in 2015 the u.s. vietnamese defense administers signed a joint statement which is defining defense times. under the agreement, the u.s. transferred coast guard cutter to vietnam and that arrived just before trenton arrived in vietnam in november. we had secretary mattis visit vietnam in january and in march the u.s. s carl vincent on aircraft carriers going to visit vietnam and be the first aircraft carrier to visit vietnam. i don't know if any visited during the vietnam war. lynn then the prime minister visited here last may and president trump visited in november. one of the interesting they think they talked about was stepping up until sharing between the two countries. there's also an effort from the u.s. vietnam to tackle legacy issues. we look for the missing in action soldiers and we hear about the cleanup of unexploded ordnance. there's also an attempt by the u.s. to remediate areas damaged by agent orange. the airport was basically completed last year of the two sides are talking about the ai

u.s. war in afghanistan intensifying again as pulled from iraq and syria, not to mention the domestic budget at home in the u.s., to expand the longest war in the united states history. stevewe 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

close to the u.s. soldier in syria itself the facts that's like russia moving troops within its own border and it's called a provocation you know where one of the interesting from a media point of view is it any time trump says something he quote unquote lies is that the liberal media like to say this is a perfect example of saying something that has nothing to do with policy but nobody says a word a word it's remarkable how the mainstream liberal media they won't jump on this they'll jump on just about anything else is long as the neo-con agenda is moved forward he can quote unquote law all he wants there because there is no opposition in either the u.s. you know political elite or within the media only they are all cheerleading us regime change efforts now transitioning to partition efforts in syria they're all back at there's there's no objection even if trump is doing it in fact that's the few minutes that he actually gets some temporary plaudits right now when he does take over military action 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 an

the u.s. senate for this job. without further adieu, welcome mr. david trachtenberg. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you, michael. pleasure to be here at brookings. very much appreciate the invitation. good to see so many people out here on such a dreary morning. thank you for making the trek out here to participate in this. it is really good to be here. it has been awhile since i have been here. always appreciate the opportunity to come back. one correction i would note to michael's very generous introduction, that is my title which was indeed principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy has now been changed, it has been shortened by one word, thanks to national defense authorization act which was signed into law a couple months ago or so. the word principal has now been dropped from all deputy undersecretary titles because there's only one deputy undersecretary. so now i have a better chance of fitting my title on a business card. so as deputy undersecretary of defense fo

that funding was a part of a , a u.s. commitment, a u.s. interest, and international and u.s. obligation. it makes sense that the u.s. finds its own vision of building two states.\ the u.s. has invested into the infrastructure of peace. we appreciate it. pressure does not work. especially when it comes to people like us. it doesn't work. it has been tried before. it did not work. it will not work this time. if it does anything, it adds to our self pride. resilience, if you make. may. what an aid, is that a term i weaponizzing aid. denying people's education and health care. i was educated at that school. he is turned -- the eight has turned a catastrophic situation into a less catastrophic situation. ,t has given people like me children, the opportunity and platform to be educated and lead a different future. please go back, you will see the actual office of this visual -- vicious attack. he thinks that by dismantling us, the issue of refugees will finish. it does exist in his head. netanyahu. to theher honor exists or not, lives of millions of pet -- palestinian refugees. we

the u.s. 10 year, a big coming down of that yield, 2. 66%. the long end of the treasury benefited the most of the wave of safe havens. overall treasuries have been rallying and s&p futures are recovering a little bit, but still called almost 2% lower. let's check in on the first word headlines from around the world. rosalind: struggling to deal with a market throughout. glitch is a setback for the financial market industry. people have become comfortable making investment decisions without human beings. even as u.s. stocks plunged, president trump hailed the economy, plunging his tax overhaul and telling workers in ohio that america is once again open for business. donald trump: when i signed the tax cuts six weeks ago it set off a tidal wave of good news that grows every single day. out,e the week was companies were announcing thousands of thousands of new jobs and enormous investments to their workers. u.k. brexite secretary david davis says his government is very clear on what it wants out

