and while u.s. markets are closed nationally banks looks like global markets plus we look at the japanese steel industry is response to the u.s. commerce department proposal to impose curbs on steel imports into the united states all of that coming up but first let's get to some headlines. as the olympics continue in south korea south korean president moon j.n. said on monday that the general motors company decision to shutter a plant south of seoul in the city of gun sin would be a big bust for the nation and has asked his administration to take measures to increase economic activity in the region the plan is applied as employed two thousand workers g.m. operates three other plants in south korea totaling fourteen thousand workers and a decision on if they will stay open is expected by may of this year. carnival corporation the world's largest cruise operator says they are investigating the response of its security personnel to a large fight which took place on one of its south pacific cruises that resulted in twenty three passengers be taken off the vessel much of the brawl was

know u.s. is not. making it a condition anymore that assad leaves office but nevertheless there's still strong anti a sawed sentiment all right matthew we're going to take a short break right now and when we're back we'll continue talking with dr. have that or an analyst and a former national intelligence counselor and we'll talk more about the challenges they today's world order stay with us. the memo has come and gone but this controversy is far from over the political bias of the deep state has been revealed and the legal activities exposed if anyone will be held responsible. despite it's tough going into history the soviet union i know has dominated international sport however this was not about the lives of those champions from the. right moment you're worth. more moved there with the ball for the think you're going to do with your brother this is for the lord your god what i wish was the most good example for you if you were to the first some of you to limp a team of nine hundred fifty two with some good seeds of life as concentration camp prisoners and frontline soldiers. maybe e

finish. than 16 years of fighting, the u.s. war in afghanistan intensifying again as pulled from iraq and syria, not to mentionon the domesticc budget at home in the u.s., to expand the longest war in the united states history. stevewe w will speak to coll, author of the new book "directorate s: the cia and america's secret wars in afghanistan and pakistan." more continuity with change with the trump administration. they have put some pressure on suspended aid. but mostly they decided to continue to warm or less along the lines of the obama administration and was it administration. they have dropped more on -- talked more bombs in 2017, trying to signal their going to be tougher and have more result. i'm afraid it is a case of doing the same thing militarily that previous a ministrations have done and expecting a different result. amy: pulitzer prize winning journalist steve coll, dean of the graduate school of columbia journalism. all of that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. senate leaders have announced a bi

up to more more cooperation the u.s. and russia managed to deal with it on issue together and now we have another nuclear crisis with north korea can the two countries go again and say down involved china get the koreans to work could things out pull this off one more time . it will be it would be easier for the u.s. to deal with russia as part of a group of countries along with china japan south korea and others it is very difficult to at the moment to have those bilateral talks. at least openly and even if you have them behind doors there are so many leaks from this administration that it's very hard to carry on diplomacy. you know with russia without that leaking so yes i think you could see in a. broader setting where you have other powers you could actually see improvement in the cooperation and that may build some trust back into the relationship. now during the john kerry years so was hope that this approach of working on some issues while clashing over others will actually lead to a comprehensive amending the russia u.s. relationship but that hasn't materialized why doesn'

moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem is still a bad idea. cross-checking some real news i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have alex chris so far he's the director and writer for the duran dot com and we have dmitri bobbitt she's a political analyst with sputnik international rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it mark let's first go to this authorization for the use of military force the pentagon says. it doesn't need any kind of authorization because the authorization that the u.s. government gave to the military to intervene in iraq still holds though isis didn't exist in two thousand and three. under international law this is just a blatant violation there is no there is no united nations security council resolution the country involved syria has not requested for help and on top of it you you have. a military presence in a country where you possibly could go into a military coup. with another mate a nato country turkey and of course it's a face down with russia is this a

here in washington where viet knack specialists are discussioning vietnam's relationship with the u.s. and china. live coverage here on c-span 3. >> they have spent a lot of time in vietnam i believe in the '90s or earlier than that as journalists for eastern economic review. and they both speak perfect vietnamese. i hope they don't start speaking that here. so today's topic is to discuss vietnam's relations with both united states and china. because of the flare-up of the south china sea dispute in recent years there have been a lot of questions and a lot of skepticism about vietnam's alignment choices, external foreign policy choices. and china and vietnam apparently they're both governed by communist party and its one-party rule. although could you argue that the political reform in two countries have taken different speed. so we are also eager to hear from the experts how the vietnamese domestic politics evolution also affects their foreign policy choices between the united states and china and how do we understand the future of these two bilateral relations. that's enough talking

