Well welcome to you youre watching our national with me nikki erin its great to have you with us and our top story this hour following months of protests for a lot from the unrest in hong kong is now being felt much further afield for the 1st time since sunday government demonstrations began on the chinese territory activists have attacked the hong kong official who was visiting london. Was. Was very well the video that we just saw shows Hong Kongs Justice secretary terrys a chain who was actually at the time in the u. K. Giving a speech about successful dispute resolution how she was targeted by dozens of protesters who pretty much mobbed her as she left the car now the activists were yelling murderer and they also chase her down the street to put it show of the incidents the one that we just saw shows a chain being swamped and screamed ad and at some point she was even pushed to the ground and she injured her arm and she was taken to hospital by ambulance for treatment now an interes
Telecom here mosconi are watching on to International Live from austin and with meaning to welcome to the program. The u. S. Is sending extra troops and their Defense Systems to saudi arabia and the u. A. E. According to the pentagon the move is a response to aggression and was requested by the 2 countries. As the president has made clear the United States does not seek conflict with iran that said we have many other military options available should they be necessary it would be you were the troop strength what hundreds of troops also just the secretary. Do you think this is going to be we think for now that would be sufficient but that doesnt mean there could be additional deployments as needed based on the changing situation. Washington accused iran of bombing Saudi Oil Infrastructure last week and the drone in missile attacks were claimed by hooty rebels in yemen on friday saudi forces launched several air strikes near the yemeni port city of her data aside the Coalition Spokesman
Leaves our global report today as a modi administrations finance minister announces an 8 percent cut in the base Corporate Tax rate the centex stock markets surge and closed up by more than 5 percent after minister some around the im now 20000000000. 00 policy package indias base Corporate Tax rate was cut 30 percent to 22. 00 companies that do not seek Tax Exemptions will qualify for that base rate while those who do will pay a base rate of 25 percent down from the previous 35 Percent Companies that start out between october of this year and march of 2023 will be offered an even lower base rate of 15 percent and while reaction was positive the sudden and dramatic move by the indian policymakers suggest that they saw a weakening in Economic Indicators that call for such a bold action as indian growth reached its 6 year low tax cuts added to a list of stimulus actions for 29000. 00 that already includes 4 Interest Rate cuts by the reserve bank of india. Meanwhile Prime Minister and the
Will send more troops to saudi arabia and the u. S. Response to an alleged iranian strike on a new facility tehran the claims even riyadh knows its not. Yet you know where you are this is r. T. International great to have you with us. But shes on the road to the whats become the traditional sense of a protest in paris demonstrators gather to. Poor Living Conditions but also this time it changed to 152 people were the times reports from the same. Several clashes taking place across paris we hear on the show in silesia where actually 45 is taking place or you just get a sense of behind me there is a huge amount of anger here and thats because the police of course who dont area with the police in selling it which they. Not letting out and as you can see some of the people on the outside protesters are calling for the liberty of these people being called and in this section cordoned for no reason we were actually in there ourselves we were allowed out because were members of the press or t
A slight bid into the back of the bond market. Lots of supply coming on next week. That is front and center, along with the repo market. Time now for global exchange. We bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. From mumbai is bloombergs south brussels, iann wishart. In india, the government unveiled a 20 billion plan to boost growth, including cutting Corporate Taxes to the lowest in asia. Stocks having their best day in india and a decade. We have more from mumbai. Reporter as you mentioned, happy friday for companies. They are a big they are calling it a big bang of sorts. However, bonds obviously felt because they see huge stimulus coming, they dont know where and how the government will fund it. As you mentioned, and yet will be one of the lowest tax regimes , and that could attract a number of Foreign Investors and Foreign Companies as they seek find new venues to set up Manufacturing Companies amid the u. S. And china trade war. I think it has been a very ex