The u. N. And United States are appealing for calm on both sides. Fresh protests erupted at the catalan capital of barcelona. The government is refusing to drop its bid for independence. Plus, calls for justice growing louder in malta following the murder of an anticorruption journalist. Demonstrators take to the streets to pressure the maltese government. And from great hope to great misery, south sudan is one of the worlds newest states, but today, millions of the people there are reliant on food aid. We have a special report on one womans struggle to survive and feed her family. Brent im brent goff. Good to have you with us. Tonight, residence in the syrian city of raqqa are bringing to a close their first day free of the rule of the socalled Islamic State. The syrian city was the capital of the Islamist Groups socalled caliphate. Troops fighting i. S. Say they have captured one of the militants last holdouts, the hospital you see right there. But there are still pockets of resistan
Of the technocrat and says fiscal virtue must be enforced. Let us know what you think of our top stories. Use2w me on twitter1 and rishaadtv, and use trendingbusiness. David is having a look at what is happening does far. Asia closee cap, just to recap, asia flat last week asia week. Flat last taiwan, 3. 96 , roughly in line with estimates. ,xport numbers from south korea first 20 days, slightly lower year on year move,. 3 , call it flat. We are looking at a long streak of monthly declines in south korea, 18 straight months now. Volumes are still quite light across the equity space. Going adjustment. Will the fed raise rates . What we have seen since friday into this morning and into what were seeing right now is a lot of u. S. Dollar strength coming back. Whenever we hit the 100 level, we get decent buying into the dollar. The euro weakening as well. At . 76. E dollar rishaad right. Shares in fortescue on the up up, it tripling on the tripling its fullyear profit. How do these numbers
And other minority groups. Host we are asking if you have questions about what is happening in iraq right now, specifically the efforts of the kurdish people, we are joined for the 35 minutes or so by the head of the Regional Government for the kurds in d. C. U. S. ,re outside the the curtis tend government held kurdistans dan Regional Government, what are they asking right now . Guest we are confronted with a lot of challenges right now. Verse, you mentioned the military and crisis. We have a population of about 5. 3 million. About 1. 5 million. Theyre coming in the tens of thousands, if not the hundreds of thousands. This has been a huge burden under the leadership in providing for and assisting these refugees. On top of this, we have not received a single penny that we are entitled to from baghdad as a result of the oil revenues. Us 9 billion. There has not been a single penny that has come since the beginning of this year. Without revenue coming in, we try to upset and making up fo
It is the faceoff that investors had been fearing. Reeses new government says it will make good on its plan to overhaul austerity in the country. That good throw athens Economic Reform Program for a loop and mean no new bailouts and maybe even an exit from the eurozone. Our complete coverage of the situation begins with a very tense meeting in athens on friday. Greeces Foreign Government opened negotiations in a meeting between the finance minister and the head of the eurozones group of finance ministers. He started things off with a terse rejection of austerity measures imposed on athens over the past five years. The new government says it will no longer allow imf and eu auditors into greece and it refuses to extend the bailout program. We will seek cooperation with the legal institutions of the eurozone and the International Monetary on, but the Tripartite Committee of imf, european commission, and ecb insists on a program whose logic we consider antieuropean. According to the europe
The southern tip of the united states, blasting cold has swept across most of north america. This socalled holy vortex has been breaking records throughout the region and causing massive disruption to flights and on the road. Authorities in many areas are simply telling people to stay at home. Forecasters say relief from the deep freeze is expected to come later this week. Lake michigan is frozen solid. If it was not too cold to survive outdoors, it would be possible to walk across it to canada. Temperatures are 20 seven degrees celsius, an alltime record, and it is 40 win the wind chill is factored in. It is brutal out here. It is unbelievably cold out here. It is just this is ridiculous. Dont want to be outside at all. Not at all. My skin the moment you walk outside, your skin hurts. Americans in the north and midwest have been battling arctic conditions for days as the lowpressure front christina sweeps across the country. Extremely cold air is blowing in from the arctic across the