the u.s. and turkey work to improve their strained relations president. mates with america's top diplomat. hello and welcome to al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha with the product also ahead south africa's new president prepares to give his first state of the nation address as the country waits to see who. will appoint to his cabinet. is that. is very much in. zimbabwe's new opposition leader looks to the future following the death of a rock. and the year of the dog millions around the world celebrate the new year. the u.s. secretary of state says he's had a good and productive talks with turkey's president at the one rex tillerson as on the fifth and final leg of his middle east oil ties between the two countries have been strained in recent months of the u.s. support for kurdish watches and syria roslyn jordan tells us more about why the u.s. and turkey haven't been seeing eye to eye. there's a saying you dance with the ones who brought in syria the u.s. military is supporting the

the u.s. session later? the s&p posted its biggest loss. that is fairly substantial, but it has been down more than that. .9% on u.s. by futures. one of the most interesting things for me this morning was rediscovering european stocks erased all of their gains. just what is this, what is going on here? is this an overdue healthy correction? keeping track of course of the we. 10 year yield is where are at this stage, because this is -- the relationship between bond markets and equity markets has been crucial to where we are on this global equities story. manus: even janet yellen talking about that. these markets were in public territory, but she had warnings about stocks and buying commercial property. breaking news. top life flow on samsung. up y'all of j wiley is critical in terms of the length of jail term he is given. a couple of lines coming through. the court does not accept there was a succession issue for solicitation. there was no bribery in support them. smaller lines coming through.

and it is a reflationary environment, not just from the u.s. perspective. the u.s. is in the lead, but it is also being influenced by global growth and inflation expectations. jonathan: on that side, let's get our teeth into that particular debate. the global flow story, from one area of bond markets to another, we have been told again and again if you get up to 290 on the u.s. yield, that is capital. but when you bake in the fx hedging costs, the story changes quite radically. does 290 do it? does it get the capital to finance that deficit? nick: i think it does. and certainly 305, something like that on the three-year treasury has become very effective. they don't just focus on treasuries. when you look at the investment grade index in the u.s., you are 375 or something like that, so that is a big pickup both in terms of yield and credit spread if you are coming out of europe or japan. and remember, globally they are still printing money until the end of the earth. jonathan: kathleen, your thoughts on that? matt: i think -- watchen: i think you can that near-term

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

u.s. is ready to engage in nuclear talks with north korea, even as it maintains pressure on kim jong-un's regime. anna: theresa may looks to reunite her divided cabinet and come up with the brexit plan. ♪ anna: good morning, everybody. this is "bloomberg daybreak: europe." let's take a look at the asian equity session. it has been in rehab after the stresses of last week. they are up 1.1 percent on the msci asia-pacific, excluding japan. futures point higher. there is a lighter tone to the geopolitical conversation, based on words from mike pence. that is helping. risk-on in there markets. it takes away from the dollar and boosts some currencies today. dollars bought index down .3%. data onnflation wednesday. in the meantime, look out for budget commentary today from the trump administration and anything big report on infrastructure. i mentioned the letter tone to the geopolitical conversation. are mentioned the lights tone to the geopolitical conversation. could with the conversations t

the u.s. is losing in two ways number one the climate denying is precluding them from the dissipating in this new economy number one and number two the effects of climate change and why the catastrophes the global you know migrants that are the result of it all the other problems are hurting the u.s. economy on the other side of the trade so you've got a double by. breaking news this hour two people are confirmed dead and around seventy injured in a train crash in the u.s. state of south carolina. a rebel group downs a russian fighter jets in the northwest of syria executes part of. revelations of a declassified memo playing the f.b.i. and u.s. justice department secured a warrant despondent twenty six the election campaign using a holiday dubious report. and sports crimes tribunal court overturns the last time by a russian athletes explaining the evidence used to prove. it was insufficient.