all but defeated i mean should we expect the u.s. to distance itself from problems like syria and play out well there's a i would say under the trombone ministration there is been more disengagement. although there is efforts now in the state department elsewhere to begin thinking about reconstruction in syria i would say in my own mind i think you know both russia and the u.s. have big interests and share big interests. in syria i mean both of us don't want to see more instability or terrorism but there is a huge disagreement on tactics you know u.s. is not. making it a condition anymore that assad leaves office but nevertheless there's still strong anti assad sentiment all right matthew we're going to take a short break right now and when we're back we'll continue talking with dr massey a bar i have that iran analyst and a former national intelligence counselor and we'll talk more about the challenges they today's world order facing stay with us. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taking your last bang turn. your out to you as we all knew it wo

parts maker falls 10% as higher costs hit its profits and a charge related to u.s. tax reforms. >> affected by the fiscal reform in the u.s., which we had to reduce our tax asset, reducing completely our tax level in the u.s., with significant growth of our net profit. >>> swiss re says it is considering a partnership with softbank after better than expected profits and returning more cash to shareholders. >> we feel comfortable that we have the ability to return funds to share hoholders. >>> and a number of negative earnings limit cap gains in europe as james bullard tells cnbc that rates should not go up too quickly. >> the idea that we have to go 100 basis points in 2018, that seems like a lot to me that's price for perfection. everything would have to go just right. the economy would have to surprise on the upside a bunch of times in the year i'm not sure that's a good way to think about 2018. >>> good morning flat open so far across europe the stoxx 600 slightly into negative territory, but not by a massive, massive margin. it's down less than 0.1% we look at the individua

november, but the rand had been surging in the last month. 30 minutes into the session in the u.s. how is it looking over their? julie: the sixth day of rallying. it is the longest winning streak for the s&p 500 since january 9 but the largest spot day gain going back to october 2015. it has been quite a rally over the past several days. we get a look at just how big of rally has been. look at the five-day returns for the major averages plus the russell. the nasdaq gaining more than 6% over the past five sessions. the dow and s&p up. also take a look at what the u.s. dollar has been doing over the past five sessions. we have seen it go in opposite direction. it is interesting because we have been seeing rates climbed to the highest since january 2014, and yet we have seen the dollar go down here by about 1.9% in that time. back to today's session and some of the big movers we got in terms of their weight in the s&p 500. apple gaining after we learned through the filings that berkshire hathaway had added 30 million shares to its stake. a 23% increase in its holding. brochure is now

governors of alabama and rhode island. >>> australia's prime minister is traveling to the u.s. later this month to meet with president trump at the white house. earlier today the australian ambassador to the u.s. talked about the state of relations during a discussion on trade in the asia-pacific region. he also shared his thoughts why the u.s. should be part of the transpacific partnership, a trade agreement the u.s. withdrew from shortly after president trump's inauguration. hosted by the washington trade association, this is just under an hour. >>> good afternoon, everybody. i'm the executive director of the washington international trade association. the membership association for the international trade community. thank you ambassador hockey and your wonderful embassy staff. they do a great here in washington on behalf of your government and we're very grateful to them for what they do, thank you. we'd also like to thank you for those watching on c-span. we've had a very busy few months at weta. the last year has been quite eventful on the trade agenda. over the next five weeks we'll

, that has come to the downside. one thing we are focusing on as we get closer to the u.s. session is u.s. 10 year yields. and that ofove 2.9, course throws into focus the big auctions late we have for this week. we have $151 billion of short dated bills just today. how high will those yields need to go to get this kind of borrowing away by the u.s. treasury? and because it was president's day yesterday, and because we work in the united states, we put the dollar spot index, up by .3%. manus: welcome back from president's day. let's have a look at what all of that richness means in the bond market. will they show up and buy the bonds? is it getting rich enough? this could be the battle royale between the asset managers and hedge funds. do we have gathered for you here is a difference of opinion. we have the asset managers and funds, the third widest in 10 years. you've got 2017, middle of 2010. this is where the real money wagers were, they came out on top. so tonight we have three months and six months. the yield you are getting is the highest in a decade when it comes to the spread.

has left a wasteland human rights groups such as amnesty international blame both i saw and the u.s. led coalition for unnecessary destruction and civilian deaths the nineveh reconstruction committee says the conflict destroyed three quarters of muslims roads almost all its bridges and two thirds of the electrical network unicef says three quarters of a million children in mosul region lack access to health services if. the government is not getting. like a. war children will be forced to. be forced to marry early by more young. iraqi officials come to quite looking for investments and over one hundred projects everything from the agricultural sector to the energy industry is on the table and iraq's prime minister well he says he needs one hundred billion dollars to get the job done. it's a huge amount of money we know our budget can't cover nor can the notion that it's almost impossible and that's why we are resorting to investment iraq is counting on outside help to salvage itself into a united and functioning state but when asked what commitments they're ready to make in the conf

