their father s soldiers from the french colonies. up in a climate of national pride and racism. this documentary examines the few traces that remain of their existence. the truth. storage january 11th on d w. 4 and business leaders scratch their heads over the u.s. one of the most important markets in the world has become more politically volatile in recent years but does that outweigh the power of its curse we ll talk to our financial correspondent. also on the show workers in senegal threat for their livelihoods as a new outbreak of the coronavirus. brings new restrictions. and german institution how floyd house has closed its doors to the public through the pandemic but is opening them again for special clientele. welcome to the show i m stephen beardsley in berlin it s good to have you with us well past 4 years have been a mixed bag for u.s. businesses and overseas firms doing business in the u.s. on the one hand tax cuts and regulatory cuts by a business friendly adminis
hello i m christie one day it s good to have your company activists in sierra leone say child marriage is on the rise because the coronavirus pandemic is making it harder for families to feed their children and pay school fees now west africa has the highest number of child brides in the world and a decades long campaign pushing to stop the practice had shown some success in sierra leone rates of child marriage dropped in the country from 56 percent in 2006 girls to 39 percent of girls in 2017 now back progress is being threatened. the remote village of kamau in eastern syria yarn it was here that a man soma reka marah as she walked to primary school thing he proposed to impress the food he went to talk to my parents they asked me what i thought and i told them you have no money to send me to school so let me get married. before being me as an award. she only accepted she says because a family needed the dowry money now the 16 year old regret the decision she doesn t want to
back. buoyed, they still think they can cobble together a stimulus deal and they re getting a little closer. they re about i think latest indication about $600 billion apart. democrats coming down to 2.2 trillion. such a steal. such a buy. republicans have been whispering about 1 1/2 to 1.6 trillion, who knows. that that is a development few saw coming. we re 24 hours away from the big debate tomorrow. so that could obviously test these markets. so far not too flummoxed about president s taxes. we ll see as we get on here. but that tax report we want to lead off front and center ahead of the big coverage planned from tomorrow night. how much the new york times report, 5000 word plus investigation that goes into the president s taxes over the last couple of decades. the signature of both days developments is that, for a lot of those years he didn t pay any taxes and for at least the latest two years, these do not include the 2018 and 2019 years, he paid 750-dollars each for
with the turkish leader. much of the focus quite appropriately for the business network what the chairman of the federal reserve is saying right now. you know had three rate cuts this year. the third one just last month. he seems to be indicating he will keep his powder dry, holding fire for a moment. he acknowledges trade headwinds, other issues could slow things down. he is always ready to pounce if need be. he is certainly not indicating anytime soon. get the read percent from our own edward lawrence. he has been monitoring all of this. edward? reporter: neil, the testimony will go on for another 30 minutes or so when the federal reserve chairman has to leave here. federal reserve chairman jerome powell told senators and congress people does not see a rate cut for december unless check data would come in better than expected. he said the federal reserve would act going forward. he painted a glowing picture of the economy. he said the consumer spending. wages are rising. jo
fall of last year. sum it up, good news on wages, good news on the jobless rate, and there s very good news on the u6, sometimes called the real jobless rate, way down to just 7.3%. all right. we do have news from china. their exports dropped a whopping 20% last month. clearly the trade fight hurts. on that subject, america s ambassador to china says the two sides have yet to finalize a deal. a gap remains. there s no date for a summit. ambassador branstead says preparations for summit aren t under way, either. investors took that as a negative signal. stocks will open lower today. the jobs report didn t help. it s been a tough week. in fact, the worst week of the year 2019 so far. but hold on. we should tell you that tomorrow marks the tenth anniversary of the bull market starting its run. in those ten years, the value of all stocks has gone up 25.9 trillion dollars. here s a story from costco that shows the benefits to workers of full employment. costco workers are ge