And people in sporting circles are hoping the 2019 Rugby World Cup in japan will give the game a big boost in the country. Representatives of more than 60 nations have agreed to work closer together to counter violent extremism. They wrapped up a conference in washington, and they noted combat aimed groups such as Islamic State requires a strategy encompassing security social media, and help for people on the sidelines of society. Nhk worlds craig dale has the details. Reporter they came together from all corners of the planet. Part of the global effort to confront a common enemy. We must remain unwavering in our fight against terrorist organizations. Reporter the delegates to this threeday white house summit on countering violent extremism know the state of play all too well. This threat has no precedent, says French Foreign minister bernard kozeneuve. Theyve seen fighters with the Islamic State groups swallow up territory in syria and iraq, along the way killing civilians, soldiers a
48 was the intraday height that it hit. The closing high was 5,042 back in march. The apple watch watch continues with orders reported at over 1 million on day one. They sold out in a couple of hours online. I think it was 1 million watches. You said dollars. Did i say dollars . Its a mistake we make freely. What will be the real big seller for the bottom line . This would be the new mac book. Yes. Very thin starting at 1,300. Some think that this could be a major driver for apples profits. Thats what theyre really watching right now. 90 minutes from now, spacex is scheduled to launch a rocket from Cape Canaveral. They will attempt to reland the booster portion of the rocket the portion that normally explodes, goes away. Theyre going to try to land it on a ship in the atlantic ocean, so they can reuse it again. Elan musk wants to be reuse this to save money and so forth. Other thing is they have an italian astronaut, a woman on the International Space station thats gone all this time w
Nasdaq, and google was 2,000 and the s p 500 holding on to fractional gains at 1803. Watching hewlettpackard can pop with its quarterly numbers beating the street, mixed bag, citigroup says they have 30 more upside, Goldman Sachs keeps the celebrating so were watching that as well. Commodities are to the downside. Oil below 92 for the First Time Since june so we are watching that story closely as well. Dennis lets talk about the wintery weather, weather making its way to the east coast causing several headaches for a lot of people on the busiest travel day of the year. Accuweather meteorologist pilotpoint is tracking the storm and jeff flock as the latest travel delays. Where is the storm heading . Is it getting worse . Luckily traveling in the eastern u. S. There have not been a lot of fun but thankfully the worst has already occurred. Many of us will be looking at improvement over the next 24 hours but lots to talk about on the busiest travel day of the year, retain close it to the c
The ukrainian president has survived a noconfidence vote against his government. The by the opposition to try to force his Prime Minister out of office leaves the growing through the growing tensions in ukraine on results. Hundreds of thousands have turned out in anger against the , who backtracked on a key trade deal with the European Union in favor of russia. For more, i am joined by gulliver within the parliament. What was it like during the vote . Was extremely rowdy, as they often are in ukrainian parliament. Here are a lot of disruptions the Prime Minister had decided to not even be president sorry, not even be present for this vote of noconfidence against his government. The opposition said that was not liked in terms of procedure. Inhad difficulty getting because of the protesters outside, and when he finally did get in and started to make his speech, he was booted because he he was booed because he made the speech and russian. Ukrainian,hanted but it is very wellknown that the
Visiting a warrelated shrine that has been a source of tension with china and south korea. U. S. Lawmakers have passed a bill to avoid a debt default just hours before a thursday deadline. Democrats and republicans have been arguing for months over the countrys borrowing limit. But members of both ho of congress voted to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government. The motion is adopted. Without objection, a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. The republicans control the house of representatives. Many of them joined the democrats, voting to raise the debt ceiling. The government can now borrow additional funds for the next four months. Thats a shorter period of time than president barack obama had hoped for. The lawmakers also approved a stopgap budget to end the partial shutdown of Government Services that began two weeks ago. The white house instructed federal employees to return to work on thursday. The bill calls for setting up a panel to discuss deficit reduction ove