hello there just go midnight here in moscow you with r.t. international an emergency meeting of the u.n. security council is now underway in new york was requested by the u.s. the u.k. and france and it follows an escalation between syrian government forces and you need leap. in as more. the u.n. security council is set to meet regarding the issue of ongoing fighting in the syrian city of it lip the white house is calling for russia to end its efforts to back the ongoing offensive in the city against terrorists this is a dangerous conflict it needs to be brought to an end russia needs to change its policy now russia recently renewed its offensive against the terrorist forces in it live it is supporting efforts to take back the city from terrorists and jihad his forces now one particular group that the russian foreign ministry has pointed to as being very dangerous is called a yacht terrier al shabab and this is a terrorist group that is widely known around the world for its a
Replacee house could Rex Tillerson with cia chief mike pompeo, according to people familiar. Less than half an hour till the european open. Lets look at where futures are trading. The indications are that we will have a positive open on the butinent, a drop in london, really very little change as you can see. 01 on the1 dax futures. Anyones guess. Lets look at the gmm screen. Yesterday, there was a lot of Movement Across Asset Classes. If you look at equity indexes, the s p 500 had a fantastic way because it looked like there was going to be Real Progress on the tax reform debate until the evening last night when we hit stumbling blocks. The markets were bullish into 500. 8 , the ftse was down. 9 . We saw such a strong pound yesterday. Currencies, the Canadian Dollar is a gainer up. 25 against the greenback. The Swedish Krona a big gainer and the bloomberg dollar index down against all of the pairs we look at. You will see that theme throughout markets today. Dollar weakness. Lets see