that means i like a u.s. nuclear weapon, which would hit within a 10 meter circle or less, it would hit within a mile or two circle. they don't know where it is going to hit when they shoot it. it is not very accurate, in other words. so the things she was presenting there, she was presenting with a drama that even if what she was saying fundamentally was true, that the houthis got it from iran and shouted at saudi arabia, it was so exaggerated that one looks at it and says" i can't believe the united states is represented by that woman." colonel lawrence wilkerson, it is very interesting that you have this moment now in u.s. --tory where the republicans some of them -- are joining with president trump in trying to discredit the intelligence agencies. and yet you go back to 2003 where you have a fears criticism of the us intelligence agency, saying the wording used to politicize information. which oddly, is what president trump is saying in a very different context. >> you would have a lot of sympathy if you

the u.s. public health chief has resigned over a financial conflict of interest documents show brenda fitzgerald traded in tobacco and health care stocks while she was the director of the centers for disease control and prevention fitzgerald was appointed by trump in july and is the second high profile health official to step down health secretary tom price resigned in september after allegations he had misused a government aircraft. the f.b.i. has raised questions about the accuracy of a secret congressional memo that suggests the agency and the justice department abused their powers the white house intends to release that classified document containing allegations of trump bias that explains. thank you and god bless america goodnight for many people it was the text of donald trump state of the union speech that made headlines instead it was his unscripted comments as he left the chamber referencing a secret memo purporting to show top law enforcement tools were used for political purposes th

u.s. led coalition of war crimes for attacking its fighters. a show of force at a time of apparent unity career stages a massive military parade on the eve of south korea's olympics. speech the family of a palestinian man being sued by the israeli army for damage to the cheap that killed him. and one designed his pipe dream help people grab a bigger slice of kong's real estate. and i'm tatiana in doha with all the sports news including the opening ceremony of the winter olympics might not stop for a few more hours of action and some sports already underway to have the latest from one part. of the program our top story syria's government has attacked the u.s. led coalition for a rare as strike on pro assad forces branding it a war crime and a new effort to support terrorism a military source within the coalition says that the strikes in there is zero province killed about one hundred pro assad fight has who are attacking the syrian democratic forces as a briefing a short while ago a spokesm

at what point do benchmark u.s. yields rise too high for the current equity market rally to be sustainable? mike: the increase in yields will affect the market more than 3.5%, 3%,te level at or is it how quickly it ascends and for what reasons? if you end up with a gradual way,t at 3% or 4%, by the we should be there because we are talking inflation at 2% to 2.5%, and you end up with a situation where bonds have to reprice. if they do it in a gradual, systemic way, and underlying inflation is ok but moving up gradually, the market will get killed. david: i am curious about at what point the bond market is likely to react. in washington, they say, we continue with deficits and they give no evidence, democrats nor republicans, you cannot find a deficit hawk in washington today. at one point to be get bond vigilantes to say, we do not like this? stephen: we have started to see that. we have known for a long time that we were coming into a time when treasury supply would increase. it isming is such that coming together

it's not the u.s. call, it's a russian. u.s. cannot promise anything there. so the only thing that the u.s. can offer to make it easier is to push the way pg to withdrawal and that's very difficult. it's difficult because recently the u.s. state of the strategy and they want to stay there and the y pg is the main ally for a hurt the feelings of the way pg when they said it's not our thing, it's not our area of operation but if they decide to handle this for push or ask, that will send the wrong signal to the curse but the question is, do the kurds have any other option. so while turkey would make a very risky decision, that will be a breaking point in terms of u.s. relations. will he do that? i argue that it still open in the u.s. is using the airbase so the logical thing for turkey would be to close it down and he didn't do that. i assume if you didn't do that he won't move in but the other side of the argument he said it very publicly so be difficult to see. >> i do agree but i think it's possible for him to walk back his rhetoric. i think you can always sw

predicates that improve and u.s. relations with the u.s. . imports we did not return a letter in response to kim jong un's personal letter but what the south korean government is talking about is that and as an initial step is to set a private. low level envoy not connected to government that would discuss domestic issues. reuniting divided families and so forth as a starting point and from there are try to slowly expand the types of contacts but to be very low key and i think i think that it's still tied in to the view that he's got to bring a lot of the united states you know yeah to make it maybe kicking in that way and kicking in dry dragging them to peace here kicking and screaming kicking and screaming absolutely brian i'll give you the last word here what do you think is going to happen next year because i don't see the u.s. backing down they want that bloody no it's i mean that would be the end of the peninsula as we know it go ahead brian. yeah the american government fears that peace could break out in the korean peninsula because t

