Jerusalem on the war in israel. This time biden seemed open to negotiating a ceasefire if hamas releases the hostages. Just hours later, White House Communications director john kirby had to reiterate full throated support of israel saying in an interview on cnn that the country has a right to defend itself and the administration does not believe its time for a ceasefire. Two more hostages, Israeli Women In Their 70s And 80s were released by hamas remains in captivity along with more than 200 others and iranen proxies continue to attack u. S. Forces in the region and Senior Correspondent Steve Carrigan is live in beirut with what hes seeing on the ground. Steve. Reporter trace, concerns here continue to grow about a possible second front in the war and assignment is israel versus hezbollah here and overnight and hezbollah in lebanon and what they said were cells by hezbollah being used to target israeli position withs antitank missiles over the past two weeks and skirmishes left 29 hez
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. This is pbs newshour weekend. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. Im hari sreenivasan. We start with greece, where officials are projecting that more than 60 of voters have rejected austerity measures proposed by creditors. Crowds are rallying in the streets, celebrating the early returns. The no vote means greeks do not want to make the deep budget cuts in order to get emergency bailout money as the nation falls deeper into debt. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that quote the mandate asking call for a break request europe but rather gives me greater negotiating strength. Joins u
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As stronger yen sparks fears over the bank of japan going deeper into negative Interest Rates. Thats something that spooked the market before. Well look whether this last for banks. Our yields have gone lower as well. The white house meantime this may be one of the reasons the selloff, the white house this afternoon saying treasury is working on even more steps to counter tax avoidance after the changes to inversion rules they announced earlier this week and ceos were showing you there are speaking out against antibusiness rhetoric as they see it. Well tell you what they are saying and we have two Business Leaders here to debate the issue of whether the u. S. Is losing its Global Competitive edge. That really is one of the reasons were down 222 points. Searching for the next great business leader, under armour ceo will join us, his stock price is coming up as well. Lets get to the closing bell. With us, ann meletti, brought the rain with her and rick san telli and keith brliss. When yo
On facebook, we asked what issue do you want president obama and congress to address this year . President upon is expected to announce plans for federal contractors to pay employees at least 10. 10 an hour. House speaker john potter was asked about the issue when he spoke with reporters today. Heres a look. What do you think about these actions by congress . Do you have any support . The president has the authority to raise the minimum wage for the federal contracts. That understands the game. This affects not one current contract. It only affects future contracts with the federal government. I think the the question is how many people of this executive action actually help . I suspect the answer is somewhere close to zero. When it comes to the federal minimum wage, when you raise the cost of something, you get less of it. We know from increases in minimum wage in the past that hundreds of thousands of lowincome americans have lost their jobs. And so, the very people the president pur