Japanese yen is a safe haven. I must say actually, the japanese yen is up than u. S. Dollar and is holding up. Oil is definitely on a buy. Wti, to give us a sense of the volume. Brent crude is saving four times its volume and w. T. I. Is trading six or seven times. The markets are definitely moving with this geopolitical news overnight. Its time for the Global Exchange from around the world. From london to istanbul to prints on, new jersey and washington. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. We begin with tensions in the iddle east where one of irans most powerful general killed. The u. S. Active International Terrorism targeting and assassinating is extremely dangerous and a foolish escalation. The u. S. Bears responsibility for all consequences of its ogue ven chur churism. Mark, what is the reaction . Ive seen some demonstrations already in iran. Yes. There have been protests in iran which is the city where he was born. The key thing to remember abo
Worlds with close economic ties europe and asia. How they deal with social justice. And what are working conditions like. We visit 8 countries on 2 continents to find out how europe and asia Work Together in our series work places. A beacon of hope in the ocean a seaweed farm and power outside the indonesian capital jakarta could this be the solution to global problems. Nori more ya know definitely think so she was carrying out research into how see where you can keep the seas clean. Her home country is the worlds 2nd largest plastic polluter after china indonesia processes more than 16000000. 00 tons of Plastic Waste every year over 3000000. 00 tons of it and up in the ocean the government has pledged to reduce this by 70 percent by 2025 its known bishes plan traditional Waste Disposal methods cant keep up thats why indonesia backs pioneering ideas like the one majano is proposing she makes packaging out of seaweed. How can we solve it if we do not have something to replace this plast
Good afternoon. Welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors land use and Transportation Committee for today, monday, january 13th, 2020. Our first Land Use Committee meeting of the new year. I am the chair of the committee, aaron peskin, joined by my right vicechair supervisor safai and for his first meeting of the Land Use Committee, our nuecesesnewestmember, dean pres. Also another first, our new deputy City Attorney to the board of supervisors anne pearson is joining us for her first sole solo meeting. Our kirk is erika major. Do you have any announcements . Silence all cellphones and electronic devices. Completed speaker cards ex copies of any documents to be included should be submitted to the clerk. They will appear on the january 28th, board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. Thank you. Could you please read the first item . Item number 1 is the health code to authorizes the director of department of publichealth to allow an existing medical cannabis dispensary
Labeled that in the 1st place according to the im a Commodity Traders and analysts are now doubting these insane amount that china is committing to buy from the us under phase one of the trade deal china will pledge to buy over 50000000000. 00 more in us energy and increase ag purchases by 32000000000 over 2 years which is above the 24000000000 base line these totals will supposedly trim about 300000000000 annually from the trade gap between the 2 countries however commodity experts remain skeptical that china can even absorb these quantities without threatening trade ties with other suppliers Global Markets are lackluster today as they struggle to digest the news and analyze how this deal will affect them how will the chinas commitment to by 200000000000. 00 of trade impact other countries and their access to the worlds biggest economy analysts also point out that depending on the wording and the implementation the agreement could also violate the principle of most big. Nation treatme
Ladies and gentlemen, the George Washington High School Marching band. [applause] please welcome kayla smith. [applause] good morning, everyone. Hows everybody doing today . Thank you. Thank you for joining us today for this historical occasion. My name is kayla smith, and i will be your mistress of ceremonies for the evening. Growing up in San Francisco d5, hayes valley, to be exact, since the age of four, i have been privileged to receive mentorship from my community. I went from running departments at project level to now earning my internship at nbc this upcoming summer. [applause] ive always been ambitious, but i was lucky to have women in my life that looked like me and achieved great things, and one of those great women that i looked up to the most, our current mayor, my godmother, london breed. She wasnt changed much, by the way. To this day, she is still the same wise, inspiring, and supportive person that she was when i was a child. I know all too well the impact that mayor b