Business has come to the u. S. Has labeled china a currency manipulator cranking up trade tensions between the worlds 2 biggest economies the decision rattled investors on International Stock markets Donald Trumps decision follows the sharp weakening of chinas you one currency which breached the closely watched barrier of 7 against the dollar busy the u. S. Treasury said its labels china a currency manipulator because it has devalued its currency to quote gain an unfair competitive advantage in the worst sell off of the year the dow jones lost close to 3 percent on monday shanghai composite shares 2. 4 percent asian markets later ted those losses. Lets go straight to our Financial Markets correspondent who is in frankfurt only it seems like the trade war has and hit a new round and new arena tell us what does it mean when the u. S. Calls a country a currency manipulator. Well when you manipulate your currency youre doing that in order to get an advantage in trade and donald trump is sa
of falsifying business records, typically just a misdemeanor, and district attorney s alvin bragg s strategy for elevating the charges is on shaky legal ground. here s the new york post, calling the case trumped up. the paper writes, is that it? bragg s historic cases versus don falls flat. meanwhile the da defending his controversial decision to bring a case against a former u.s. president. your predecessor took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. federal prosecutors took a hard look at this case and decided not to charge it. do you believe you have new evidence that led you to decide to charge this, or why now? we ve had additional evidence. this is the business capital of the world. we regularly do cases involving false business statements. the bedrock, in fact the basis for business integrity at a well-functioning business marketplace is true and accurate record-keeping. that s the charge that s brought here. falsifying new york state busine
Norway conducted by norwegians it was obvious to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy soar to say a few words to our friends specifically to the minister counselor for communication and Cultural Affairs and education at the Norwegian Embassy he served in washington for about 10 months and previously in the immediately preceding was in at the Foreign Ministry but also in good diplomatic fashioning countries as well as in the kansas to land and morocco and the entire Region Embassy are good friends who have a number of interesting evens with them were delighted to work with them and have them here so perhaps a few words from our norwegian friends . [applause] good evening. Were glad to work with best buy museum. Thank you for this program to hear about the events to hear about the history of my own country and it does not take a bigger part to reshape the worlds history because that might have been devastating so just a few days ago in norway celebrated the 71st anniversary of the surre
Your welcome, everybody to the International Spy museum. I am mark staudt, former historian of the International Spy museum. The Current Museum historian dr. Vince houghton is away at it down on a secret mission, which perhaps youll hear about in the future. But im always delighted to come back to my old haunts and step in whenever necessary. You have time tonight to what i think is a Wonderful Program that we are putting on in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy because this is the story we are hearing tonight is a better world for us to come is very important and famous and dramatic world were to rate into norway convicted primarily by norwegians. And on this thing to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy. Id like to say a few words by way of introduction to our friends here from the norwegian in this these specifically. Jonage oyslebo is Cultural Affairs and education at the royal Norwegian Embassy. He has been here in washington for about 10 months on this particular tour. He se
Youve come tonight to what i think is going to be a Wonderful Program that we are putting on in cooperation with the Norwegian Embassy. Because this is, the story were going to be hearing tonight is about a world war ii, very important and famous and dramatic as you will hear world war ii raid into norway conducted primarily by norwegians. It was an obvious thing to partner up with the Norwegian Embassy. So id just like to say a few words by way of introduction to our friends here from the Norwegian Embassy. Specifically, jon oyslebo whos minister counselor at the royal Norwegian Embassy. Hes been here serving in washington for about ten months on this particular tour. He served here previously a decade or so ago, i believe. His immediately preceding tour was in oslo at the Foreign Ministry where hes been a number of times, but hes also served in good diplomatic fashion in countries as varied as mozambique, poland, switzerland and morocco. Jon and, indeed, the entire Norwegian Embassy