appeared what was the reaction from the spokesperson for the u.s. led coalition. but the u.s. coalition has no information of this before when there were there was just a rumor about the syrian government using chemical weapons immediately they had was that while they had they had a lot of rhetoric for something they never ever happened they didn't even send inspectors there that they were so sure that this information was correct went to turkey somehow they preferred to be silent is the interesting thing to mark is that we have to look at the internal dynamics of turkey and everyone's perceived american stance is very popular domestically for him so this is again another part of the spectrum that he's playing i mean he first of all he accused the u.s. of a coup trying to overthrow his government u.s. back to under the bed probably the only coup that i believe the u.s. has been in recent times but it's an enormously popular with his islamist based and their base is as long as that on top of that he's turned his country into basically the whole day resort for all of the jihadi

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 individual markets, you can see it's a bit of a mixed p

if it's margin i mean the u.s. believes and if you go back to the past twenty years you know there was a period in the ninety's when the u.s. believed it was a unit polar power so clearly above every other power in the world and able to take unilateral action what you've seen in the last decade or two is the fact u.s. seeing china particularly a rise very quickly and there is a war a on the economic side you know china is six seven years away from becoming the biggest economic power in market value terms so that is the concern i think were approaching in an interesting way another spot nick moment. as you remember in the fifty's when the u.s. worried it was falling behind the soviet union and technology development. russia and china are cold revisionist powerset want to shape the world under their modelling the latest us to fan strategy so to me it sounds that an american mindset there is to american will do which is right and there is all the rest which are incorrect or adversary revisionist and need to be confron

and the u.s. so month of november was the u.s.'s turn. so people started gathering at these checkpoints. word had gotten out that supposedly the checkpoints were open. they could now cross. berlin police were not prepared for this onslaught of people, and so the mayor of berlin -- and these checkpoints were still in russian territory. there was sort of a buffer zone , if you will, between the actual checkpoint that you crossed through before you got into west berlin territory. so the west berlin police needed permission to cross into that sector to help out the east berlin police with this rush of people. so harry gilmore, this was an on the spot decision, had to make it. normally, protocol would have had him consult with counterparts and notify but he gave permission on the spot for the west berlin police to help out with the crush of people. and of course the wall came down , and not long later, the reunified. berlin,ssy was moved to so this unique position of u.s. minister to berlin was no long

mark has the u.s. his credibility been damaged in this crisis and if so how much in both the region and in particular in g.c.c. countries yes i mean i you think i think you see those a bit of a lack of trust in essence and on all sides in a way and therefore also those since the u.s. still remains a superpower an effort to sort of win that trust back or when the favor is back but also to hedge and to look to other sources of support whether it be iran russia even turkey of course and this is probably the big conflict rooming looming in the background this showdown in the sunni states even before we had a sunni shia clash and now we have turkey saudi arabia clash if you want and the fronts in the front lines are clearly drawn. again i think u.s. diplomacy as an american citizen should be much more creative should be much more proactive inch should to go in new ways and i would again not just blame the trumpet ministration but also the previous administration for a lack of creativity for foreign policy w

u.s. confirms the embassy will move from tel aviv to jerusalem by may earlier than expected also a former election aide to donald trump agrees to help the inquiry into alleged russian meddling in u.s. politics while another faces yet more charges plus. russia marks one hundred years of the red army find out how the military has been rebuilt to become one of the strongest in the world. welcome to the program the syrian military bombardment of eastern looks set to continue after a u.n. vote on a humanitarian ceasefire was postponed until saturday more than four hundred forty civilians have died in six days of attacks on the rebel held enclave in a few moments we'll hear from our diplomatic editor james bays at the u.n. but first a somber binge of its report on the situation in east and. there's a lot to do to fix yet they call out for those left on another floor but in the dense dust and debris it's hard to see who's left. the upper floor is on fire. the doctor tells ali to open his eyes so

