A government is accused of manipulating the outcome. And for Drug Companies reach a multimillion Dollar Settlement for their role in fueling a u. S. Opioid epidemic. Protesters in lebanon are standing their ground despite the government approving sweeping Economic Reforms Prime Minister saad hariri announced the measures to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in the years against the nations leaders but activists say that they wont go home until the entire cabinet steps down ill just send a ha to reports from beirut all. The people have spoken calls go beyond fighting corruption they want accountability and early elections and they say they arent leaving the streets until that happens protests are growing by the day the lebanese government however is refusing to step aside instead it is. Offering a plan that is supposed to fix the economic crisis without hitting the public with more taxes my thats awful written by democrats here the cabinet approved the 2020 budget with a deficit of 0.
Opioid epidemic. Just as in lebanon standing their ground despite the government approving sweeping Economic Reforms Prime Minister saad hariri announced the measures to diffuse the biggest demonstrations in years against the nations leaders last activists say they wont go home until the entire cabinet steps down the hall reports from beirut all. The people have spoken calls go beyond fighting corruption they want accountability and early elections and they say they arent leaving the streets until that happens protests are growing by the day the lebanese government however is refusing to step aside instead it is offering a plan that is supposed to fix the economic crisis without hitting the public with more taxes my thats awful with fear. The cabinet approved the 2020 budget with a deficit of 0. 6 percent with no new taxes the salaries of top officials including legislators and members of parliament will be cut in half as part of the economic reform package the central bank and the Ban
The u. S. Brokered cease fire body in turkey and kurdish led forces in northeastern syria is due to end in less than 10 hours the Syrian Democratic forces have pulled out of some areas of the border but not everywhere agreed under the terms of the truce hes president and says hell decide the next steps up to speaking with russian leader Vladimir Putin but its threatening to restart the offensive hes expected to meet putin in sochi in the coming hours so im costello has more now from istanbul. Todays meeting in russian cities story is mostly going to be about how to normalize the situation in syria both turkeys present don and russias president Vladimir Putin will be discussing about this one of the items is the constitutional process in syria because they are still material iran turkey and russia have tried hard on to bring a Constitutional Committee for a political solution in syria which is going to be discussed in october 30 in Geneva Russia and turkey are eager to push up this cons
Those hyped players of the n. B. A. Zion williams that is set to miss the start of the new season plus spying allegations that the Rugby World Cup is in one spot an unwanted spectator at training out of their 70 final against news to. Tell hes president rushed up talk about iran has repeated his threat to restart the military operation against kurdish fighters in northeast and syria iran is heading to the russian port city of sochi where hell meet fatima prison the leaders are expected to discuss the tuckers ceasefire that was brokered by the United States which is due to expire in just a matter of hours the cut is Syrian Democratic forces have pulled out of some areas along the border but not everywhere agreed under the terms of the truce. Vladimir putin will discuss all the steps to be taken in order to maintain the territorial integrity of syria and to cleanse the northern parts of syria from terrorists and terrorist organizations we will also be revisiting the efforts made for draf
Good wednesday morning, welcome to squawk alley. Im carl kinquintanilla, with Morgan Brennan the dow down 538 and the other big story is the inversion of the yield curve which has preceded every u. S. Recession for the past half century. Were going to watch that carefully along with the vix above 21 dom chu is looking at some various factors about the curve and how it might affect assets all around the whorld. It was just around 6 00 a. M. Eastern time that we did see that inversion, the difference between the two and the tenyear looking like its moving higher. You can see the tenyear note yield curvely 1. 584 , no longer inverted however, it has widened out just a little bit two basis points separates these two particular yields. Thats going to be a big deal. Like you said, it has been a possible reliable recession indicator, and one of the ways youre seeing it here is how long its been since weve seen the last move in that particular yield curve. You have to go all the way back to 20