Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its news day. Newsday. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in and 7pm in washington, dc, where the us house of representatives is set to vote later on wednesday on whether to impeach donald trump. Its over claims that he threatened to withhold military aid from ukraine unless it investigated his leading democratic rival in next years president ial election joe biden and his son. In a letter to the House Speaker, nancy pelosi, mr trump called the impeachment process an illegal, partisan attempted coup, that will, based on recent sentiment, badly fail at the voting booth. The democrat controlled house is expected to vote in favour, which would lead to a trial in the senate, probably injanuary. Heres the president speaking earlier. This has been a total sham from the very beginning. Everybody knows it. Ive never seen the Republican Party so ive never seen the Republican Party so united. We got about 100 of the vote. I belie
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Sevenweek win streak and tech is the secondworst performer in the s p. Joining us for the hour, Barbara Duran from bda capital is here at post 9, talking more about a market that happens to be happy as long as trade tensions are not escalated, pretty much right . That is for sure. And i think a lot is being discounted in the market in terms of global recovery, the fed is on hold, but watching careful. And we have yet to see the effect of the Interest Rates next year. But trade, i think, its what people are expecting is that therell be no more bad news i think hoping for something more, like a rollback of tariffs would be a bit much. This seems to have morphed into a geopolitical technological fliskt i think the downside is limited also for those same reasons, plus people are defensively postured and so on but i think what its going to take is next year, having to see what the earnings are going to be and thats a possibility is the market even considering that possibility is that priced
Protests as police used Water Cannons for the first time. Manus welcome to daybreak europe. Ae question, are we just on staging post, all out 25 tariffs . Morgan stanley warned of a meaningful risk in the trade war of escalation and a risk of a global recession. If we move to 25 percent on all imports and it sticks. That is the new level of conversation. Escalation risk. Nejra extraordinary times. One trader talking about the fact that President Trump can wreak havoc in ways no one ever thought of. Weird would be one definition of it. Dollaryen, we have already traded through that. Dollaryen is the very personification of where you would want to lean in to. Yen againstlook at the lira. Demolition derby. The chinese vice premier, willing to solve the trade problem by dialogue and calm attitudes. You wantnt think that to buy treasuries at the lowest level since 2016, where might you put your money . Gold, the highest level in six years. Etfs sucking in the money. Have a look at your s p
A hate crime. Irans revolutionary guard say theyve seized another foreign oil tanker in the strait of hormuz accusing it of smuggling fuel to arab states 7 crew members have been arrested in the ships being taken to the bush air ports. Irans government has revealed that it turned down an offer of talks from the United States a Spokesman Says foreign minister zarif was invited to the white house several weeks ago the announcement comes just days after the u. S. Imposed sanctions on sorry in them on the core of the u. S. Action on foreign minister zarif is against all diplomatic procedures and is an unprecedented event in the history of diplomacy and that one government keeps claiming to be ready for negotiations and then to put sanctions on a foreign minister of that country how well isnt it ridiculous he was invited by a senator to have a meeting at the white house then they impose sanctions on him foreign minister zarif is responsible for Foreign Policy and the diplomatic path should