Charles evan calls for credibly important government stimulus. Australia heads into Earnings Seasons amid the first recession in decades and a virus pandemic that is crippling the economy. It promises to be one of the most challenging periods on record. Here is how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Fewer sugars u. S. Futures under pressure. We had ask leading u. S. China tensions fan yelling fanning the data. The bloomberg dollar index flat at the moment. This after a fifth consecutive weekly decline that will be the longest losing stretch since january of 2018. The offshore yuan is flat at the moment. This after the yuan led declines in asian currencies. We have President Trump moving to been tiktok and we chat. Hang seng futures down to tense up 1 . Under pressure from the last two sessions. It is a thin trading day. Singapore and japan are closed. We have a china data blitz that could be confirming the recovery we are seeing. We have ppi numbers. Not to mention retail sales a
A nazi war criminal a 93 year old is sentenced in germany for his part in killing thousands of people. And on a mission to mars china sends its 1st unmanned spacecraft to explore the red planet. 5 west african heads of state are meeting in mali to try to resolve its deepening political crisis 6 weeks of mass protests have demanded the resignation of president. At least 14 people have been killed in recent days the m 5 movement of all position activists leads the protests accusing president kaisa of corruption mishandling the economy and failing to improve security they rejected a unity government proposal on the Regional Organization ecowas. Instability in mali has helped to rebel groups linked to al qaida and iso gain strength using mali as a launching pad for attacks in neighboring nations nicholas hike has been following the story from dakar senegal and hes joining us from there live nic was this delegation why are there so many senior figures making it up. Well you know this is so
Various various people you have members of the opposition members of a former members of the present. Government you have religious leaders you have street unionists are trying to get them all on the same table and 2 to a talking point is the main challenge for this delegation in other news afghanistans ministry of defense has confirmed it carried out an ass strike that killed at least 45. 00 people they say they were targeting members of the taliban in the Western Province of have rot and that civilians werent in the area but a district governor says at least they civilians are among the dead victoria funtown is a professor of peace studies at the American University of afghanistan she says the attack will impact future peace talks. The trust that has been built of between the different parties to the conflict broke and there has been no we ducked in violence in the past few weeks quite the contrary and so after a strike which was supposedly talk of taliban prisoners who had been rele
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