Of the trade war and turkey agrees to a temporary ceasefire in syria. Pencera jumped as mike said tariffs will be lifted if the truce remains in place. Liveeen im Kathleen Hays in washington, d. C. , at the Imf World Bank annual meeting. In this hour, i will be speaking with the secretary of finance from the philippines and the Bank Indonesia Deputy Governor about the impact of the trade war and more and what policymakers can do about it. Shery first, let us get you started with a check of the markets. We are seeing u. S. Futures unchanged after stocks climbed to an almost a record high in thursdays session. The s p 500 at one point topping 3000. We had health care and real estate leading gains. We had mostly positive Quarterly Earnings results. At the same time, we had more Risk Appetite as we saw that u. K. And the European Union struck a deal. The dow, though, underperforming after ibm disappointed with results. We are now looking forward to more data coming out of asia. Sophie we h
And Central Banks are stepping up calls for help amid fears that they are running out of options. We are live at the imf meetings in washington. Sophie checking on the start of trade in sydney. Little change, after the drop of 200, halting a fiveday advance. Broadly speaking, we are setting up for a mix start in the agion, but looking to have second weekly gain. Chinese thirdquarter gdp numbers come, as corporate numbers on the mainland have shown little improvement after a bleak first half. Japanese inflation remains subdued, giving the boj food for thought at the policy meeting. Able back below 1. 29 on brexit deal hopes, pushing it to a sixmonth low to position for a negative outcome. Aussie bonds under pressure this morning as the rba governor said the economy is improving. Offshore yuan 7. 8 against the 7. 08 against the dollar after fixing. Jessica acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney denies saying that President Trump withheld military aid to ukraine to persuade key h
What that means now in the policy and the security space. Im excited to have an excellent panel to talk about that. Weve got heather conley, our vice president. We have john. We have sara glasser, the Deputy Director of secure fisheries and amy lair, the director of our human rights initiative. Thank you to the panel, and im going to sit down and be quiet and turn it over to my excellent panel, and well start off with heather. Thank you so much. Good morning, everyone. I think the arctic is the best place to talk about that intersection of climate stress and security. And in many ways the arctic is telling us, actually, both polar regions are telling us theyre under the most dramatic stress as the arctic certainly is warming two to three times faster than any place on the planet. And in many ways we are now dealing with a very new ocean. In fact, our former coast guard commandant called the arctic americas fourth coast. I thought that was a powerful way of thinking about it in part bec
A faster pace gets even stronger. So that. Indias experience can be beneficial to these countries also mr president are. About. 303000 years ago you know 3000 years ago. A great port of india whose name was going in. He wrote. In tamil which is the most ancient language of the world he said yeah the movie. Which means. We belong to all places. And we belong to everyone. And this is something that was said 3000 years ago when this sense of belonging beyond borders is unique to india. In the last 5 years india has walked towards strengthening its centuries old great tradition of fraternity among nations and working for the welfare of the world. Which is indeed. In line with the key objectives of the United Nations. On the issues that india raises. The kind of new Global Platforms that india has come forward to build. Seek collective efforts to address. Serious global challenges and issues. But mr president. If you look at it from a historic and per capita emissions perspective. Indias co
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thanks for joining deadly violence has hit a remote part of indonesia this week violence that appears to have started because of a text message it happened in papa province which is next to pop into guinea its a place ethnically and culturally distinct from much of the rest of indonesia and it intermittently sees tension the latest violence was apparently sparked by a text message from a student who said that a teacher had racially insulted a pop one student officials have called the text news in any case that message spread and angry crowds turned out torching cars shops and buildings more than 30 people have died in the unrest so far. Joining us is fed rianna fure dowse a journalist based out of jakarta who has been following the story this seems a really dramatic response to a text message whats going on this is actually in a coalition about what happened invest your spouse shes the year the next day root out the problems to the saints about rece