Shock. I was in a deep sleep and i heard an incredible bang. And we opened up the door from our apartment and there was a huge pile of rubble. And dust. And just havoc. Grabbed the Childrenen A St and started running out the door and everybody was screaming and panicking. Everybody was here but the wife and three children, 2, 6 and 9. Were they here visiting . Doct yes, vacation. Im just asking god because they are in the affected area. And there are still many questions. Chief among them, what could have caused such catastrophic failure . One experts opinion, corrosion of steel. And it means that the building was assumed by the series of pillars. So if the pillars fail, everything fails. So that is exactly what it looked like. And i seen the failures like that, hundreds of them like that. And this is right next to the ocean and also that area collapses also a sign. So corrosion of the reinforcement will compromise the capacity of Thec Column Fai fails. And of course it is still a Fran
A work has reportedly restarted on the controversial nord stream 2 gas pipeline in the baltic sea almost a year after u. S. Sanctions brought the german russian project to a halt u. S. Argues the pipeline is meant to isolate ukraine and divide the e. U. On saturday its ambassador to germany robin quintile repeated calls for germany to end the 1000000000. 00 project. Work is underway once again on the north stream 2 pipeline German Authorities have given the go ahead for the russian ship academic cesky to lay another 2. 6 kilometers of pipe by the end of the year but that is nowhere near enough to complete the project a total of 160 kilometers still have to be laid. Only then with the underwater pipeline be ready allowing russian state owned Company Gazprom to deliver siberian gas directly. To germany. For that the u. S. Has been watching developments with alarm late last week american lawmakers added measures against the baltic sea pipeline to the annual Defense Budget these provide fo
A controversial election victory what does that mean for people struggling on a crippled because. Also lufthansa says that by the end of this year it will slash 29000. 00 jobs thats a 5th of its total workforce and thats not all there will be more job cuts next year. And some exciting weekend soccer action in germany has been asleep by a lever whos scoring goals. And stopping on their way to 2nd place in the district i will tell you how they extended a remarkable unbeaten streak. Welcome to the program british and european negotiators will today resume talks to secure a post bragg. Trade deal with an agreement hanging in the balance the latest round of talks is taking place in brussels ahead of an e. U. Summit later this week the e. U. Is offering tariff free access to the Single Market in exchange for britain agreeing to e. U. Rules on state environmental and labor regulations britain will leave the Single Market trading block at the end of the minds. Joined by the. Nominee and brusse
And it is beginning to look a lot like a socially distant christmas as the rock center tree lights up and as we all mask up and get in line. It is thursday, december 3, this is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning, good afternoon or good evening and welcome from wherever in the world that you may be watching. Im Brian Sullivan thanks for joining us. Here is how your money and Global Markets are setting up their day. Futures not giving us a lot of clues. Were pretty much mixed. We had more gains for the s p 500 yesterday. Yes, another record. Your 28th of the year if you are counting at home the nasdaq 100 also hitting a new record today though, we also focus squarely on oil. Opec and its allies meeting today to try to hammer out a deal to extend production cuts through march. They could not get a deal done on monday. Today rush 1sia and other natio join the talks if no deal is made or they reduce the cut instead of extending the entire thing, oil prices and stocks could take a big hit, tha
And only talk about the virus, the vaccine developments, when there is not much thats new. Why do this at all on a friday evening . I cant answer that. Its good to get out of the house, i guess. Been announcement about pfizer come a couple of weeks earlier, which to be clear, doesnt appear the science would have allowed, im sure we would be talking about a different political landscape. Even with that bad timing. It is certainly an achievement for this administration to have been able to help accelerate some of these vaccines, like the vaccineng moderna into the final stages, and hopefully the level of emergency approval and access to the American Public by the end of the year. That remains a very big deal if it does go that way. Emily can you clarify for the record what pfizers involvement was in operation warp speed . They did not get money from the government, saying they misrepresented the involvement. What do we know to be the truth about that . Question, andeat its important we c