And tiny manuscript but a big price. One of the first works by Charlotte Bronte is sold for 500,000. Voiceover live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in the morning here in singapore, 1am in london and 9am in hong kong, where activists remain under siege inside the polytechnic university. But around 100 protestors including 50 minors have been led from the buildings as part of a deal negotiated by a group of school head teachers. Theres been more violence as police try to keep the campaigners trapped inside. Outside the university, protesters have tried to break the police lines while police have responded with rubber bullets and tear gas. 0ur correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes has the latest. For a few minutes today, it looked like the siege of Hong Kong Polytechnic University might end peacefully. The young protesters began streaming down the stairway, that on sunday was set aflame to block the police from storming
No more work for wework boss adam neumann, he is quitting a ceo saying it is in everyones best interest. Kathleen lets get a quick reminder of how u. S. Stocks ended the day. It was all about politics. Geopolitics. The dow jones losing a half percent. S p 500, nearly a full percent. Drop pointl, the 10 in Consumer Confidence in the u. S. Our people worried about the trade war . Yes. Donald trump increasing the downward pressure on stocks when he gave his speech at the u. N. General assembly and started talking about wanting free trade, reciprocal trade with china. Criticizing him for heavy state subsidies and more. Social media platforms that hit the tech stocks, stocks across the board. Bonds down sharply. Tuesdays market volatility came to a head when news of nancy pelosi would launch a formal impeachment inquiry as she made that official moments ago. Speaker pelosi the actions of the Trump Presidency revealed of the president s betrayal of his oath of office, betrayal of our nationa
Formal impeachment proceedings with House Speaker nancy pelosi saying he has violated his oath of office. President struck a hard line at the United Nations with comments about china and iran. Investors are weighing another change of tone. Boris johnson refuses to quit as u. K. s top judges attack his suspension of parliament. They say his advice to the queen was unlawful. Stock market,he take a look at this board where you can see the major market averages down across the board. It was donald trump speaking at the u. N. And bashing china. News came out that pelosi was ready to say, ok, we are going ahead with impeachment proceedings. You can see the s p 500 losing a full point. What hit the nasdaq so hard was the fact that donald trump was beating up on big tech companies. Interesting that we are seeing a little bit of an upturn for the stock futures. The s p 500. This hit bonds. Another thing that hit bonds, a big move down in yields, you can see quite a rally of seven basis points a
Now without charge. Hello and good morning a. T. M. This monday the 26th of august here in moscow im kevin owen he was the world news update from out international and the focus 1st this morning was printed last few days in the south of france where irans foreign minister made an impromptu visit to the g. 7 summit in southwest france sunday apparently catching the leaders of the worlds top economies off guard with his visit Mohamed Zarif met for talks on the crisis in the persian gulf right now with president Emmanuel Mccraw and his french counterpart on the sidelines of the 4 lets go straight to paris because this bit more detail shall is there morning to you what we know about visit and what was the reaction to it sent to a lot of people by surprise than it. Yes absolutely. Yet another busy g. 7 summit in spite that ideal setting in the south of france it was one g. 7 summit that hasnt gone without its own controversy well most of the leaders with there are no looking to get accords
Top tens of thousands of people have been killed in the civil war and millions are starving the u. N. Is called it the worlds worst humanitarian crisis. Still ahead of aljazeera sending in the troops brazil promises to deal with record fires in the Amazon Global concerns grow. Taking the fight to the kidnappers nigerias crime crisis where even traveling on trains isnt safe. Hello again its good to have you back where across all of our we have seen a lot of a clear skies to the south but we have seen some storms up here towards turkey making their way towards the east so around the black sea particular across the eastern part of the black sea we will continue to see more heavy rain showers over the next few days well be watching this very carefully temperatures are up though here across parts of syria were going to be seeing aleppo about 39. 00 degrees on sunday maybe dropping down to about 30 degrees by the time we get towards monday well here across the gulf it has been very very stea