from a historic visit by the house speaker nancy pelosi prompting threats of fierce retaliation out of beijing. good morning. it is tuesday. dana has the day off today. i m bill hemmer. welcome back, sandra. good morning. glad to be with you. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. those chinese fighter jets buzzing taiwan airspace amid local reporting now the speaker could be arriving there in a matter of hours. bill: she would be the highest ranking u.s. official to be in that island in 25 years. china sees it as a slap in the face saying the u.s. should not support a country that beijing views as a breakaway province. the white house has not confirmed her trip but maintains it will not be intimidated. here is what nfc spokesperson john kirby said just this morning. we gave her advice and counsel and gave her information and we re helping with her transportation. this is her decision and we support and respect that decision. what we have said is there is no
So who really does speak for the president . And the israeli Prime Minister arriving in washington to start a new relationship with the white house. Iran, hezbollah, syria and settlements. There is plenty to discuss. This story begins at the end of december. President obama had just imposed new sanctions on russia in retaliation for moscow hacking the election. Donald trumps senior Foreign Policy advisor, general mike flynn, hopped on the phone with russias ambassador to discuss the penalty. Now us law bars any private citizen from conducting Foreign Policy. But the greater mistake was to mislead the Vice President. The National Security advisor told mike pence that sanctions never came up in his calls with the Russian Ambassador. Not true. The conversation had been bugged by us intelligence, disproving the generals account. In his resignation letter, flynn sai, unfortu nately, because of the fast pace of events, i inadvertently briefed the Vice President elect and others with incomple
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in kuala lumpur where its reported that the half brother of the north korean leader, kim jong un, was killed. Police say kim jong nam was found dead at Kuala Lumpur Airport. American intelligence sources say they strongly believe that he was murdered by north korean agents. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes sent this report from tokyo. This is kim jong nam, whose body is thought to be the one now lying in a malaysian morgue. Officials there say he died after being sprayed in the face with something at Kuala Lumpur Airport this morning. South korean media immediately claimed north korean agents had assassinated kim on the orders of his own Younger Brother, kim jong un. North koreas young dictator has been tightening his grip on power, ruthlessly purging potential opponents. Whats so sensitive . Last year i saw for myself how strange north korea can be. I was detained and expelled for insulting the kim leadership. Much more telling is wh
Its 9am in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in kuala lumpur where its reported that the half brother of the north korean leader, kim jong un, was killed. Police say kim jong nam was found dead at Kuala Lumpur Airport. American intelligence sources say they strongly believe that he was murdered by north korean agents. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes sent this report from tokyo. This is kim jong nam, whose body is thought to be the one now lying in a malaysian morgue. Officials there say he died after being sprayed in the face with something at Kuala Lumpur Airport this morning. South korean media immediately claimed north korean agents had assassinated kim on the orders of his own Younger Brother, kim jong un. North koreas young dictator has been tightening his grip on power, ruthlessly purging potential opponents. Whats so sensitive . Last year i saw for myself how strange north korea can be. I was detained and expelled for insulting the kim leadership. Much more telling is wh
Front of the new congress. She hints at any rate hike in the next few months. And shares in toshiba nosedive yet again as the japanese conglomerate faces a 6 billion write down. It is Asia Business report. Good morning, asia. Hello, world. Markets have been buzzing overnight as the head of the Us Central Bank said an Interest Rate rise could come as early as next month. In the sme annual testimony to congress, janet yellen set of hawkish tone, saying it is unwise to wait too long to hike rates. Financial stocks in the us lifted. The broader s p index closing higher for a fourth consecutive session. This is how asian shares are trading in early trade on wednesday. All in positive territory. More analysis in a moment but that hear what she had to say. As i noted on previous occasions, waiting too long to remove accommodation would be unwise. Potentially requiring the fomc to raise rates rapidly which could risk disrupting Financial Markets and pushing the economy into recession. At our u