the u.s. and china. from the center of the national interest this is just under 90 minutes. >>. >> good afternoon. welcome to the center for the national interest. you may notice if you've been here before that we have a few more cameras than usual. that's because we'll be on c-span so therefore the other question to be answer side yes, we're on the record for this conference. the -- if you're here, you're into theed in subject so it hasn't escaped your attention that there are tensions in our relationship with china and while people talk a lot about that, nobody talks much about what the effect is on our allies and friends of what we're doing with china and we have three excellent panelists here to help answer that question. dr. robert sutter, professor of practice atquestion, dr. robert sutter, professor of practice and former intelligence officer for east asia. scott snyder at the counsel on foreign relation, author of two books written in the past couple of years, south korea at the crossr

u.s. law that need to be made democrats and republicans both still want to weigh in on. turns out some of the democrats that have been closely involved in the negotiations with the administration are calling for a reopening of the agreement. host: explain that. when this gets to the floor are their chances to amend it if there are parts of it members of congress do not like or is this an up or down vote on what the trump administration is negotiating? guest: on the negotiate -- on the agreement it is an up or down vote on everything that has been negotiated. if they reopen the agreement or make changes to the actual deal that is still in flux. and the agreement is done what the members of congress will vote on is the so-called memberst a bill where can get their fix is in. the democrats are asking for stronger label -- labor enforcement. that could be done through the implement and bill are some language passed in u.s. law. host: a reminder to viewers, some of the key features of that agre

u.s. factory and a possible ford tire out the commons come as german call makers defend their u.s. interests at the white house will it be enough to see the u.s. president drop threatened tyrus against european carmakers. germany may have self driving subway cars but it's got a lot of catching up to do when it comes to artificial intelligence. this is your business update on how the home frame by lead glad you could join me german a conjoint folks are going to has announced that it is teaming up with the u.s. carmakers ford to build what it calls a global automotive alliance b w chief have it decided that his group was also considering building a second car plant in the united states well you know it's meant came off to a meeting between german car makers and trump in a bid to terrorists. the u.s. market is exceedingly important for german car makers b.m.w. mercedes and v.w. although the market as a whole is shrinking the german share of it is growing that means jobs in the three u.s. plan

u.s. issuing an ultimatum to russia over nuclear weapons. respspect a landmamark missile treaty within 60 days, or we are out. nato members are backing the ultimatum, accusing russia of violating a key nuclear missile treaty from the cold war. also coming up, france's prime minister backing down on a controversial fuel tax increase. he says no tax is worth sacrificing the unity of the nation. but so far his move has not convinced protesters. and jewish people around the world are celebrating hanukkah, the festival of lights. here in berlin, holocaust survivors mark the day by sounding a warning about the rise in anti-semitism. ♪ brent: i'm brent goff. it's good to have you with us. tonight, the united states has given russia a deadline. comply with a treaty on limiting nuclear weapons within two months, or the united states will call it quits. the u.s. and its nato allies are accusing russia of violating the landmark 1987 intermediate range nuclear forces treaty, also known as the inf tr

for the u.s. the u.s. have been so has been supportive of this campaign of the saudis and yemen and the americans for that matter the iraqis have a pursue slightly different political goals and also have a different approach but but the u.s. have been somehow complicit and so has the u.k. and other european countries that we are going to the u.k. ambassador g.m. and that earlier this evening and trying to get the answer to that question in a diplomat gives a diplomatic answer of course it's an embarrassment for the international community and in particular for europe and the united states and i think we heard president trump a couple of weeks say i want this to and that the saudis also need to compromise on this and as you know very general as this statement is i think we see that the u.s. has lost its temple with with the saudis on this and they want this to end also they want the strategic. importance they they need the horn of africa and yemen as a strategic place for international trade and a further e

the u.s. can't attack isis so fast and so hard to come up they won't happened. the president is also saying that the 11 hour flight was on a darkened air force one with lights off and window shades drawn. >> breaking news the day after christmas, president trump landing in iraq on an unannounced visit. his first trip to the war zone as commander in chief. 3:00 p.m. right now in new york, 11:00 p.m. at al-assad, iraq. after announcing that all u.s. troops would be leaving syria, iraq's neighbor to the west. he spent about three hours on the ground, the first lady along with him, and met with commanders and troops there as well as the u.s. ambassador to iraq and spoke for minutes. the team that travels with the president, the white house pool team put out notes about what he said. video to come within the hour of the president's remarks. ellison barber on the north lawn of the white house. the president left there late last night? >> he left late last night along with the first lady according to

