Volkswagen on trial. Hundreds of thousands of german diesel drivers are taking the carmaker to court, demanding compensation over the companys dieselgate scandal. Brent im brent goff. To our viewers around the world, welcome. One day after a deadly fire at a camp for migrants on the greek island of lese boasts, lesbos, an emergency Cabinet Meeting was held. Measures are coming to light that will ease the pressure on the overcrowded camps. They include fasttrack judgments on asylum. And sending thousands of migrants back to turkey over the coming year. The mayor of the island is calling forr a transfer ofof migrants frorom the camamp where fifire broke outut. Thehe last they left their homes for r this. The infamous camp on the island of lesbos. Sundays fire has drawn attention to the desperate conditions here. An estimated 12,000 people in a camp bill to hold a quarter as many. The fire broke out and spread through containers used to house residents. Many were upset because they though
We are going to bring you todays market moving news from around the world. Joining us from hong kong is yvonne man, from london, emma chandra, from washington, Kevin Cirilli, and Michael Mckee joins us in new york. In hong kong, chief executive carrie lam will hold her first public dialogue in response. To the protests yvonne man is response to in the protests. Yvonne man is outside the venue. What can we expect . About several hundred ,eople are out here, chanting not one less, referring to the five demands protesters have. Could bring some pictures of what it is looking like right now, about 150 people chosen from 20,000 applicants in the public to take part in this dialogue, the first is the public and with the government, a town hall style with the governing in the middle alongside carrie lam. They will be randomly picking people from the audience. They have three minutes to ask a question. We will not hear typical q a. They will ask a couple of questions first, and they government
Q2 is at 10 the president says markets would crash if impeachment moves forward. Plus, vaping fallout Philip Morris joining us after calling off merger talks and shares of beyond meat soars, as mcdonalds begins testing, the plt, a tomato burger. The house impeachment inquiry remains in focus futures are pairing their gains as the house releases the whistleblower complaint. Joseph maguire is set to testify on the hill, before house intelligence well keep you apprised of headlines for that the president did retweet a comment this morning, suggesting that the markets would crash, if impeachment happens. The history of when clinton was impeached is one of the first day tech was down, 4. 5 . Nasdaq, after that, it was the greatest buyup effort. Im not going to buyin if the markets crash. I would buyin if he was convicted by the senate. You need twothirds of the senate i feel like where we are here is like, the whistleblower you know where were back to were back to one of the situation where
We are getting green on the screen and european equities. Investors are focused on the trade narrative as weve heard from President Trump that a deal with china could be closer than we think. We saw u. S. Stocks jumped the most in weeks. The 10 year yield has jumped some nine basis points moving down three today. Perhaps a bid for safe haven along with risk on trade and the dollar index caught a strong bit yesterday as well. Was that to do with concerns around the impeachment inquiry . Could it been something to do with Charles Evans . The dollar is holding on to that strength in the session. Lots of dynamics to digest. Coming up among dont miss our exclusive conversations with the ceos of xo and ab inbev as well tesco, ab inbev, as well as spains Prime Minister. Boris johnson came out fighting in his first appearance back in the commons. He refused to resign or even apologize saying the Supreme Court was wrong. He challenged his opponents to trigger an election, accusing them of cowar
Please welcome a moderator for this panel, chief Foreign Affairs correspondent for nbc news, andrea mitchell. Andrea thank you so much. It is wonderful to be back. In williamsburg. I was here for a dozen years at the Colonial Williamsburg foundation as a trustee. Let me tell you how proud and happy i am to be here today. Commemorating this important anniversary. And also with these panelists. I want you to welcome place please, the former United States secretary defense in both the bush and obama administrations, the chancellor of william and mary, robert gates. Bob gates. [applause] [applause] and also distinguished journalist, my colleague, my , robin wright. Or [applause] all, i want to say how pleased i am to be here today with both of you. And how important this is, this conversation to be part of the challenges tothe democracy globally. I do have my iphone with me. It is turned off. The last time i went on stage at a Foreign Policy panel without my phone, it was a year ago at the