Hello again im peter w. Watching aljazeera life my headquarters here in doha also coming up the un will investigate accusations of war crimes in yemen but it has had to make a lot of compromises. With an agenda stretching from trade to north korea the u. S. Secretary of state has arrived in china. And were in coxs bizarre with an update on the range of crisis. Spains catalonia region is twenty four hours away from a political confrontation bands a session referendum a shuttle to take place on sunday campaigners for a yes vote complying schools are expected to be used as polling stations but the Spanish Government is insisting there will be no vote it says the referendum is in. Deploying police to ensure no ballots cast people in favor of a united Spain Holding a rally in madrid opinion polls suggest forty percent of registered voters. Want to break away lets take you live to the heart of the story our correspondent all is in barcelona for us i mean its pretty clear neither side is actu
Shooting was stopped on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. That suspect was confronted by police and is now dead rumors of other shooters are false. The only explosive device was used by police to go after the suspect who has been taken down. They identify the suspect and did not release his name yet theyre looking for his roommate, a woman named mary lou danly. In the meantime, lets get a check on the markets up again this morning i was talking with wolf earlier about the trump trade. The dollar, the yield today sharply higher up 31 points. Yield curve is widening a bit, too. Steamening, yeah. You saw 14 so far for the year for the dow. 14 . Remember mid to high mid single digit return is what people have been saying. Better than the nasdaq closing at record levels on friday. Good quarter. Got a quarter left october, november, december. Maybe we still do only get 7 but we have to be down the and the trump trade is back on i guess the introduction of weve got an idea what the ta
Right now on the russia controversy. Well go there live in a few moments. Major banks out with earnings. Jpmorgan with a quarterly beat stronger loan demand offset a decline in trading revenues. Citis results also above consensus, helped in part by lower costs and better than expected trading revenue they both mentioned brexit a year ago, jim. Really helped trading and yearonyear comp is tough joe asked me earlier which is better and i went with citi no slight to jpmorgan, their quarter was excellent, too theres fantastic growth how about this statistic you know that jamie dimon bought back 4. 5 billion worth of stock, even though the stock is up at 97, scitigroup had every line item better than expected citi gave what was considered an analyst day. And i sat down with mike korbat, the ceo on analyst day, skpeman everyone told me, pie in the sky, he exceeded everything that he said. It is a best in show situation theyre buying back 60 billion worth of stock walmart buys back 20 million
Winds are going to be picking up once again and this area of cloud is oui once again and this area of cloud is our next storm. Its just been named by the irish match service as storm bryan, wet and windy weather in time for the weekend. Things are calm at the moment, we have a lot of wrist and fork which is continuing to lift and fork which is continuing to lift and we could get some brighter skies the mist fog which is continuing to lift. Earlier in staffordshire, very grey and gloomy. Now we have some rain, the wettest weather moving up some rain, the wettest weather moving up across some rain, the wettest weather moving up across east wales, up into the midlands and Northern England and we have this rain in Northern Ireland, given how wet its been recently there may be some flooding. Its turning wet and windy across South West Wales and the south west of england. It is calm in the south east, it should feel warmer. However, we have gales on the way for this evening in the south west
Donald Trump Campaign was in touch with russian officials who wanted to defeat Hillary Clinton. He revealed a former policy adviser has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contact with russian operatives. George papadopoulos is cooperating with prosecutors. Former campaign managerPaul Manafort and an aid charged with money laundering. And congressional tax writers considering a phase in for tax cuts. According to those familiar with the matter, they looked at a schedule that would slash Business Rates from 35 to 20 by 2022. The tax bill is that the be released tomorrow. And in spain, the Independence Movement in catalunya trying to find a way forward. Its a leader took off for belgium without telling senior party officials. They say he plans to seek asylum there. Majored has strengthened control of the Catalan Government and the Prime Minister has called for regional elections. Global news 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 coun