Southeast asia, gdp out of fullyear growth for 2019, philippines not playing ball the first trading session and dollaryen, gold, oil and treasury futures looming, looking at where we go moving forward as well. Dollaryen 108. 66 and gold futures pulling back slightly, by a futures contract. That is the markets. Uneventful. Here is the first word news. Kim jongun says he is no longer bound by a pledge not to willmissile tests and debut a new weapon. He says u. S. Sanctions leave him no choice but to reconsider commitments that underpinned his meetings with President Trump. Trumps reaction was muted, repeating that kim agreed to denuclearize. Hong kong kicked off the new year with renewed protests, vandalism and tear gas. Demonstrators and Police Clashed into the night after tens of thousands of mostly Peaceful Protesters took part in a march. Protesters vowed to maintain their fight for more democracy and less chinese control. Willdent trump says he finalize the first phase of a trade de
My name is sharon the money coming form my robby kenya and joining me is my colleague nic in the idea hello and. Thanks sharon i mean Lagos Nigeria welcome as always were happy to have you with us for our environmental journey through africa and europe heres what we have coming up today. Saving ram months i raised in missouri. Making useful bags out of textile waste in zimbabwe. And sharing solar energy in germany. But we start off in south africa which is really nonfood its nature reserves including the wild famous Kruger National park but often the people who live in the communities near this wildlife preserves have never set foot in them one all going to ization is hoping to change that by introducing the local youth to wildlife and conservation through photography. And ideally over south africas province this is them part of the country is home to dozens of nature results and National Parks that draw in thousands of tourists from all over the wild every year. But for the local comm
We are about 30 minutes away open in china and in hong kong. But singapore and malaysia have into whatonline really is a pretty lac lack lusr market. Of course, u. S. Markets have been on holiday for the president s day holiday. So a subdued start. The region, pairing the earlier drop with the costly about 7 10 of a percent. And Australian Shares down about 2 10 of a percent. Aussie took a brief dip but they have since rebounded. A lift,ar yen, getting thatd president s comments a march hike isnt off the table. Leading and financials the rise. Quick check on some of the movers today. Toshiba also in the green today on reports that it may begin the for its chip stakes sale this friday. Going onnto whats over in singapore. A percent here. We did have singapore deliver a budget that hopes to keep growth above 2 . We did have the second finance minister speaking to us this budget, telling us the is about having a new direction mediumtermgh that hump. He did note that the oil and gas indust
Im in western germany right next to the rhine river can you guess where i am in the state capital of north rhinewestphalia. At first glance to sort of seems to be a quite lot or in sydney at least judging by the architecture but somewhere among all these contemporary buildings theyre supposed to be a beautiful old town home to wait for it the worlds along this bar also ive heard that the city is great for a little shopping spree so its about time we got to the bottom of this. We also go to palermo. On the mediterranean island of sicily. In poland takes us through his hometown of krakow. And will finish up with impressions of quito the capital of ecuador. But first. I start in the very center of town. Some history to begin with this is the ultimate hall. This guy is. The prince a lecturer in the late seventeenth century he left his mark on his hometown this equestrian statue is a major landmark. What else i think we could all do with some essential facts and figures about this place don
Coming up in the next sixty minutes an elite gathering of the worlds top. Business finance and politics i ride for that annual get together. Top of the agenda how to distribute the proceeds of growth family. Welcome to the program. U. S. Vice president mike pence has told israels knesset that the u. S. Embassy to move to jerusalem by the end of next year is visit comes as the palestinians receive fresh assurances from the European Union that it still supports that claim to East Jerusalem as the capital of a future palestinian state i prezs visit to israel is a first by us politician since the trumpet ministrations controversial announcement that it recognizes jerusalem as israels capital israeli arab lawmakers made their opposition to the move clear right from the start of mr pences speech. The protests kicked off even before mike pence had begun his speech out of his really lawmakers were ushered from the knesset after waving signs at the u. S. Vice president following Donald Trumps i