Another pre dawn social media barrage, there were lots of tweets, the president claimed an ongoing lack of a trade deal will be very bad for china, very good for the u. S. A. He again claimed wrongly that u. S. Consumers dont bear the cost of more expensive imports. In fact, they do. He declared tariffs greatly help the u. S. Economy. Not much evidence of that. Certainly not helping the u. S. Stock markets. Another selloff is in the works just minutes from now when the markets open up. We begin with beijing with cnns matt rivers on the ground there. This moves shows the brutal map of this trade war. U. S. Can impose tariffs. China can impose tariffs as well. Yeah. Weve been waiting for exactly what china was going to do since the United States announced its move late last week. It was within the last hour or so that chinas government announced its raising tariffs on 60 billion worth of american imports to china. In terms of how high those tariff rates go, they are going to vary. Some i
Place. Hundreds of protesters, iranbacked malitia fighters had assembled earlier in the day to condemn the air strikes that killed 25 of their fighters in iraq from a group called hezbollah, which is heavily backed by iran and then todays protesters have initially held funerals for the fighters killed in the air strikes in a neighborhood fr neighborhood, the protesters started with chance of death to the usa, security cameras were smashed and yellow malitia flags were hung all over the embassy walls. Then the situation took a much more violent and serious turn as the day progressed, and Iraqi Security sources tell nbc news that guards inside the embassy have used tear gas grenades to try and prevent the demonstrators from moving towards the main buildings inside the embassy compound. Of course its a huge compound there, about 100 acres. Its multilayered. But were also getting reports that about 60 protesters have been injuried by the tear gas thats being fired and live rounds by guards
He has been called "the most controversial director in theater," so it s no surprise Milo Rau s latest project is graphic and visceral: an updated version of "Antigone" transposing the Greek tragedy to the Amazon rainforest and reenacting a bloody massacre.