I am certainly hoping these receiveelated budgets some of that attention. Francine that was bill gates, talking to manus cranny. This is bloomberg surveillance. We have some great guests who will talk about the markets, Foreign Policy, and the snap elections. First, to your markets. This is where we stand. European shares rising attach. A touch as commodity producers rebound. Metal prices, chinese equities leading asian stocks higher. That index gaming 1. 1 . I want to show you the pound. The vote in parliament a little bit later about snap elections on june 8. The vix index down quite significantly today, at 15. 85. Those are your markets. First, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. U. S. Vice president mike pence has called north korea the most dangerous and urgent threat to the peace and security of the asiapacific region. Addressing military personnel on the uss ronald reagan, hence also spoke of the overwhelming response available to protect japan against north kore
President asked for hisn his initial offer last week. Other details in this offer being reported by nbc. Health savings of 600 billion. Other mandatory savings of 300 billion. A revision to cpi of 200 billion. And further discretionary savings of 300 billion. Guys, it looks like the horse trading is alive and well here in washington. Now this offer being extended from the republicans. You can assume that the white house will not think this is enough tax revenue to go forward, but, of course, offers are being exchanged here so thats a sign negotiations are under way, guys. Lets get into the details here. 600 billion in health savings. What does that mean for medicare . Break it down in terms of where these savings come from. I wish i could. What we dont have here is a lot of detail hanging off this Christmas Tree at this point. Were looking at a couple of bullet points being released now in terms of the scale of the deal. It gives us overall broad numbers. Presumably negotiators would h
both chambers of congress return to session next week, but not until wednesday due to the observation of russia sean on monday. the house gavels in a 2:00 p.m. for legislative work with votes after 6:30. on the agenda next week resolution of disapproval aimed at blocking the obama administration s recent changes to the welfare law. also expected a package of five energy and environmental bills aimed at boosting energy production and job creation. follow the house live here on c- span. and the senate gavels in to continue work on a veterans jobs bill. also next week, a 2013 also next week, a 2013 federal spending. the house considers a resolution that would fund the government for six months, starting october 1. live senate coverage as always on c-span2. we can keep investing in wind and solar and clean coal and farmers and scientists can harness new biofuels. our construction workers can build homes and factories that waste less energy and retrofit old buildings. put
they were there for about two weeks and authorities in oakland had thought it had gone on long enough and they thought it was a si safety situation over there and health problems with people living in those tents for so long. they decided to disband those protesters and cleared everyone out yesterday afternoon and a few hours later about 7:00, 8:00 at night about 500 protesters decided they wanted to take that area back. so, they started rallying towards city hall and that s where they were met by police who were in riot gear, who threw tear gas into the crowd. it was a very unsettling situation about 100 people arrested. there were some people with minor injuries. this went on all throughout the night. things as you said, now, are calm, carol. i ll step out of frame and you can see a live picture of what it looks like now. some barricades set up just behind those barricades are city hall. just a few protesters now. police monitoring the situation. things seem to be under con
kyra. they were there for about two weeks and authorities in oakland had thought it had gone on long enough and they thought it was a si safety situation over there and health problems with people living in those tents for so long. they decided to disband those protesters and cleared everyone out yesterday afternoon and a few hours later about 7:00, 8:00 at night about 500 protesters decided they wanted to take that area back. so, they started rallying towards city hall and that s where they were met by police who were in riot gear, who threw tear gas into the crowd. it was a very unsettling situation about 100 people arrested. there were some people with minor injuries. this went on all throughout the night. things as you said, now, are calm, carol. i ll step out of frame and you can see a live picture of what it looks like now. some barricades set up just behind those barricades are city hall. just a few protesters now. police monitoring the situation. things seem to be und