The u. N. Appealed for hundreds of millions of dollars to help those affected by widespread violence across africa 6 a whole region. In one races in azerbaijan singapore and japan become the latest school to dance to be canceled because of coronavirus. So then protest is a face off with police in hong kong as a Controversial National anthem law comes into effect the legislation makes it a criminal offense to mock chinas anthem activists say it violates their freedom of expression it is one year since Police Crackdown on demonstrators who were surrounding the government headquarters leading to months of violent demonstrations for more lets cross live to devika pollin whos in hong kong i can see it all pretty peaceful behind you but lots of protesters seem to be around whats happening. Thats right nic as you say that seems to be more police than protesters at the moment but earlier there are about a 1000 protesters here all chanting slogans that gathered here despite the fact that this i
Equity markets are up and bonds are down. The market is functioning from that point of view. Vonnie we have not much concrete to go on for equities expect except the promise we will get a stimulus built in the next few hours. Everything that has been dropping his rallying and everything that has been rallying seems to be dropping. By that i mean the grocers. The s p 500 is up a whopping 8 . We will see if we get a successful vote in that few hours, if there is even more room for u. S. Equities. Again, we have a search for the u. S. 10 year yield, although that has been trading in a range, if you could call 15 basis points a range. The vix is slightly higher in the session, down three points itself. The dollar index is seeing a little bit of relief after sessions and sessions of strength with a voracious appetite for the u. S. Dollars finally abating or maybe some people taking advantage to take a little bit of profit. Insight asget more to where these markets are and potentially where
And tear gas the streets. Australia orders large scale from bushfires as the death toll mounts. Sophie lets check in on the open in sydney after the asx 200 best annualrop the performance since 2000. We see it open slightly to the downside as we wait for markets to come back online elsewhere in the region. We are getting some data from australia coming out this morning. Home prices notching up the biggest threemonth gain in a decade. We are not seeing much reaction in the aussie dollar, softening a touch after hitting a fresh high. New zealand equity markets remain closed and the kiwi dollar keeping fairly steady after topping 67 this week and japan also remaining offline thel january 6, again, currency cap a Fourth Annual gain. Paul thanks very much. President trump says he can assign the first phase of a trade deal with china on the 15th of this month ahead of a visit to beijing where talks will begin on the next part of the deal. Lets bring in our china correspondent now, selina wan
Its 1400 hours g. M. T. 9 am in washington d. C. Where members of the u. S. House of representatives are convening for a debates and vote thats all but certain to end with the impeachment of President Donald Trump and thats because trumps opponents in the Democratic Party have a majority in that chamber of congress he then faces a trial in the other chamber of the senates where his Republican Party holds power and there are 2 thirds of senators would be required to vote in favor of her moving him from Office Highly unlikely as things stand and trump has again lashed out at the democrats the scribing the impeachment process as an attempted coup in a moments will speak to our White House Correspondent kimberly how if at 1st over to castro whos on capitol hill where the votes will eventually take place heidi but right now we understand there is a debate going on. So just talk us through whats happening now and what we expect to see in the coming few hours. Shorter range so the full house
As they gather in brussels for the end of year summit. Also on the programme us regulators allowed boeings 737 max to continue flying even when they knew it could average one fatal crash every two or three years. And the christmas bonus that left these lucky employees an awful lot richer. Hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. The talking is over. It is decision time. After five weeks of campaigning, the uk goes to the polls tomorrow, at a critical juncture in the brexit story. Such are the vagueries of britains first past the post system no one really knows where this will take us. The polls suggest the gap between the two main parties has narrowed in recent weeks, but still we could be looking at anything from a Hung Parliament to a tory landslide. The Party Leaders have been on a whistle stop tour of the country. We have plotted it for you, the conservatives in blue, labour in red. The Prime Minister began his day delivering milk to a voter i