And restoring power sharing. And coming up on the programme well hear from a climate scientist in denmark about how the effects of last weeks heatwave are reaching as far as greenland, which is home to the worlds second largest ice sheet. Good evening. An inquiry has found that hundreds of children were sexually abused while in council care in nottinghamshire by the very people who were supposed to be caring for them. And the abuse went on for more than four decades. 350 people came forward and said they had been physically or sexually abused but the inquiry says the true number of victims is likely to be much higher. The damning report said the councils had failed in their duty to protect children in their care and still hadnt learned from their mistakes prompting concern about some children in care now. Our Midlands Correspondent sima kotecha reports. For some, it was here where the nightmares began, at beechwood childrens home, where Vulnerable People who were supposed to be protect
Outperforms european rivals with earnings that beat estimates. We speak to the ceo, bob dudley, in just a moment. Back to the table, chinese trade negotiators hope the u. S. Hosts the u. S. Trade team as huawei reports earnings. Mexicos president says he wants lower rates to boost. The economy is not growing as we would want it to grow. On the other hand, there are no risks of recession. Matt less than a halfhour away from trading across europe and in the u. K. Im looking at a fiveyear chart of the pound. We are getting back down to the 2017, asit in 2016 and the likelihood of a hard brexit seemingly increases. That is not affecting equity Index Futures in a negative way. Take a look at equity Index Futures across europe after the gains that we saw in asia. We still see gains in ftse futures, as well as cac futures. However, dax futures are still down this morning, although just marginally. Euro stocks, ftse futures indicating a flat open. What are you seeing on the gmm screen . Anna l
A goodwill gesture by the European Institute on it is also the europeans trying to keep it on in the j. C. You know a do you and it is also a way of the europeans retaining access to the iranian markets which after all is an important market for europe in particular for countries like germany and france but its paid for the insteps Payment System to be sustainable and effective it must apply to all who purchase and because dont trump site sanctions on iran which are all complete the most dangerous that america has has placed it on over the last 40 years ago in 3 wrongs jocular and that juggler is irans ability to export oil if the european claimant system does not apply to the purchases by other countries also it rainin oil then i do strongly suspect that iran will. When she leaves the j. C. You know and also the iranian economy will be in serious trouble because trump does wants us fix the iranian economy exactly. That the joke about which is it wrong or marcus it before i go to game
It wrong or oil markets hit me for i go to game here how much is this also in a sense of the European Union claiming some form of economic sovereignty i mean it wasnt the last time we had a country dictating other countries trade policy was the soviet union with its Eastern European satellites i mean this is very very authoritarian dictating to countries who they can trade with i mean this also is a sovereignty issue yes. I agree if you look at the European Union wast it is a strategic ally to america it is also an Economic Zone it falls and all the way that lynn harris on it in exchange for trade in we have it on the way that the germans the french and the j. C. But the american representative on iran has recently said oh. Sure its our traits of america whats traits of iran and peter the problem is this is a rerun you know market even though its lucrative of course it cant compete with the American Market and thats where my concern is that when push comes to shove businesses in german
In terms of gains. Can tech keep up its recent hot streak joining us now to discuss is jeffries Senior Analyst brent thil and tom forte gentlemen, good morning to you both tom, ill start with you the fact that were seeing names like apple, the semis rally on this u. S. china trade truce over the weekend and what it means for some of these companies to be selling into china, how should investors be thinking about that sure, i would say the truce is nice, but we would like to see is an actual resolution. So one point in time, resolution looked like china agreeing to buy billions of dollars of Agricultural Products from the u. S. So, again, the truce is nice, but we would like to see an actual outcome, and something were monitoring closely, because we would argue it had the biggest impact on tech stocks in the first half of this year brent, what it means for alphabet, as well. I mean, i know they had put a hold earlier when huawei got added to the intent tis list here in the u. S. Is ther