The juice of chemical weapons under any circumstances is completely unacceptable and the breach of international. Missiles. On the finger points to know that behind act of terror against this for a little space for. To say the ball is in your corner no. Chemical agent is not freely available it was used on the russian territory against russian cities and they really want to know for a leader never of with every bit of history with them. Also coming up the shooting death that shocked slovakia 2 years ago a journalist investigating corruption in the mafia was gunned down along with his fiance today a verdict for the tycoon accused of ordering the killings not guilty. Of a source comedy im disappointed. I was beginning to believe that justice can start winning in slovakia. But at this point were at rock bottom. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the nato chemical weapons and the poisoning of a russian. Dissident today
The claims. Of u. S. Democratic president ial candidate candidate joe biden has met with the family of jacob blake the black man who was shot by police sparking a days of unrest and can osha watch wisconsin if you can biden met relatives in milwaukee the marlise victim and join the conversation by phone from hospital. Emergency crews in beirut say theyve detected signs of life in the rubble of a building that collapsed after the massive explosion in the lebanese capital a month ago nearly 200 people were killed and thousands injured a rescuer has reported signs of breathing and of poles this is d. W. News from berlin follow us on twitter and instagram or visit our website w dot com. The soviet era nerve agent was added this year to the list of banned chemical weapons germany says it was also used to poison the russian dissident alexian of all the an attempted murder that berlin says moscow has to explain today the kremlin denied any involvement russian president Vladimir Putins spokesm
Official cash rate being kept on hold, 0. 25 . They are prepared to provide additional stimulus. Just keeping you crossing these additional lines coming through. Monetary policy needs to support the economy for a long time. The economic recovery is on track. The funding may be ready before the end of the year. There is progress being made on additional monetary calls. There has been a rise in unemployment and an increase in firm closures. These lines crossing the terminal now. They kept that cash rate on hold as expected. Just keeping calm and carry on. You mentioned that november review of the Monetary Policy tool. A lot of questions that they will deploy are negative Interest Rates. This is what the market seems to be pricing in. You see that new zealand 10 year yield ever so slightly get into those record those for yields right now at 47 basis points. Lets check the markets to see what else we were expecting. A lot of central bank action. At these newg zealand assets right now. We a
Democratic ticket. K looks atey beycho campaign news. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is next. Good morning, this is the washington journal for august 18. There is the Wisconsin Center in milwaukee, site of some of the activity of the Democratic National convention. A lot of it being done by zoom and other means. Day one taking place yesterday. Day two tonight and it will feature speeches by bill clinton , alexandria of garcia cortez, and dr. Jill alexandria ocasiocortez, and dr. Jill biden. You can watch on cspan and cspan. Org or follow wrong or follow along on our cspan radio app. We will get your impressions of the first set of the convention. What you think of the format and the speakers that were featured. Among them, Michelle Obama. If you support joe biden, collis that call us at 202 7488000, if you support ,resident trump, 202 7488001 and if you support if you are undecided, 202 7488002. Our Facebook Page if you want to post there, fac
Will accept junk, recent fallen angels as collateral. Time now for todays market moving news from brussels in new york. We want to begin in europe, where the pandemic drove the economy to a record slump in april. Pmi Area Services completely decimated, falling to 11. 7. Manufacturing also dropped to 33. 6. Bloombergs maria tadeo joins me from brussels. Maria what you are seeing is that the Coronavirus Crisis is going to do a lot of damage to the european economy. [indiscernible] brussels tell us they do anticipate a contraction for the entire euro area. This is potentially huge. Youre seeing again the European Central bank stepping in to try to shield some of those markets, in particular in countries like. Taly ,he other side of the equation what exactly are european leaders going to do to help the ecb, to put more money on the table and also protect their own economies . There has been a lot of backandforth. Perhaps a 2 trillion euro package. But all of this is still very much in the