A difference. Taking along. With matchmaking. Im british manager welcome to beat up the news asia its good to have you with us pakistans former army chief. Has been sentenced to death in a treason case its the 1st time such a sentence has been handed down to a form on the chief in pakistan the case minutes to 2007 when musharraf as president imposed a state of emergency suspended the constitution and placed several judges under house arrest. In a bloodless coup in 1909 toppling the civilian government of sharif. In the United Arab Emirates where hes receiving medical treatment. And for more im joined by family farms from. Some of them to see you why is this sentence so significant well it is significant symbolically because you see that the military is so powerful in pakistan the military dictators broke the constitution they suspended the constitution there were true government elected civilian governments so and the judiciary always supported the military actions of the coups and the
Yesterday, a headline said china planning to surprise trump and negotiators with a last minute plan for phase one to remove september tariffs this has never been talked about. Delaying future tariffs was the most we were going to agree on trump was getting traction because of the bite. This has never been on the table. China will get it done then i read it today it said these are now part of the negotiation. The way it was cast is that it was almost like an appeasement or throwing in the hand. Is it negotiations or are we backing down the deal is likely to get done each side wants to say we got what we wanted now, if that happens, the markets will be like that. Thats the big question, does the market care if it comes without any teeth. Do they just want a truce and no more ramped up sort. For phase one, do they want to give up what they were working to force them out of the table. I think what the market is really looking foreGoing Forward is if you are going to continue conversations.
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1. 5 two year just below that at 1. 478 overnight in china, look at those stocks and youre going to see the nikkei was up by 2 , 2. 1 in shanghai, market there up by a percent and hang seng closed flat and then if youre looking at what has been happening in europe with the early trading taking place this morning, you will see mostly green arrows there. The cac up by. 9 . So is the dax. The ftse down by half a percent. Cnbc has you covered for all of the big global stories that are moving markets today were going to take you to hong kong for the latest comments from carrie lam. An update on the political crisis in the uk over brexit exclusive update on the tariff fallout for small retailers. Lets start in washington now, with the news that the the big news that is moving the markets now, trade talks with china, set to resume next month. What do you got here the news breaking last night out of beijing, the Foreign Ministry issuing a statement, here is the cnbc translation of the Foreign