Live from moscow thanks for joining us today on r. T. International im Daniel Hawkins were you tuning in from today welcome to the program. The e. U. Is the pulling additional security to border with turkey as masses of refugees make their way towards greece this comes after ankara following an intensification of the fighting in syria said it would no longer prevent people from attempting to enter europe and greece has reacted angrily to the turkish move its now turning away anyone attempting to enter the country illegally and has suspended a side of up occasions thats a decision that the Un Refugee Agency has said it lacks any legal basis the process has left thousands of refugees stranded at europes borders others are searching for alternative routes into the e. U. Including via the mediterranean short of the risky as the latest. Well im here in the greek border town of cast in the areas where you can see the Border Crossing is essentially calm at the moment but weve been told by the
Performing sectors investors search for safety following the attack seeking safe haven assets like gold and yen. Hitting record highs on the first trading day of the year. Good morning and welcome to street signs. Our top story today, the pentagon confirmed irans top leader Qassim Soleimani was killed he was the head of the quds force. The generals death marks an escalation in tensions between tehran and washington following the u. S. Attacbeing attacked at embassy. We are seeing brent up to 68. 44 you can see about 3. 3 wti, 63 now up equal amounts about 3 . Looking at some Major Oil Companies as well. You can see a lot of those are positioned in the uk you can see bp Royal Dutch Shell up about 3 . On the flip side, weve got travel Companies Trading deeply in negative territory. France air down. Higher oil price not a good thing for the Airline Industry lets talk a little more about the politics and ramifications here lets get out to our correspondent who is in l. A. Today. Talk us mo
Manus it is daybreak europe. Let us discuss the single bit biggest geopolitical issue in the world. For me, there is a divorce between market recalibration to risk on or less the risk off and retaliatory risk. Let us have a live picture. The foreign minister from iran speaking in tehran. The attack made the world a less unsafe place. The u. S. Is a more unsafe place. There are a number of other headlines translated by al jazeera. I is alling of soleiman big gamble and what happened was not an attack on iraqi sovereignty. It was targeting a man who was fighting terrorists. Good morning. See thee certainly do rhetoric not necessarily backing down on both sides. This is one of the questions we are asking ourselves. If weather with the u. S. Did last week was a great miscalculation and how that might feedthrough into rotelle tatian retaliation. Are we going to see rational actors being more calm in the markets as we wait to find the answers . Manus markets have repriced, and this is what i
On Interest Rates. That was the take away from the central olbanks twodayy meeting where Interest Rates re left unchanged. Todays decision or perhaps better said nondecision follows three rate cuts this year, which was an abouface from from thet four inter rate hikes in 2018. Steve liesman reports from the Federal Reserve in washington. The Federal Reserve ended a momentous year forli monetary by launching what it one where the policy rate is likely on hold for what could be many months. The move to neutral folws three successive rate cuts in hike rates in 2019. Of plans to the fed called the current stance of policy quote appropriate. The feds overnight lending rate stands at a range of 1. 5 to 1. 75 . The fed chairman suggested that could be the case for a while to come. We believe the current stance of Monetary Policy supports sustained owth, a strong labor market and inflation near t symmetric 2 objective. As long as incoming information about economy remains broadly consistent wit
We are going to bring you todays market moving news from all around the world, from london to brussels, istanbul and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We want to begin in turkey. The country has agreed to tip a rarely halt its military offensive in northern syria, but it is not withdrawing its forces. The lifting of sanctions may come with a permanent ceasefire. Theence with implementation of a ceasefire, the United States will not impose any further sanctions on turkeys, and once a permanent ceasefire is in effect, the president has agreed to withdraw the economic sanctions that were imposed. Joins usimin demokan from istanbul. How does this play out over the next 24 hours . Simikin turkey is expecting the kurdish fighters to withdraw from the areas. President erdogan said he expects to create a safe zone once those kurdish militants have left the area, and the safe zone will be 444 kalama theres long. 444 kilometers we also expect turk