News is that china itself is under threat. These american bases form a joint news been circling china with mrs obamas warships all the way from a straight through the pacific to asia and beyond. I mean if you were in beijing looking out stood on the tallest building in beijing and looked out at the Pacific Ocean youd see American Warships youd see guam is about to sink because theres so many missiles pointed at china you look up the korean see american armaments pointing at china youd see japan which is basically. Japans a glove over the american fist i think if i was chinese id have a little to worry about about american aggressiveness and we have china surrounded and were doing more all the time to try and keep it surrounded and deepen that containment of china. But china presents a fascinating case of a country that is independent doesnt have foreign bases on its territory. Growing very rapidly not as rapidly now as it did for 30 years but still the 2nd ranking economy in the world
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Embarrassing. Welcome to the program just to midday here in moscow this friday the 16th of august my name is kevin owen having stay with me for the next half hour to take you through a live world news update and 1st talk about those 2 russian pilots yes theyve been held as heroes after their verted potential disaster thursday morning their plane lost the use of both engines after striking a flock of birds were taking off from the International Airport forcing them so quickly to try to make an Emergency Landing the good news all 226 passengers on board that crimea bound Ural Airlines flight survived. Here all have so quickly tonight the pilots were able to return to the airport because that belly go airborne reaching else did it just 260 meters but they acted so decisively opting to land the plane on its belly in a cornfield with the wheels up just over a kilometer from the end of the road where they just come off without having time to empty the fuel tanks could all go so wrong but it
Without getting technical, the shift in Interest Rates has raised the risk of recession. Bad news for investors. The dow is going to be down 370 points. That means we are down about 1,000 points from the middle of last week. The s p 500 down maybe 45, 1. 5 , and the nasdaq, thats on track for its longest losing streak in three years, down bigtime across the board. Look at this. Talk about a flight to safety. Money pouring into u. S. Treasury bonds and yields are tumbling. The tenyear, the benchmark Interest Rate, now yields just 1. 78 . If theres any Silver Lining here, its the likelihood of even lower Mortgage Rates in the immediate future. The price of gold, that is a sixyear high. That is also part of the flight to safety. Bitcoin, bitcoin, money is flowing in there, too. Its back to 11,800 per coin, up more than 20 in the last week. Heres what we have to start the new week. A currency war, a prolonged trade fight probably, a stock market selloff bigtime and a universal flight to so
A knife violence epidemic by printing warnings on chicken takeaway boxes in an initiative thats being described as crude offensive. Just after 3 pm here in moscow friday august 16th a very warm welcome to our international i mean and oneill. To russian pilots being hailed as heroes after the inverted potential disaster on thursday morning their plane lost the use of both engines after striking a flock of birds whilst taking off from the International Airport forcing them to make an Emergency Landing all 226 passengers on board the crimea. Flight survived. Well lets go through what occurred it really happened so quickly that the pilots werent able to return to the report as they had barely got or are born reaching an altitude of roughly 260 meters but they acted decisively opting to land the plane on its belly in a cornfield with the wheels up just over a kilometer from the runway and without having time to empty the fuel tanks the pilot in command 41 year old Tamir Yusupov had previous