President donald trump. And right please ready for more protests in hong kong the Legislative Council will soon begin debating a controversial new law. Welcome to aljazeera the World Health Organization is warning of tough days ahead for latin america with the current virus still accelerating across the region and more daily infections than are being reported there than in the u. S. Or even europe brazil registering nearly 17000 new cases in the past 24 hours in a couple of hours a u. S. Ban will come into place on foreign travelers coming into brazil for coming from brazil pardon me where infection numbers and deaths continue to search the white house is hoping to ramp up testing in the United States with plans to buy 100000000 swabs and vials by the end of the year and russias president Vladimir Putin has declared that the country is past the peak of the epidemic despite reporting its. Highest daily death toll truth about begins our coverage with the challenges facing brazil. Away fr
Also on the day a toxic industry how allegations of Sexual Misconduct have hit the walls of wine so how do you clean up the culture of a business built on drinking. To our viewers around the world and on p. B. S. In the United States a very warm welcome shocks a polled devastated those are the words of mario van of which the former u. S. Ambassador to ukraine describing how she felt upon being ousted from her post in kiev this year now about public and very personal testimony was living on the 2nd day all the impeachment hearings on capitol hill and which ambassador your benefits recounted that the president had called her bad news during his now infamous july phone call with ukraines president without him as a lansky today as that televised testimony was unfolding president ed his grievances with the former ambassador in real time tweeting from the white house that everywhere out of it had served had quote turned bad now that tweets true anger from democrats and some criticism from re
Dedicated their lives to a murderous regime. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us a man has died in hong kong after being caught in clashes between prodemocracy demonstrators and police the 70 year old street cleaner was his in the head with a brick on wednesday its not clear who threw it earlier this month a student fell from a car park and later died from his injuries the unrest in hong kong has worsened did recent days have to read more than 5 months of antigovernment unrest. Well lets cross over to hong kong where our correspondent Mathias Bellinger is standing by for us but he is this is now the 2nd death related to the protests within a week what 4 do we know about how this particular incident happened. We know that 2 groups of people were standing were confronting each other hurling bricks at each other one of the groups were protesters and the other groups the other group were people who were against the protest it is not very clear where these people came from it hap
Still when it comes to wage gains. Annabelle thats right. We saw a real wages down 2. 5 from a year earlier in march. That was actually the deepest drop we have seen in four months. The running streak of declines is now 24 months. Certainly there has been a real question for japanese government officials. When they start to see inflation being driven by the demandside or would it still be from the supply side . This is perhaps the numbers that the boj would not want to see at this point in time. But that focus on the back of the wage numbers coming into the boj summary of opinions. A lot of different lines dropping out of this. But this need to raise rates appropriately and at the right time and the need to deepen talks on rate hike timing. Just some of the headlines dropping from that. Also they are saying it is vital to cut bond buying and supply dynamics. Here you have that Market Reaction so far this a slight bit of strength coming into the japanese yen. Nikkei 225 online this morn
Then we speak to the ceo of one of the biggest providers, csop. Haslinda lets take you to markets, where avril hong is on top of developments. Stocks and bonds getting sold off, investors adopting a wait and see attitude. There is a lot to read through today, so bear with me, as we saw that set up from wall street. It was a pretty flat close. Today asian stocks are mostly over save for japan and china. For different reasons. In china, we have seen tech and property rebounding. Property as it scraps homebuying restrictions, and the idea that other tier two cities will follow suit. Thats also boosting the commodity iron ore, those prices ticking higher. In japan, the likes of an earnings release, and we got the news about the share buyback. Those are among the individual names lifting the japanese benchmark. But were also seeing the selloff in bonds, after a 10year treasury auction, and the yields in australia, as well as new zealand, you are seeing big moves about 6, 7 basis points. Don