Also had the pentagon warns that eisel could be on the rise once again in syria. Israel says its fighter jets launched attacks in Syria Warplanes hit Syrian Army Targets and irans quds force in the early hours of wednesday morning according to the Israeli Military syria says many of the rockets were shot down a day earlier israel intercepted 4 rockets launched towards the occupied Golan Heights from syria said to hold a house more for us from beirut. The strikes are being described as wide scale extensive multiple locations have been multiple targets in and around the syrian capital damascus israel the Israeli Military as well as the israeli Prime Minister ok knowledge ing that they were behind the attack theyre calling it an act of retaliation they are blame. The iranian force which is an arm of the Iranian Revolutionary guards which also has a presence in syria of the responsibility for firing 4 rockets from syria towards the Golan Heights on tuesday so theyre saying the overnight st
about the future of this country? edinburgh, queen elizabeth s northern capital, prepares . to greet her majesty. from the start, the queen clearly felt a deep affinity for scotland and its place in the uk. at her silverjubilee in 1977, she publicly stressed what she called the benefits of union. but in recent times, support for independence has surged. if the union with scotland in particular, but also the united kingdom as we know it is to be preserved, then the monarch has a role to play, the monarch will obviously want to try and maintain what has been there for centuries. how does support for the monarchy in scotland break down by party? yes, so there s clear differences. if you are talking to people who tend to support the conservative party, support is in the high 70s. if you re talking to people who support the liberal democrats and labour, it is in the 605. but if you re talking to people who support the snp, then support is much lower, in the high 20s. and yet the s
Im mark barton in london. Check out whats happening to your european stocks. Near the highest level since december 2015. The stoxx 600 lower today after seeing the highest levels yesterday. In over 13 months. Big day in japan today. The yen weakening. The b. O. J. Boosting purchases of medium maturity bonds underscoring its commitment to maintaining its yield curve target. Sterile down against the dollar ahead of the big maytrump showdown. Well call it a meeting. Gold is lower today. Falling for a fourth day. That is the worst run since november heading for its first weekly drop. Investors favoring riskier assets, still gold up 5 in 2017. Lets get to the news. U. B. S. Profit more than tripled in the Fourth Quarter. Profit 848 million franks exceeding analyst stims. Shares are falling at the moment. The c. E. O. Ermotti said investors are confident but waiting for reaction from the Trump Administration. The most important thing for me is to see the clients are ptimistic. It is very imp
Is the hurricane. Taylor riggs will get to that in a moment but also we have got the basic idea of sorry, i lost my train of thought. Francine we are getting breaking news on the Nobel Peace Prize. It is the first time i remember they have not awarded it to one person, but to the Colombian Peace accord. The peacet because accord was in jeopardy when i had a referendum and it was rejected. We did catch up with the finance minister of columbia, unclear exactly what will come from here. We are getting that live announcement from the nobel peas committee in oslo. The winner is the Colombian Peace accord. That is after the referendum on sunday. Tom it really changes things and the interesting thing is the duration of a peace accord. It is supposed to be a year or two and this has been a generational struggle. Francine i correct myself, because the prize was awarded to colombias president , mr. Santos. It is not to the peace accord itself, it is to the president. The reason colombians reject
Michael because i did not want people to think this was another sad saga of someone suffering. And i wanted to write wanted to bet autobiographical, especially. And i wanted to tell the story. Able to to be generalize from it, which i think you can. Face what it is like to the fact. Not to face having an illness, necessarily. But the fact that you are going to die one way or another. Brian when did you know, what year . Michael 1993. Quite a while ago. Brian what was your reaction . Michael i was in distress. I was very upset for a few days. Since then, i have accommodated to it. It is not the worst thing in the world. Brian whose idea was it to do this book . It is a small book. Only 161 pages. By the way, it is only 18. Michael it is only 9. 99 on amazon. I wrote a piece in the new yorker that is partly from this book and everybody said, you ought to do a book. As a journalist you think, i have a story, i ought to tell it. So, i resisted for quite a while. Ultimately, i gave in. Bria