Up about. 75 . Strong profits, positive news on trade, an expanding economy with full employment. This is why stocks are headed up again this monday morning. This stock, though, is not. Mcdonalds. Its ceo, Steve Easterbrook, has been fired. He broke Company Rules by having a consensual relationship with another mcdonalds employee. No details on that, but hes out. The stock had doubled under easterbrooks tenure. Today it will be down about not as much as it was earlier but it will be down about 1. 5 . Quite a drop to 190. Heres another stock in sharp decline. Under armour. They just reported what i think was solid profits, but investors are worried about an ongoing accounting investigation. Big drop, down 14 . Big change at airnbn. No more party houses. They will develop a Rapid Response team to handle incidents like the one on halloween in california, where three people were shot dead. Airbnb wants to go public sometime next year. Stay there, please. We have a big monday morning show f
Committee will come to order. Today, we will hold the nomination hearing on a very important position. The honorable John J Sullivan to be the ambassador to the Russian Federation. First, we have two very distinguished colleagues of ours who wish to introduce our nominees. Torefore, i am going postpone my Opening Statement and i ask the Ranking Member to do likewise. Beh that, we are glad to joined by senators sullivan of alaska and cardin of maryland. Sullivan thank you very much, mr. Chairman, Ranking Member menendez. It is an honor to be in front of the committee again in front on behalf of my friend John Sullivan to support his nomination to be the United States ambassador to the Russian Federation. Despite what his last name would suggest, we are not related, although i regularly joke with senator markey who is also a proud sullivan member in his heritage that at some point in history, we will probably all related. I have supported secretary sullivans nomination before and can spe
You can also text us. And us a tweet cspanwj post to facebook. Com cspan. We will show you in a moment the of the comments of students and that nearly threehour rally available on our website but the reporting the on yahoo news, headline, millions protest in Global Climate strike. The messes of children skip school oto join Global Strike against Climate Change. Youth summitn. She will participate in saturday. Four Million People filled streets around the world and what was billed as the biggest ever protest against the threat posed to the planet by rising temperatures. The youngsters and adults alike chanted slogans in demonstrations that started in asia and the pacific, spread across africa, europe and latin america before culminating in the United States. From the Washington Post, as we video of the beginning of the rally on capital hill. Areans are rising and so we, demanding action on Climate Change millions of young people take part in a Global Strike. Despite a mighty mental turn
Social Media Companies to react after paul pogba receives racist abuse. Good morning, once again from the farm in leicestershire as the bbc continues its focus on farming. Today will be talking about gm crops as the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, comes out in favour. Its a beautiful start of the day, chilly, we could have some rain and increasing winds coming in from the north. In the south, were looking at drain cloudy conditions. Well have further details in 15 minutes dry and cloudy. Its wednesday, the 21st of august. Our top story borisjohnson will repeat his demand for fundamental changes to the brexit Withdrawal Agreement, when he meets the german chancellor, Angela Merkel, in berlin later today. Allies of mrs merkel have accused the Prime Minister of making a completely impossible request and actually not being serious. In a moment well get the view from germany, from our correspondent jenny hill in hamburg. But first, our political correspondent, iain watson in westminster. Iai
They have a lane in the road but the curbs are pretty short. And they cover issues as they see fit. Matt goodman is Senior Advisor for asia and economics, and the us Governments National security staff, director for International Economics, white house coordinator for apack, Senior Advisor to the undersecretary for Economic Energy and Agricultural Affairs and department of state. The list goes on as well as private sector worked at goldman sachs, the Government Affairs office in london and jim show is with the carnegie education program. Previously served in the pentagon the office as Senior Advisor for east asia policy, the office of the secretary of defense and there he was responsible for Strategic Planning and policy Development Relations for japan. And spearheaded Regional Security cooperation issues, north korea, Missile Defense, Disaster Relief and Maritime Security and lived in japan and other parts of asia for a number of years. Past cronin holds the asia pacific security chai