the u.s. t.r. life nicer and because all of his advisors have different carry the light has or says he wants more tariffs again china and richard says that trade war should be evaded and then you have peter navarro who is a trade advisor he says that be careful how deal so ultimately who decides what to do well as i say that i think that's why they appointed light hisor i think for the chinese it's been very troubling because historically our china policy there's been somebody in charge the chinese know who to go to for example in the bush administration it was treasury secretary paulson so and we had a pretty good way of managing these issues in the trumpet ministration no one's in charge and there's several different voices with different policies and strong very difficult for the chinese with a first they made a deal with commerce secretary ross and then. vetoed it then they made the treasury deal with our treasury secretary and from veto that so from the chinese perspective it's like what do we

the uses has been -- the u.s. has been growing as an exporter refined products, something that doesn't always get as much attention as u.s. crude exports. but it's also exporting a lot of refined products. gasoline your diesel, and so on. it was just a matter of time basis, on a sustained the u.s. becomes a net exporter of oil. refined crude but products included. >> all right. thanks for joining us with your views on what we're seeing the oil market right now and the lack of an agreement from opec. an alertnt to give you at the moment. this is news coming from the japan.er in japan planning to exclude huawei from government use. so the pressure continuing to the up on huawei in following -- following the arrest of its c.f.o. in canada. japan planning to exclude huawei and zte from government use. just crossing now. still to come here on "daybreak: more" we'll be getting you on that story, as markets in continue to point higher after what was a pretty volatile day in the u.s. is bloomberg. ♪ >> we're moments awa

but if the u.s. pulls out of syria, and that is not the case any more, you've got a mission accomplished banner over a air craft carrier scenario all over again. >> that's right. and we haven't seen the video yet. we're waiting for that to come in. we have had some technical difficulties on the ground. let's play a little bit of what the president had to say one week ago when he announced the u.s. withdrawal from syria and i'll get april ryan's take on that, on the other side. >> we have won against isis. we have beaten them, and we have beating them badly. we have taken back the land. >> and apparently, this is according to some of the pool reporting coming out of iraq, april. and obviously, we need to wait for the full context of everything said, the full verbatim. but he says isis is very nearly defeated. and that turkey and others will knock out what's left. he said he's spoken with president erdogan, and that president erdogan will jump in and fill that void, apparently. what do you make of, you

the new regulations are music to the ears for u.s. soybean farmers storage facilities for the soybeans are bursting at the seams china's been one of the u.s. is most important agricultural customers but during the recent trade dispute china stopped importing u.s. soil farmers held on to their crops now trade is blossoming again since china resumed importing soybeans chinese businesses as well as chinese consumers welcome the move. that. soybeans are one of the most important products china imports from the u.s. . there's a big domestic demand. what we call the trade dispute has weighed on china's growth as the latest figures show in november retail and industrial production so well short of expectations the new economic ceasefire between the world's two largest economies gives both sides the opportunity to find additional win win solutions. we just saw it's not all good news coming from china today let's find out more with our financial correspondent joining us right now good evening to you we're seeing heavy losses. most in the seaso

>>> the u.s. government shutdown partially, it drags on and there are fears it could last longer than anyone expected. the u.s. president, though, somehow claims it's mainly democrats who are impacted. we'll explain or try to explain that ahead. >>> plus, another roller coaster day on wall street. stocks did finish up. that's not helping investors sleep any easier. >>> also ahead this hour, just days after a second migrant child dies in u.s. custody, a top trump official is headed back to the border. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. the "cnn newsroom" starts now. >>> at 3:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast thank you for being with us this day. just a few days to go before the new year, and there is little hope for progress when it comes to the partial u.s. government shutdown. we are now seven days into this thing. it is the same shutdown the u.s. president once said that he would own. pre

u.s. factory and a possible ford tire the comments come as german car makers defend their u.s. interests at the white house will it be enough to see the u.s. president drop threatens tariffs against european carmakers and germany may have self driving subway cars but it's got a lot of catching up to do when it comes to artificial intelligence. this is your business update on how the home frame by lead glad you could join me chairman to conjoin fox logon has announced that it is teaming up with the u.s. called make afford to build what it calls a global automotive alliance b w chief have it decided that his group was also considering building a second car plant in the united states well you know it's meant to came off to a meeting between german call makers and trump and a bid to swell of terrorists. the u.s. market is exceedingly important for german carmakers b.m.w. mercedes and v.w. all of the market as a whole is shrinking the german share of it is growing that means jobs in their three

the u.s. china trade relations and with impact on the asia pacific region. this is hosted by the global business dialer. one hour and a half. >> it's about as close to on time as we've ever done. good morning. good day. thank you all for coming. i'm with the global business dialer. it's a pleasure to welcome you here. to get to the heart of this program, in a minute, let's get a few thoughts first. it's named after the two face, look both ways, forwards and backwards. really though, is a better description of december then january. but december 31, you are seeing old done and worrying about next year but went january 2 comes around, just fully hard charging toward making the first quarter of 2019 as good as it can possibly be. that will be especially true in trade this year when we have a march deadline for the u.s. china talks, clint once and we have the looming deadline in 29th of march. it's december in which we get to pause for a moment. look both ways. hanukkah is just past, known as the

