Back against syrian kurds. Japans government has formally approved unilateral sanctions against north korea. It endorsed a set of measures drawn up last week by the National Security council. The move is in response to a recent launch. Translator we are implementing measures based on the concepts of dialog and pressure and action for action. We are seeking comprehensive solutions to issues, kluge abductions and north Koreas Nuclear and missile programs. The measures include a ban on all port calls by japanese ships and other ships that have been to north korea. The government will now ask the diet to approve the steps. The cabinet ministers also approved stronger financial restrictions. Money transfers to north korea will be blocked and organization and individuals involved in the countrys nuclear and missile programs will have their assets frozen. Some travel restrictions are already in effect. People linked to a pro north Korean Association are not allowed to travel. And president ob
What the fed may or may not do. Tom i have to admit america wakes up to the shock and awe of two candidates for president this morning. Address that you both hours of surveillance. There is the reality, you wonder how brexit will be the morning after. Maybe that is the same kind of feeling. Francine it is extremely difficult to make political productions. Why the markets are interested in it. Lets get to bloomberg first word news. The rules rewrote of how to run for president and now donald jim is the presumptive nominee. He won 52 of the vote in indiana and now donald trump is the presumptive nominee. Ted cruz has dropped out of the race. We are going after Hillary Clinton. She will not be a great president. She would not be a good president or she will be a poor president. Vonnie victory has almost certainly allowed trump to get the delegates he needs that would prevent a contested convention. Bernie sanders won 53 of the vote in indiana. Senator sanders i understand the secretary cl
Let me bring in my colleague from washington, correspondent mike viqueira. In some ways we knew this was coming. Were still not exactly sure what it means, though. Just yesterday actually two days ago now, im losing my days here. At the unga, Vladimir Putin kind of tipped his hand a little bit that he might escalate in syria, but there has been troop build up there and equipment build up of about 30 days. Off to the sidelines barack obama and Vladimir Putin met, speaking about what should happen about this escalation. Pick it up from there. Youre absolutely right. No one is surprised that russia has engaged in these airstrikes. The question is how theyve been about it, why theyve gone about it, and who these airstrikes are targeting. Russia gave the United States one hour notice saying were going to be starting these airstrikes. The second problem, who are they hitting. The u. S. Coalition has flown hundreds of mission but targeting only isil forces. President putin while in new york i
Bush bunch of negative outcomes. The russian economy will contract 3 or 4 this year and will remain into concession next year. Take stands in stark contrast to the vast majority of the worlds economies that are projected to grow this year. Just in the last three years, weve seen the russian economy plummet in size from being oneeighth the size of the u. S. Economy to being onesix teteen. So with all due respect to our friends in spain, that is not a country that is thriving. They are sustaining significant economic costs and responding to a situation where they see their influence diminishing and ross prospect of a significant long Term Investment in syria going down the tubes. So i guess thats the case that i would make. One of the that yfof the hallman strength is the fact that at least in this situation the United States is leading a coalition of 65 nations carrying out an integrated stwraemrategy destroy isil. Is it accurate then to say that the president is comfortable with the id
Al qaeda, and its leaders have raised their leader. No surprise that Russian Foreign officials including the security minister and secretary of the Security Council have described isis as the main threat to russia and the main threat to global security, respectively. N the u. S. Side, there is less agreement of whether isis represents a top threat. So, since neither the United States or russia can tolerate the existence of isis in the middle east and both countries need to come counter al qaeda and keep it on the run, i would argue there is definitely grounds for potential cooperation. That is impeded by different approaches toward syria, although i believe, and russian officials have said officially that russia is not married to Bashar Alassad. I believe in the long term there is a possibility for ransition. Or now, the u. S. Russian ooperation could be limited to fighting isil in iraq in joint operations, which is something u. S. And Russian Special forces have done on a low scale in