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Good morning and welcome youre watching our international. Wall street suffered its 1st automatic halt in trading in more than 2 decades after stocks fell nearly 8 percent as we speak by the biggest collapse in the oil price in the ninetys before rebounding slightly as saudi arabia stepped up its price war and in the u. S. The dow plunged more than 2000 points the worst one day point drop ever prompted by Oil Price War that stunned markets around the world we have a huge market event yesterday as a lot of investors repriced all show off the crash restart markets and the 2000 point swing on the dow its the same for what happens today Business News now starting with the crude oil markets as they try to bounce back from their worst day since 1991. Or prices plunged 30 percent on whats been dubbed black monday in the biggest single day falls since the 1st iraq war was sparked by a spat between top crude suppliers riyadh and moscow who couldnt agree a deal on production. Saudi arabia says i
Decades the stocks fell nearly 8 percent shares were spooked by the biggest collapse in the oil prices the ninetys before rebounding slightly saudi arabia stepped up its price war. And in the u. S. The dow plunged more than 2000 points the worst one day point drop ever prompted by Oil Price War that stunned markets around the world we had a huge market event yesterday is there a lot of investors repriced at all the sharp crash restart markets and the 2000 point swing on the dow its the same for what happens today Business News now starting with the crude oil markets as they try to bounce back from their worst day since 1901 or prices plunged 30 percent of whats been the black monday in the biggest single day full since the 1st iraq war it was sparked by a spat between top crude suppliers and moscow the couldnt agree a deal on production. Saudi arabia says it will slash oil prices to grab market share from russia with some experts branding a dangerous scorched earth approach on this aft
Russia and an israeli fighter jet is downed after a raid targeting iranian assets in syria and flaming tension in the region. A cordial koreans a friendly get together on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics as south koreas leader is invited to pyongyang. Thousands march against racism in the italian city were african migrants were shot. And a bigger to push to change the philippines constitution critics say it could prolong the president s time in power. There are calls for calm after the downing of an israeli f. Sixteen fighter jet by Syrian Forces it crashed after coming under fire during a mission inside syria the wreckage in the pilots landed in israeli territory russias president Vladimir Putin has urged israels Prime Minister to avoid any steps that would lead to a new flare up in the region and the u. N. Has also called for a deescalation u. S. State Department Says it is deeply concerned but supports israels right to defend itself so the sol began when israel says it spotted a
Put through. Every sunday that means the weekly from bringing you the biggest stories of the past seven days but weve got overnight developments to bring you up to speed first on this hour with the winter games drawing to a close this sunday in south korea the head of the International Olympic committee has ruled that russias athletes will not be allowed to march under their countrys flag at the closing ceremony the decision was taken after two russian athletes tested positive for banned substances in. The. First notes to lift the suspension of the russian Olympic Committee for the closing ceremony of the olympic charter so its. Sick. This is spain sion of the r o c is considered to be lifted once the doping free sports unit here fits you has confirmed that there are no it. Being ruled violations by members of the way our delegation by lets go live to south korea now is just ten two in the afternoon thats about six hours away from the closing ceremony of the trend has been at the games