the u.s. says it started a full withdrawal of all its troops from syria several senators have branded that a mistake. i only valid for mr barr you're watching al jazeera live from london also coming up. opposition supporters defy an order suspending election campaigning in diyala seems capital but that candidacy is stopped by security. south africa issues an arrest warrant for zimbabwe's former first lady grace mugabe for allegedly assaulting a mortal. one hundred days before breck's its european union activates a plan to protect the bloc if person crosses out without a deal. i am. rather the u.s. says it started with during all its military forces from syria around two thousand troops are currently stationed there many of them special operations forces working with kurdish forces to defeat eisel the president donald trump appeared to declare victory against the group saying on twitter we have defeated isis in syria while only reason for being there during the trial presidency or republican se

the chinese foreign ministry accuses the u.s. of violating the legal rights of man one joe it urged the americans to withdraw all the arrest warrant. mung was taken into custody in canada last week while changing flights in vancouver her arrest followed a u.s. federal warrant and is expected to lead to an extradition effort by the americans federal prosecutors allege that huawei used a hong kong shell company to sell equipment to iran in violation of u.s. sanctions they also said that monk personally misled american banks about why always business dealings in iran among is fighting to be released on bail for health reasons. the us government is trying to downplay the impact of her arrest washington says it's a criminal matter which is separate from the ongoing trade negotiations but investors seem to doubt that it will work out that way. german exports rose eight four and five percent in october to one hundred seventeen billion euros that's what data from the federal statistics office shows today and let's say it's a sign that eu

the u.s. is is famous for its for its hacking and cyber surveillance of every political system in the world i mean so this is this is getting really out of hand and it's starting to be i must say deeply embarrassed seen for the u.s. on international economic stage but i think it's really sad because we're supposed to be in the middle of a trade truce but instead of just using the ninety days to come to a better understanding what the u.s. is doing is almost you know every forty eight hours another propaganda blitz against china is kind of a rhetorical bombast we're getting on a daily basis is actually having a tremendous human cost and it's also a few i mean yes china is a rising economic power if you want to call it power but actually what it really means is that we can as a world community get to get richer and richer together and i think the u.s. needs to like come to terms with this and stop playing the bully on the playground with a. north korea has issued a stern warning to the u.s. sayi

let's let's let cooler heads prevail let's have sanity when the u.s. before the u.s. would drew from the a.b.m. treaty going back to two thousand and two the united nations general assembly passed a resolution calling for the continuation of the a.b.m. treaty and trying to stop the u.s. from withdrawing from that treaty now we've got just in the last month president trump has said that he has announced that the u.s. is going to withdraw from the i.n.f. treaty the intermediate nuclear weapons nuclear forces treaty so these are all bad signs and i think hopefully cooler heads will prevail and there will be a instead of an escalation of the arms race there should be a deescalation of it absolute let's hope both sides can get to the negotiating table and come up with some sort of compromise here on that strategic balance which they talk about journalists that rick starting thanks for your take today on that story. your one. and worsens times newspaper has printed a highly controversial interview with a chechen fighting against anti-government forces in eastern ukraine hea

u.s. government shutdown could be defined by the wall, meaning what kind of physical barrier are acceptable to both sides of the aisle? the white house same president trump will not stand down on the wall at this u.s. mexico border. democrats say they support enhanced border security, but not what one lawmaker calls the medieval border. law.arliament -- budget they agreed to lower the deficit target to 2.04%. the initial target was rejected by brussels as breaching e.u. rules. the chances of the u.k. leaving the e.u. is 50-50 if parliament rejects a deal according to the international trade secretary speaking to the sunday times. he calls on his fellow lawmakers to back the deal, and said he would rather have a deal that fell short of expectation than risk no brexit at all. russia and turkey have a crucial role according to president vladimir putin. this coming a day after the country's top chiefs met in moscow and agreed to court a military -- left by the void by president trump to order

u.s.-canada's -- u.s. cannabis retailer is planning to launch a at $2.1 of aphria million, a 46% premium. the canadian company sites share in two days halve when short-sellers alleged it -- wrongdoing.s nejra: think you so much. oil has continued on its roller coaster ride with volatility soaring on uncertainty output cuts by opec and its allies will be enough to counter u.s. production. crude is set for its biggest quarterly loss since 2014 after reaching a four-year high in early october. kallum pickering, senior economist at berenberg, is still with us. is oil oversold and due for a bounce? >> i am an economist. the cheap oil price is best for consumers. for markets we tend to focus on concentrated costs the oil producers, which i minority -- a minority. but the low oil price is a boon for real incomes, for consumers. remember the story in 2015 when the oil price came down, it brought the market with it. but it was the cheap oil which give consumers the boost in 2016 which really started the global upsw