the u.s. is losing into a summer on the climate denying is precluding them from the dissipating in this new economy number one and number two the effects of the climate change and why the catastrophes the global you know migrants that are the result of it all this other problems are hurting the u.s. economy on the other side of the trade so you've got a double by. two americas too intensely charged in opposing news narratives you cable news networks reflect these divisions or rather function as triggers intensifying cultural divide also what has happened to journalism is it now a profession inhabited by hacks in the politically possessed. to do a song that will remain holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for the time being off the drop his arrest warrant is postponed for another week. also this hour the u.s. the french secretary office congress to approve a major funding boost for the military and singles out russia and china global threats. human rights watch reveals how drugs are bei

assets, u.s. companies still, despite the fact they're getting better tax treatment for bringing assets home, are still veracious in their appetite to pick up assets elsewhere. if a british regulator were to say we don't want any potential buyers for this asset, that wouldn't wash as well. let's throw in another angle to this, let's throw in brexit as well the uk government, you can bet your bottom dollar today, there will be a conservative government politician who will say this is a vote in confidence in post-brexit britain brexiteers are waiting for that. the overlap of nbcu assets, comcast assets, already part of the comcast group, of which we are a part of, probably are not enough to have a regulatory basis based on what you just said, the public iticians will this one as well >> thanks for joining "street signs. >>> let's check in on markets. the ftse is up 0.2% 0.1% actually. we didn't just have the fox sky news -- comcast news at this point, we also had strong home building numbers come ou

that included the u.s., that included the u.s. interference operation. so they spent over $1 million. it's 73 million rubles, russian rubles, and over $1.25 million in this operation. when you read this indictment what it tells you is the level of sophistication of this, but how the fbi, other national security folks, were able to, probably, infiltrate this operation, to learn all this stunning detail about the operation, so it's a lot of what we've been reporting on, on some of the information that the fbi has gathered in this, no doubt using fisas to gather this information. other intelligence, human sources. this is 37 pages of details. like right down to the amount of money that the russians spent to do this operation. >> all right, shimon, stand by for me. as we cover this breaking story that we have of the special counsel indicting 13 russian nationals for meddling in the 2016 election. i want to bring in jim sciutto. jim, this is really a stunning turn. and this is a huge development. >> on a number of levels, brianna. let's run through them if we

u.s. we saw quite a lot of pressure on the nikkei. 1.6%.600 now down i will show you a chart of the stoxx 600 in a second, you will 3%, downit was down 4%, and now it is kind of stabilizing at down 1.6%. 37 can see the vix index .32, now we have not seen that level for a while. --.eems to be finding we focus on the selloff with the chief investment officer. we discuss oil prices in our interview with the ceo of bp. we talked the vix's historic spike. we focus on the markets, we also have quite a lot more throughout the program. let's get straight to the bloomberg first alert news. here's juliette saly in singapore. juliette: the president of the minneapolis fed says he does not think a financial crisis is imminent despite the turmoil. he made the comments in an exclusive interview with bloomberg. >> if they are pricing in a lower young term yield, that could be leading to higher valuations. i don't see a financial crisis on the horizon, but we are paying very close attention to it. juliett

in the u.s. workforce i think that we are almost to the point it is difficult to talk with her is a u.s. firm or a foreign fi firm. you've heard that distinguished career and he has a lot to offer so let's go ahead and get into it. mr. ambassador, today's conference is entitled to the treats don't matter. what type of magnitude and importance of the u.s. eu relationship. >> thank you for the invitation. trade is the ultimate driver of wealth creation and productivi productivity. it is science that we know that it actually is a law with a comparative advantage. it could produce everything it needs it makes more sense to focus on those things you produce sufficiently and trade the rest. there's economic activity that continues to increase and i think this is board success story or country that has grown prosperous and offered a better way of life to its citizens without trading so trade is absolutely an indispensable part of our economic life. and the transatlantic corridor talking about the relati

