China and russias election. Displaced in devastated the human cost of the conflict over nick on the cutback as the ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan falters. Election abortion obamacare and just some of the topics featuring on day 2 of the confirmation hearing of President Trumps u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barretts republican and Democratic Senators each have their c minutes to ask about subjects that are important to Many Americans the full senate could vote by the end of the month on whether to appoint her just ahead of the u. S. Poll on november 3rd. Well in the last hour or so barrett was questioned by democratic Vice President ial candidates come a harris she grilled barrett on a range of issues from abortion to the Affordable Care act my colleagues have asked you today whether you would recuse yourself from cases on the Affordable Care act you did not directly answer their questions and instead you described the process by which that would work or happen and so
Further. We are joined this hour by finance minister. The other big story today, lawmakers in washington take aim at the power of big tech. Saystitrust investigation they are abusing their dominant status. Australia coming online. Lets turn to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong with a checkup on markets. A two day rise, we are seeing pressure come through for the benchmark while the aussie dollar is testing that 71 popl after forming a double early this october. We are seeing action in the bond space. The front end of the aussie curb slipping with the three year yield falling as much as four basis points earlier in the session. This after australias updated debt issuance coming in less than expected. I want to highlight bhp shares. We are seeing the stock fall as much as 2. 3 this morning. Tesla bhp in focus be at flipping the board to check in on futures, s p eminis under pressure. The yen trading study but theres upward pressure on the stimulus deadlock. We are watching iphone makers aft
That could have Major National implications and affect the future of the Prime Minister. The conservative judge from chicago who could be the next u. S. Supreme Court Justice donald trump prepares to name his replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Breaking story that broke in the past what 25 minutes or so coming to us out of lebanon on within that past half hour the countrys Prime Minister designate thats mustapha a d. Has resigned hes been in the job just over one month given the task of trying to form a new government now the last one did resign amid protests over the handling of that huge explosion at the beirut port area what the best part of 2 months ago live to beirut correspondent zain a holder zina how can you have decided to do this right now. Well he was appointed just under a month ago and he was supposed to have formed a government in a 2 week period there was a 2 week deadline in fact the different Political Parties promised the french president manuel wrong that a governme
Problems but the request is that we move forward with patience and a lot of attention. And the host says it will spare no efforts to support the initiative along with help from the International Community. So these historic talks aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of war and misery in afghanistan are finally taking place in qatar negotiators from the Afghan Government and the taliban a meeting in doha it had their Opening Statements today with both sides expressing optimism for peace and a willingness to negotiate however each has vastly different goals and reaching an agreement will be difficult. For those we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the narratives we all know what happened to us throughout these years and where we stand today we now need to grasp this unique opportunity to move towards a new future that we can define together. We have acted accordingly to all the poi
West coast. And disneys new film rely on faces calls for a boycott and control the sea over links to. As its released in mainland china. India and china have reached an agreement on deescalation tensions along their disputed border nearly 3 months after the biggest a military confrontation between the 2 sides in the last 45 years Foreign Ministers from both countries have been holding talks in moscow the 5 point plan is centered around honoring existing border agreements 20 indian troops were killed in hand to hand combat in june in the border area of the northern the dak region which china also claims both sides are prohibited from using arms there under a treaty well for more on this lets speak to my whole crew woman hes the Deputy Director and senior associate for south asia at the Wilson Center is asia program he joins us now from washington d. C. Michael we knew these talks were happening did the extend of todays deal come as a surprise to you i think theres actually no timeline f