emily: u.s. tech executives across a look and valley have gathered at the white house for a closed-door meeting with president trump stopped trade advisors -- trumps top trade advisors. the ongoing trade war with china is expected to be front and enter as well. the roundtable was hosted by the president's daughter and robert ighthizer. lighthizer. the ceos of microsoft, google, oracle, ibm, and qualcomm were all in attendance. it is unknown a president trump attended the meeting. joining us with the latest from washington is alex wayne who leads our coverage from the white house. what you think this meeting will accomplish? alex: it had a lot to do with trade in less to do with future of technology, the industries of the future, the purported purpose of the meeting. the ceos wanted to know whether the white house has a plan to resolve this trade war with china in a way that truly gets at the alleged theft of intellectual property from china. emily: robert lighthizer was there. he's a longtime har

u.s. markets are closed today as the nation mourns the passing of president george h.w. bush we will have full coverage of that global slide. it is wednesday, december 5th, "worldwide exchange" begins right now. ♪ >>> good morning i'm dominic chu. brian sullivan is on assignment today. yesterday the dow dropping nearly 800 points, a fall of more than 3% as you're watching this time lapse play out right now. traders won't have a chance to recoup losses today. u.s. markets are closed in honor of president george h.w. bush. there is no trading at the new york stock exchange, the nasdaq or the cme group all u.s. data is delayed except for the beige book that will come out at 2:00 p.m currencies and commodities are trading. overseas markets are open for business as you can so he the red arrows across the board in asia are carrying over. hong kong is taking it the worst. a sea of red across the board. the same in europe european trading, we are seeing the dax off, the same for the cac and the

the u.s. senate has unanimously approved a resolution blaming the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul in october the senate also passed a separate motion demanding a halt to u.s. military support for the saudi intervention in yemen that declaration was approved by fifty six votes to forty one both motions are present a clear challenge to president trump's policies on saudi arabia and also his refusal to scale back military ties with the country although in recent months there have been some conflicting signals coming from the administration. we need to have a serious hard talk with the saudis to let them know we won't condone north we won't give you a pass and don't do their thing in this is very very serious do i do i mean it's again it's early we haven't traditionally view we have identified at least some of the individuals responsible including those in the intelligence services the royal court the foreign ministry and other side the ministries who we

the new regulations are music to the ears for u.s. soybean farmers storage facilities for the soybeans are bursting at the seams china's been one of the u.s. is most important agricultural customers but during the recent trade dispute china stopped importing u.s. soil farmers held on to their crops now trade is blossoming again since china resumed importing soybeans chinese businesses as well as chinese consumers welcome the move. soybeans are one of the most important products china imports from the u.s. . there's a big domestic demand. the trade dispute has weighed on china's growth as the latest figures show in november retail and industrial production so well short of expectations the new economic ceasefire between the world's two largest economies gives both sides the opportunity to find additional win win solutions. we just saw it's not all good news coming from china today let's find out more with our financial correspondent jim acosta joining us right now that evening to you we're seeing heavy losses. most in a season wall str

u.s. troops out of syria also coming up planes are flying again to britain's second biggest airports but authorities still haven't tracked down the drones that forced london gatwick airport to ground its flights causing holiday travel chaos and threatened for their faith christians in pakistan prepare for christmas but they're increasingly the target of deadly attacks we find out how one family has suffered but survived. oh i'm terry martin welcome to the program u.s. defense secretary jim mattis has resigned over president trump's decision to withdraw u.s. troops from syria the four star marine general will leave in february after holding the job since trump took office reports indicate that modest decided to go after a last ditch attempt to persuade the president to reverse its decision on syria. u.s. secretary of defense james mattis is widely viewed as a stabilizing force within the unpredictable u.s. government as well as internationally the four star marine general has been defense s

the u.s. p.r. wise guys or and because all of his advisors have debt and they lie has or says he wants more tariffs again china and says that trade war should be evaded and then you have peter navarro who is a trade advisor he says that be careful how deal so ultimately who decides what to do well as i say that i think that's why they appointed allies hisor i think for the chinese it's been very troubling because historically on our china policy there's been somebody in charge so the chinese know who to go to for example in the bush administration there was treasury secretary paulson so and we had a pretty good way of managing these issues in the ministration no one's in charge and there's several different voices with different policies and strong very difficult for the chinese with a first they made a deal with commerce secretary ross and then. vetoed it then they made the treasury deal with our treasury secretary and from veto that so from the chinese perspective it's like what do we have to do

