All the odds, this market rally. Week after week, we have dealt with so many issues. So many headlines, and yet we have persevered and pulled through. Can we do it again in 2014 . That is the question. There is a chart you need to see right now that will tell you what is happening. The s p is not quite there. We are down less than 10 of the point. Way, 5. 5 growth. Look at the 10year yield, it is up three percent, a 30 month high. Finally, the japanese yen, another high, the highest since two thousand eight because japanese inflation is at its highest since 2008, 1. 2 . Lets move on to the big three. Top stock we the have to be watching today. Street it was on, it is down after being downgraded. Stocks are up, however. Making anof jets is accusation acquisition of beechcraft. Finally, a glitch at delta trip fares for six dollars and . 20 to hawaii. Delta is now honoring those fares. Stock is up. Historians are going to look back on 2013 is a pretty impressive year. New record highs in
Oppression scandal plaguing his government. Does the headlines here on well spent and we begin in brussels were you leaders are meeting for a second tender ill try while ago they signed parts of an agreement for closer relations with ukraine with the same pact that sparked the countrys political crisis and back in november. The signing follows citys decision on thursday added another twelve names to their sanctions list shot hopkins reports. It was former ukrainian presidency on the convictions decision to reject this agreement which sparked protests leading to his friend and eventually two matches annexation of ukraines Crimean Peninsula. The main street to eat is to action again on this day. Daniel looked it up. The European Union has decided to impose to assign to this song which will include travel section they on a number of people the incident to call in addition to the freezing of their arses. It was called to the uob thirty three people and will be on this list that accident to
World, from an animal reservoir, the path can be mixed. We saw with sars a meat animal being sold seemed to be the original source, that was getting into human beings that way. Other infections we have seen bats be an original source but not the direct source necessarily. We have seen bats transmit the infection to pigs or horses, not mers but other viruses. Animals in between the original source and humans can be part of the pathway. So difficult to pin do you. How is it spread . What we know so far is based on early and limited information, but what we can say for sure is it doesnt seem to spread from persontoperson very efficiently. Doesnt spread across a group of people like chickenpox in a summer camp. Instead it seems to be related to really close contact with somebody who is actively sick. So people who have taken care of a sick Family Member, peek worming in Health Care People working in the health care settings. What are the symptoms . Mers causes a very generic looking respir
Well meet again dont know where, dont know when. And our other main headline this afternoon. Tributes are paid to the forces sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn, who has died at the age of 103. Welcome to viewers on bbc one. In around half an hour well bring you todays Coronavirus Press briefing from downing street, being led today by the Health Secretary matt hancock. First though, a look at todays developments because theres been a u turn from the government, after it abandoned the coronavirus tracing app, which was being piloted on the isle of wight. Instead, its switching to a model based on technology provided by google and apple. The apple Google Design has been promoted as being more privacy focused, but does also mean that epidemiologists will have access to less data. Meanwhile, its been revealed in new figures today that one in four people who test positive for coronavirus havent been reached by contact tracers in england. In Northern Ireland, ministers have agreed that social distanc
Stay tuned. Lindsey graham set to jump into the gop race this morning. Whats his strategy to stand out from the crowd . Plus protesting facebooks authentic name policy. Domestic violence survivors, native americans, transgender people and more take up the fight today using the hashtag my name is. Lets talk live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you for joining me. This just into the cnn newsroom, a deadly Suicide Attack at an iraqi police base northwest of baghdad. At least 34 members of Security Forces are dead. More than 48 injured after an isis terrorist drove a tank packed with explosives onto the base. Our Nick Paton Walsh is live in baghdad and well check in with him in just a minute. For the first time in more than a decade the nsa must stand down on some of its most controversial surveillance tactics aimed at catching terrorists. Lawmakers failed to pass a bill to extend three key provisions of the patriot act including bulk Data Collection of phone re