A country thats already got its own of Plastic Waste problem. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start in india where parliament has outlawed socalled instant divorce practiced by some muslims it will now become a criminal offense punishable by up to 3 years in prison the controversial practice allows a muslim man to end his marriage simply by saying the arabic word talaq which means divorce 3 times to his wife its been a lightning rod issue in india for some time the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 2017 and asked lawmakers to act against it however the bill was blocked by the opposition in the upper house of parliament for more than a year this time a split in opposition ranks helped Prime Minister Narendra Modis government push through the bill heres more from correspondent in delhi and. Primus some of the ins more of these b. G. P. And some Muslim Womens groups have applauded the criminalized reaction of instant divorce or the lochaber tha
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Warning until 5 15, for another 14 miutes, princegeorges and parts of charles and fairfax counties as well. This storm was producing prolific amounts of lightning. Starting to see some of that lightning fall out of thunderstorm which is a good sign. It means that the thunderstorm is starting t calm down a little bit and fizzle out somewhere, but, still some very heavy rainfall and that will ber the main tt out there tonight, hervey rain. Ill have the fireworks forecast coming up in about 15 minutes. All right. Thanks, amelia. People havehe been gatng down on the mall well before this rain hit. And even after is started our crews have seen many folks headed down to get a good look. Crowds continue torow as we check in with W Corey Smith the live near the Lincoln Memorial where the president is the set to speak. Reporter yeah,gu , the crowds do continue to fill in. But this rain is kind of forcing people to make that executive decision, are we going to stay or go . We see more people fil
The north. Now, moving toward solano. They will be with us. Highs are beginning to bump up a teeny bit here. 60s, 70s and low 80s. 6 01. Still good news . Right. Yes. Were having a debate show your arms at work. Yeah. Because theres no traffic, really. Theres no traffic. Going to start to see gun shows in town, sal . Ill show you my arms, baby. Lets go out and take a look at the commute. Ill show you what will im talking about. I will be serious for a second. Okay. It is nice and light now. I dont think it will be this afternoon, leaving the bay area. So put that into your plans. If you think youre the only one getting away for the long week ahead. This afternoon, you will be mistaken about that. There will be people on the road. Even though theyre not going to work. Theyre going to go somewhere today. Lets move along and take a look at me of these other commutes on interstate 880 north and south traffic. That traffic is moving along very nicely. Its not a bad commute here on the bay b
Halfway through 2019 its the last trading day of the first half how has tech performed what about all of these recent ipos bob pisani has some of those answers and joins us on set. You know what i love . I love how wrong the consensus is humans are terrible at predicting the future and nobody is worse than wall street at it, so remember when we started in 2000, back in january, everybody said, the ipo market, oh, theres going to be 200 of them. Everybodys going to go public no one will want all of this stuff. Theyll price this stuff too high and the only thing anybody wants is uber and lyft are they sure they want those . Everything was wrong. Look at the numbers. Were at the first half of the year with. 62 in the Second Quarter, 25 billion. It was the most active quarter by deal count in four years. It was the most capital raised in five years. And look at the 30 the average return on ipo. Thats twice what it historically has been. So the answer was, oh, it turns out theres people dyi