Israels Prime Minister justifies cutting off urgently needed tax revenues to the palestinians. Can russia return to the front ranks of science, or are its glory days over . Welcome to the program. Attempts to hold yemen together as a country are in deep trouble. There has been a bombing of the president ial guest house in domar city about 100 kilometers south of the capital sanaa. Several have been killed including a houthi t. V. Reporter. An agreement has been rejected to dive id the country six regions. Houthis control most of the armys assets and are growing impatient for reform. The latest from the yemeni capital sanaa. Reporter it is the first time the houthi leader came out and announced the regression of his group to the idea of dividing yemen in to six regions. He said this is a western scheme backed by regional powers to have a weak and divided yemeni. The irony is that the houthis have agreed to dividing yemen last year in something called the National Conference action and i
2015 is upon us and so is turmoil in the markets. U. S. Stocks tumbled jshlg sending the Dow Jones Industrial down by about 1. 9 for the day. Global stocks also took a hit, especially markets in europe which bled between 2 and 3 for the day, the one specific thing weighing on stocks is fear over falling oil prices. But there are also major Geopolitical Forces at work. But take a look at where oil traded today, 50. 04 a barrel but earlier in the day for the First Time Since 2009 u. S. Oil prices fell below 50 a barrel. And many market watchers say it could fall below 40 or even 30 a barrel before going back up again. World currencies has plummeted against the dollar which is bad news for u. S. Exporters. It makes u. S. Products more expensive to buy abroad. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve is expected to raise Interest Rates sooner rather than later. Ill have more on that later in the show as well. But the fear in the market over sales earnings and rates is playing out against an increasin
The cemetery in france with no room for a roma baby and a Close Encounter with pluto after a decade. An n. A. S. A. Spacecraft on mission to complete its factfinding mission. Hello, a warm welcome to the newshour. In Northern Iraq Kurdish Peshmerga forces are tackling i. S. I. L. Around the village of Sultan Abdullah its close to mosul and an important strat eej yik defensive position. There has been heavy fighting here for days. Peshmerga are gaining ground but there are pockets of resistance from i. S. I. L. The village is a source of water from the surrounding area. We joined peshmerga as they battled for control. This is a frontline for the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. A few hundred meters away is the village of Sultan Abdullah. A few days ago it was the scope of heavy fighting between Islamic State of iraq and levant and Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Peshmerga controls the village, but its within the range of i. S. I. L. Fire. We were advised against going into the village. With the mo
2015 is upon us and so is turmoil in the markets. U. S. Stocks tumbled jshlg sending the Dow Jones Industrial down by about 1. 9 for the day. Global stocks also took a hit, especially markets in europe which bled between 2 and 3 for the day, the one specific thing weighing on stocks is fear over falling oil prices. But there are also major Geopolitical Forces at work. But take a look at where oil traded today, 50. 04 a barrel, but earlier in the day for the First Time Since 2009 u. S. Oil prices fell below 50 a barrel. And many market watchers say it could fall below 40 or even 30 a barrel before going back up again. World currencies has plummeted against the dollar, which is bad news for u. S. Exporters. It makes u. S. Products more expensive to buy abroad. Meanwhile the Federal Reserve is expected to raise Interest Rates sooner rather than later. Ill have more on that later in the show as well. But the fear in the market over sales earnings and rates is playing out against an increas
We look at the space plans for 2015. Well start with some developing news coming out of saudi arabia. Two policemen have been killed on the border with iraq. It happened in a Police Patrol area near arra. Local Police Say One of the two attackers exploded a bomb that killed him. On saturday, the Saudi Arabian agency said it would reopen an office that had been closed two years ago. Bangladesh nationalist party leader has been prevented from leaving her office in the capital of dhaka. Mohamed, away more do you know . So far its been confirmed that the two people who were killed are members of the opposition rather theyre activists of the opposition, local activists. It is not entirely clear yet who they were killed by. We are expecting more information from us about that soon. What we do know is that the these killings about violence that has taken place in the run up to last years elections when you had 67 people mostly opposition activists killed almost every single day. That has not