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stock offering in wall street history, chinese e-commerce giant, alibaba, there was a flurry of mergers and acquisitions today. the kind of monday frenzy that investors see as a sign of competence. a health care company is paying nearly $3 billion in cash for health care technology virm triveto. another health care company danaher is buying swiss dental implant make nobel biocare for $2 billion. microsoft is buying mojang. the company confirmed what we reported last week, it s paying $2.5 million for the popular game minecraft. and german auto parts maker ziaf is buying trw for nearly 12 million in cash. but the biggest deal of the day around a possible merger in the beer industry did not happen. s.a.b. miller was rejected in a takeover bid of heineken but only because it was reportedly defending itself against a rumored takeover attempt by anheuser-busch. that could be worth $120 billion. that was enough to send shares of major beermakers higher. molson/coors was the w ....
good afternoon. i m ken pritchett. army private bradley manning was acquitted out of the most serious charges he faces. this sentence carried life without a parole. each of the charges he was convicted of are pushable by ten years up ten years in prison. his sentencing hearing is tomorrow and he admitting giving the documents in 2010. he said, however, he did not believe the information would harm u.s. troops or threaten national security. vandals have toppled and east bay radio tower that carries emergency radio, fire communications and other crucial signals. tara moriarty is live in san ramon where she just learned the fbi is now investigating. tara? reporter: a lot of agencies taking part in this investigation are taking it very seriously. what we understand is that emergency communications have been affected along a three- mile stretch of bullenjer canyon road down to los trompos state park. there s no radio communication between fire and other agencies but th ....
to your friends. and growing numbers of parents in the us prepare for home learning as more and more states order schools to close. central banks around the world, led by the us federal reserve, have taken concerted action to halt the economic slump provoked by the coronavirus pandemic. the fed slashed interest rates by a full percentage point on sunday and announced a multibillion dollar package of quantitative easing, to encourage spending. it said it expected a rate of virtually zero to be maintained until the bank was confident that the economy had weathered events. here s president trump s response. the federal reserve is going to be purchasing $500 billion of treasuries and $200 billion of mortgage backed securities and that number can increase, but they are going to start with that and that is really good news, it s really great for our country. it s something that we re very happy, i have to say this, very happy. let s speak to our north america correspondent, d ....
this is the briefing, britain is a proud island nation. i m sally bundock. the surrounding seas have always our top story: been a vital source of food. but who profits most from the uk s offshore riches? forfour decades, the eu made the key decisions. but then came brexit. britain and the eu are locking horns over the terms of their future the federal reserve cuts relationship and places like these interest rates for a second are on the frontline. time to protect the us economy there is going to be a fight over from the worst consequences of the cornavirus pandemic. fishing and it could get ugly. as germany imposes border restrictions and spain imposes prime minister boris johnson a lockdown, we ll have says he is taking back the latest on the stress placed control of britain s unrivalled marine resources. in france, they respond on emergency services and health workers. with talk of seaborne and here the uk government confrontation and comes under pressure economic ret ....
spain from madrid towards the regions. basque country. we had the leader of the catalonian region, quinn toro, refusing to sign the. there isa refusing to sign the. there is a political problem with the power in spain, but also the fa ct power in spain, but also the fact that this is a, this is an emergency almost that, no country has really plan for, there is a significant amount of pressure on both local, municipal and state and federal authorities throughout europe and individual countries. and in spain the numbers are quite i compared to other countries, the number of deaths 288, double the count of the day before, more than 7000 more than 7500 bb 7550 people are affected. spain has to ta ke people are affected. spain has to take rustic measures. these are the kind of things that obviously european leaders are trying to prevent, not many people have been talking about spain asa people have been talking about spain as a hotbed for this virus, but it does ....