where i'm going there now using it as it's used to have u.s. troops permanently based in syria and alexander occurs with a very good piece in the round about this explaining that this is really the united states is playing see option and know what's talking about the u.s. plan c. which is actually derived from its big masters that many people think is the person that's pushing the u.s. permanent presence in syria more out of spite than anything else so this is a situation where you have a country that's not why did not invite like mark said no one no one that there's no international security council resolution nothing for the u.s. to be there but there they are and they're not going to leave easily you know we had trump when he was speaking publicly the press conference a quote get isis and go home ok let me have the whole thing there were right there for one reason to get rid of isis and get rid of isis and go home but his generals i think as we've been saying for weeks if not months on this program say something very different but look what it will spread from two thousand and o

. the spread of the aussie over the u.s. has basically disappeared. yield.the u.s. 10 year a rally across commodity prices. we do have a few markets that haidi was pointing out on top of that. vietnam, hong kong, shortened trading session. open in about 30 minutes, lunchtime, that's it for us for the day. china shut for the next few days. korea has been shut as well. quickly, the story of the day. dollar index. this was a chart sent to us by tom schroeder. he was on the show about two and half weeks back. he told us to watch the 8850 level on dxy. that essentially equates to about $1.24 on euro-dollar. basic formula, yields are up, dollar is down. there is a net outflow out of the u.s. dollar. we talk about strength in the yen. is it about the yen or weak dollar? the u.s. dollar has weakened against every single one of its peers. it comes back to the twin deficits, inflation. fundamentals, it is the twin deficits that matter. equities are up, but i would watch this more closely. fx.i: lots going on in let's get more on the yen. we are joined in singapore by mark cranfield. valentin

lawmakers to protect immigrants who were brought to the u.s. as children, the so-called dreamers. >> there is nothing partisan or political about protecting dreamers will step if a dream act were brought to the floor, it would pass immediately with strong bipartisan support. and i commend my republican colleagues for their courage in speaking out on this. yet our dreamers hang in limbo with the cruel cloud of fear and answered the above them. the republican moral cowardice must and. amy: illinois congressmember luis gutierrez warned pelosi it would be a "complete betrayal" if she supports any spending deal that doesn't include an extension of daca -- the deferred action for childhood arrivals program -- which is due to expire in march. pelosi's eight-hour speech came after white house chief of staff general john kelly blasted young immigrants as lazy, telling reporters -- "there are 690,000 official daca registrants and the president sent over what amounts to be two and a half times that number, to 1.8 million. the difference between 690,000 and 1.8 million were the people that some would

russian meddling in u.s. elections. let's look at european equities. we are under 30 minutes to the close on equity trading in europe, and we are seeing some gains in european equities. a bit of by divergence between europe and the u.s. you can see broadbase base looking at the regions, the euro stoxx 50 up. ibex is one of the better performers, up .7. we have seen gains on the dax and cap 40 -- cac 40. overall, equities are in the green. the fx space has been the story of dollar strength, bouncing back room a three-year low. euro down .5. cable unchanged. not such a sizable move in that fixed income spaces. of movement there. if we turn our attention to the stoxx 600 and what is happening within the industry groups, most are gaining on the headline level in the benchmark up .4. construction and industrial good companies leading gains and lagging are commodity producers, down .5. thanks also underperforming. -- banks also underperforming. to the fx space, i was talking euro weakness. g10.did well compared to the games have slowed as the rally in the yen has gathered pace, begging the ques

the u.s. defense secretary says some syrian fighters it backs may have joined fellow kurds to fight turkey. russian investigators find two black boxes that could hold clues behind the plane crash that killed all seventy one on board plus. a month ago the cloud bridge project in costa rica where reforestation efforts could provide an important lesson for the rest of the world. hello iraq is trying to secure one hundred billion dollars to rebuild cities an infrastructure destroyed in the fight against isis delegates from dozens of countries and potential investors are gathering at a donor conference in kuwait shortly we'll go live to sami dan. but first here's his report. this is what so-called liberation from i sort of looks like to has nally and his family it's been six months since iraq's prime minister declared nineveh province freed alys house is still in ruins so is much of robbie a town. he used to work as a farmer tilling the soil now he plows the rubble of his home and reaps what others have so in his life i say yes and. we've given up hope in returning home we've been displa

