A you create International Airlines 1st fatal accident in his 20 year history. Of a warm welcome to you im on the. U. S. President is expected to make a statement shortly reacting to irans missile attack on u. S. Bases in iraq the u. S. Different is still assessing the damage but iran claims it has killed more than 80 americans the missiles reportedly ship the. Base in western iraq and another near the city of in the north irans revolutionary guard says the attack was in retaliation for the u. S. Assassination of general. In baghdad last week. Its all about the war here paul strong. The mouth of the house a rainy and state television claiming at least 15 missing aisles fired by Iranian Forces have hit the. Base in iraq killing 18 u. S. Soldiers the numbers cannot yet be verified and so far there have been no reports of casualties from the United States or other coalition forces. On. This promised active revenge was for the killing of top military commander general salim mani the move h
Japan hits back with an arrest warrant. Kathleen and the latest results from samsung. Shares remain close to an alltime high. Australian markets have open. Sophie, what is the latest . Seeing oil names with the declines along at the start of trade. Checking in on whats happening with the aussie dollar, looking flat after its biggest drop since august. , this morningline still below the level as we anticipate more policy support from beijing. Gold looking likely to continue. First words get the news from new york. The effect of the bush arsenal shag are being felt halfway around the world. About 12,000 kilometers from sydney. Five have killed at least one for people and up to a billion animals. They are generating their own west or system whether systems that can in turn ignite new blazes. The internal investigation that led to the ouster was never about finding the truth and he wanted to be interviewed himself as part of the probe. Hes promising to name people he said engineered a coup
Markets trying to figure out the fallout from the u. S. Strike meansilled the general for their portfolios. And what it means for the price of brent. Is at theere bryant moment. Gold at the highest in six years. Data. Also getting some Euro Area Services pmi coming into 52. 8 just a touch better than expected. We are at the eurasia summit talking 2020 risk. We will talk to the italian Prime Minister. In the International Rescue committee chief executive David Miliband. Those are coming up on bloomberg surveillance. Lets get to the first word news in new york city. We begin with Australian Authorities counting the cross of newowns on the south south wales in neighboring victoria. Blazes are the generated drive thunderstorms, thousands have been evacuated to Recreation Grounds, converted into makeshift camps. A new top man from china and hong kong, a communist party of thel who is now part anticorruption campaign. After nearly seven months of political unrest. Shows beijings intention to
Crude Oil Last Week which hit the highest interday wti up to 63. 72 an barrel ice brent crude is up to 69. 49. Gold hit a nearly fourmonth high last week posting its eighth straight positive session on friday. Longest daily winning streak since june of 2019 right now gold price is up another 1. 75 to 1,579. 60 an ounce. Our top story, tensions with iran escalating over the weekend. Eamon javers has the latest from washington good morning. Good morning, joe the iranians were vowing revenge over the weekend the administration took to television to explain its decision to kill that iranian general who was in iraq last week and to offer an explanation for what its plan is Going Forward. Mike pompeo said the administration is prepared and ready to handle anything that the iranians respond with. Heres what he said. If the American People should know that we have prepared for this, that we are ready well talk cultural that our responses are lawful and the president will take every action nece
Good monday morning. Welcome to the show. Im dominic chu in for Brian Sullivan developing story as tensions between United States and iran reach new heights in the wake of that air strike that killed iranian general Qasem Soleimani. We have Team Coverage this morning. Nbcs tracie potts joins us from washington, d. C. Also nbcs cal perry is live in doha, qatar. Tracie, well begin with you. Reporter lets start with whats happening on capitol hill and whats expected to happen this week. Remember, congress did not get a heads up about this military action against iran. We have learned overnight that democrats now want to push to give President Trump a deadline to call it all off in a letter obtained overnight, House Speaker nancy pelosi told democrats theyll vote this week to force President Trump to end hostilities with iran in a month unless Congress Approves were much closer to the edge of war. Im concerned they dont have a strategy. Reporter congress did not get a heads up about the u.