Hydroelectric plants. Peter cook previous president obamas facetoface meeting with role Castro Raul Castro. Hillary clinton will make it official on sunday. She is running or president. A person familiar with the matter says mrs. Clinton will make the announcement on video before heading to iowa and new hampshire. It does not look like she will face many competitors in the democratic primary which begins in february. Jeffrey is still in favor of raising Interest Rates in june. Recent soft figures on the economy will probably only be temporary. Fed policymakers were split on when to start raising rates. That was before the weakest jobs report in a year came out last week. Ge is selling up the bulk of its finance unit so it can refocus on its industrial business. It has agreed to sell 27 billion worth of real estate. Most of that is going to blackstone and wells fargo. Ge announced a Share Buyback of as much as 50 billion. This is an excellent time to sell financial assets. The performan
A killing . We hear from the officers mother. I just hope god takes care of everybody involved. I know theyre grieving like im grieving. North and south american leaders gather for a summit in panama. U. S. cuban relations are warming up, but will barack obama reach out to venezuela. Also, politics between america and venezuela and the damaging effect its having on the local population and the economy. And also in the program, jamie is here keeping a close watch on business. But stephen, not much business in watches. At least in macau, where the jewelry and watch fair there has been called off, because the Chinese Governments anticorruption drive has made such a huge dent in its customer base. Well explain more in half an hour. Hour. A very warm welcome to gmt. Its 12 00 noon here in london 7 00 a. M. In washington, d. C. And 4 00 in the afternoon in Rawalpindi Pakistan where prison officials have confirmed that they have freed the alleged mastermind of the 2008 mumbai terror attacks o
Australian commentator and former cricket captain, Richie Benaud. Hello, thanks for joining us. The summit of the americas gets underway in the coming hours, at a time of great transformation huge challenges and also many opportunities for the region that really are worthy of history. Lets just take the headline act. President obama expected to meet the cuban leader raul castro. When john kerry held his talks with his cuban counterpart, Bruno Rodriguez, in the course of thursday night, that was already the highest level meeting in more than half a century. Have a look at these two. This is the last comparable meeting. Fidel castro meeting the then Vice President richard nixon, in 1959. Just a year after that that diplomatic relations were broken off, as cuba nationalized all american businesses. Fast forward to 1982 and the u. S. Then added cuba to its list of state sponsors of terrorism. That was for offering sanctuary to separatist and colombian rebels. Now the state department has r
To our viewers in the United States and to those of you joining us from around the world, welcome we have full coverage of the stocks and stories making headlines today. We have a special report on the drought in california and how Technology May be what the state is looking for. And peter cook is live in chicago. And it election it could shape the future of the democratic hardy. There is a developing story out of d. C. The white house, the capital, and other sites have been affected by widespread Power Outages across the district. The state department lost power during the Daily Press Briefing at around 12 42 washington time. You are looking at a live shot of the u. S. White house power was knocked out and cycled back on using generators. It is now back to normal. The u. S. Capital also experienced sporadic Power Outages according to capitol police. Pepco is reportedly investigating the report. There was an explosion at a Southern Maryland electric cooperative facility according to th
And managers at japanese firms are investing in Robot Technology that could help at the fukushima plant and assist with reconstruction in the region. Prime minister shinzo abe has reiterated his commitment to rebuilding northeastern japan. People in the area are still trying to recover from the powerful earthquake and tsunami, and the nuclear accident. Abe spoke on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the disaster. Translator tomorrow will mark the fourth anniversary of the great east japan earthquake. I would like to once again offer heartfelt condolences to those who perished. The Prime Minister said efforts to reconstruct the affected area will continue for years to come. Translator next year in march, the fiveyear intensive reconstruction plan or reconstruction period will end and a framework plan for the next five years will be compiled by this summer. I have instructed my cabinet members to work on this as if they were all reconstruction ministers. The government will continue to