sluggish exports and waning demand had been weighing on the economy. earlier i spoke with a former us diplomat who explained the balancing act germany has to trade with china. i think germany is trying to do what it can to enhance the economic relationship while still respecting the important political alliance with the united states of course the crux of this is ukraine, where both germany and the united states support ukraine at pushing back russia and china is on the other side of that with a warm embrace of putin. what challenges will both countries face moving forward economically? there is a question for germany about dependency or concentration risk. remember as a lead up to ukraine germany continue to build its economic relationship with russia and ended up in a vulnerable position in regard to energy supplies. i think there is some sense it s germany might want to repeat that with china or not. at the same time they have a business obligation to do what they can to b
sluggish exports and waning domestic demand are both weighing on the economy. those economic concerns are part of why chinese premier wang li is in germany. that s part of the reason he is in germany. frank laban explained the balancing act berlin has to tread. i think germany is trying to do what it can to enhance the economic relationship with china while still respecting the important political bond with the united states, and the crux of this is ukraine, where both germany and the us support ukraine pushing back russia, and china s on the other side of that, with a warm embrace of putin. ~ . ~ . , putin. what challenges will both countries putin. what challenges will both countries face - putin. what challenges will both countries face moving j both countries face moving forward economically? well, there is a forward economically? well, there is a question forward economically? well, there is a question for - forward economically? well, i there is a question for ger
just ahead russia is saying ukraine sent two drones to kill president vladimir putin. we don t attack putin or moscow. we re strongly committed to bringing inflation back down to the 2% goal. a growing chorus of voices urging the fed to pause with the rate hikes. this investigation is significant and also a reminder that they are not just looking into how the materials are handled but they are also closely examining whether anyone tried to get in the way of having all the evidence. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is thursday, may 4. and russia appears to be retaliating for a drone strike on the kremlin. ukraine denies it had anything to do with the attack which moscow calls an assassination attempt on president due con putin. two drones flew above the kremlin early wednesday but there is not evidence that ukraine because behind the attack. drones shot down over ukraine today have the words for the kremlin and mosc
there is a scheduled press conference that is about to begin any minute now, of course we ll bring that to you. louisville police department say that the shooter is dead and that there is no longer a threat to the public. according to two senior officials, authorities are currently investigating the shooting as a workplace violence situation. joining us now is nbc s george solis, also with us is nbc s ken dilanian george, what s the very latest as you mentioned, we re waiting for that press conference where we expect the mayor, police chief, as well as governor andy brasheer to get updated information. the extent of the injuries not known at this point, sort of to recap here, we know that this happened shortly after 8:30 according to thauthorities. they heard active gunshots being fired outside or inside of that bank we ll get some clarity here shortly. we know that the shooter was dead on the scene. police at this point were not saying how that occurred officials unable to
comes after a meeting between the taiwanese president and the us house speaker kevin mccarthy in california last week. tensions, as international monetary formed fund has warned of severe weakness in the global economy in the next half decade. the says it outlook for global economic growth the next five years is the weakest. i spoke to our correspondent earlier, the chief executive at xm australia and he told me situations like this are where they look to rebalance portfolios.- this are where they look to rebalance portfolios. look at the escalation rebalance portfolios. look at the escalation they - rebalance portfolios. look at the escalation they look - rebalance portfolios. look at the escalation they look at i the escalation they look at rhetoric they look at market interpretation as far as news and they sit there and they say, are there opportunities? are there sectors of the market to be removed from or other markets that need to be looking stronger out. the gold