reporter: the u.s. organization christian aid ministry says 16 americans and one canadian were kidnapped on saturday. five children among the group. we re told gang members stopped their vehicle at gun point. while in a statement christian and aid ministry said authorities are seeking ways to help find them. the kidnapping is the latest in the spike of lawlessness. earlier we spoke about the spike in violence. the one involved in this incident, a very, very big gang that has branches throughout haiti. one of the biggest employers in haiti right now other than the government. all of the gangs put together are the second biggest employer in haiti. they have undercover relationships with political figures, political parties. this is not new in haiti but it s way worse than it s ever been. while cnn s melissa bell recently returned and is following this. she joins us live. good morning to you, melissa. what more do we know about this gang, 400 mawozo? it is one of the gan
cnn s melissa bell is tracking the story. does the u.s. state department know anything about where these americans are being held at this hour? reporter: for the time being all they really know is thanks to the public, no indication as to where they are being held. interestingly the neighborhood where they are being kidnapped is a group where haitian and french min nis stirs had been come forwarded. they had opinion set fleempt into bun off of these individuals or groups are kidnaps. a growing number of cases just since the moment of july. looks like we lost melissa bell. back here at home donald trump may face a subpoena from the house committee investigating the u.s. capitol riot. several people have been served and adam kinsinger is rumg that out. all of the former prids. every owes earth you node etch frch reporter: the investigation into january 6th is poised to look at criminal contempt charges for steve bannon who is refusing to comply with a subpoena fro
we started with financial markets, some say it s the perfect storm, oil prices surging after opec and its allies did not increase crude production as many had hoped to. with europe and asia dealing with tight energy supplies, what impact will this have on inflation and economic recovery? fears of central bank action and possible interest rate rises coming sooner triggered a sell off. on wall street we saw a slide intact stocks, facebook down and we will hear more about facebook in a moment, but the likes of apple, amazon, microsoft, many other tech darlings dragging down since latejuly. let s have a look at things are progressing in asia now. the hang seng has recovered, it was down over 1% earlier in the day. just to say that the chinese markets are still closed, for a public holiday but look at the price of oil, still above $80 each barrel. after the opec decision it was above $82 per barrel, let s have a look at wall street, you can see for the s&p 500 the broadest market
beaches are closed in southern california as a large oil spill washes ashore, leaving dead wildlife on the sand. and two new streams of lava erupt from the la palma volcano as activity intensifies. very warm welcome to the programme. we begin with a massive leak of financial documents which has exposed the secret wealth and business dealings of hundreds of world leaders, politicians and millionaires. and billionaires. around 35 current and former leaders and more than 300 public officials are featured in the files from offshore companies. they have been dubbed the pandora papers . the files include revelations about the financial dealings of the king ofjordan, the former british prime minister tony blair, the russian president vladimir putin and the czech prime minister andrej babis. the examination of the files has been organised by the international consortium of investigative journalists. in the uk, the investigation has been led by bbc panorama and the guardian. bbc p
a warm welcome. let s get down to business and we begin in the uk where the chancellor will commit £500 million, in dollars that 677 million, to a newjob support programmes across the country. during his speech at the conservative party conference later today, rishi sunak will promise to double down on help for the jobs market after covid 19 as he extends devil schemes and set “p extends devil schemes and set up during the pandemic so those will include schemes to help the long term unemployed, others to encourage employers to take on apprentices and the extension of the so called kick start programme which kick sta rt programme which subsidises kick start programme which subsidises eligible jobs for young people who are on universal credit. this will be extended by a further three months. let s talk this through now. good morning, duvets. what do you make of this new commitment from the chancellor jervais. of course it is a big day for him with the speech of the conser