Marijuana. In states for pot is legal, attorney general Jeff Sessions has directed federal prosecutors to use their discretion in deciding how aggressively to enforce federal law. The death toll from a passenger train crash in south africa is now at 18. A South African officials said the train slammed into a truck driver mistakenly thought he could cross the tracks in time. Ministerrys transport said an additional 260 people were injured. In freedent occurred state province. The United States and south korea will not hold their angle joint military drills during the Winter Olympics next month. According to a statement from the office of the south korean president , in President Trump agreed during a phone call today at the gates the games in pyeongchang should be kept peaceful. South korea plans to cornett talks withs. For north korea that are scheduled for next week. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im Mark Cru
This is Bloomberg Markets asia. Rishaad lets have a look at the big one. 189s bring up this chart, on the bloomberg terminal. What does the show . Unemployment rate. I refer to that because it is the big yoelater. At unemployment, Holding Steady at record lows, or decade lows, i should say. Seasonably adjusted. 4. 1 here. Wage, wet the annual ratehe unemployment go down. We go back to 2008, and wages are pretty high. Then, they plummeted at the Unemployment Rate went up. Around the 10 level. This is a fine line. Unemployment versus wage growth. More wage growth needed to engender some sort of inflation to take the inflation rate in the u. S. Higher. Likeng at that, something 8 30 hong kong and beijing time. Dont hold me to that. Im not sure. [laughter] haidi here in asia, it is pretty data light when it comes to the inflation. Reserves looking m at the impact. Global synchronized growth story. 30 minutes out from the open in china and hong kong. Singapore, thailand, malaysia, joining a
Hillary clinton heading to capitol hill once again, about the 2012 attack that left four americans dead, including the u. S. Ambassador to libya, chris stevens. Good morning and welcome to your world. Im del walters im stephanie sy. Republicans want to know what Hillary Clinton did or did not do before the attacks. Democrats called it a political witch hunt. We look at what led to the highprofile hearing. Reporter on a crisp fall day in the shadow of the capital, a small sample of opinion. We found a predictable split between folks who credit the committee for seeking the facts. I assume the truth. Four americans were killed that night. And so i appreciate the fact that they are trying to get to the truth of what happened. Those like d. C. Resident who suspects maybe theres politics at play. Knowing the political structure. Getting Hillary Clinton in there. Trying to get Hillary Clinton or the truth. At the first debate Hillary Clinton questioned the motives. The committee spent 4. 5 m
See you. The president talked yesterday about building a coalition against isis. Is there any evidence that he has done any work in doing that he meant. A great question. There is no evidence whatsoever. Its not only our middle eastern allies, but its also all of europe and there are plenty of people here are threatened by isis and plenty of people that are carrying passports from these various countries that are threatened and yet the president is on the golf course. He hasnt done one thing to try to Start Building a coalition of countries. Some. David sometimes they have various fraternities that go beyond this. The intel agencies working together against them. Very loosely right now because they have not been in power by their leadership to do it and so the al qaeda threat, and no other purpose is isys, the size besides the growth and the composition and its objection and who its members are and things like that. And we dont see by any means and we dont see any of the overall 100 de
See you. The president talked yesterday about building a coalition against isis. Is there any evidence that he has done any work in doing that he meant. A great question. There is no evidence whatsoever. Its not only our middle eastern allies, but its also all of europe and there are plenty of people here are threatened by isis and plenty of people that are carrying passports from these various countries that are threatened and yet the president is on the golf course. He hasnt done one thing to try to Start Building a coalition of countries. Some. David sometimes they have various fraternities that go beyond this. The intel agencies working together against them. Very loosely right now because they have not been in power by their leadership to do it and so the al qaeda threat, and no other purpose is isys, the size besides the growth and the composition and its objection and who its members are and things like that. And we dont see by any means and we dont see any of the overall 100 de