it is simply that there are maybe one hundred or two hundred subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates which are located in cayman which way use that as the ultimate holding vehicles for the net trading profits of those global us corporations now to the extent that the tax regime has just changed under the tax tax cuts and jobs act two thousand and seventeen. we may find there is no further use for those cayman subsidiaries of the major u.s. corporates. and so we may be involved in having one hundred or two hundred companies. no no no longer used in the cayman islands and possibly liquidated but bear in mind that's out of a total of around one hundred thousand so it's a statistically irrelevant. percentage well it's been asked summated that this different deferral provision allowed companies to stockpile an estimated three point one trillion years dollars offshore and some of them for example apple have already said that they they would be paying those taxes directly in the united states you just said that it is a statistical irrelevance as far as the cayman islands. are co

bigger meeting it is now soon expected. >>> also ahead, democrats lash out at the u.s. president. why they're saying the latest action should be counted as obstruction of justice. >>> later, the first gold medal is awarded at the pyeongchang olympics. a lot to tell you about there. welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell and "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> at 5:00 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast we start with breaking news. an invitation for north korea for the president of south korea to visit pyeonongyang. kim jong-un visited moon to visit pyongyang. she and a high-level delegation met with the president on saturday. the first member of the north korea ruling to visit the south since 1953. here you can see her carrying that blue folder. that blue folder containing a personal ledder to president moon. he hopes for betterer relations between the two nations. president moon responded by that invitation by suggesting that the talks should also involve the united states, talks needed there, as well. let's g

, the third respect we have done is to the u.s. itself, the long held policy and to the majority of the american people who according to all polls have been against the jerusalem decision and jerusalem announcement. and lastly, that funding will be cut and the u.s. funding to the palestinian authority, the u.s. funding to palestine. let me say this, u.s. funding that has been there for so many years, we appreciate every penny. every dollar. but that funding was not really a gift. the funding was part of a u.s. vision. the funding was part of a u.s. commitment. that funding was part of a u.s. interest. that funding was part of an international and u.s. obligations. it makes sense that the u.s. funds its own vision of building two states on the 1967. the u.s. has invested in the infrastructure of peace for all of these years. and we appreciate it. but financial pressure doesn't work. especially when it comes to people like ours. it doesn't work. it's been tried before and it didn't work and it will not work this time. if it does anything, it adds to our sense of pride and sense of resilie

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discussion. >> the head of the palestine liberation organization delegation to the u.s. delivered remarks in washington yesterday. -- in washington. he objected to president trump's recent decision to move the u.s. embassy to jerusalem and discussed the future of the middle east peace process. hosted by the jerusalem fund, this is an hour and half. >> good afternoon everybody. thank you for joining us today. if we c all cell phones, especially with the tv crews here. director heretive at the jerusalem fund and palestine center. on behalf of our board of directors and staff, it is a pleasure to welcome you all here today. including everyone watching online on our livestream. it is an honor to introduce and welcome our distinguished the investor. he will be speaking about the latest developments and at next steps for palestinians on the political and diplomatic fronts. trump recently announced his decision to recognize jerusalem as the undivided capital of israel. he also plans to move the u.s. embassy into jerusalem. this is a major change in official u.s. policy. with a jerusalem being such

comes at a particularly interesting time in terms of foreign policy as u.s. and north korea trade barbs and threaten war there are elements within the trump administration that are pushing for a so-called bloody nose strike namely chief of staff h.r. mcmaster and japan hosts twenty three u.s. military bases so this would serve as a major point of attack for the u.s. if it were to actually happen but isolating japan pushing japan away like this could have adverse effects on u.s. policy as japan may end up looking to regional partners trade partners like china and russia which the u.s. has kind of identified as adversaries you know i wonder you mentioned that this isn't just on these import quotas isn't just on japan but you mentioned china vietnam and venezuela maybe a another one but vietnam and venezuela are small potatoes in the steel manufacturing business but china and japan are big japan is so big my recollection is they're only like we're like five percent of our exports is this more about a precedent setting you know thing with regard to the trumpet ministration or is japan do yo

otherwise u.s. influence in that area wanes so you mentioned supplies and training need seven trillion plus as you say over and over about another ten years ok we're number the everett dirksen quote right i mean sooner or later you're talking about real money sounds like real money what else are they spending this real money on michael other than supplies and troops i mean their infrastructure over there you're going to have infrastructure we've had to be roads. schools key water just to go in systems in the rural areas and that is in in addition to having to deal with fighters from various clans that that don't want any of that western influence in that region so it's really going to continue to be in and then struggle for quite some time and that that seven trillion dollars michael does that include the veterans and what we're doing here at home it will yeah it has to it has to include them and their medical medical attention and and also the families and and taking care of those who have been. severely wounded over time and taking care of them and it really all adds up over a period

is more prudent at this point of time i think the latter strategy i think divesting from the u.s. to moving your assets abroad particularly when they're stating that some of these people may be designated at some point in the future under sanctions program is probably the right way to go i don't think there's a lot of political will in washington right now to revise the law or request an amended report be put out. by treasury so i think the latter and smarter strategy is actually to divest and i would also suggest that these parties who have been identified get in front of the treasury department and provide evidence to them as to why they are not they should not be considered as potential sanctions designations. it's interesting you say that because regardless of how tense the relationship between our two countries has been i think up until recently there was a strong belief at least here in russia dead in the united states businessmen regardless of their country of origin are protected by the rule of law from base kind of political arbitrary in this. i wonder if you can still c

