We are looking at currencies, strength coming through for the yuan. Dollar weakness is a big factor. Of the planthe back signed off or agreed to on 0. 1 . Us, the euro is up weaknessollar again, down 0. 2 . Hade is still value to be when it comes to chinas bonds, 2. 96 is the yield the. Is the yield. Gold is closing in on 1900 an its spot price. Future is pointing to 1900 in the near future. Il down 0. 7 demandweakness is a factor. Rishaad lets get some sense in all of this. Joining us is frank benzimra, head of asia equity strategy, societe generale. Thank you for joining us. How was your strategy evolving . The last couple of months europe become bullish on , and here politics is playing an Important Role in closing the gap in terms of undervaluation. In asia we have been reinforcing the view on hong kong liquidity. Our remaining strategy is on china. Is that all down to this Recovery Fund and what that presents in terms of a more united cents in europe and the eu itself . A relation
Starting in the 1960s with the group through to her efforts through the womens liberation and over several decades now her advocacy for the rights and recognition. The Freedom Prize for the lifetime achievement. [applause] roxannes latest work which we are here to talk about this evening examines the culture in the United States and looks hard at what roxanne describes as the racist roots. This view of the Second Amendment links it to the desire of citizens of a new nation to protect themselves from a tyrannical government while Roxanne Petraeus at a little differently. She portrays it as an instrument of White Nationalism, racial dominance and violent social control. She argues the support for the right to keep and bear arms was intended to facilitate the genocide of native americans and enable shareholders to control their human property. This past roxanne goes on to say he has evolved into the gun violence and in the more recent kinds of violence manifested in Mass Shootings at home
On the show. The russian and turkish leaders say they have a plan to end of the six year old war in syria but the ever closer cooperation between putin and air along is raising concerns at nato headquarters. And reimagining europes future the german chancellor backs the french president s new vision for the e. U. Today the blocks the Digital Future is on the agenda at a leader summit in tolerance. And whats up with byron munich a day after the shock sacking of coach carlo and chalabi we ask whether germanys biggest club can return to its winning ways. And were on patrol with the a booge a Traffic Police we report on nigerias controversy all efforts to put the brakes on dangerous driving. Hello and welcome im brian thomas the countdown is on for a contested referendum in the spanish region of catalonia local authorities are determined to go ahead with a vote on breaking away from spain but madrid says sundays referendum is illegal and cannot be allowed to go ahead more than seven and a
That the peoples voices will be heard. Also coming up a deadly rush hour stampede in mumbai at least twenty two people are killed after commuters crowd a Railway Railway bridge and there are fears that that number could rise. And on patrol in a blue drug Traffic Police we report on nigerias controversial efforts to put the brakes on a dangerous driving. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Thanks for joining us in spain the countdown is on for a contested referendum in the region of catalonia local authorities are determined to go ahead with a vote on breaking away from spain madrid says that sundays referendum is a legal and cannot be allowed to take place more than seven to. Million people live in the semi autonomous region of the catalonia that you see on the top right of your screen their cattle on officials are calling for a peaceful ballot but thousands of Spanish Police officers have been sent into the region to prevent people from voting. Its hard to ignore whats happening her
Slippage in that. Parliament has now come back meeting in mogadishu. It has to enact several key pieces of legislation in this session or else which shall be off track. So we will know quite soon whether this outrageously ambitious project is going to be doable or not. But at this stage there is no reason to say that it cant be done. Meanwhile, apart from having this plan of action of achieving these three major big ticket items, there is an outbreak, if you like, across somalia of free market, free market bidding process to become federal Member States. So on the ground people are taking the initiative to set up their own federal states without waiting for a federal government led orderly process. So we have currently as many of you will know, between those advocating a three region and those advocating a six region federalstate, which is a difficult issue. We still have the implementation of the Juba Administration agreement which is taking time to work through, and then we had to de