let's look at the u.s. markets for the month of january the s&p 500 there was up 5.6% for the month. it's trading very slightly up yesterday. let's look at the dow. also up 5.8 %. and the nasdaq similarly for the month up 7.36% let's look at the u.s. dollar. it was down 3.5% we saw that pretty much every day over the course of the month, weakening against the euro and the pound you can see the dollar down 3.5% for the month. we take a look at the ten-year treasury, we can see quite what an impact that has had over the course of the month. a lot of conversations about yield on the ten-year. you can see those numbers there really quite striking. >>> wilbur ross has told cnbc that tax cuts are having a strong impact on american workers. president trump's critics are being proven wrong about u.s. growth he says >> the naysayers were before president trump's election, they were saying we would never get over a 1.5% to 2%. they've been proven quite wrong. this year the tax bonuses are being paid, almost million a

the difference between the average u.s. wage and the wage of the foreign worker has certainly been an important contributor as well over time although a diminishing one as other countries ramp up and get their per capita income closer to the u.s.. when you're talking about what is the impact of a change like this on a location decision, then you have to think about the tax rate certainly is important, but we have to control other factors, too. if you look at the work of mike in the room, that's the kind of stuff that they do. they throw stuff at the margins with the tax effect. jim has a paper where he shows the elasticity of the location of taxable income is pretty high and there are other people who criticize them and say it's lower. his work is generally reliable. [laughter] but the point is that they are adjusting to things at the margin. i think the irish wage has grown a lot and that they have received a lot of positive wage demand from location decisions there. locating activity in the tax haven is the easiest way to

the u.s. joe hawky talks about asia-pacific trade relations under the trump administration and argues it's important the u.s. is part of the transpacific partnership or tpp. >> good afternoon, everybody. my name is kef levineson. i'm the executive director of the international washington trade association, the membership association for the international trade community. thank you, ambassador hockey and your wonderful embassy staff, they do a great job here in washington on behalf of your government and we're very grateful to them for everything they do, thank you. we would also like to welcome those of you watching on c-span. if you don't know, we're the nonpartisan neutral forum for the discussion of trade and economic issues and we've had a very busy few months and the last year has been quite eventful on the trade agenda. over the next five weeks we'll be hosting five separate events and looking at the congressional trade agenda and the implications for tax reform and trade investment and

the u.s. denies accusations of war crimes after a rare airstrike on pro assad forces killing almost one hundred fighters. council raman you watch al jazeera live my headquarters here in doha also coming up in the next thirty minutes. protests in bangladesh after the former prime minister is sentenced to five years in prison for embezzlement plus. i'm daniel there in the far north of argentina where ten thousand people have been evacuated because the flooding roads are impassable communities cut off this is as far as we can get. the u.s. congress has less than five hours to approve a budget or risk yet another government shutdown will be there to take you through the whole process live. there are there are growing tensions between major geo political players involved in the war in syria with the assad government accusing the united states of committing a war crime it follows u.s. air strikes and there is a province which the coalition says killed all those one hundred fighters loyal to the syri

i would on the news the u.s. defense secretary has called on congress to approve a major funding boost for the budget traits accounts of global threats including russia kaleb open. well james mattis the secretary of defense was speaking before the congressional armed services committee in his remarks he talked about how both russia and china were in his view a major threat to the united states because they were updating their nuclear arsenals well russia has reduced only the number of bits accountable strategic nuclear force russia has been modernized in the weapons as well as other nuclear systems. moscow advocates a theory of nuclear escalation for military conflict trying to modernize and expanding its already considerable nuclear forces pursuing entirely new nuclear capabilities now these words come from a country that recently updated its nuclear weapons doctrine the us nuclear review was recently released and in the review the united states named russia china iran and north korea as potential threats to the

