33 points and nasdaq is up 92 and the s p is up 8 points. Yesterday the dow industrials snapping a 4session winning streak with decline of the session with 135 points and nasdaq down 76 and s p lower by 11. Warning on china that i reported here first, attorney general bill barr calling out American Companies for caving into the pressure from beijing. Bombshell allegation, 15 employees of the Washington Redskins said they were harassed for years. Mornings with maria is live right now. Maria in europe mixed moves, the ftse 100 is up 21 but cac quarante is down 15 and dax higher by 42. In asia overnight markets mostly higher with the exception of japan, nikkei average overnight down a third of a percent and the other fractionally moving across the board. Some of the top stories we are watching right now, John Hopkins University reporting over 77,000 new cases yesterday. 10,000 higher than the previous high. 969 deaths were also reported. Florida, South Carolina and texas all reporting the
Voters in 14 states, American Samoa and americans abroad will head to the polls in this election cycles super tuesday. Among those holding their primaries on tuesday are two of the nations biggest prizes, california and texas. [applause] paul, youve got something. We have texans in the cheap seats . They should be all the way in the front right here. Approximately onethird of all delegates are up for grabs tomorrow. This morning we have an opportunity or from some of americas most wellknown and respected political authorities who are going to help us make sense of a rapidly changing political environment. Please welcome attorney political commentator and recovering politician [applause] no stranger to the aipac states, clinton strategist, paul [applause] one of the republican parties leading ad makers, brad todd. [applause] and last but certainly not least, threetime republican president ial Campaign Communications director, alice stewart. [applause] thank you all for joining us. Befor
From their platforms. This is a matter of serious importance to the safety and wellbeing of her nations communities. I sincerely hope we can engage in a collaborative discussion about what more can be done within the jurisdiction of this committee to keep our communities safe from those wishing to do us harm. Today we welcome representatives from the Worlds Largest social Media Companies and on line platforms. We hear from ms. Monika bickert, head of the local policy management for facebook. And mr. Nick pickles Public Policy director of twitter. Mr. Derek slater global director of information policy at google and mr. George salim Senior Vice President of programs for the antidefamation league. Over the past two decades the United States has let the world in development of social media and other services that allow people to connect with one another. Open platform like Google Twitter facebook and instagram and youtube have dramatically change the way we communicate and have been used p
And the best Television Programmes of 2023 are being honoured at the Bafta Tv Awards in london the bbc s police drama happy valley has five nominations. Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan. Some Breaking News. The Russian Defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, is being removed from his post and will become the new secretary of russias Security Council. He replaces Nikolai Patrushev whos been in the post since 2008. A list published by the upper house of the Russian Parliament says the new Defence Minister will be andrei belousov. Well have more on that when we get it, and of course some reaction from russia as well. Well it comes as president zelensky says theres fierce fighting along a large part of the Kharkiv Region border in eastern ukraine. Russia says it has captured another four villages in the region an area where Russian Troops had been pushed back nearly two years ago. It means that since they launched their Surprise Offensive two days ago, they have taken nine villages. Today, there h
Washington is becoming somewhat familiar to you. I have to say, however, it is a little difficult to understand his region. Things are constantly happening. In addition to qatar, there is a small state called saudi arabia. There is another small state called iran. It is a very important and very , and we haven brought our guest here to explain to us what is going on. My impression was as far as lebanons concern, you found some reasons for concern. You can speak from here or speak from here, whatever you prefer. Good morning, everybody, and thank you for hosting me this morning. , lately,d gentlemen the world watches the news and sees images from my region which are full of drama and discord. It was not always that way. Prosperitya place of thanks to shared effort to coexist. That time was lost to a dark period of closemindedness, totalitarianism, and aggression. The region went from a center of conductivity and enlightenment. O being a region of turbulence aggression,ge of extremism ha