Tournament of roses association. Dina and americas new year celebration. On behalf of the tournament of roses and its dedicated 935 volunteers i want to wish everyone a happy new year and know it all. And to kick off our incredible array is the World Premiere of an original song. Exclusively for the rose parade by 19 time grammy award winner that is one of the most. Highly anticipated scenes of the parade. I mean just one open you thought it couldnt get anybody here comes at the to fly over. You can just hear it. Thats coming over us at about a 1000 feet altitude there is our booth right this moment, its so exhilarating what a way to get under us it for this moment. I get chills every single time what a great way to kick off this brand new year welcome to 2020 welcome to a new. Decade we are just so excited to share it with you, im lisa givens marks titus and welcome to the 131st rose parade presented by honda people even if past is doomed by we always say that ready to put that one in
Are close to sealing a merger agreement, telling employees a final pact is coming within weeks. And shares in the lse group trade higher as shareholders prepare to vote on the 27 billion takeover well, a very good morning and welcome to street signs. One of our top stories today, alibaba has closed almost 7 higher after its hong kong debut, the Largest Global listing so far this year the ecommerce giant listed at a price of 176 hong kong dollars to raise 11. 2 billion in fresh capital. And as part of the ipo, the Chinese Company issued 500 million new ordinary shares. Emily tan is joining us live from hong kong emily, the largest ipo of 2019, quite a stellar postmarket performance with the stock up almost 7 in trading how has the reception been overall . Reporter you know what, juwana, the newcomer to the market today was the most heavily traded in hong kong with 1. 8 billion worth of shares changing hands as you mentioned, the stock closed up more than 6. 5 , off the days highs, but u
Pushed back and forth all as a handful of chinas soldiers looked on. Behind the steel gates of their barracks just metres away. There we re barracks just metres away. There were claims both sides are now using lethal weapons. The Police Say One of theirs was hit by an arrow fired from the university. Do you think the people of hong kong support you throwing petrol bombs and bow and arrow . I dont expect all people to support but people need to understand what were doing right 110w. Understand what were doing right now. For the second time in a week im standing on a bridge surrounded by protesters with riot police on the other side. Early in the week it was a highway below they blocked. Now it is one of the tunnels to hong kong island. These protesters continue with their efforts to cause maximum disruption to hong kongs infrastructure. By the days end, the protesters faced Police Moving in on all fronts. The protesters who have stayed, many inside, have no way out. Robin brant, bbc new
A surge in support for the far right. President xi jinping arrives in athens as Chinese Investment revives greeces biggest ports. Hello hong kongs chief executive says escalating violence will not make the governments yield to pressure hours after a protester was shot by police an antigovernment protesters set a man on fire the most shocking incident some bright just cold frame of electric onto a person and set him on fire. Demanded me to hospital in Critical Condition and the case is under investigation by regional crime unit of New Territory so. One demonstrator is in Critical Condition after being shot by police during protesters attempts to stop traffic traffic entering the city center and the footage was broadcast live on facebook and shows an officer drawing a gun while attempting to detain a masked man demonstrators have been stopping vehicles rail traffic and blocking roads they say police are using Excessive Force against them and the violence follows the death of a student on
There was a vigil for a black man whos been on death row in the u. S. Killing a white woman in the 20 years of. A ceasefire in gaza between israel on the Group Islamic jihad has broken down less than 24 hours after it began just a few hours ago Israeli Forces bombed numerous targets in response to rocket Fire Fighting between the 2 sides began on tuesday after Israeli Forces assassinated a Senior Leader of the Islamic Jihad in gaza 34 palestinians have been killed since then the force that has more now from gaza. Well the early hours of friday morning another round of airstrikes from israel targeting it said Islamic Jihad sites in the gaza strip were hearing they were largely empty training grounds and the like but some of them were close to residential areas so some damage done to people injured after what had been a day in which it was proved it was already a tenuous cease fire. The single deadliest moment in 48 hours of fighting an israeli airstrike destroyed this house in central g