For vote. The security law is aimed at cracking down on antigovernment activities in the semiautonomous region. It lays out things that beijing says threaten national security. Submission, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with external forces. It also allows for a Security Agency in hong kong which may exercise jurisdiction in certain circumstances. On sunday, protesters opposing the legislation held rallies across hong kong. Police arrested 53 people after shuffles broke out. Theres growing concern in hong kong and abroad the planned security law will threaten the one country, two systems principle that has guaranteed the territory a high degree of autonomous. Here in tokyo, Officials Say 58 new coronavirus cases were confirmed on monday. The number of invex infections been on the rise in recent days. The government says theres no need to declare another state of emergency. The latest figure is slightly smaller than sunday, when the daily tally was the highest since the nationwide
Koreawith north and south over a music g group playing at the upcoming wintergreen winter games in the south. South koreas promoting next months event as the peace olympics after the north agreed to send athletes to the games. Also coming up, and business, we will look at one of the largest construction groups in britain that has been forced to go into liquidation. An apology from french film icon Catherine Deneuve after she bashed the metoo movement. First, our top story live from paris. Genie iraq was rocked by twin suicide bombings today. At least 38 people died in the attacks in baghdad with close to 100 hertz. Z. 100 hurt. No immediate claim of responsibility, but similar attacks have c come from the Islamic State group. Lets bring in our reporter in baghdad. What can you tell us about what happened today . That it is a very bloody baghdadad morning with te suicide bombers. They attacked the crowded square in downtown baghdad called tayran square. Place forthering workers in the e
A backup at the bay bridge toll plaza. They are doing the shift change and the cash lanes are backing up. If you are making your way out the door heading into livermore through the Altamont Pass westbound 580, our travel time in the green. 24 minutes towards 680 but you will be tapping the brakes as you approach north flynn road. Thats a check of your traffic. Back to you guys. Thank you. Another crisis for the Trump Administration after a Washington Post report indicates the president leaked intelligence secrets to the russians the president shared the secret intel at the white house last wednesday, allegedly, when he met with Sergey Lavrov and the russian ambassador. The post claims the president went off script and began describing details about an Islamic State terrorist threat related to the use of Laptop Computers on aircraft. Other officials that we talked to and we include this in the story as well expressed frustration with the lack of discipline for the president. So they pre
That cyber attack that infected computers in every corner ever the world began to slow today. A pair of engineers figured out how to stall the attack for a few dollars. Charlie dagata has our coverage. Reporter from china as main oil company to a hospital in indonesia, to japans nissan car company. The ransom ware attack ricocheted around the world again today as people went back to work. And today, asia bore the brunt of the attacks. Chinese University Students were even locked out from their term papers. Elsewhere, germanys railroads were hit. Frances renault car to close. Businesses in mongolia were hit. The scale of the attack is called unprecedented. It indicates 150 countries are affected and beyond 200,000 individual victims. Reporter the ransom ware works by freezing the computers, encrypting the files, with hackers demanding 300 in ransom to decorrode them or theyd be destroyed. Called wannacry, it exploits a weakness in Microsoft Software first stolen from the nag security ag
Markets feeling a little bit better. Existing home sales are the number we are getting. We are seeing a rise month over annual payril for 5. 455 million. U. S. Argest part of the housing market. That is a three month high. There was a surge in the midwest. There seems to be improving numbers in the housing market. We are seeing stocks higher today following a rebound we saw around the globe. Especially commodity lenders, we will dig into those in a moment. Nasdaq is leading gains today up i 1 . Showing gains. Lets look at the bloomberg. Technology is performing the best today. That explains why the nasdaq is doing the best today. Financials are bouncing back as well. They were sharply down yesterday. It is not quite all of the groups in the s p that is higher. Staples and utilities in particular. Today,look at the banks Goldman Sachs holding its annual meeting here. The majority of shareholders voting to keep the ceo and chairman role as one. All the banks bouncing back today. In terms