to become a major u.s. infrastructure story driving business investment, not forcing us to rely on the consumer. alix: do you like oil stocks? david: we are commodity agnostic. 4%vron and exxon dropping when oil drops 30%. no high correlation. it does not work both ways. oil goes $50 to $70 and stocks don't move. they are operating in a different bug. alix: completely right. such a pleasure. thank you. coming up, microsoft's secret weapon. the cfo featured on the list of the 50 most noteworthy people from this year. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emma: this is "bloomberg daybreak," i'm emma chandra. ceo.g up, snap on this is bloomberg. ♪ higher,onos trading 25% after altria makes investment in the company. $1.8 billion stake in the company, 45% overall. altria gets a foothold in canada. cronos gaining 25%. businessweek beats. three must-read stories. bloomberg 50. amy hood, microsoft surpassing apple as the most valuable company. the secret weapon, longest-serving cfo. amy hood. the reboot. investors getting

not just try but u.s. policymakers would fear is make their foreign policy a lot more independent of the u.s. so we are already moving in that direction just because of trump's anti. multilateralism anti you know j.c. pos all those issues but it would make the the europeans i think feel that they can set their own policies without necessarily reference to the u.s. why does it bother trump so much then why isn't he thrilled about the european r.b.a. we having that would surely take loads of american military shoulders and isn't that what he wanted in the first place. for a lot of even trump. foreign policy elite. any sort of talk of a european army appears to them as a threat to nato. there was a whole argument in the one nine hundred ninety s. when they european union with maastricht and others began to talk about a foreign policy european foreign policy or free and defense policy and people in washington reacted very strongly because the worry is that. europeans would to get together without the us make s

u.s. session. they question is what -- big question is whether the review is coming from the dollar. we talked about the losses in equity markets. bloomberg dollar index is heading for its worst week in 10 months, biggest drop yesterday in seven weeks. a touch of strength against the yen, but gaining for the first time in six sessions. .8%, bouncing back, up below $47 of wti, but a loss of 9%, so we are heading for a weekly loss. in terms of european equities, the cash market open in europe is in two hours time. we could see a red end to the week. let's check on the market in asia. juliette saly has more. you.to see markets still struggling to climb a wall of worry. juliette: yes, where is that santa claus rally? not here. butmore trading sessions, we are on track for the worst december in history and second-worst month of 2018. japanese stocks extending into bear market, msci pacific index poised for its lowest close in months. we are seeing weakness across the board today, these renewed

u.s. president donald trump backs away from demands that congress fund his border wall plus efforts to end america's longest fourth war the u.a.e. holds talks between the afghan taliban and the u.s. and the democratic republic of congo prepares to hold its first election in sixteen years but there are fears technology could get in the way of the folks. the three key power brokers in the syrian conflict have failed to agree on the makeup of a committee that will draft a new constitution and pave the way for elections the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey met in geneva when a smith was saying and has this report. the best of the foreign ministers of turkey russia and iran could come up with was a commitment to agree to take efforts aimed at convening the first session of the syrian constitutional committee here in geneva early next year but there is still no indication on exactly who the hundred fifty members of that constitutional committee are going to be because of this meeting

the u.s. senate has passed a funding bill to keep the government running for now the temporary wrestler legislation was approved to avoid a complete federal shutdown after a deadlock over president trump's border wall and now need support from the house and approval from the president trying previously refused to sign a spending bill that did not include a five five billion dollars for the wall along the u.s. mexico border. of thousands of central american asylum seekers who wanted to reach the u.s. have had their hopes dashed many are being turned away at the border with some saying they have not been given the legal protections they are entitled to or are that hamid has more from nogales on the mexican side of the border. it's late afternoon that the chapel of the shelter starts filling up a mix of people brought together by their quest to enter to us. the teacher piniella says a hairdresser from guerrero one of the most violent states in mexico she owned a small cell and every week she was

in u.s. tech firms with a total 16% off $11.5 billion, all technology deals that year. new the end of 2017, chinese investors participated in 69 deals. in u.s. based artificial intelligence technologies alone. 28,000 chinese foreign nationals studied at u.s. colleges and universities and chinese foreign nationals of all u.s.% graduate students in stem fields. the united states simply cannot tolerate theft of american intellectual technology as a means to achieve these objectives. front and will be up honest -- welcome and you are going to be honest anyway, but upfront with some of these problems -- and particularly with solutions. think you very much. cornynre i give senator a point of first privilege on this point, at 11:00, we are going to keep the meeting going as senator kennedy is going to preside so that i can be in the hatch givessenator his farewell speech to the senate. senator cornyn. senator cornyn: thank you, mr. chairman. i agree with every word that you when the ranking might --

