So we should be hearing from him very shortly. This to my money at andys. Peace and blessings of god be upon you its my great honor to introduce this statement of the custodian of the 2 holy mosques control man bernard. King of the kingdom of saudi arabia thank you mr president. In the name of god the compassionate the merciful your majestys your highnesss your excellencys mr president of the General Assembly. Mr secretary general distinguished attending is or may gods peace and blessings be upon year at the outset i would like to extend my sincerest congratulations to mr of our can bask here on his election as president of the 75th session of the u. N. General assembly in washington success in fulfilling his duties i would also like to extend my thanks to his predecessor and dr to Johnny Muhammad dandy president other previous session for his great effort. It would be a remiss not to commend the distinguished endevor is of his excellency secretary general and tanya terris to improve t
Captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org Vice President mike pence discussed the coronavirus outbreak with several diagnose this islab c. E. O. s and shy of 20 minutes. The Vice President at the president s direction, we have initiated since the advent of the coronavirus here in the United States a whole of government approach. President trump took unprecedented action when he suspended all travel to china and quarantined americans returning and issued travel advisories in italy and south korea and screening from passengers from all airports at either one of those countries coming into the United States of america. We are doing everything to prevent the coronavirus from coming to the United States. We are working as bit as hard to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus in this country. We all agree the loss of american live word this morning from the c. D. C. , one more has expired. 10 americ
Disney leaps in late trade with quarterly profit topping estimates as the lion king roars at theaters and theme parks stay strong. Kathleen lets take a look at how asian markets are opening. The asx 200, a little bit higher beenthe 6726, which had the biggest advance in three weeks on the market close yesterday. Now to nikkei futures, a fractional move higher. There is uncertainty about the trade war deal getting done. That will weigh on japanese stocks. Stocks had risen for a third day yesterday, but there could be a fourth, the kind of company that could benefit from this u. S. China trade deal. Stocks are looking about a half point higher, a little bit of hope there, and of course, the s p 500 why is it down . Because it was up so much today. The s p 500 hit that alltime high. From here, we will have to wait to see some fresh impetus for stocks to continue to rally. Lets get to first word news now with jessica summers. Jessica thanks, kathleen. The french president has attacked nato
Its 50 years ago today that Neil Armstrong took the giant leap to become the first man to walk on the moon. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has spoken to his iranian counterpart, expressing what he said was extreme disappointment over the seizure of a british flagged oil tanker in the gulf last night. He described the seizure was in clear contravention of international law, and was totally unacceptable. The government has advised uk ships to stay out of the area of the strait of hormuz for an interim period, after a meeting of the emergency committee, cobra, late last night. State media in tehran say the tanker, the stena impero, had violated International Maritime rules. But the ships owner, the Swedish Company stena bulkt, says the tanker was in full compliance with all navigation and international regulations. Mr hunt said the seizure was unacceptable, and britains response would be considered but robust. Well, in the last hour, a news agency close to irans revolutionary guard h
One huge step for mankind. Its 50 years ago today that Neil Armstrong took the giant leap to become the first man to walk on the moon. The crowd in the arena nose. 11 months ago they threw everything out the window. Englands hopes of reaching their first netball World Cup Final have been dashed after they were beaten by four time winners new zealand in liverpool. Full details in sportsday in half an hour. Good evening. The foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has spoken to his iranian counterpart expressing what he said was extreme disappointment over the seizure of a british flagged oil tanker in the gulf last night. He said the seizure was in clear contravention of International Law and totally unacceptable. The government has advised uk ships to stay out of the area of the strait of hormuz for an interim period after a meeting of the emergency committee, cobra, late last night. State media in teheran say the tanker, the stena impero, had violated International Maritime rules. But the shi