Best away leaving a lovely wife and family. I want to express my condolences to him. He worked together on prolife issues at my time in congress. If you have some questions, i will take questions today. I want offer my condolences to the people of australia for the tragic loss of and property with the tragic wildfires. Americas thoughts and prayers are with them in the personnel putting their selves in harms way and the dozens of u. S. Firefighting personnel standing sidebyside with our australian friends fighting the flames. When i was in sydney, we had a truly Unbreakable Alliance and they are great friends and we are happy to be able to help the aussies in this time of need. In asia, we noted the appointment of the new head of the Hong Kong Chinese liaison office. He has expects hopes expressed hopes that hong kong will go back to the right path in that is for the right path. Guarantee the independent rule of law and freedoms that the chinese living on the mainland unfortunately do
To war. The nightmare stage of trumps rule is here, says michelle gold berg in the New York Times and paul krugman simply calls our president a bully. Democrats lining up to attack the president , Bernie Sanders says hes like putin. Assassinating dissonance. Meanwhile, theres real chaos, where hundreds of thousands on the streets for the funeral procession of Qassem Soleimani and then a stampede. Iranian state news media says more than 30 are dead. Overall this is a morning of confrontation, war talk threats and military preparations and as for the market, a shrug. Monday the dow made a 200point uturn and actually closed higher. This morning were looking at futures, minor loss for the dow and the s p, a 10point gain maybe for the nasdac at the opening bell but look at oil, another shrug on that market after the Soleimani Killing the price of oil moved to 63 64 a barrel today its back to 62 and the price of gas, Holding Steady the National Average still right there at 2. 58 per gallon.
Do is allowed into parliament after a standoff with security who tried to block. Womens activists slammed the cypriot Justice System after a british teenager is given a suspended sentence for making false accusations of rape. And incest for african gets ready to celebrate its best footballers and all 3 nominees for the continents footballer of the year award star in the English Premier League. Its been another day of dramatic developments in iran where the burial of the top iranian commander assassinated in the u. S. Airstrike on friday has been postponed for at least 50 people were killed in a stamp a stampede during his funeral procession huge crowds that packed custom salaam on his hometown of command and the congestion in the streets led to a crush of people its not clear when the burial will happen now in the capital tehran the parliament passed. A bill designating the u. S. Army and the pentagon as terrorist organizations its also boosted the budget for the elite could force that
Issues at my time in congress. If you have some questions, i will take questions today. I want offer my condolences to the people of australia for the tragic loss of life and property from the wildfires across that region. Americas thoughts and prayers are with them in the personnel putting their selves in harms way and the dozens of u. S. Firefighting personnel standing sidebyside with our australian friends fighting the flames. This was in sidney just past summer, we had a truly Unbreakable Alliance and they are great friends and we are happy to be able to help the aussies in this time of need. In asia, we noted the appointment of the new head of the Hong Kong Chinese liaison office. He has expressed hopes that hong ong will return to the right path. The right path, as i said before, is for the Chinese Party to commit to the independent rule of law and freedoms that the chinese living on the mainland unfortunately do not enjoy. They will continue to work with hong kong and the Chines
Qassem soleimani last week. Heres a look at his remarks. Good morning, everyone. I want to send out my condolences to former congressman fitzpatrick who passed away earlier this week, leaving a wife and family. S service to america was remarkable. If you have questions about the middle east and iraq ill take questions. But first i want to offer my condolences to the people of australia for the tragic loss of life and property caused by the devastating wildfires across the region. Americas thoughts and prayers are with the victims, families and Emergency Personnel putting their lives in harms way and the same for the u. S. Fire fighting personnel who are standing sidebyside with them. I was in sydney this summer, we have a truly greet a Great Alliance there. Staying in asia, we note appointment of the new head of the Hong Kong Central government liaison office. He hopes hong kong will return to the right path, end of quote. The right path is for the Chinese Communist party to honor its