Lifted the ban on the private messaging Service Telegram russian Officials Say the ban was lifted after the company showed willingness to help with counterterrorism efforts telegram is a messaging company with over 400000000 active monthly users and it had been banned in russia since 20 teen Communications Watchdog odd source said in a statement. The war is dropping its demands to restrict access to Telegram Messenger in agreement with russias general Prosecutors Office now for more we are joined by bus. Juan and Christi I Ben lets start with you why was this ban lifted at this time and was a truly over telegrams founder saying that what he would do or he would do more actually to combat extremism. I think it had been very little to do with combating extremism it had much more to do with the fact that this ban on telegram was completely ineffective and all about 15800000 i p addresses were being blocked out including 8 counts on amazon and google clouds it was severely affecting russia
Cases continue to surge at home and abroad. The World Health Organization reports a oneday high for global infection. Japan plans to pitch for ancial workers under g workers uneasy about their future. Lets take a look about a look at how markets are setting up. Asian risk assets likely to see a selfstarter this monday as a sections are weighed up against improving Economic Data. We have a calendar today with hong kong pmi and indonesian Consumer Confidence on cap. Kiwi stocks, little change. Fluctuating. P moving to a 10th of 1 . Haidi to our top global stories, one that is going to preoccupy markets in the second half. Local coronavirus cases topping 11. 3 million. The World Health Organization reports a single day record in new infections globally. Cases any the u. K. , south africa, japan and the philippines continue to rise. The u. S. All the daily infection rates low. Calling for more restrictions to curb the outbreak. In australia, nine Public Housing tower blocks with 3000 peopl
The worst vics from the , to today. It is certainly better today. Francine here is ritika gupta with first word news. Ritika there has never been a month as bad as april for the british economy. Gdp fell more than 20 as the coronavirus lockdown took hold. On a threemonth basis, economic output shrank more than 10 . The imf says the Global Economy is recovering more slowly than expected from the coronavirus. The fund expects it will have lingering scars from the experience. The imf will release economic with injections june 24. It expects them to be worse than the last forecast in april. The imf says in general asian economies are further along in the recovery path. President trump is rejecting calls to overall Law Enforcement to cut funding. He says a Strong Economy will be the fix for racial injustice. The president is working on an executive order that he says asks police to meet the most current standards. There are few details on what that program will look like. North korea accuse
Surging the country recorded nearly 20000 new cases its biggest single day spike it could soon have the 2nd highest number of cases in the world its thursday and unemployment numbers are in from last week and still on the rise will nearly all 50 states have at least partially reopen and still 2400000 more americans filed for unemployment just last week that brings the 9 week total jobless claims to more than 38000000. 00 analysts are even expecting even worse numbers for the month of april now russia still seeing its cases surged deputy Prime Minister a top 10 are goalie cova reported the countrys Unemployment Rate has risen by 30 percent since the start of covert 19 the pandemic is expected to wipe out 20 percent of russians disposable income in the 2nd quarter of 2020 well the World Health Organization reported the world record in newly reported cases worldwide this week. We still have a long way to go in despondent. In the last 24 hours there have been 160000 cases reported to doubl
The Global Pandemic surpassed by 1000000 new cases as a lot in america surpassed several countries in europe cases in brazil are still surging the country recorded nearly 20000 new cases its biggest single day spike could soon have the 2nd highest number of cases in the world its thursday and unemployment numbers are in from last week and still on the rise will nearly all 50 states have at least partially reopen and still 2400000 more americans filed for unemployment just last week that brings the 9 week total jobless claims to more than 38000000. 00 analysts are even expecting even worse numbers for the month of april now russia still seeing its cases surged deputy Prime Minister a top 10 are goalie cova reported the countrys Unemployment Rate has risen by 30 percent since the start of covert 19 the pandemic is expected to wipe out 20 percent of russians disposable income in the 2nd quarter of 2020 well the World Health Organization reported the world record in newly reported cases wo