Let us talk about the big themes. One of them is do not mess with my currency. The chinese of course, this is what we have for you. Now areyuan. In breach of this level. And the pc of the said this is it. Back off on the currency. They ratchet up the price of borrowing, up by 3. 8 . Since the highest february. These moments of breach and dollaryuan invoke the invective from the pcbo, ratcheting up. That is putting the cap. That is the message from the g20. The devaluation , or let us say the depreciation of the currency. Exports up for the Third Straight month, imports are searching. Yuan, do not mess for my currency. Nejra is that a look at the risk radar. See what we are watching this morning. Starting of course with global stocks i have the msc. I all country pretty much unchanged, really ahead of the ecb today. And you have the bank of japan coming up later this month and the fed decision. It got quiet and equity markets. Volatility is down. We are seeing those stocks pretty much u
Will rack up costs. The Prime Minister who died after a confrontation with israeli troops, the funeral has been taking place. Also, a bbc investigation finds 5,000 people were killed in jihadist attacks across the globe in the month of november. Hello. The day is coming to an end in hong kong, and so, too, it would seem, is the occupy movement in one of the main protest areas of the city center, as the last barricades are being dismantled by the authorities. Lets give you the live pictures of the scene. As you can see from this, just a handful of hardcore demonstrators here left here in the foreground of the picture there after hundreds of protesters moved out in the course of the day. So many camped out over the course of the last couple of months. Earlier, bailiffs were breaking down barricades, removing the protesters, arresting some of them as a deadline for them to vacate just councilman caame an. The anger is still there, though. Its over the election of hong kongs leader for 201
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Those days are not quite as distant as some suppose. We remember that a few people still alive today lived through them, albeit as children. 2014 will mark that centennial of the drama which profoundly influenced the history of the world. I spent the last three years writing a book describing both how the war came about and what happened on the battlefields during its first months before the french lapsed into a stalemate. There is a widely held view, a delusion, as i shall argue, that the two world wars belong to different moral orders. Nineteen robo one was a good war, world war ii was bad. The first subject was so horrendous that turned is that makes it of the two sides causes could badly to meant barely managed. They add a view of what they think happened. Until 1941 britain defied the vast evil of nazism, berlin. In russia and the United States took this train encompassing the destruction of hitler. The struggle was nothing like as bloody as its predecessor, says some people kid t