the u.s. china trade war seems to verdict for the time being but will the truce last while i ask robert manning former advisor to the us government and a participant of the twenty eight hundred international conference. as the global trade between the u.s. and china is pushed on hoped the parties stay poised for the next round in talks with the site showing any real desire for major concessions what will the washington beijing standoff leads to world powers how will it continue to trade conflict between economic giants impact on the rest of the world and chemical. planning great to have you with us on this program and our pleasure right so after the g. twenty summit president an incredible deal with china has been made now the chinese they announced rolling back some tariffs and they're being ready for another round of talks but they're not giving any specific details out do you think the deal is really that incredible. despite the fact that it might be true. and i think that this was worked o

hello the u.s. president donald trump has arrived in germany to visit american troops on his way back from an unannounced visit to iraq the iran. trip followed growing criticism of trump's failure as a visit american troops in combat zones his brief visit lasted only around three hours a trump used that to thank the troops and defend his decision to pull out of syria but would raise some eyebrows was trumped not meeting anyone from the iraq in leadership or brunell's reports from washington d.c. . president donald trump got a warm welcome from u.s. troops during his brief visit to iraq. we came to al assad to share our eternal gratitude for everything you do to keep america safe strong and free. accompanied by first lady maloney a trump the president shook hands with service members at an air base one hundred sixty kilometers from baghdad he posed for selfies and signed autographs including one on a make america great again campaign camp he bragged about the defeat of eisel on his watch two years ag

the u.s. the major indices falling more than 3% with trade ensitive stocks like caterpillar boeing falling the most on the dow. banks, 500 was lower by the financial stocks really taking a hit as we continue to yield curve flattening, 66 s&p 500 financial index, out of 67 stocks were all in the red. the u.s. futures holding steady right now. those are the only things you as we head to e the national day of mourning tomorrow here in the u.s. trading on the new new stock york stock exchange. right now, futures holding steady, all of this, of course, will be affected by what happens in asia as well, sophie is there. sophie. coming online s falling .4 of 1% extending loss tuesday.t we saw on keeping an eye on copper miners in sydney as well as they may losses in the red metal as chinese concerns are back in focus as investors assess the spins coming from d.c. and beijing around the u.s. china trade truce. a selloff is expected to continue, head winds are piling brexit developments and unserment ov

the u.s. senators passed a funding bill to keep the government running at least until the eighth of february the temper legislation was approved to avoid a complete federal shutdown after a deadlock about donald trump's plans for a border war with mexico from has previously refused to sign the bill if it doesn't include five billion dollars for the wall. the roman catholic church in the u.s. state of illinois has been accused of failing to report the full scale of alleged child sex abuse by its clergy a report by the attorney general says the church with held the names of at least five hundred priests and other clergy accused of abusing minors over seventy years chicago's archbishop cardinal blaze soup it responded by apologizing for the church's failure report deals another blow to the church after revelations this year of abuse and then cover ups by catholic officials in pennsylvania alan fisher has more. or the catholic church in illinois had said that they had one hundred eighty five cases

turkey's intelligence chief has briefed u.s. senators about his country's investigation into the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi there is growing pressure on the white house to hold saudi crown prince mohammed bin responsible for the killing. a u.s. sponsored resolution to condemn the hamas has failed to win enough votes in the u.n. general assembly it fell short of the required two thirds majority angering the u.s. ambassador nikki haley who said it would have been a chance to quote right and historic wrong. now an executive of the chinese tech giant trois away is due to face court in canada after being arrested at the request of the united states among one jews detents. has rattled global stocks as analysts fair it could worsen the trade dispute between the u.s. and china as he culhane reports from washington. from the very start it was going to be a day of losses stocks losing value at a fast clip on concerns the u.s. and china trade dispute is only going to get worse this is happening after news broke that at the

u.s. says it's warplanes have killed more than sixty al shabaab fighters in somalia. and the pristine landscape on the frontline of the global war on drugs we have a special report from. a u.n. brokered cease fire has come into effect in the yemeni city of her data but reports say sporadic fighting is still taking place in the embattled port the fighting pits saudi and u.a.e. backed government forces against the rebels in the area the warring sides had agreed on a truce during political talks held in sweden last week international observers are expected to arrive to monitor the cease fire is critical for the supply of food aid for millions of yemenis on the brink of starvation and there are many challenges on the ground for those international observers as out diplomatic editor james bays explains from the united nations. the u.n. security council has started work drawing up a draft resolution that would indorse what was agreed in stockholm last week and give a mandate for a u.n. monitorin

