Japans chief cabinet secretary is set to win his partys leadership race, ushering in the countrys first change of Prime Minister in nearly eight years. His shot in the arm, pfizers ceo says it is likely the u. S. Will roll out a vaccine this out of aping stocks twoweek slump and oracle wins the bidding war for tiktoks u. S. Assets. The deal is said to be a partnership, not an outright sale. Just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading throughout europe and in the u k from bloombergs european futures are positive. Futures and euro stoxx 50 futures. U. S. , but bigger gains of more than 1 across the major equity indexes. Futures rising 1. 7 on the nasdaq. Anna good morning, matt. Nice to be back in the studio. Lets get to the gmm on these markets today. Optimism around the vaccine is certainly something we are dealing with once again and a relief to see. Indonesia to the upside, south korea higher, india higher. Many markets moving higher and the msci asia up. 9 . Virus
Hours time with. Stay with us for going underground and discussing the fallout from the killing of irans top general and if youre watching in the u. K. Political talk shows. Were going underground war demonstrate just protest across britain against Boris Johnson support for Donald Trumps assassination of an iranian soldier allegedly promoting peace between. Them which provoked iran into bombing u. S. Installations in iraq this week coming up on the show the beginning of the end for the u. S. As u. S. President backed down from. Attack of its kind on u. S. To the u. N. In geneva about how iran can now expel the United States from the middle east and ahead of the course end of hollywoods award season is the u. S. State sponsor of harassment the drove jean seberg to head death alive and well in hollywood we ask the director of a new film about the legendary actor starring says our award winner Kristen Stewart told a similar coming up in todays going underground 1st to irans retaliation fo
Youre watching R T International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 10 am welcome to the program now we start with our breaking news this hour as iran has admitted that its military unintentionally shot down the ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday due to human error for mr jobs or if that happened at a time of crisis caused by u. S. Adventurism were joined in the studio again by our correspondent now as i understand it ukraine has just reacted to this statement what did they say well ukrainian president vladimir selenski has just said that he hopes that iran will take full responsibility for this for the downing of this plane and that he hopes that the investigation will continue unobstructed now earlier today we heard from the iranian president who promised just that and he also called the downing of an forgivable mistake. The armed forces internal investigation has concluded that regrettably. Missiles fired due to human error caused the horrific cras
International. Start with breaking news the Senior Commander of irans elite military unit the Islamic Revolutionary guard corps has accepted full responsibility for shooting down a ukrainian passenger plane on wednesday he said that the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. When i heard that the flight had been shot down i wish there was debt i never wanted to witness such a terrible incident. He also added an air Defense System operator had faulty communications and had just 10 seconds to make what was described as a bad decision earlier tehran admitted its military unintentionally hit the jet despite days of denials of any involvement in the downing of irans chief investigator says that the black box data will now be sent to france michael exactly discussed the details with donald quarter. We heard from ukraines president vladimir selenski who said that he expects he expects irans take full responsibility and for the investigation to continue without any obstruction earlier t
After Boris Johnson replied to his plea for government information about the assassination by saying i have carefully considered your request and do not believe it is necessary to offer a briefing with little specific information called and then tried asking johnson after dispatch walks about trump killing soleimani the government has said that it was sympathetic to the assassination of general sure the money whatever you didnt as the Prime Minister got to suggest that this attack on him and his death was not an illegal act by the United States johnson said legality was not a u. K. Issue the strict legality is not for the u. K. To determine since it was not our operation so whether the us commits illegal violations of International Law is not a matter for the Un Security Council permanent member britain Jeremy Corbyn meanwhile failed to highlight so lame on his role in defeating isis and saving british lives so johnson came back at him justifying. Thats the nation of the arabian soldie