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posture review. a periodic defense department review by congress. nuclear weapons and u.s. national security policy. hosted by the brookings institution it's about 2 hours. >> we're thrilled to have you here today to discuss the trump administration nuclear posture review. an important document that came out on grounds hog day, february 2nd. and the national defense strategy of january. so doing a nice job keeping the clock running smoothly. prior to now the unveiling of the budget request. we're thrilled to have david beginning our discussion today. he has one of the longer titles but most important. the principal deputy under secretary for defense of policy. a job that jim miller had and we'll talk about that in the panel that follows with jim and others. but for now, i want to introduce david who has been one of the administration's important authors and framing and writing of the document that we have available and you can access on the internet. about a 70 page document, much longer than the unclassified version of the national defense strategy. a lot of elaboration of the trum

point here. the u.s. senate passes a two-year budget agreement to boost spending and suspend the debt ceiling. the bill now goes to the house. matt: less than a half-hour from the open and we could be less than a half-hour from that vote as well. we are going to keep our eye on what is going on with the big slump in the cash trade yesterday. looking at futures this morning, we had a very negative picture as the route spread from the u.s. to asia and back to europe. now, we see some futures contracts turning positive. if you check in everything and see at fair value, you will an indication that we are still going to open lower up not as long as they would have earlier. --markets stopped to look start to look forward, maybe they recover a little bit. a lot of people point to the bond yields have one of the sugars for the selloff that we saw and continue to see. 2.85% on the 10 year bonds. we see it rising more than three basis points this morning. that may look more and more attractive to equity investors who decided is a good place to hide. -- now we have not seen a lot of safe haven t

shery: here are the top stories we are watching. its a huge week for u.s. treasuries with the results from the two-year auction coming in just moments. earlier the treasury sold three-month and six-month bills that yields not seen since 2008. special counsel robert mueller files more charges in the russia probe, this time against a former attorney. we will look at how this new charge impacts the broader mueller investigation. and as the u.s. doing enough to protect its voting systems from cyberattacks? fireeye. is the ceo of ♪ david: let's check in on the markets as we await results on the two-year treasury auction. here is bloomberg's abigail doolittle. abigail: the results of the two-year option, we are looking at next trading action and the dow is down 3/10 of 1%. the s&p and the nasdaq is higher , the nasdaq is off 7/10 of 1%. -- we wereare look looking at steep declines for the doubt but that seems to have slipped a little bit after mixed trading action. after weeks of a volatility we are looking at two big names, amazon walmart. amazon shares are up nearly two and a ha

captured the attention of the media while u.s. vice president mike pence was mocked as a dud even undiplomatic the two careers are engaging each other this makes the washington foreign policy few. cross the koreas i'm joined by my guest brian becker in washington he's the director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear a daily new show on radio sputnik and in columbus we have gregory illich he is a korea policy institute associate or a german cross-like rules and i think that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciated brian let me get me go to you here i'm sure you saw some of the mainstream corporate is coverage of the opening of the games and the what appears to be is some kind of reproach moment between the two koreas but i thought a lot of that coverage has really missed the point in the what's really important here is not if the two koreas can actually engage each other because well they are but how much is the united states willing to go along with this and gauge meant here because the united states has an awful lot at stake with its prese

hundred poor regime clashes in syria have been killed by the u.s. led coalition and allied local forces and unnamed official says the coalition was responding to an attack against the american backed syrian democratic forces and there are problems mainly kurdish alliance controls large areas of north east and syria. well elsewhere russian and syrian government forces are continuing to bomb and shelled two regions that remain in rebel hands and just four days nearly two hundred people have been killed in eastern guta and in the northeastern province of idlib were east and both allies near the capital damascus and has been under government siege for about five years almost half a million people are trapped there and often suffer severe food and medicine shortages and province a bombing has intensified since a russian plane was shot down by rebels on saturday killing the pilot. and eastern guta in the so-called deescalation zones where violence was supposed to be reduced but instead the body count continues to rise by the hour. the reports now from beirut in neighboring lebanon. civ

