Regret for his countrys brutal colonial rule in africa but stops short of an apology. There has been Swift International condemnation of chinas introduction of a new security law in hong kong the u. S. U. K. E. U. And nato have all expressed grave concern and the anger over the legislation it gives beijing sweeping powers over the territory and critics say it will curb the Political Freedoms and Civil Liberties well under the law anything beijing defines as acts of secession subversion terrorism and collusion with foreign powers is punishable by up to life in prison those suspected of endangering National Security in hong kong will be put under surveillance and be wiretapped by authorities the law says the management of foreign n. G. O. S News Agencies schools and social groups will be strengthened and anyone convicted of violating the security legislation will be barred from standing in any Hong Kong Election the prodemocracy organization that most systems spearheaded by the activist
Troops plus a. Report from egypt and sudan urged the u. N. To intervene in the increasingly bitter dispute over ethiopia has granted in a sense down and 9 people on the left dead after gunmen stormed pakistans largest Stock Exchange. The World Health Organization has warned a coronavirus pandemic is far from the control and the worst is yet to come its sending a team to china next week to investigate the origins of the disease which of course are still a know we all want this to be over we all want to get on with our lives. But the hard reality is this is not even close to being over although many countries have made some progress globally. The pun actually speeding up. Americas top Infectious Disease expert says the recent surge in u. S. Krone virus cases is largely down to people ignoring Health Guidelines on Wearing Masks and socially distancing many southern and western states which push to reopen their economies are now seeing a spike in infections Dr Anthony Fauci has called the
Comes. In the afternoon here in moscow youre watching international now its not just people that are self isolating the world over because of it 19 at the moment countries as a whole are russia has become the latest to close its borders to foreigners joining the likes of canada the us and others the European Union meanwhile has also restricted access to the block. 2 limits to support of the various bubel we agreed to enforce all external borders both closed and coordinates temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e. U. Folk leave it or so to do this france meanwhile has put the entire country of 67000000 people on lockdown army trucks have been seen in the streets of paris while large numbers of Police Officers have been deployed to ensure compliance. Reports now on the nationwide origin. France is now on lockdown Strict Lockdown that would be in school the government has talked about cloying 100000. 00 Police Officers to set up fixed points to check people who are in their
Well, tech is holding up well given it has high multiples coming into this part of the reason tech is the answer to some of the issues particularly working from home, things like krits tricks, zoom, microsoft, amazon, have outperformed it appears this is going to be somewhat of a permanent change theres a spike but even coming out they could benefit we would like to see more breadth within tech. Its been big and focused. Last week was interesting. As we started to get a rally in tech we got a sense for whats going to perform on the other side, services,semis, smaller cap names. We dont think were there yet but looking for infection rates to come down, pmis to improve. The economy is on the mend and then hopefully on the other side steve, its interesting over the past day we see some little moves in this environment that might suggest something. Yesterday microsoft announced changes to office 365, calling it microsoft 365 planning to open up access to teams and features in teams to more
Winning the battle of the perseids old faces end up haunting gladbach slip to fit. A method he held welcome to the program italy is taking drastic steps to try to contain the new coronavirus its imposing a quarantine affecting more than 16000000. 00 people in Northern Areas including tourist magnet venice and the region of somebodys home to the Financial Capital milan Prime Minister just a sign that decree after midnight is what he said. Part of the. Body and for the other northern regions that i have listed. There will be a ban for everybody to move in or out of these territories and also within the same territory. The exceptions will be allowed only for proven professional needs special cases and for health issues. Italys Prime Minister announcing the quarantine to contain the corona virus on joined now by reporter joel delroy joel thanks for your time on how big will this quarantine be will italians will be waking up to the news this morning that a quarter of the population will now