Disillusioned about the future. The eurozone may not survive. The most important influence in the world right now is populism. Erik it is straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello, im Erik Schatzker. Welcome to davos and welcome to bloomberg best. Your weekly roundup of the most important Business News, analysis and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. Here at the World Economic forum, we had the chance to discuss the weeks biggest stories with some of the worlds finest minds. Lets take a day by day look at the top headlines. 2017 is starting out as the year of geopolitics, led by brexit and the Incoming Trump administration. But no single country is likely to have more effect on the Global Economy than china. Earlier this morning, their president spoke for the first time at davos. Nobody will emerge as a winner in a trade war. I saw the president of chinas speech as a major message. It is a message that says, lets recognize the fact that we are mutually interdependent.
Good afternoon, we begin this noon with breaking news, attorney general, eric holder is announcing plans to resign after six years of leading the justice department. The white house said he discussed his plans with president obama over the recent months and made plans over the labor day weekend. He will remain in his post until a successor is chosen. We are also following breaking news out of iraq this noon, the intelligence operation there up covered a plot against subway systems in the u. S. And france. The Prime Minister says the plot is imminent and by the group known as isis. Well have more on this story and give it to you as we get it. And today was the third led day of air strikes in syria, the isis fighters took over there, and are advancing to the town of abanny. Now to accuweather, the rain is finally winding down after several hours of steady downpours, high winds are still gusting across the region right now. Lets go live to sky 6 hd. Taking a look at a gloomy scene in atla
Seven civilians in an u. S. Airstrike in syria. Then we go to ferguson missouri. I want to say to the brown family, no one was not espresso loss of a child can understand what you are feeling. Im truly sorry for the loss of your son. Im also sorry that it took so long to remove michael from the street. As fergusons police chief issues his first apology to the family of Michael Brown, protests continue against the police force. Tension escalated this weekend when a Police Officer was shot in the arm while responding to a burglary unrelated to the protests. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. U. S. Continues to expand military operations in iraq and syria with new deployments and bombings. Overnight, usled warplanes hit grain silos and other targets in northern and Eastern Syria. The syrian observatory for human rights says the attacks killed a number of civilians, though the toll is unknown. Videos emerged
He and Glenn Greenwald just wrote a piece titled the Khorasan Group anatomy of a fake Terror Threat to justify bombing syria. Then Human Rights Watch calls for a probe into the death of seven civilians in an u. S. Airstrike in syria. Then we go to ferguson missouri. I want to say to the brown family, no one was not espresso loss of a child can understand what you are feeling. Im truly sorry for the loss of your son. Im also sorry that it took so long to remove michael from the street. As fergusons police chief issues his first apology to the family of Michael Brown, protests continue against the police force. Tension escalated this weekend when a Police Officer was shot in the arm while responding to a burglary unrelated to the protests. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. U. S. Continues to expand military operations in iraq and syria with new deployments and bombings. Overnight, usled warplanes hit grain
Officials say they disrupted an imminent attack, that was being plotted against the u. S. And western interests. Were going to have complete coverage of this throughout the morning. Lets get to the pentagon with correspondent Barbara Starr what do we know . The u. S. Picked its targets very carefully. Hitting what mattered to isis the most. Overnight, u. S. And partner nations carried out 14 intense strikes against isis strongholds in raqqa, syria, and other northern cities. The attacks destroying or damaging multiple targets, including training compounds, headquarters, and command and control facilities and briefly knocking out power in the region. U. S. Forces launching tomahawk missiles from land and sea. Bombers, drones and fighter jets continuing the assault by air, including an f22 raptor. A new air force tactical plane that can conduct airtoair and airtoground combat with near impunity. The air strikes targeting key isis positions, including the city of raqqa, where they are ess