Hello, good morning. Iam Annita Mcveigh and welcome to bbc newsroom live. The us director of National Intelligence has rejected suggestions made by donald trump that Official Agencies Leaked claims russia had Compromising Material on him. In a statement, James Clapper said he had called the President Elect to say the information had not come from the us Security Services. Meanwhile the bbc understands the ex mi6 officer who is believed to have prepared the memo containing the unsubstantiated claims is now in hiding. Christopher steele, who runs a london based intelligence firm, is believed to have left his home this week. Our washington Correspondent Laura Bicker has the story. Donald trumps not a huge fan of the press corps, but he had a message to send to the media and to Us Intelligence agencies. He believes they leaked unsubstantiated allegations that his Election Team colluded with russia. It is all fake news, it is phoney stuff, it didnt happen. There are also claims that russian
Japans high speed train has been a long time coming. An attack in one of the countrys biggest military bas bases. Ten suicidebombers stormed the air base in Anbar Province northwest of baghdad. Eight attackers were reportedly killed and the other two reportedly blew themselves up. The arbors face is in Anbar Province, 120 kilometers away from ramadi. Hundreds of u. S. Trainers and advisers use the base to train iraqi troops, but there were no attacks in or near the u. S. Side of that base our correspondent has more from the capital of baghdad. Eight to ten fighters, it is said that some blue themselves up, and others were killed. Some fighters some soldiers from iraqi forces were killed in these clashes before iraqi forces killed all of those people. But he didnt say exactly how many iraqi soldiers had been killed in this operation. They did not talk about whether those chapte fighters came into the area. It is known around 300 or 400 trainees and advisers of American Forces are based
Cnbc. Com today. Sue herera has more on brussels. Here is the latest at this hour and what we know. Turkeys president says one of the brussels attackers, the man in the middle in this surveillance video, was caught in turkey in june and deported to belgium. He was later corrected by a turkish official who said he was deported, but to the netherlands before being released. One person has been arrested by bellian counterterrorism officials. The identity of that suspect is still unknown. Two americans who survived the attack at the Brussels Airport spoke on the today show jeff hoffman, a consultant no nato was dropping his girlfriend off at the airport when the bombs went off. I just remember it was a whirlwind, like a tornado going on behind him, just stuff flying, then that hit me. I felt it before i heard it. I still didnt know what was going on. I did not understand what was going on. I thought it was like an accident happened or, i dont know, and then it was pretty clear after seeing
Right now. Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange. Im sara eisen. And im wilfred frost. Lets have a look at what futures are doing here in the u. S. Right now. Of course, yesterday basically trading flat. The dow losing about a quarter of 1 . In essence, pretty resilient in the face of those attacks yesterday. Today also looking fairly flat but just the other side of flat. The dow called to open higher by 23 points. Here is the latest from brussels this morning. Investigators are carrying out raids as we speak. They are looking for one of the three suspects caught on surveillance tape as they pushed luggage carts through the airport before yesterdays blasts. Nbc news has confirmed with Police Sources that brothers khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui have been identified as the airport suicide bombers. During raids in a brussels neighborhood, police did find a bombmaking factory, which had nails, bolts, and chemicals used in explosives. An isis flag was also found in the home. The terro
After these attacks, having been there. There had been a manhunt put out globally at this point for him. One brussels source now saying that they have apprehended the third suspect. Police have also confirmed that the two men on the left are the brothers khalid and ibrahim ael bakraoui. The man on the right, again, is alleged to have assisted the two suicide bombers. Police sources also told nbc that the man is a suspect in the paris attacks as well. As part of that manhunt, a police raid in brussels led to the discovery of a nail bomb and an Islamic State flag. Isis has claim the responsibility for the attacks that have killed at least 31 people. Lets take a quick check on the markets, debt yget you caug on how Global Markets have been reacting overnight. Dow looks like it would open 15 points higher. Nasdaq up about five points. The s p 500 up about two points. European equities thus far have been in the green. I get anxious that events like this have just become either so common pla