personnel to deal with emergencies and medical evacuations syria is accusing the u.s. of committing a war crime by bombing fighters loyal to president bashar asad the u.s. led coalition says one hundred fighters died in the airstrikes and that as our province that was a response to what the u.s. court an unprovoked attack on its allies the syrian democratic forces russia says the u.s. strikes are part of an american effort to control economic assets and turkey has resumed bombing raids over the northern survey an enclave of a fleeing after a five day break local kurdish media posted this video showing turkish airstrikes on the outskirts of the well turkey begad an air and ground operation last month to oust the twi peachey group from thinking those are the headlines on al-jazeera one o one east is coming up next. facing realities growing up when did you realize that you were living in a special place the so-called secret city getting to the heart of the matter why is activists to live in jail just because she expressed herself hear their story on talk to al-jazeera at this time. the

business groups and try to advance u.s. foreign policy interests sometimes against the interests of the host government the target government and beyond that they receive financial and other logistical help from the national endowment for democracy and other u.s. agencies that help them training activists working with journalists to get their side presented more favorably they work on things like how do you get traction how do you get things to go viral how do you then use that to generate support for your cause and support was generated was the hot stuff and i had the founder of one of ukraine's new media outlets. t.v. knew very well how to make something go viral. it was his notorious facebook post on november twenty first two thousand and thirteen that brought the first crowds to my don gets in the southwest of the trick which it's difficult to put the political world with this. if you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed if you read the newspaper you are misinformed. to deliver your message efficiently enough in the modern world with so many different technologies and means o

dollars from banned exports including arms sales. facing a new reality the u.s. pushes the case to modernize its nuclear weapons triggering fears of a weapons race. plus a freefall for digital currencies bitcoin loses a third of its value in the past week. the u.s. congress has released a republican memo criticizing the f.b.i.'s investigation into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election it was declassified by president donald trump but documents says the f.b.i. and department of justice abuse their power and showed anti trump bias while examining a legit ties between trump's campaign team and the kremlin the f.b.i. had argued against its release saying it had grave concerns the document contained material emissions of fact democrats say the memo is aimed at the railing special counsel robert mahler's investigation our white house correspondent kimberly halkett reports. republicans promised a bombshell that would destroy any idea the trump campaign colluded with the russian government during the twenty six thousand presidential election but in the end it di

while clashing over others will actually lead to a comprehensive amending of the russian u.s. relationship but that hasn't materialized why doesn't tillerson continue working this line. well there has been you know a sea change and nobody saw this exactly coming but you know obviously there are dead there difference here is on the interpretation but most americans believe that there was russian interference in the elections so and they see that as an attack on american values so during the kerry years and even before that during the clinton years there was more of a willingness to in their mind reset relations after they had. deteriorated on one issue or the other host ukraine crisis and certainly. particularly now with with still the investigations on what happened in the elections going on it's very hard for tillerson or any or trump as we've discussed to make the case to the american public that we should have better relations now despite the hostility if they americans and the russians so i say why when it came to fighting isis and now the terrorist state is all but defea

declassified by u.s. president donald trump it was written by republicans says the f.b.i. and department of justice abuse that showed bias while investigating the alleged ties between his campaign team and the kremlin well the f.b.i. had argued against its release saying it had grave concerns the document contained what it called material emissions a fact in a statement the agency's director christopher ray told staff he stood by them democrats say the members aimed at derailing special counsel robert muller's investigation into the campaign's alleged links to russia white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports. republicans promised a bombshell that would destroy any idea the trump campaign colluded with the right . government during the twenty sixteen presidential election but in the end it did not meet expectations president trump declassified the memo written by top republicans allowing for its public release even against the advice of his own f.b.i. director and the u.s. justice department. the four page report which is part of a larger intelligence document argues f.b.i. inves

u.s. pushes the case to modernize its nuclear weapons triggering fears of a new arms race. volatile week for digital currencies bitcoin loses a third of its value plus. i'm wayne hay in the town of la one providing we will tell you about a chinese mega project that's causing through here that the lao government hopes will help open this landlocked country up. the u.s. congress has released a republican memo criticizing the f.b.i.'s investigation into alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen election it was the classified by president donald trump the documents says the f.b.i. and department of justice abuse their power and showed anti trump bias while examining alleged ties between the campaign and the kremlin the f.b.i. had argued against its release saying it had grave concerns the document contained what it called material admissions of fact democrats say the memo is saying that the railings special counsel robert muller's investigation a white house correspondent kimberly reports. republicans promised a bombshell that would destroy any idea the trump campaign col

