Charles evan calls for credibly important government stimulus. Australia heads into Earnings Seasons amid the first recession in decades and a virus pandemic that is crippling the economy. It promises to be one of the most challenging periods on record. Here is how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Fewer sugars u. S. Futures under pressure. We had ask leading u. S. China tensions fan yelling fanning the data. The bloomberg dollar index flat at the moment. This after a fifth consecutive weekly decline that will be the longest losing stretch since january of 2018. The offshore yuan is flat at the moment. This after the yuan led declines in asian currencies. We have President Trump moving to been tiktok and we chat. Hang seng futures down to tense up 1 . Under pressure from the last two sessions. It is a thin trading day. Singapore and japan are closed. We have a china data blitz that could be confirming the recovery we are seeing. We have ppi numbers. Not to mention retail sales a
Compete with. Lucius. And staying silent for now mollys opposition agrees to stop protests calling for the president to step down. An Intelligence Report has found the British Government actively avoided looking into evidence of russian interference in u. K. Politics it says the government failed to make action even after evidence emerge of moscow trying to influence the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum the authors say its hard to prove the kremlin meddled in the. Referendum but the u. K. Was still to recognize the threat and the report warns russias cyber capability pauses what it calls and immediate threat to Britains National security while the u. K. Government insists its not being complacent when it comes to the flow of illegal russian money into the country but members of parliament the Parliamentary Committee didnt agree. What we do know about russian influence in the u. K. Is that is the new normal successive governments of welcome russian oligarchs and their money with ou
Good afternoon, everyone. I am delighted to welcome secretary pompeo back to london. We will be discussing a full range of issues today. We are going through a range of challenges in the world, fair to say, but also great opportunities, and britain and the United States are absolutely clean and focused. Aboute spoken today serious concerns about the situation in hong kong, particularly in relation to the National Security legislation. We talked about the u. K. Office, what we are doing in extending the extradition treaty, extending the arms embargo to hong kong. We will be meeting together with will be eyes and we discussing the next at the next g7. We talked about ongoing discussions with relation to 5g and how we can diversify telecoms and 5g networks, and also learning the lessons from the coronavirus about p. P. E. And other things and what we can do to facilitate that. We also talked about the free trade negotiations. We are looking for a meeting british and american businesses sh
Hong kong throughout the day they started gathering even before kerry lamb made that announcement and they went into the financial district and then it kind of shrank a little bit but then they were blocking major intersections right in the center of monklands financial district and then they marched over here to causeway bay and there are thousands here now and theyre really just kind of coring in now how are they reacting to this announcement they say its kind of business as usual theyre continuing on theyre not going to go up by this band theyre not worried about this facemask ban as you can see a lot of people here have a face mask they are just going to continue with their protesting they say it was interesting one protester even said that this is an issue thats bigger than just bank on this is something that china is doing that is dangerous for the world so the prostatitis here for the most part is saying were going to stay steady on and continue what theyve been doing for the la
Military aid about 4 100000000. 00 to ukraine and apparently that caused some confusion among u. S. Diplomats ambassador bill taylor who was of the embassador to ukraine said are we now saying that sect that Security Assistance and white house meeting are conditioned on investigation he wrote that in a text the answer came from ambassador to the e. U. Gordon sunderland who is a trump supporter and was a donor prior to his appointment he said call me bill taylor pressed forward a few days later saying i think its crazy to withhold Security Assistance for help with a Political Campaign then suddenly and immediately responded bill i believe you are incorrect about president trumps intentions the president has been Crystal Clear no quid pro quo of any kind so as you see that last statement is what trump has been pointing to in these Text Messages changes as. His own defense but its notable kemal that when ambassador sunland sent that and sent that text it was just as whistleblower report w