most of the u.s. governments of $1.2 trillion scratch shary budget has already been appropriated by congress for the fiscal year that began october 1. toas says its final goodbyes george h w bush. forchurch was packed services honoring the life of the 41st president. his body was flown there yesterday after a funeral service at washington national cathedral. today, james baker remembered his long-term friend as having the courage of a warrior but the greater courage of a peacemaker. >> for millions and millions across the globe, the world became a better place because george bush occupied the white house for four years. he was not considered a skilled speaker. were quite eloquent. eloquencerated their by carving them into the heart of granite of history. >> mr. bush will be laid to rest next to his wife of 72 years and their daughter, robin. off the coast of japan, a u.s. marine plane and a fighter jet collided in darkness today during routine training. one of the two crewmembers was recovered in the

u.s. interests, both in the region and the aunt. so we are here to talk about regard, andsome what not -- not in what we called china's billion-dollar infrastructure project, but the reaction to it and how reactions are evolving. aboutings are changing the way the chinese themselves and the government and party in beijing see it. to help us through that we have three find panelists. jeff smith's heritage's own research fellow covering south asia. heritage to the foundation over a year ago from the american foreign-policy counsel. -- foreign-policy counsel. -- foreign-policy council. he is also an author, and is an on that relationship and dynamic. jeff is the author of a heritage paper on the issue we are and you cant today, pick up a copy outside if you are watching online or on television, you can go to heritage.org and download a copy. he will talk about that in his remarks today. jeff will tell you i am his boss, and that is true, but i counted myself as the fortunate one because his o

u.s./china trade dispute, but then u.s. stateside stocks rallied off the lows after the "wall street journal" signaled the fed may be having a wait and see mode at itself december meeting. plenty of events in focus in europe oil is still on investors minds after opec failed to come out with production cuts after yesterday's meeting. so investors watching the oil space today. putting it together, it is a brighter picture in europe than yesterday. let's get into the different bourses and see how the regions are faring it's a green picture across the board. the french index is seeing one of the strongest gains among the main indices, up 1.25% the protests remain in focus there. we expect more this weekend. the ftse 100 up 1.6% with brexit firmly in focus. i want to take you through the sectors and see how they are faring green across the board dramatically different picture than yesterday these are healthy gains for the out-performers of the bunch. none breaking that 2% mark yesterday all in

u.s. court to being a foreign agent. politicized she has been put under psychological pressure. the french national assembly rejects a motion of no confidence in its government despite growing criticism of president handling of the yellow vest protests. israeli army conducts raids in ramallah checkpoints around what is the defacto capital of palestine the two israeli soldiers were killed and another injured in a shooting need the palestinian city. police launch an investigation into russian and by athletes over claims of doping at the time seventeen world championships the competitors deny the charges and say the rumors are not. watching all to international life from last year here in moscow with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. a russian national detained in the us and accused of being an unregistered foreign agent has entered a guilty plea at a washington d.c. court. but and i was told she faces up to five years behind bars could be deployed to acting though that this is ou

a u.s. sponsored draft resolution that would have condemned the palestinian group hamas has failed to pass in the un general assembly and measure failed to win the required two thirds majority. the last migrant rescue ship operating off the coast of libya is ending its operations aquarius which saved thousands of migrants from drowning lost its registration in september doctors without borders the charity that operates the boat says a smear campaign by european governments has forced it to stop its rescue missions . all right those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story that's watching. a critical moment for donald trump and his relationship with the saudi crown prince u.s. senators blaine mohamed bin found money for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi but can they force their president to drop his defense of the saudi royal this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm martine dennis six senior u.s. senators from across party lines hav

the u.s. president seems determined to keep u.s. troops in iraq. but his visit lost in just three hours on wednesday night to al asad airbase one hundred thirty kilometers west of baghdad provoked a strong reaction from some iraqi politicians and how did it. i think it is shameful for the iraqi prime minister to accept the u.s. president's invitation to go to the u.s. after his mockery of iraqi politicians and the iraqi government he entered iraq surreptitiously without any coordination and no respect for iraq's sovereignty i spent three hours celebration with soldiers as if you to achieve the great victory in fact this visit is considered to feel rather than a victory. there are five thousand two hundred u.s. troops currently in iraq a lot less than the invasion sent to remove saddam hussein in two thousand and three more recently reinforcements were sent to help iraqi government forces defeat eisel fighters who seized large areas of territory iraqi commanders declared a victory over a year ago but pockets of fight still remain despite his long fl

the u.s. existing u.s. is defenses can't deal with them but the existing u.s. defenses aren't that good against regular missiles so it is start this. doing away with the a.b.m. treaty is start a new arms race but i think you know we're just building more and more nuclear weapons when we should be trying to limit them and the new start treaty is coming which is the arms limitation for the longer range missiles is coming up in twenty twenty one so you know that would be a good time to cool you know cool off the arms race and you know lock in some limits on these types of weapons as well. britain's times newspaper has printed a honey controversial interview with a chechen fighting against anti-government forces anything ukraine had of his battalion only admitted that his fighters had wage jihad in syria that the leader was even part of a terror group committing atrocities in russia in a prank or follows the story. so a big piece in the times on chechens on east ukraine front lines from a few dozens to more than one hundred there shoulder to shoulder with kiev's ar