international dimension. it is not just u.s. inflation going up. take a look at europe. 3.5% to 4% wage growth in german inflation. if that is not inflation, i don't know what is. jonathan: jeff, it raises the question, whether you get a treasure in a vacuum or this becomes a global bond market downturn. make is absolutely right. none of us look at treasuries in isolation. particularly the last couple of years the narrative has been on and theirlows influence on interest rates. global qe. it is a co-determined relationship where you have all of the factors. we take a lot of focus in the u.s. with the marginal data, what the fed says, and the dollar is preeminent in its role in financial markets and the role of the fed, but global factors absolutely matter. it is an inflationary environment, not just from the u.s. perspective. the u.s. is in the lead, but by global influenced growth and inflation expectations. jonathan: the global flow story , we have been told again and fxin, when you bake in the hedgecock, the story changes radically. -- 290 do it?it i think it does. but they don't jus

it's unclear why it is time to have an exercise this week veto as a u.s. ambassador and a u.n. nikki haley state as straight after devote to russia tried it to slow it down at the procedure and it seems that defers to a solution was supposed to possum wednesday but because of russia resistance you passed just today ok so there was some resistance they didn't use that you know we're not sure necessarily why but they are saying that they don't want this to take immediate effect why. because there you are courting to the russian ambassador you must take some time soon because there are like. there are a lot of things going on on the ground many say that they need some time so you know order to. in order to do to have a cease fire would it would end in fact so this is why also interest every solution a language they don't talk about immediate as it as soon as possible so the real change and i thought something that was probably they want to continue on eastern kentucky although right now it's got is a little bit unclear what's going to happen in the next couple of days ok as soon as poss

culture of violence in the u.s. is encouraged by policy at the highest level. well it's not hard to obtain weapons in the united states one can do it through a friend or through an online or go to a gun show or or there's all sorts of ways to obtain guns there's a. big problem here is that prevalence of weapons another problem is the prevalence of a violent set but at the state level in we know that the new budget that that's being implemented increases the military by eighty billion dollars so already we have the united states spending more on that on the military than the next eight countries combined just the increase in the u.s. military spending is more than the entire russian military budget eighty billion dollars just imagine if that eighty billion dollars was put to positive uses promoting conflict resolution. putting using it for improving social needs and resolving conflict instead of promoting violence and military solutions we might see a dramatic decline in these kinds of incidents. this is a developing story and of course our news room is keeping across that we will ke

all agree is a ugly disagreement among gcc countries and others one that has divided traditional u.s. allies and sow divisions i think even within the u.s. government. so we are really interested in hearing your perspective mr. minister. be careful on the steps and please join us on the stage. >> thank you for inviting me today. i hope i can shed light on some of the issues that are taking place in our region which is affecting also the u.s. interest and i hope i can propose some ideas for a way forward. we have been allies for 45 years. we have dozens of agreements that memorialize their commitment to each other. this week we started the strategic dialogue. additional agreement including defending the cybersecurity infrastructure for energy strengthening trade investments in technology, developing international law enforcement to stop trafficking and continue joint commitments. it has not been welcomed with wider arms. we have a unique partnership. when the u.s. -- today it's the largest u.s. base in the world. in qatar troops thousands of u.s. teachers and students have hundreds of

u.s. attorney. let me read what you wrote. perhaps a u.s. attorney should take over this. a better way forward would be for mr. sessions to appoint a u.s. attorney to investigate abuses of power within the justice department and f.b.i. rather than destroying these organizations, the goal of the investigation would be to restore their credibility by identifying any abuses of power and removing the responsible individuals. if there are these allegations for abuses of power wouldn't that be an internal investigation >> that's the whole point. a special counsel is supposed to be independent but is part of the executive branch. the department of justice is fully capable of doing this. notwithstanding a lot of questions about the department of justice. find a u.s. attorney from outside the d.c. area. find a retired u.s. attorney like andy mccarthy up here in new york. give him a team of investigators and let him go at it. the purpose was to find abuses, not sniff out crimes. maybe they do come up with crimes. just as congress if they find a crime or what they think they can send a crimin

on their defense my use of it u.s. so russia which spends four times less than the european allies on they don't defense is so dangerous it's moving its troops inside its own borders it's created and you would have to of war in europe that's the object that we get from the newspapers not only in the united states about those you don't see too many russian warships in the great lakes do you mean. there but they go they do go to the black sea no their books signed the baltic sea right next to st petersburg i think alex put up a really good point before this is about the nature of al-qaeda in syria. i wouldn't say that isis came from al-qaeda it had kind of its own roots in the u.s. occupation of iraq it didn't spread into syria the number of passes and others who were imprisoned by the by u.s. authorities tortured there and and so not that that's any kind of justification for what isis became but it had spread into syria and at times they were allied with both the u.s. backed free syrian army and with al-qaeda such as when east aleppo was taken but all through this this conflict whil