the u.s. secretary of state is in lebanon for talks as part of his tour of the middle east thanks to listen as meeting their bodies president bush and prime minister didi on wednesday to find and a deal with children more than a billion dollars a year for the next five years let's get more on this now our correspondents say in the hall there is joining us live from outside the government palace in beirut so what's what's on the agenda on this visit zain at a time of so many tensions in the region including between lebanon and israel. well yes the u.s. secretary of state is on a mediation mission he wants to try to resolve the crisis between israel and lebanon over maritime borders levanon wants exploratory drilling to begin for oil and gas reserves off its coast in the mediterranean sea and the israelis are laying claim to block countries laying claim over this energy bloc and the u.s. trying to mediate now the proposals that the u.s. is putting on the table have been rejected by lebanon in th

with a perspective on u.s. and russia relations, we will start actually with a perspective from the point of view of the reagan administration with james wilson. james? >> thank you, philip. should i go up to the -- >> sure. >> thank you so much, philip. i was looking through a few files the other day and came upon a quote that i think might apply to the subject at hand. and that is the problems that bedevil american foreign policy are not like headaches. with those, you take a powder and they're gone. instead, they are like the pain of earning a living. they will stay with us until death. we have got to understand that all our lives, the danger, the uncertainty, the need for alertness, for effort, for discipline, will be upon us. we are in for it. the only real question is whether we shall know it soon enough. i think that that line as dean atchison said in june, 1946 at the harvard club of boston applied very well to that moment. it applied very much in 1998 when strobe talbot, deputy secretary sent it onto s

♪ >> u.s. stocks have their best week in five years. yet to be -- as the s&p 500 is down from the high. is a buying opportunity still there? >> euro area finance ministers prepared to vote. meanwhile, speculation about who will replace is already underway. slashing cairo, egypt interest rates for the first time since 2016. >> south africa's new president pledges to revive the economy. is this a new for the nation? >> it 4 a.m. if you are in london. let's take a quick look at what happened to the u.s. markets on friday. this is what we call a comeback. the biggest weekly game in u.s. stock since 2013. the s&p 500 up 4.3% over the past five trading days. most of those gains coming in the middle of the week. the s&p 500 was up. meanwhile, the 10 year u.s. a bit of aar-old recovery, falling below 2.9%. bloomberg up half a percent. one think of was not in the green did you can see on the board, twitter shares. twitter closing down 1.64% on friday. after the news that robert mueller has indicted 13 russians. >> we will get to that shortly. tr

in the u.s. led coalition now at this point it seems like washington is really between a rock and a hard place i mean they're trying to keep two allies happy two allies that are clearly at odds now things escalated when turkey began its military operations in syria against the kurdish forces this is called operation olive branch and from what we understand there is actually a process in the works to rename the street that the u.s. embassy in turkey is located on to rename that street after operation olive branch the operation by turkish forces in syria against the kurds that are armed by the united states so it's pretty clear the tensions are rising and questions are being raised and the united states with its two allies turkey and the kurdish fighters is really stuck in a strange situation where the goals of its policy are not exactly clear lie from.

u.s. intelligence community to do something it's hard to do which is to present the if you will the secret facts or the story i don't even know frankly the secret story because i don't have a reason i need to know that as a retired cia officer however if they do present the facts there's a risk of of compromising what we call sources and our methods which would of course not not be good so the question is how much evidence should be provided to the american people i'm personally and i stress this is my personal view an advocate of declassifying as much information as possible and presenting it to the american people and to present. to the russian government i think we really need to initiate a process that we negotiate and then to this kind of aggressive cyber hacking and interference in our one another's domestic affairs if president putin believes the u.s. is interfering in russian domestic affairs or internal affairs it's not a good approach to interfere in our affairs in order to get u

the u.s. side of the business just yet and that is of course were much of the focus is. we heard from the ceo back in november. will no longer be a big headache for this japanese business. market, theetitive collapse of their merger talks means perhaps they are looking around strategically for something else to do in that market as they battle with a lot of the big carriers there. the domestic japanese telecom site, how much they have been spending to acquire new users in that market, with a focus on these numbers as well. we've seen a roller coaster ride at the start of this week for global equities. 0.i asia-pacific is up by 33%. we were up by more than this at the start of the trading day. the nikkei 225 was up by more up by%, but now it is less than 1%, so some of those gains are fading a little bit. how solid is this bounce that we are seeing inequities? -- in equities? just checking in on the u.s. 10 year yield, we are at 2.77. yields dropped down to 2.7% yesterday, but then bounced up a

