About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for reading the refugees who are being moved to an island that aid groups say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army turn on is. A National Sport as a bron james signs an 85000000. 00 deal with the l. A. Lakers and finally one driver raymond version or a chance in the bahrain sakit scene of his horrifying crash just 4 days ago. But we begin with the corona virus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture as you can see is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches and since the start of the pandemic there. The more than 64000000 confirmed cases coming quite close to 65000000 there and nearly one and a half 1000000 people have died from the fire as well the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly on covert 19 in his Opening Statements the secretary general antonio caet
We have seen the g10 space benefiting from that, especially when it comes to the pound. There are brexit negotiations starting today in brussels. So far there is possibility of progress. It looks like we are in this seeing people are are saying this is the yen buying path of least resistance. We are looking at, when it comes to commodities, the gold futures. Right now. Silver and aluminum having a big comeback. You see brent crude hovering around 42 right now. One big interview to tell you about today. We are talking about market debuts in hong kong, gto express. Here is the bond market first. Not a lot of movement when it comes to the aussie 10 year yield. 77 basis points as people wind back the rate cuts. 3. 11 for the chinese 10 year still. This is what i was talking about. He is joining us for an exclusive interview at the bottom of this hour. A pretty stellar debut to start the week. Haslinda like you said, a lack of conviction. From get Market Analysis the asset strategist at j.
Cannons and make the first arrests under the new law and chief executive carrie lam defends the decision translator clearly the decision under one country send showed determination and prove on the system and shows the high degree of trust of the central authorities in the Hong Kong Government germanys jobless total rises by 29,000 taking the unemployment level to almost 3 Million People as activities contract in june airbus with jobs on the line as they tell staff the crisis is far from over. Bracing for a mighty battle. Welcome to the show, we are closely tracking some data weve had lower pmis the eurozone number crossing the manufacturing pmi, 47. 4 up from 46. 9 still suggesting contraction taking place across the eurozone one of the bright spots seeing the expansion. Clearly saw weakness elsewhere lets push on to developments in Hong Kong Police say 30 people have been arrested for violations of the International Security law hong kong chief executive carrie lam defended the laws
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Ahead of his trial miss allegations of financial misconduct. And unprecedented violence in west africa thats the assessments of the un envoy be on the grants in nigeria with. Iranian government has dismissed u. S. Claims that it wants to negotiate south to the assassination of its commander still in money to hand says it wont cooperate as long as sanctions arent place it on is not interested in war iran is not interested in escalation of tension in the region i mean. Increasing the tension in the region really not be in the interest of nobody so iran definitely would like to but to have peace stablish in the neighborhood and the 1st ingredient for peace in their in the region is that he moved all of of the forces the American Forces from or each. Other on Supreme Leader has held a vigil for solomon and the others killed by the u. S. Airstrikes in iraq on friday i saw a Ayatollah Ali Khamenei personally conducts its the commemoration next to his official residence in teheran theres been