surveillance. good morning from the europe and asia.good evening in i m francine lacqua and these are your markets. countermeasures, china says they will put them in place against the stoxx 600, down 0.6%. there s a little bit of movement on the u.s. 10 year yield. overall, there is a bid to atens, also at renminbi 6.86. the yen is one of the biggest gains today. the u.s. treasury yields dropping to late march levels, a little bit of volatility on the markets as we are trying to figure out this tit-for-tat war with the u.s. coming up, we speak to the eu trade commissioner live from berlin from the global female leader summit. or will be having a thing two to say about trade in the u.s. let s get straight to the first word news in new york city. theresa may is trying to win support of the opposition labour party by reopening brexit talks with brussels. number 10 is trying to rewrite the outline agreement on future custom times, but senior labor officials warned their party
lines. he has even mentioned these innocent men, women, and children in over 40 days. he s turned the page, as he says, and now the bite administration is planning to send more money to the professional and business like taliban terrorists. they are calling it humanitarian aid but in reality where i grew up, that looks an awful lot like a massive ransom payment to terrorists. tonight it is clear everything biden touches becomes an unmitigated disaster. i can t cite a single success. afghanistan is a huge massive crisis, unprecedented. i ve never seen or thought i would see this in my life. look at the border, another catastrophe. covid-19 is now worse under biden despite being gifted three vaccines, vaccine distribution program, wealth of knowledge about therapeutics, monochrome all antibodies among them. the economy is now complete and utter train wreck. a lot of details we will give you, especially low and middle class, middle income americans. inflation shortages, unemploy
take certain stands that even a former president will be held accountable. this is an important reversal of that decision former president ford made to choose healing, which didn t happen, over accountability. this time accountability comes first. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredericka witfield. we begin this hour with a new salvo in the war on ukraine, ukrainian forces carrying out an attack in the dead of the night on one of russia s biggest oil tankers in the black sea. a sea drone with almost 1,000 pounds of explosives hit the ship. video shows the moments leading up to the attack. russia says the tanker was not carrying out, but ukrainian says say it was. the attack came after russian sea drones targeted a coastal naval base striking a warship. nick paton walsh looks at the escalation in the black sea. reporter: we are beginning to see perhaps a new ukrainian tactic. the black sea s shipping lanes now repeatedly under attack by ukrainian
workers rising up. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. this is your world, this is a long hot summer. more on the union uprisings in just a moment. first to the heat. 85 million people on alert. these hellish conditions can drag on for weeks. robert ray is in new mexico with the latest. robert? so robert is frozen. it s interesting as we came in. one person said he can soak it up like a lizard. the other feels lake a roasted pig. the bottom line, it s a deep situation covering the entire country. we ll get back to that later. we unfreeze robert. let s talk about the heal in hollywood. that is really building big time. the strike by the actors now in its fourth day. we ll take a live look outside netflix. this is in los angeles where one former studio chief is now warning of a total collapse of the strike if this strike is not settled by september. let s go to bill melugin in los angeles with the latest. bill? charles, good afternoon to you. you can see behind me, the pi
hard-to-watch-at-times, grilling on capitol hill. president biden, the new deals between the country concerning the border. we are moments away from hearing from the pentagon after the u.s. launched air strikes against iranian linked targets in syria. that happened after a u.s. contractor was killed and others wounded during a drone strike in the country. our nbc reporters are following all of the latest developments as we wait for the pentagon update on those air strikes in syria. i want to bring in nbc s dan de luce. what do we know, dan, and what have we expected to learn from the briefing? what are the questions that are still out there? reporter: there are a lot of questions still about this whole episode. the first thing is perhaps why the head of central command, when he testified before congress yesterday didn t mention this lethal incident in which this drone killed an american contractor there at that base in northeastern syria. there s also a question about the