A better life. Hola also has condemned attacks on Peaceful Protesters in the country and says now the demonstrators demands have been met theres been some confrontations between police and protesters in baghdad Iraq Human Rights Commission says at least 325 people have been killed so far iraqs government has taken some measures to address their grievances but many forecasters want a complete overhaul of the political system in aim is in baghdad for senate after friday prayers are expecting another big day of protests yes. Shes going to step out of the way were catching 8 her to. You know who like. That protesters might have been overcome with scuse me tear gas as you mentioned come about 4 or 5 oclock in the afternoon at the square is going to be so packed you cant move and so loud you cant even think ive been here about every day for the last month since october 25th and protesters have been as passionate as determined and as clear in their demands as day one that they want the curren
To the streets joy and it has to be said by Many Office Workers using their lunch hour to join the protest bringing the Central District to a standstill and then it largely dispersed with later on during the afternoon with no outbreaks of violence no clashes that we have seen earlier on that this week there has of course as we know been a big change this week it seems in some some of the tactics being used by the protesters very much more targeting the working week the means of transport of people getting to work be it the subway system or highways and still at the end of this very long week we have some highways are still blocked there are still standoff between populations of students at various campuses around hong kong where they have built buildings some fairly formidable now defenses with police riot Police Standing outside not taking the bomb. In other news iraqs grand ayatollah Ali Al Sistani has condemned attacks on Peaceful Protesters in the country and says that none of the
This morning, National Securities corporation chief market strategist, art hogan is hill, liz peek is here and James Freeman. Great to he see everybody. Thank you to all of our veterans this morning and their families. Liz peek, you have people in your family. Our son is a veteran. Maria thank you so much. And thank you everybody. We want to give a big shoutout all day today to our great heroes of this country. Our top story this hour is violence erupting in hong kong over the weekend, the protests now in the sixth month. Police fired gunshots at protesters early this morning sending one man to the hospital and the emergency room for emergency surgery, another man in Critical Condition this morning after being set oven fire for confronting protesters who had been vandalizing a subway station. This story is not going away. I think this is also creating pressure for xijinping in china but when you see things turn this kind of violent you wonder what kind of impact it really will have. It
Elections. And sporting chinas biggest swimming star defends his behavior during a random drugs test sanjana gives evidence during a public hearing where he were speaking banned from the sport for up to 8 years. In just under one hour the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine will appear before the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trumps conduct moravia van of it was dismissed from her role in kiev earlier this year after what she says was a campaign to discredit her by donald trump and his posts noir Rudy Giuliani so who is the real your benefits and why is the testimony so important well shes a career diplomat who had served as ambassador to kyrgyzstan and mania before posting in may donald trump removed her. After what she says. Weeks of negative a campaign to discredit her shes expected to give evidence about the circumstances also her dismissal and what democrats say were efforts by transpersonal lawyer Rudy Giuliani to get ukraine to investigate the president s political opponents le
The u. S. May give approval next month, but either regulators are more cautious. Tencent music find the right beat with earnings topic the highest analyst estimates. Lets take a look at how asian markets are set to trade today after a pretty terrible session yesterday. We did not get a great lead from the u. S. Wall street seeing very thin volumes and expert tatian still high that we will see this trade deal but some uncertainty coming through in the mix as well as you look at yesterdays trading due to we are looking at trading starting in sydney, i staggered open pretty much flat at the open after a robust session on monday. New zealand trading at 1 10 of 1 ahead of the rbnz decision. Economists split about whether we will see another 25 basis points easing from the new releases new zealand central bank. We will get some hints to what direction they will go with the inflation exit tatians report later today as well as housing prices. To cargo nikkei futures flat at the moment. We are