. >> a u.s. official says it is no accident that russia announced the meeting and the target was to sow discord in the united states. on thursday, pompeo defended in a letter to senate minority leader chuck schumer. he said he and others met with russians to keep america safe. schumer told cnn yesterday if this administration is ignoring sanctions, that's very serious. >>> a state department spokeswoman says sanctions can be waived in cases of national security. last year, russians revealed an oval office meeting with sergei kislyak. it is fair to note that past administrations have also met with russian intelligence officials. >>> nikki haley slamming russia an the republican retreat in west virginia. the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. telling lawmakers moscow is not and will not be our friend. she defended the administration handling of russia although it failed to impose new sanctions as mandated by congress. here is michelle kosinski at the state department. >> reporter: rene and ryan, look at t

u.s. financial markets plunge is it a correction all the start of something bigger. the state of emergency is declared in the political crisis in the mall to use it deepens. and after a week of posturing in washington over a republican memo about the f.b.i. now it's the democrats' turn. russia has blocked a u.n. security council statement condemning the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government the u.s. ambassador nikki haley says there is obvious evidence of recent chlorine gas attacks by the assad regime but russia is accusing the u.s. of waging a propaganda campaign as that debate was taking place at least forty nine people were killed by syrian and russian airstrikes in the province and eastern go to according to activists outside syria aid agencies are warning that hundreds of thousands of displaced syrians are at risk of being forcibly returned to their homes despite the violence continues to talk but on this issue is unable to act the continuing sporadic chemical attacks unde

the u.s. congress appears ready to consider new rules to impose firm federal oversight on the emerging cryptocurrency asset class news reports indicate that there is a bipartisan support for considering the effort in both the u.s. house of representatives and the u.s. senate the move is said to be in response to the growing size of the digital currency capitalization which some say could have an impact an adverse impact on the u.s. economy a senate banking committee member republican senator mike rounds said quote there's no question about the fact that there is a need for a regulatory framework crypto currencies are currently regulated by the u.s. securities exchange commission before the commodity futures trading commission my old agency the department of treasury and the u.s. federal reserve and individual states. japan's seal industry said on monday that the a proposal by the u.s. department of commerce to president donald trump would impose curbs on steel imports and that it violates the

and the u.s.. instead of going on a physical field trip you can put on a very , simple cardboard headset and go on a virtual field trip. the idea of going places is what is resonating. we are building capture systems, headsets, cardboard on the low end. and daydream. or you can simply slip the phone into a beautiful comfortable cloth-based viewer. >> this works within your ecosystem. how important is it to google as a whole? >> ar and vr are platforms for immersive computing. computing networks more like we do with humans. instead of looking at a small rectangle glass in 2d, you interact with computing in 3-d. so google lens, for example, is one of the technologies where it -- where the phone recognizes what it sees. what a cute pair of shoes, where can i get them? the idea of recognition and enhancing that or augmenting that in our real-world is a fundamental use of our platform. on one end you can wear goggles and go there. ar is on the other side where through a phone, you can bring objects into

so, u.s. attorney booker, i was very interested in your characterization of the sophistication and hierarchical nature of the organization you are prosecuting. can you give us a sense of how you have had to evolve in terms of investigation and prosecution tactics as a result of facing an organization like that in this context? attorney booker: right. as you can imagine, i don't know if i am on, i will yell. as you can imagine, if your office is used to prosecuting traffickers who may be our threebe our trafficking or four minor girls with not a lot of sophistication and organization, right? to tackle this level of what i would submit is a mafia-style organization with very detailed roles that a large number of folks play, you have to leverage your resources and you have to have a game plan. right? we have had superseding indictments. the indictments have come in waves, as is typical when you prosecute a large organization. the outreach to the appropriate victim service organizations was crucia