Particularly hard. At t points out their phone start, the turn is lower they are going to get their numbers. And everybody is trying to move to some of these issues i would say it was more media, but it is all the same, i guess. Telecom and media are the same now. Tmt. Thank you tmt. New network . No. Lets take a look at what happened overnight in asia you saw the japanese stocks this week have been sitting at new records just about every day that continues once again today with the nikkei up another 200 points this is now putting the nikkei at its highest close since september of 1996. 21,155 hang seng slightly higher. So was the shanghai composite yesterday. And in some of the morning trading we are already seeing, in europe youre going to see as we wait things are up for the most part. Looks like the ftse is down by. 20 right now. But these are modest advances from the other markets take a look at what is happening with crude oil prices. Yesterday crude oil settled down by 1. 4 . It
Next up, don watkins discusses income inequality i have so much enjoyed your trip with the book, equal iserr unfair, americas misguided fight against income inequality. It is so thoughtprovoking to read from some undersize inequality is not a problem. Would you start out by telling us why inequality is in a problem. Guest sure. Ro lets start out with usually equated with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. Inequality just means a gap and make another cap because some people are getting richer and others get poorer. We can also have a guy because people are getting rich at different rates. Inequality can rise or fall for different reasons. One reason might be some people are being really productive. Gas bezos at amazon has great intensive value by pioneering convention. So he will get much richer than me and my wife who is a teacher. She is a great teacher, bush is only providing economic value to a few dozen people at a time. Other things can increase inequality that a
Good morning and welcome to Al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. In an 8415 vote the Senate Passed a sweeping new Defense Budget which now awaits president obamas signature. The bill gives the pentagon more than 552 billion to cover standard military expenditures and almost 81 billion to pay forward in afghanistan and cracks down on rape and Sexual Assault in the military tripping them to overturn convictions and loosens restrictions at Guantanamo Bay making it easy for them to transfer prisoners out of the facility. The National Defense authorization act is the First Defense bill to overhall the way Sexual Assault cases are handled in the armed services. The 30 Sexual Assault provisions were spearheaded by senate women in response to what the pentagon called an epidemic. Legislation means that victims must be provided with legal counsel. It eliminates the statute of limitations for courts marshall in sexual as assault and dishonorable discharge for any person convicted of Sexual Assau
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He vehemently denied it. Now its time to move forward with working constructively with russia. Kevin corke is live on the front lawn. Reporter if you want to drill down on other actionables, i think it will raise eyebrows. The president has agreed to press russia on cybersecurity. He has been active talk about what happened at the g20 and actionable items on what may be coming down the pike. The president saying putin and i discussed forming a cybersecurity unit. How about that. So that election hack and other negative things will be guard. That declaration coming out of the much larger and longer than expected meeting. Reince priebus said putins meddling denial does not mean its the end of the story. It means we are not going to forego progress simply because we have a disagreement in regard to this meddling in the United States election. What it means is we need to move forward with things like a ceasefire in syria which will save a lot of lives. Which we are doing. Reporter let me s