Youre watching worldwide exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. As we get into the trading session here in europe, you can see behind me decliners outpacing advancers by about a 41 ratio, with stocks shedding about a third of a percent. Well get to more of that shortly. First take a look at the forces individually to get a sense of where were seeing the selling pressure and it is pretty much consistent. Theres the ibex 35 down. 7 of a percent. The ftse down about a third of a percent. Not many green spots to find. Yesterday we saw that rally in peripheral debt. Today were actually seeing firmer prices across the board, so whether the u. S. Down there or italy and spain here in the periphery, 4. 7 , 6 , remarkable there, level for spain even today as the countrys banks are being more fully examined in light of the National Examination plans. The dollar yen pulling back about half a percent to 8167. Lets get to Deirdre Bolton from singapore. Hi, deirdre. Hi, kelly, h
After weeks of increasing attacks, taliban and Afghan Government forces agree a three day ceasefire to mark the eid holiday. The duke of cambridge has revealed how becoming a father brought back the painful emotions he felt after his mothers death. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. The uk Prime Ministers closest aide, Dominic Cummings, is facing further pressure and scrutiny, with new allegations he breached lockdown rules and a number of member of the Ruling Conservative Party calling for him to resign. Both mr cummings and the government insist he acted reasonably and legally by driving from london to County Durham in march while his wife had coronavirus. But this morning three conservative mp have called foercummings to quit. Leading brexiteer and conservative mp steve baker tweeted that it is intolerable that borisjohnsons government is losing so much capital and said Do
A bail request for the former chairman of nisson motor carlos gold he could be out of prison later today but hes requested to remain in japan go and has been in jail some three and a half months and his bail has been set its nearly nine Million Dollars gold was in charge of the renaud nissen mitsubishi out of alliance and he was indicted in japan over allegedly falsifying Financial Reports and to breach of trust he denies the charges. Curious case for sure lets bring in our market correspondent early birds in frankfurt good morning to you now only the tokyo court had rejected two previous requests for bail what brought about this change of heart. Well we dont really know well have to hear the court on that in the end but possibly and apparently the efforts of his new attorney and the new attorney said as much in a comment afterwards but. There are very strict. Conditions on keeping tabs on this travon he has to stay in japan and of course the high bail some will have contributed but it
No proof but it still has to work out how to handle the. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us a man has died in hong kong after being caught in clashes between prodemocracy demonstrators and police the 70 year old street cleaner was hit in the head with a brick on wednesday its not clear who threw it earlier this month a student fell from a car park and later died from his injuries the unrest in hong kong has worsened in recent days after more than 5 months of antigovernment unrest. Well lets cross over to hong kong where our correspondent Mathias Bellinger is standing by for us but he is this is now the 2nd death related to the protests within a week what more do we know about how this particular incident happened. We know that 2 groups of people were standing were confronting each other hurling bricks at each other one of the groups were protesters and the other groups the other group were people who were against the protest it is not very clear where these people came from