do you, do you, want my love, woman. do you, do you want my faith? i need it. do you, do you want my love sh do yo.ashley: do you want my l? i m ash as ash ashley webster in simonetti. cheryl: i m cheryl casone. ashley: markets are up slightly on the dow, 55 points, the s&p and nasdaq also up a quarter to a third of a percent. cheryl: continue to watch the bond market. the 10 year is as 2.04% a loss of one basis points. ashley: tensions in iran continue to have an impact on the oil market, up again, nearly a 50 cents. cheryl: we saw big moves in gold last week. we re at 1404, a gain of a little more than $7. ashley: let s take a look at the stocks in asia, modestly higher across the region, nikkei, shanghai, kospi up to varying degrees. cheryl: europe is in midday trading, the ftse is slightly higher, the cac and dax just a little lower. ashley: now to the top story this morning, iranian leaders threatening to shoot down additional american military drones, as preside
i. ican i. i can sing, but no one else seems to. i thought, god, i. i can sing, but no one else seems to. ithought, god, at last they have discovered that i can sing. but they hadn t, no. further west, more clouded drizzle but it should ratten up for most. however this weekend there is snow in the forecast. i will have more in 15 minutes. it is wednesday 12 december. our top story: a huge manhunt is underway in strasbourg after a gunman opened fire at a christmas market, killing at least three people and injuring i2. the authorities have begun a terrorism investigation in the french city after an earlier police search uncovered a number of weapons at the suspect‘s home, including grenades. in a moment we will be joined by europe correspondent damian grammaticus in strasbourg. but first, eliza philippidis has this report. the city was on lockdown. these are the scenes just moments after the shooting confusion, panic. the 29 year old gunman opened fire using an automatic we
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five hundred different political activities that they reported and we also had almost two thousand campaign contributions reported by those firms and their lobbyist totaling more than two million in campaign spending by these firms and these lobbyist and then what we did we said well i wonder if there s any overlap there and we found there s considerable overlap about four hundred thousand dollars in campaign contributions went to members of congress the saudi lobbyist i contacted and we found in fact twelve instances on the very same day a member of congress was contacted by a saudi lobbyist they received a campaign contribution from that exact same firm so when you say that there is a direct correlation between political contributions and key congressional events does that mean that it s possible to actually quantify the impact the money is spent has had on steering us foreign policy. i think there absolutely is if you look at the arms sales which president trump loves to t
a saner to recall parliament so that it can vote on whether the man holed up in the prime minister s official residence at the end of that road is still in fact prime minister on friday president serious cena fired prime minister ryoma single he came out spoke to the crowds earlier he told them he still lawful prime minister of sri lanka and he called on people to continue to protest to protect his democracy. the. president there is saying remove the prime minister from syria and replace him with former president mahinda rajapaksa many people here especially the protesters say that it was unconstitutional i think everyone is really surprised by what happened everyone should be shocked but everyone feels like they need to figure out how you can stop this leak like this happen not on our watch we are hoping that approaches this news of a citizens by the people of sri lanka whether a tool. for the government if. the president signs it is acted constitutionally. changed a couple