Representatives who have been investigating potential foreign influence and russian Money Laundering the judge just said that would need to be decided by a Lower Court Ruling basically starting all over again so they get everything back down to the work working the story of the u. K. So for the 2nd point to. Point out that. This is a political witch fights that would not be there if you will disappear which its just like the more. Folks that i want and this is the folks this is political. Where u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has applauded the Supreme Courts decision and says congress will continue to press its case our White House Correspondent kimberly how kate has more. Nancy pelosi says that they will conduct new investigations and that they will conduct their constitutional right to oversight discraft their arguments a little bit better that was the criticism from the Supreme Court that they hadnt made a convincing argument to and so essentially what she said is we will next time
Melbourne. Uns expert on extrajudicial killings says the u. S. Drone strike that killed a top iranian commander customs or money was unlawful. And chinas new security law prompts to talk to pull out of Hong Kong Zuma towards facebook and google in suspending data sharing with police. Who brazils president has tested positive for grown a virus after months of dismissing it as a little flu even as the situation in his country deteriorated show ableson are insists he feels in good health despite a fever the right wing leader began feeling ill on sunday and was taken to a Military Hospital after developing symptoms he has repeatedly defined local guidelines to wear a mask in public and as opposed to locking down the country even as it battles that in americas worst outbreak brazil has reported more than 65000 deaths and more than 1600000 cases a 2nd highest totals in the world. Everybody knew that sooner or later a significant part of the population would get it it happened im an example m
Was 25 n the s p 500 better than average over the last month. We are waiting on the let us check of japan, as the pandemic puts more pressure on the economy already sliding into recession. Inflation numbers are due at this hour. Haidi lets check in on the markets. We had a pretty tepid handover from the u. S. Stocks edging higher. Volumes still below what we have seen over the past month or so. Very much a rangebound trading session. We continue to seek a new catalyst. We continue to see rising cases across the u. S. , driving the idea of a second wave. Beijing struggling with a second wave as well. Conflicting data not giving a great deal of intel as to what the future holds. We are dealing and upside on s p futures, up about. 3 . Nikkei futures also a little bit higher, japan weighing the frostburg of reopening. Also the potential demise when it comes to tourism. Sydney futures are a little bit to the downside at the moment. We could see a modest bounce at the start of trading here i
Canadas Prime Ministers has he is disappointed china has charged a former diplomat and businessman with spying. And protesters call for a president to resign for the second time this month. Im lee welling does with the sports news. Hes been seriously hurt in a fight in italy and has undergone surgery for serious head injury. Anchor welcome to the newshour. The World Health Organization delivered a warning on the coronavirus pandemic. Rather than easing, the outbreak is in fact accelerating and the world is in a new and dangerous phase. Globally, 150,000 new infections were reported thursday, the highest number in a single day. Nearly half of them were in the americas. The who is urging people everywhere to maintain extreme vigilance. The world is in a new and dangerous phase. Many people are understandably fed up with being at home. Countries are understandably eager to open up their societies and economies. But the virus is still spreading fast. It is still deadly. And most people are
Be also not seeing the robust gains we have seen the last couple days. Looks like we are snapping out of six days of gains for mainland shares. Hang seng also down 53 points or so. Nikkei futures slightly positive. We are watching currencies and other bonds as well. We are looking of course at the dollar which is holding pretty steady after we saw some strength in the u. S. Session. Chinese 10 year yields, yields actually falling lower by two basis points. Offshore room and be back above 710, 702. Aussie dollar continuing to see weakness with victoria, melbourne under a six week lockdown. And of course we mentioned the yen earlier. We are watching the hong kong dollar very closely here. Our scoop on how president trumps aids are waiting proposals to undermine hong kongs dollar. Seems like right now it is just talk, a lot is hypothetical. You are seeing a lot when it comes to the spot rate, but you see of the bit of movement in some of these markets, up slightly. Of boostingback interve