Parliament has voted to dissolve itself sending the country to its 3rd election in less than a year now the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu nor his main opponent benny gantz were able to form a governing coalition after septembers inconclusive vote. U. S. President donald trump has signed an executive order which he says is intended to end anti semitism but there are affairs that its actually designed to restrict criticism of Israeli Government policies our fisher explains. President donald trump has regularly boasted of his pro israel record he did it again as he signed a new executive order this time into fighting what the white house sees as a growing problem of anti semitism on University Campuses across the u. S. As this is our message to universities if you want to accept the tremendous amount of federal dollars that you get every year you must reject anti semitism and i essentially the order extends part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act it allowed the department of education to wi
Represents the feelings of the saudi people who love the American People so much so was there was just given to me by the king of saudi arabia and i can tell you its a horrible thing that took place and were getting to the bottom of it all of the investigators are there now and theyre studying it very closely mike hanna is in washington d. C. With more on the political reaction. The governor was very quickly on the scene expressed deep concern at the situation and deep true tragedy at the situation as well he pointed out that the pentagon the naval pilot is an integral part of that community and the attack on the base would have a massive impact on the 10s of thousands that live in neighborhoods surrounding the particular base he also raised the question of the Saudi National being the gunman and the cost whether its possible that reparations might have to be made by the saudi state theres obviously going to be a lot of questions about you know this individual being a Foreign National
Benefit the president has engaged in abuse of power undermining our National Security and jeopardizing the integrity of our elections this actions are in defiance of the vision of our founders and the oath of office that he takes to preserve protect and defend the constitution of the stick. Castro explains from washington that the impeachment is likely to reach the senate. That announcement was a dramatic marker in this impeachment saga it puts the full weight of the House Speakers Office behind the drafting of these articles of impeachment which is significant because these articles are in essence the charges the political charges that trump will face when and if his impeachment reaches the senate and all indications are that it will now exactly what these articles will include now thats the bigger question we saw from the house intelligence committees report that was put together after interviewing the heat of the testimonies from 17 witnesses as well as the call transcript between t
With beijing and washington talks. We are waiting for had for that. The hang seng raising some of the losses we have seen. Mckay up three quarters of 1 . Asx, which has had a rough time of it. Up 6 10 of 1 . A bad day for manila. David yesterday, we were down 1 that is standing on the screens. Rishaad lets have a look at some of the other asset classes. This is a position we have had. Nickel has had a torrid time should it has entered a bear market. 20 down since the beginning part of september. Prices may snap back next year if the conditions start to reemerge. A bit of a loose side of things that has driven things downward. Investors have continued to grapple with the uncertainty of trade. Lets have a look at what is going with the australian dollar. Just up a fraction at the moment. We had the commonwealth of australias pi numbers. Inwed manufacturing contractor he services. Picture,t the crude . 25 toks at 20 the barrel. The 10 year yield on the japanese bonds. The are yielding eig
U. S. And chinese negotiators agree on a tariffs rollback if and when a trade deal is reached but stocks and futures slipped from asia to europe. In europe, Jeanclaude Juncker says President Trump will spare autos from tariffs ahead of next weeks deadline. The hong kong protests caused revenues to slump. The city prepares for another weekend of demonstrations. Good morning. Matt good morning. Less than a halfhour from the start of u. S. Trading. We saw haven assets really catch a bid, especially over the last few days. This is the threeday chart of treasuries. You can see the yield jumped up past 195. It is coming off a bit today. Right now, we see 1. 91. Yesterday, we saw a real change in sentiment, it looks like. For example, gold, which had been catching a bid in the last few weeks and months on concerns about the trade war, dropped 30. We will watch that and talk about that today. In terms of what we are looking at in terms of the trade in less than 30 minutes time, we see futures