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newsroom starts right now. our top story, u.s. president donald trump fighting back against the latest accusations from lhis former attorney michael cohen. the president again denied having prior knowledge of a 2016 meeting at trump tower between his top campaign advisers and russians. according to our sources, cohen says the president knew about it. if cohen is telling the truth, it could be problematic for the white house. there are at least 20 instances over the past year in which mr. trump and his advisers have said mr. trump was not aware of the meeting. here are just a few examples. did you tell your father anything about this? it was such a nothing. there was nothing to tell. donald trump jr. put it all out today. did you he know the time that they had the meeting? no, i didn t know anything about the meeting. let s focus on what the president was aware. nothing. it must have been a very unborn meeting because i never h
Stronger u.s. dollar means that investors are going to tend to withdraw from ehe mergie investors are going to tend to withdraw from ehe mergiemerging and focus on the u.s., and that creates a very difficult backdrop for countries like south africa and other african countries. but the big opportunity for the african nations is to create an environment for chinese manufacturing which displaced ot into the african economies. so country like ethiopia is focusing on that, south africa is thinking about industrial hubs to attracti manufacturing opportunities from all countries. so there is let s call it an ongoing revision of policies with a view to how do we take advantage or deal with the