As nbc confirms a report that the president ordered Robert Mueller fired, but backed away when the white House Counsel threatened to quit. Im willem marx in london. Lvh shares beat expectations for the Fourth Quarter as Chinese Shoppers buy more handbags and champagne. And shares in swiss fragrance and fragrance manufacturer rise in net profit and a planned hike for its dividend welcome to street signs. We are awaiting President Trumps speech later today, but the president ahead of that speech telling cnbc that he would consider rejoining the Transpacific Partnership speaking to joe kernen in davos, he said he was here to negotiate. I like bilateral because if you have a problem you terminate. When youre in with many countries like with tpp, so you have 12 if we were in, you dont have that same you dont have that same option right somebody asked me the other day if i would do tpp. Heres my answer i would do tpp if we had a much better deal than we had. The deal was a horrible deal naft
All right, this is a shock or block week. But thisa note that suggests that these markets are moving high. Becausehave good reason earnings have been so impressive so far, really big ones dominating the agenda this week. Ish, we are looking at crucial levels when it comes to stocks in hong kong. Rishaad absolutely, looking at what happened with these shares, these Chinese Companies trading in hong kong. We want to bring up gb tv 9440. Investors bid for these underperformers. This is a third of the companies on the hang seng. They are racking up fresh one year the biggest proportions says that 2014 stock bubble. We are seeing some of those cheap banks red hot. These fresh highs are being hit last week. That is what we had at the moment. H, in terms of the other things on the agenda, we have yellens swansong and watching what the fed does. We are just watching what happens as jay powell takes over. The pmi is expected to hold steady. Lets look at markets because we did have u. S. Stocks
10 days alone. South africa votes in local elections today. Those are being seen as a test for the controversial president jacob zuma and the ruling party. We will start in syria, where rebels and activists are accusing the government of using toxic gas on civilians. , dozens ofear aleppo cases of breathing difficulty have been reported. The Syrian Government is accusing a terrorist group of another gas attack that killed five in aleppo. This comes one year after the Un Security Council established a deadline to find out who was behind previous gas attacks in syria, a deadline that runs out next week. This footage appears to show patients in a hospital just south of aleppo struggling to breathe. Victims, rebels in the country say it was a chemical weapons attack by the Syrian Government, claims rejected outright by damascus. Washington says it cannot currently independently verify the allegations, but it takes them seriously. We have long expressed our condemnation of chemical weapons
After a man is shot outside the Colonial Manor motel near east 46th avenue off of i70. How is the man doing . Reporter we havent been able to get an update on the mans condition but we do know as of last night he was in Critical Condition. This is right by i70 under the freeway and that may have been a bit of a challenge because this the scene was quite the set up with police surrounding the motel but also having to get on to 46th avenue as they investigate the case for hours. They could only open up this hour and let the motel open and remove the scene in the last hour or so. So we know that crime scene investigators were here quite some time collecting evidence not only on the side of the motel but also in the surrounding area spending time they left within the last hour or two so again that victim remains in Critical Condition but as far the suspect, police say theyre working on a description and they believe its only one person involved in the shooting and havent been able to give
Statue of liberty, there is a poem by m. Lazarus who says bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses wanting to breathe free. 12,000 refugees at displaced population of almost five million. Weve seen these heartbreaking pictures of children who are being killed. And think about i guess were talking about 400,000 syrians being killed in this. What about what our and b is as human beings what our obligation is to other human beings. These are people who are fleeing isis. These are people are fleeing an assad regime that uses poison gas against civilians. The u. N. G process is first, refugee, first vets people hands them to us. Average a over on year and a half before we vet them, is that correct . Yes, thats correct, senator. Senator franken and have we had any dulls that came over in syria engage in some sort of errorist plot . No, senator, not to my knowledge. Senator franken you know, my grandfather came from russia. He arrived and saw that on the statue of liberty. He was o