used by social scientists to describe the phenomenon through our history. openwhen the u.s. and borders in the 19th century, a wage earner would, and then get a house and a job and send for his family to come. the first person to go through ellis island was a young minor child who was meeting up with their family here in the united states. legally, family sponsorship or unification wasn't part of a immigration law until 1921 when congress put very high quotas on immigrants outside northwestern europe but made an exception for immediate relatives. it, it was changed in 1965 and expanded. family sponsorship has been a major portion of the immigration system. -- there have been unintended consequences. you have basically two big portions of family sponsorship. one is the immediate relatives, spouses, parents, children. that's 48% of immigrants in the united states. ofhave another portion family sponsored preferences. they are 20%. they add up to 68%. it started in 1965, people wanted to keep american immigration coming from europe. most immigrants were from europe. the idea was onl

in china and hong kong. very interesting couple of days to come. we are keenly watching the u.s. inflation report. disappoints if cpi to a market that has been awkwardly repricing. we're also passing these comments from jay powell is saying that nothing has changed. also a reminder, the last trading day for mainland markets before they shut down for the one-week holiday. the last trading day of the year of the rooster. a modest recovery story playing out a link the lead from wall street. david, it is a busy day in terms of investors passing the data. david: there is a lot of data coming through. as you alluded to, there is an inflation report that we are stuck between that. we are waiting to exhale or to gasp. yes, you are getting gains but they are capped. across the getting likes of gold, the dollar is back below one .08. -- 1.08. that is essentially a picture across the region. little higher on the regional benchmark. we have malaysia gdp still do out. a decision coming out of thailand. japan and singapore reporting their growth numbers. south korea, as promised we are lookin

shut for the new year holiday that other markets in the region retreat along with u.s. futures. in decision time, theresa may and her cabinet rather for a marathon meeting today to thrash out what the u.k. wants from it you trade deal. -- from anti-e.u. trade deal -- deal.n e.u. trade welcome to the program, this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." let's get straight into the earnings season, a lot of earnings to get through. deutsche's telecom targeting 4% adjusted 2018, with ebitda. fourth-quarter revenue is in line with the estimate of 19.2 billion. were getting confirmation of the topline growth story and also new targets. the new target one of the focuses for the market going into these numbers. this is a business that has struggled to do a megadeal over in the united states. handsanted to get their on the t-mobile assets and that did not work out so they are focusing on europe. will regulators let them meet their expectations in europe? they're looking to germany, and poland and the netherlands, hoping for growth there. an update on their debit in expected, that some of the earn

death of opposition leader morgan chiang rai the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson arrives in lebanon as part of his middle east tour . and its wave has it in one thousand eight hundred up exhibition that showcases the artist and technology that heralded a moment of unprecedented cultural change. south africa is awaiting a changing of the guard after jacob zuma resigned from the presidency sumos told a step down by the governing a.n.c. party his nine year term has been plagued by numerous corruption scandals well the stage is now set for a.n.c. lead a civil vom opposed to become the country's next president he will face an election next year but in the meantime he'll be dealing with the many challenges including high unemployment and crime family the mother reports from johannesburg. a reluctant announcement from an embattled president i have therefore coming to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect even though i disagree with the decision of the leadership of my organization. i have always been a disciplined member of the sea it came just h

well the u.s. president on the trumpets also have been speaking about syria in a media briefing with the australian prime minister malcolm turnbull trying to criticize the role played by allies of the syrian government can only help it has more from washington as warplanes continue to pelt eastern tell the white house has said very little beyond strongly condemning the attacks but now in a joint press conference with australia's prime minister malcolm turnbull donald trump had this to say i will say what russia and one iran and what syria have done recently is a humanitarian disgrace i will tell you that we're there for one reason we're there to get isis and get rid of isis and go home we're not there for any other reason and we've largely accomplished our goal but what those three countries have done to people over the last short period of time is a disgrace but when pressed by a reporter for what both leaders believe would be a solution to ending the bloodshed neither had any answers beyond suggesting that the solution must come from the region through diplomacy. at least eighteen

. we've come to an agreement to take joint steps together. the u.s. and turkey agree to work together on the syria conflict dominates talks jewing to secretary of state rex with us and visit to the region. and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha. fraud and also ahead. a poser to deliver his first state of the nation address says south africa's new president the struggling economy and corruption some of his key challenges. political uncertainty in ethiopia after the sudden resignation of prime minister haile muddy and desolate implants. the year of the dog millions of people around the world celebrate the lunar new year. the u.s. and turkey have agreed to normalize relations off the talks and well u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has been holding talks with his counterpart. between the two countries have been strained in recent months particularly over u.s. the kurdish fighters in syria. the turkish foreign minister says they have decided to tackle the issues together. the doctor to our relations are going through a critical stage we are either going to mend fence