To this conference. The topic today is the saudi arabia United States relationship. Many of us have supported this relationship from deepening counterterrorism cooperation to championing womens rights. The challenge for each side is to reconcile cooperation, National Security issues, while valueing very different systems. Under the current leadership of both countries, these tensions have been brought into sharp focus. The nature of our military operation, human rights violations, addressing regional bad actors and more demand attention and likely change. These issues are ripe for review, and we are fortunate to have an experienced group of panelists today to delve into factors at play affecting the u. S. Approach to saudi arabia, i relationship, and its future. Todays turn to program, i would like to say a few words about the middle east policy council. It was established in 1981 to promote dialogue and education between the United States and countries of the middle east. We have thre
Today, number two, 60 million worth of bitcoins were stole from a Bitcoin Wallet. Bitcoin is not immune to hackers and once they are gone, you cant get them back, think about that. Politics, senator franken will make a statement on the senate floor today, lost support of most fellow democrats, will he resign, dont know. Will he respond to Sexual Harassment charges against him, we dont know that either. When he speaks, you will see and hear it. Veterany company is about to Varney Company is about to begin. Note stuart lets get right to it. Story of the day, Southern California wild fires, ashley, what do we have . Brutal santa ana winds which would fan the flames from fires, now the National Weather say not quite as bad, gusty but not 80 miles an hour. They had to shut down with 101 freeway. Thats the ventura freeway, they cut it down, essentially cutting off northbound traffic from heading to santa. Barbara a from ventura. You can see northwest of downtown los angeles, four major fires
U uncertainty of a number of saudi princes and ministers were arrested over the weekend on corruption charges and of course as you probably have heard by now, that includes prince al waleed bin talal well look at what this means for u. S. Companies looking to do business in saudi arabia we havent even gotten to the Qualcomm Broadcom story but theres other things to get to now. We have the breaking news now that disney has held talks to buy most of 21st century fox. David faber back again anything new on this is. We can advance the story a little bit and refresh it for people, guys 21st century fox, as bill just said, has been holding talks to sell most of the company to walt disney leaving behind a Media Company that would be tightly focused on news and sports according to people familiar with the situation these talks have taken place over the last few weeks and given their complexity, it continues to be seen as a tough deal to get done by those whove been working on it the two sides
Among them, print alaweed and western businesses including the Parent Company of this network. Saudi arabia is a bulwark against the iranian power in the oil patch and they are cracking down. The tax package, good for business, good for middle america. How much help to the economy get when the 1 end up paying much more than how much help for the Housing Market when the mortgage deduction is cut . Still very much a work in progress. One less headline. Vin scully has had it. So disgusted the up and protest he wont watch any more. Stay right there, please. A whole lot more coming right after you. Varney company a route to begin. About to begin. I think that Mental Health is your problem here. This is based on preliminary reports, very deranged individual, a lot of a lot of problems over a long period of time. A lot of mental help albums in our country as do other countries. If this isnt a done situation. This is a Mental Health problem at the highest level. A very, very sad event. These a
We party due to presenteeism. Will talk about whatr done we will talk about what more can be done to help with the Mental Health charity temp mind. At the australia open, Britains Heather Watson came from a set down to beat Kristyna Pliskova in the first round but dan evans is out. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. Authorities in china say they are at the most critical stage of control a new virus. The rapidly spreading respiratory virus originated in the chinese city of wuhan but there are a number of confirmed cases elsewhere including japan, thailand and now seattle in the united states. The World Health Organization will consider whether to declare an International Public Health Emergency and the uk is expected to begin monitoring flights arriving from china as part of a series of precautionary measures. The Health Authorities in china say nine people have died after catching the virus and the vice minister of the virus and the vice minister of the Health Commission th