Didnt leave too angry at a Political Class they blame for tuesdays blast that killed dozens and destroyed and damaged many neighborhoods in the lebanese capital the authorities were aware that thousands of tons of highly explosive material was stored at the beirut port for years we have survived the explosion but part of all of us has died to be honest but what can we do i am one of the fortunate ones who can leave and establish myself outside but all these people cannot so what can we do what they did was return to the streets they have been demanding a new leadership for months many were injured in running battles that lasted for hours but this time they say they wont be silenced they want justice and revenge for the victims of the explosion and believe a government led inquiry into the disaster wont hold senior officials accountable. We are not leaving if you go to them or us in this country and you know what the people always pick and we will fight we want revenge and all revenge i
Mistakes we asked of sweden had made a deadly error the interview generated a wave of reactions and political debate in sweden including from the leader of the opposition and the Prime Minister. I. Foreign minister and linda welcome to complex out thank you very much you said recently about swedens trust a base strategy to combat the coronavirus was working your Prime Minister also continues to maintain the strategy was the right one but today you have nearly 5000 confirmed coronavirus debts far higher per capita than your neighbors who imposed stricter lock downs early on with such a high death toll how can you say that your strategy is working. Well actually we have the same goals as most other governments that says to save life and health and also to keep the system in the Health Service able to cope with this very strong push on the limits and actually we manage to flatten the curve we have there for have. Problems we getting sick people into the health care. Actually or so we have
Well i think the very real win for the Afghan Government and the Afghan People will be if we make concrete progress towards peace im sure that the president will be confident that this strength of his hand as he tries to set the conditions for the negotiations will draw a fence in a start to each afghanistan towards peace so yes it will strengthen the president s art there were some people of course who thought that they could get unconditional release of these prisoners and that there would be negotiations starting next week for anybody who thought that this may be a disappointment but we have to have a show of the of the Afghan People broadly speaking at the in favor of negotiations and Peace Process and the afghan president empowered to try to take that for us maybe its maybe its inched us its just towards the taliban to be fairly here at least with what theyve achieved so far this year through negotiations promise of u. S. Withdrawal out of reduction of u. S. Air pressure on their
Jobless claims. President trump scrapped his g. O. P convention as the coronavirus rages. Concerns that big tech is on a bubble. Welcome today break europe. The results came out a few minutes ago. 650 million. T was an estimated loss of 250. 1 million. Equinor posted an unexpected Second Quarter profit. They are on track to deliver on their plan for cutting costs of 700 million. It cease 2021 capex at 21 billion. It sees 20222023 at an average of 12 billion. A clear beat in terms of Second Quarter adjusted net and profit. Keeping the dividend and keeping the fullyear capex guidance on change and on track for cost cutting. Those are the main lines coming through. Well speak the the c. E. O. Coming up at 7 00 a. M. U. K. Time. Japan is closed. China is bearing the brunt of the losses. Red on the screen in hong kong and australia. A little bit of a weaker yuan. An increase in tensions between the u. S. And china given the news around the order of the chengdu consulate. Take a look at what
Exists, goes. Meeting,he big fed take a look at the 10 year we are down to 58 basis points, going back with that handle. Earlier in march when the 10 year dipped below 50, a strategist said, i am no longer writing about the 10 year because it is nonsense at this point. I push this story forward to see what the fed has to say about this. Caroline lets push it forward to next week and get jonathans perspective. How are you looking at a week where we headed bloomberg . Next week, we get big earnings. Where are the areas of the market that are unloved that could be opportunities . Jonathan if you look at one area that is interesting, it is going to be the financials. If the economy is better, if we get a vaccine earlier, it is going to be that group that is going to either continue to anchor the market lower or if this does relieved to the upside , that is a group that could do better and there is a disparity between credit spreads, which are saying, no one is defaulting on a loan, everyth