Sanctions forced Western Union to close operations in cuba and a big blow to those depending on money sent from abroad. Heads one week to election day in the u. S. And the candidates are hitting the battleground states polls indicate Democratic Party contender joe biden holds the lead nationally but its a close race in a number of must win swing States Mike Hanna reports. A final frenetic week of campaigning before election day president trying doing a swing through 3 of the states with polls indicate he is neck and neck with joe biden wisconsin michigan and the brask. Attempting to remove one issue from the agenda at the beginning of the day tweeting Fake News Media is going full on. We are rounding the turn 99. 9 percent. And hes attempting to reset the conversation around an economy he claims to have provided its trouble believe the number one reason that im standing here because of trade and how we turn that around thanks 7 days from now were going to win the great state. Were goin
Small businesses. The airlines in dire situation. United and american saying they have to cut jobs, tens of thousands of them, as borders remain pretty much locked down. Yvonne you are seeing the president trying to do at least some damage control after he talked to negotiators to pull out of talks for a stimulus. Perhaps we are seeing some targeted measures. You have seen the market impact. The nasdaq and futures reversing the losses we were gaining. U. S. Futures are up. We will see if this bodes well for the rest of asia. If you look at the rest of the asia region, it looks like risk assets are looking less entire than the wall street session. We are seeing a bid for aussie against the japanese currency. When it comes to u. S. 10 year yield, we are holding steady, but the move up in yields on the announcement from trump. Stocks have been lower. Jakarta life coming back online. We are heading lower in jakarta. Hangseng up about 163 points. A touch higher for some markets. The rbi is
And on the show donald trump takes aim at his democratic rival in a fiery acceptance speech he calls joe biden the man who outsourced american jobs to china and says this vote will be the most important election in american history. Also our show. Pianist in the rooms no longer 5 years after some 1300000 refugees and Migrants Center in germany will hear the story of a syrian musician who documented his experience in a book. Im brian thomas great to have you with us today the german chancellor has warned that the song. And to you bill ross must be respected she added there should not be any foreign intervention during her summer News Conference here in berlin among the broad range of topics bellerose playing a major role in machall reacted to russian president putins announcement that he had formed a police force to support the countrys embattled leader Alexander Lukashenko if needed she warned that Foreign Forces would stay out should stay out rather of the former soviet state. It is l
Sovereignty of belarus should be respected and that she hoped that the forces we heard about the Russian Forces putin announced that they wouldnt be deployed she stressed that it is important that the people of belarus can protest can demonstrate s. They wish without any interference from any side asked by john list for the rather violent line of action from the Security Forces in belarus not only against demonstrators but also against drawing a list of said that this is not acceptable and she added i found that very interesting that she wanted to talk to alex hunter look at sankoh and try to reach him on the phone because it is important to keep up the dialogue but he declined to talk to her so far as this Summer Press Conference then you will then join a List International journalists as well asking the chancellor a range of questions one of them was about alexina vali the russian Opposition Leader currently being treated for suspected poisoning here in berlin lets take a listen to w
I want to invite you to give a listen to our ken and podcasts and art art news podcast, the russian file. Let me just remind everybody that throughout the conversation and we forgot quite a few of them, you can submit questions by email, via twitter and facebook pages and please do include your name and affiliation just as if youre attending a live event of the Wilson Center which hope we can do against it. Id be more likely to call on you for not an anonymous blurt out. Im join today i dr. Fiona hill was a senior fellow and center for the next its a joke in the Foreign Policy program of the Brookings Institution and, of course, is that one will knows served as Deputy Assistant to the president and senior director for european and Russian Affairs on National Security council. That was 201719. From 2006nine she also served as National Intelligence officer for russia and eurasia at the National Intelligence council and is coauthor of of the very well received and widely read book mr. Put