Foreign purchases. We have the first public impeachment hearing testimony revealing the president s lawyer was digging up dirt in his shadow diplomacy in ukraine. Howi lets take a look at we are setting up when it comes to the start of trading here in sydney. Investors dealt a pretty mixed hand overnight. Stocks closing pretty close to fresh record highs. Still, uncertainty over the lingering trade negotiations continuing to chip away at sentiment. We are hearing potentially the agricultural purchases that had been a solid part of the phase i deal could be in doubt. China reportedly saying if these tariffs are not resolved, they could back away from purchasing more u. S. Soy and pork. Taking a look at the picture, just about 1 10 of 1 . Watching the labor market numbers, typically quite volatile, could be a move in the aussie dollar. New zealand, upside about 1 10 of 1 after the reserve bank of new zealand held on rates for their last meeting of the year somewhat unexpectedly, causing
As police clamp down on so called county lines drug gangs. Theres fierce street fighting in mexico, as the son ofjailed drug lord el chapo is arrested, and later released. Theres a pause in turkeys offensive against the kurds in Northern Syria, but there are still reports of some fighting. Good morning. Im here in westminster, where borisjohnson is trying hard today to persuade mps to back his new brexit deal, agreed with the European Union. The house of commons will vote on the new deal tomorrow. The numbers are extremely tight, and that vote really is on a knife edge. Northern irelands democratic unionist mps wont support the deal, so mrjohnsons focus is on making sure as many as possible of his own conservative mps support it, and hes also hoping to win round labour mps who represent constituencies that voted leave in the referendum. So, lets take a look now at exactly what the Prime Minister agreed with first. To avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and the republic of irel
Welcome back, everybody. Good afternoon. Glad you could all be here. How are you all doing . Good. Prof. Nickerson we are getting towards the end here. Today, we are going to talk about basically a set of against of events that follow from last weeks discussion about the radicalism of the 1960s, the earlier week discussion about nixon and watergate. And also, if you remember, the early years of the american conservative movement. So, this brings us to the 1970s and the topic is deindustrialization. So we are picking up our lecture in 1970, but we will take this all the way through really the 1980s. So the developments i talk about werent sudden. They unfolded very slowly and i will explain why. To do that, i want you to reflect on a question that i am going to give you. Do not raise your hands yet. Because i want you to think about it. The American Dream. How do you define that . Then i want you think about your grandparents generation. Your parents generation. And your generation. I w
We start our programme in the us where trade tariffs will be hiked yet again on more goods on china. The latest round will affect another 125 billion worth of products everything from smartwatches to flat screen tvs, footwear to bluetooth headsets. All in all it will take the total of goods traded to 550 billion that will now fall under tariffs imposed by president trump. American companies and their consumers, are feeling the pain. A coalition of us industry organisations has asked mr trump to reconsider his plan. China this time has indicated it wont immediately retaliate with tariffs of its own. In fact, the Chinese Commerce Ministry Says beijing and washington are discussing the possibility of talks next month. Lets speak to the market analyst craig erlam. Why are the latest tariff hikes different . We have to remember that when you implement these tariffs you look at your imports and say what will be least damaging on our economy and which will take its greatest toll . Naturally y
Wright did you know that Lewis Hamilton was a vegan . Did you know that Lewis Hamilton was a vegan . So lets begin. With me is fiona reynolds, chief executive officer of pri principles for responsible investment. Lets look at what is going on in british politics. The i is leading with the three main points. Johnson heading for the defeat in the commons next week. Opposition parties coalescing around this idea. They want to avoid an ideal outcome if they can and get in there before such time it is too late. Ruth davidson in a picture sending a parting shot to number ten as she stands down. Jeremy corbyn saying mps can block the suspension of parliament. Where do you stand on all of this . Do you think that the words of some of the politicians who said they were outraged this week will turn into deeds in terms of voting against the uk government . M will be interesting to see what happens on tuesday. They will be introducing a process or legislation that will stop a no deal brexit. It wi