in hamas captivity. this morning he sat down with our own clarissa ward for his first interview since emily came home. right now we are watching and waiting for hamas to release ten more hostages today after the temporary truce of israel was extended for two more days. late yesterday, hamas released a fourth round of captives. that group including a mother and her 3-year-old twin daughters. sadly, their father still being held. this video this morning, 12-year-old atan getting a hogue as they were reunited last night. the
Television show about critics of the kremlin. Hello. The french president has called for a Global Response to fight Islamic State militants. Opening an International Conference in paris, the president said the group posed a Security Threat the world over. About 30 countries are now gathered for talks which aimed at coordinating their strategy against i. S. Militants who have taken parts of Northern Iraq and syria. Heres what president hollande had to say. Translator the terrorist movement has attacked the weak and the most vulnerable. Women and children. This terrorist movement has also attacked religious minorities. It has pursued them. It has sought to destroy whole communities. This terrorist movement has acted on who swaths of territory in iraq and syria, it ignores borders and even claims to establish a state. So this is a global threat and the response has to be a Global Response. The iraqi president also spoke of the urgency in tackling i. S. Translator today we are in the midst
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