Should be a very robust system to investigate and look at periodnts over this long of confrontation and violence. The other is an arraignment to intoe a factfinding study courses in the fact of this incident, so i hope that this is a very responsible response to the aspirations for better understanding of what has taken place in hong kong and it is not just to provide a sequence of facts, it will also provide the government with recommendations avoid to move forward and the occurrence of similar incidents are at it the second i havent missed which will give addressbetter to differences in society is we peopleart dialogue with from all walks of life, the this is something that we want to do in serious and humble manner. I am committed to listen to what people have to tell us and we want the chance to help community of service possible. There we go. Just going to leave things there. Just seeing a little bit of a move. Lets take a look at what is when came at the air at the top, it was do
Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Shaun ley interviews environmentalist professor tim flannery. Welcome to heart talk, i am shaun ley. Time is running out. If we dont act fast and radically it will become too late to limit the effects of Global Warming. Its a sort of thing you hear from of Global Warming. Its a sort of thing you hearfrom campaigners trying to wake up the world. Tim flannery isnt like that. The australian scientist is an optimist and absolutely convinced, he says, that we can shift from a carbon emitting to a carbon absorbing economy. Hope for mankind orjust so much hot air . Tim flannery, welcome to hardtalk. Weve seen this year, certainly in europe, some the most extraordinary temperatures and weather events with experienced in some parts of western europe, a second in only a matter of a month. Belgium and the netherlands and germany recording the highest ever temperatures. Globally, the Un World Meteorological Organisation says the last four years have been the hottest
The euro coming low once again. Phenomenal. We see the euro being seen as a haven. We are currently up almost 5 in the euro. Were choosingthey the euro instead of the pound, the frank, the dollar. Now, we are seeing it take lowered. Lower. O is going meanwhile, commodities recovering ever so slightly. What a selloff we saw. Crude was at 38. 72. Still below the 40 a barrel mark. Nevertheless, a little bit more optimism coming in. Copper is basically flat this morning. It had been taking that little bit higher after the dramatic selloff we saw. That has been playing into the equities that i want to show you this morning because we have had some phenomenal earnings coming out. The big minor, bhp billiton among them. We will see it move higher. Because it keeps its dividend promise. To theemaining committed dividends. They are reducing production in the oil and gas area. Production cuts and our other three pillars. Iron ore, coal, and copper. 52 slump in profit. Sales down in excess of 20
114. 8 versus the expectations of 113. 9 so slightly higher. Looking also at expectations in 102. 2 for the month of august. Thats in line for expectations and sil to what we saw in month of july. The greek crisis and political impact in germany at this point doesnt seem to have had a big impact on german business sentiment. Expectations for july at 102. 3. Lets get more on this. Joining us on the phone. A pleasure to have you on the show today. Will german business have to look elsewhere if china continues to weaken . That seems to be one of the Big Questions when i speak to economists. At the moment theyre still in a relatively good state. This month particularly in the improvement Retail Sector has improved, construction sector but all the manufacturing is relatively strong. The German Economy remains a rock in turbulent waters. How strong can it be with weakness out of china but also the strengthening euro which can hurt many of the exporters in germany. Well, the expectations decl
And chinas economy bottomed out. Brent and wti climb back gains after settling at the lowest level in 2009. It was a rough session overnight. Housing a big part of the story. Were just hearing from one of the luxury Home Builders reporting q3 earnings of 36 cents. Thats well below the analyst expectations of 49 cents. Revenue was to come in around 1. 03 billion and revenue coming in line with expectations. We should point out the stock closing lower yesterday following the Broader Market sell off losing about 4. 7 but year to date up about 5. 7 . Responding to the housing data over the past couple of months but back to the market sell off. The dow seeing a 4,000 point move in one session. We just captured the highs, lows and where the dow closed. At one point in the beginning of trade we saw the dow down by around 1,000 points. Some traders sending me pictures just showing traders clued so their screens and cnbc saying what kind of ride are we in for . We saw the dow coming off the low