Yea rs the first polar bear cub for 25 years in the uk is born in scotland although it has not yet been seen. Get in touch with us using the hashtag beyond one hundred days hello and welcome im katty kay in new york and Christian Fraser is in london. Americas commander in chief has no reason for insecurity. He controls the Worlds Largest nuclear arsenal, he directs the worlds most advanced military machine. And yet donald trump feels it necessary to publicly compare the size of his Nuclear Button with that of north korea. Mr trump is correct that pyongyang is the biggest Global Security threat. Kimjung un is reckless and unpredictable. But the decision to taunt such a leader, on twitter, has brought wide scale condemnation. And it comes on the very day that south korea has re established a link with the north for the first time in two years. Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports from seoul. On monday, kim jong un welcomed in the new year with a more conventional display of fireworks than the
A fresh week for a lot of markets. Asian equities off to a stronger start. The handoff from the United States in terms of the s p 500 was fresh record highs again. Take a look at global markets. Index up, a selloff in new zealand. Markets in tokyo are closed for a holiday. We dont get much indication there. Australian bonds lower, tracking moves in treasuries. Take a look at the south african currency, downside on the back of comments from authority saying they will take actions to stem moves in the currency. Commodities space, pressure on the metals. We did have that supercharged rally that has ground to a halt in metals. The first weekly drop since december. Aluminum and copper under pressure. Here are some other risk assets to take a look at, including brent crude. We had a rig count showing american rigs falling for the first time in three weeks. Some upside as we speak. , some inflation figures out of the United States , relatively unchanged at 2. 48 . Gold currently at 1320 an ou
Wake of last weeks deadly shooting in parkland, florida. The president held listening sessions this week, with state and local leaders and members of Law Enforcement. He appears to be considering several options to address Mass Shootings, some of which could send him on a collision course with democrat as well as members of his own party in congress. Lets bring in wall street journalist, dan heniger and kim srassel. You wrote a column saying republicans may be going too far in some of their gun control measures. Lets start with whether or not this event in florida has really changed fundamentally the politics of gun control. I think that it has to a certain degree, in that its another horrific shooting. But its also added some new elements to the discussion in that what were seeing down there was a total breakdown at every level of government and doing the right thing. The fbi was tipped off about this. The Broward County Police Department heard about this kid 23 separate times. Social
We have a problem with muslim extremists. If they come here and threaten us, and theyre coming from an wrar thats a hotbed for terrorism, of course we should scrutinize them and authorize yesly examine them. When it comes to immigration, why are we accepting immigrants from areas that we know are antiamerican that have problems with isis, with muslim extremism . We have so many immigrants all over the world. People all over the world who want to come here and be the contributing members of society. I love when people react just out of fear and anger. Gee, was he amuslim terrorist . Muslim terrorist . Oh no. This is like you know picking on people who are vulnerable because of their muslim faith and background. The common deno, maam ator is muslim. You got in trouble for profiling basically someone on an airplane no . No. I said that i get nervous when i see people dressed in muslim garb sitting on an airplane. And youre not fear mongers . This is in the aftermath of 9 11. The thing is
We have a problem with muslim extremists. If they come here and threaten us, and theyre coming from an wrar thats a hotbed for terrorism, of course we should scrutinize them and authorize yesly examine them. When it comes to immigration, why are we accepting immigrants from areas that we know are antiamerican that have problems with isis, with muslim extremism . We have so many immigrants all over the world. People all over the world who want to come here and be the contributing members of society. I love when people react just out of fear and anger. Gee, was he amuslim terrorist . Muslim terrorist . Oh no. This is like you know picking on people who are vulnerable because of their muslim faith and background. The common deno, maam ator is muslim. You got in trouble for profiling basically someone on an airplane no . No. I said that i get nervous when i see people dressed in muslim garb sitting on an airplane. And youre not fear mongers . This is in the aftermath of 9 11. The thing is