. ♪ >>> the u.s. president's new threat, donald trump warning he may shut down the entire southern border if he doesn't get the walled th that he wants. >>> the british home secretary declares the fast growing number of migrants crossing the english clanlele lle a lle channel as incident. >>> and we'll take an in-depth look at the special counsel at the department of justice. we are live in atlanta and we welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. the "cnn newsroom" starts now. >>> at 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast, we start with the latest lines on the partial u.s. government shutdown, it is now into week one. and for some 800,000 federal workers, unpaid or furloughed, it is starting to hurt. the u.s. president is digging in, he is demanding his money for his border wall. even threatening to close the southern border with mexico if he doesn't get what he wants. abby phillip picks up the reporting from here. >> reporter: as the the government shutdown ente

the purpose of u.s. covert action is to influence political, economic, military conditions abroad in such a way that the hand of the united states is not apparent. the involvement of the u.s. government is not evident to people, or it can be plausibly denied. the original cia plan for cuba under eisenhower was to infiltrate some 30 cuban agents, cia trained agents, to create resistance groups within cuba. i think someone noticed that cuba is a big place. it doesn't stretch from washington past chicago, it is obviously located south of florida, but you can see how big it is. the plan quickly grew from 30 to about 500 cia trained exiles who would infiltrate the country and link up with anti-castro forces believed to be operating in cuba. cia propaganda efforts based on the guatemala model would help build internal support opposing castro and this is where it helps to have a knowledge of history, even when you are planning a covert action. the cia was using the example of its predecessor, the office of stra

all u.s. aid on the continent will advance u.s. interests and help africa nations move toward self-reliance. our first priority, enhancing u.s. economic ties with the region, is not only essential to improving opportunities for american workers and businesses, but it's also vital to safe guarding the economic independence of african states and protecting u.s. national security interests. great power competitors, namely china and russia, are rapidly expanding their financial and political influence across africa. they are deliberately and aggressively targeting their investments in the region to gain a competitive advantage over the united states. from 2016 to '17, china's foreign direct investment toward africa totaled $6.4 billion. over the past several years, china has devoted considerable state directed and state supported financing to projects in the region. china uses bribes, opec agreements, and the strategic use of debt to hold states in africa captive to beijing's wishes and demands. it's investment ventures are riddled wit

but according to the u.s. government the islamic state of iraq and the levant is not actually defeated a point stressed by the president's own state department just last week i think it's fair to say americans will remain on the ground after the physical defeat of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that that defeatism during the move comes after a phone call between president trump and president urged one of turkey he's made clear he wants to target the kurds who have fought beside the u.s. and that is more difficult to do if u.s. troops are in his way just a few months ago the president himself is fully heralded as a sacrifice the kurds have made and we're trying to get along very well we do get along great with the kurds we're trying to help them a lot so they fought with us they died with us they died we lost tens of thousands of kurds died fighting isis now many worry what will happen to the kurds what this message sends is we don't stick with people our friends without the currents

german cars made in the u.s. a. the white house is the boss of three big carmakers pledge to create more jobs in the u.s. and reveal a surprising unlike. also on the show meanwhile in china beijing's push for home grown the car industry rings in a renascence for an old friend. welcome to d w business unlike jones a villain thanks for joining us well the fear of protectionism has prompted to german carmakers to act more investment in the u.s. and even an alliance with a u.s. com maker folks b.m.w. a getting out of the checkbooks to boost their presence in the american market and persuaded the u.s. president not to slap tariffs against european comic. they were summoned they came three german car industry titans call to the white house to make their case against higher tariffs on european made cars they weren't initially expecting to meet the president but in the end he too came here's how dire c.e.o. t. touches describes the encounter. the meeting with the president was very interesting and you can. come in this coun

we spoke to former u.s. congressman ron paul who gave us his take on some of the issues addressed by the russian president. i don't think it means that something horrible is eminent but i think it's a shame that that has happened because when we do that as american citizens we see our government doing this then there's a response from the russian government and i see that going in the wrong direction but i don't think it should be a great alarm that next month there will be a clash. and trump although he has his ups and downs i think that he has taken a good position he said he wanted to get out of out of syria and he said in the campaign he said that isis is not a threat there and that it's time to come home and i just want to be complete yes move the troops out our couple thousand troops but i want to make sure that you know the cia's out and the special forces are out and that we don't use sanctions and that we move in that direction where we just have hands off and deal with diplomacy and getting along w