Blake burman at the white house. We have Lauren Simonetti watching the market action. Edward lawrence reporting from washington at the but on this up and down day, lauren, we start with you. Lauren lauren its with up and down day. I had to look over to see if stocks finished the green. It is changing constantly. This is the new normal. Investors are totally unsure how to price in politics. Not just the expected turbulence around the election, but the future of stimulus. Stocks got a major stimulus from comments on treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin he and House Speaker nancy pelosi theyre going to keep talking about a new relief bill as House Democrats reportedly are ready to scale down a package of their own. Doesnt mean it is going to happen up investors like they are talking. We call it the mnuchin maybe, maybe. The s p 500 avoiding falling into correction territory, up, after the closing bell by just nine points. Yes, it is positive on the year by a whole 16 points, guys. Take a look
Demick out of control one american l. B. J. s the world and a number of coronavirus cases. And remembering the korean war the south commemorates Armistice Day despite rocky relations with its northern neighbor. We begin in the philippines where hundreds of protesters are gathering in the capital ahead of president ford regard to turkeys annual state of the nation address the rally is taking place at the university of the philippines as protests outside congress are banned thats where the turntable speak in the next few hours is expected to lay out his plans for the next year the president has been criticized for his handling of the pandemic and for a new door which gives police sweeping powers to arrest suspects without a warrant or a charge to me the dogon is in manila she says that recent Government Policies have brought protesters on to the streets. The president s state of the nation speech is a rare event when the president is actually and all of his achievements are made closer t
Control of what was the u. S. Consulate in the in the city of chengdu outrage supported closed any worsening diplomatic dispute. Thank you very much for joining us from the americas to Europe South Asia and australia countries around the world are facing increases in corona virus infections more than 16000000 people have been diagnosed with cold 1000 since the pandemic began 4300000. 00 are in latin america which a World Health Organization has designated the new at the center most are in brazil mexico and argentina and is on the run is in colombia another latin American Country causing concern. According to the paramedic and Health Organization the pandemic across the region is throwing no signs of slowing down but experts there are particularly worried the 5 countries brazil and mexico of course but also colombia where we are argentina piru and to a lesser extent also cheetah were things of eased up a bit of course brazil remains the main hot spot this week theyve been reporting more
In the city of chengdu after its all that close in a worsening diplomatic dispute. Thank you very much for joining us at least one person has been killed during antigovernment protests in iraqs capital baghdad is the 1st fatality touring demonstration since Prime Minister. To me was sworn into office 2 months ago testers are over corruption unemployment and Poor Public Services iraq has seen months of andras as it struggles with an economic crisis and political instability simona 14 is in baghdad with more. What appears to have happened last night based on our conversations with a few protesters in Baghdads Tahrir square is that a group of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to march in direction of another nearby square which is when Security Forces and the cording to the protesters playing clothed officials opened fire using live ammunition and bird charts to wardes these demonstrators at least one person was killed though a 2nd may have died later on in the hospital according to ir
Is taking place in some other part of the world be it an internal civil war where atrocities are being committed or where a large country is picking on a small country we get that right now lets plug in ukraine into that equation where our state department asserts that we are simply there to assist the Ukrainian Government with advisors and resources and military hardware but not to orchestrate or to interfere with the will of the people of ukraine well today we are learning that a Ukrainian Military medic has died and that u. S. Secretary of state might pompei oh thought so much of the incident he actually commented on it saying how he regrets in this situation that this Ukrainian Military medic has died and he condemns his killing. Those are the words of. Heres the problem upon the mans death we have now learned that the c. S. Was neither ukrainian nor magic and a further investigation reveals he was working directly with 3 american citizens inside ukraine the obvious question if not