That people are actually being detained that these families are and its very expensive to do this which is funding private prisons and basically another profit area. Now french president a man youre macron says europe wanted to be held hostage to the u. K. s democratic crisis across the comments a day before his years a mate of britains Prime Minister Abbas Johnson he added that reopening the Withdrawal Agreement wasnt an option only a johnson was welcomed by german chancellor Angela Merkel and then there were told johnson he had 30 days to come up with an alternative to the irish backstop bought at a break that day and was possible says the banks of the so you know what folk was it the backstop has always been a fallback position if one is able to solve this conundrum if one finds the solution and we said we would probably find it in the next 2 years to come but we can also maybe find it in the next 30 days then were one step further in the right direction and we obviously have to put
For example the south china bank and Standard Chartered have taken out big pages in the newspapers here to tell people that actually. This continues on rest is having an impact on the economy and they do really forecast a grim quarter i head now Southeast Asia Bank Actually went further by saying that not only the unrest here but also the trade war between china and the u. S. Have made it that it has made as 70 a drop of 75 percent in the drop in profits in the 1st half of the year i mean i have to say also were here now to a gathering of High School Students about to start but they were for example this tribute this leaflet it has a long list of businesses and restaurants starbucks. For example that they perceive as being probably gene and they have been calling really on everybody to boycott those businesses thirtys here say that really the 2 sectors are the most hits are the retail and true is because bear in mind a lot of tourists depends on Mainland China people who havent been co
The ship would be released very soon now were told that the crew are in good health and they are still on the boat but there is a concern about the military buildup in the region the u. S. The United States is putting together a Naval Coalition to what they say is to protect the freedom of navigation in the strait of hormuz iran says that any Foreign Forces are a destabilizing factor in the region and the countries in this area of free capable of providing security and stability for all shipping 20 percent of the worlds oil passes through the strait of hormuz and there is a concern that with the increased tension there is an increased likelihood of a conflict. Still to come here and our. New baby to send a range of refugees back to me a mountain looks to have failed. Hello again to welcome back were here cross parts of japan and it has been rainy over the last few days and that is going to continue here as we go into friday as well plenty of clouds across much of the area and for tokyo
So now holder has more from beirut. Lebanon has mediated the release of a Canadian National who was being held in syria the one of the top Security Officials in lebanon about for him was the man involved in this mediation effort he said that the Canadian National mr baxter was detained last year for violating laws in syria they really didnt divulge much details concerning the circumstances of his detention this is not hes not the 1st Foreign National to be released in the past months a few weeks ago an American National was released about him himself playing a crucial role now hes calling this a humanitarian gesture but many here believe that these are messages messages that the Syrian Government wants to give to the west as it tries to gain legitimacy as it tries to end sanctions at the end of the day these 2 these 2 Foreign Nationals who were held and in syrian jails are not among the high profile people who went missing and believed to be held by the Syrian Government so messages po
It ever hit the price of gold will they be one for a one and sure enough it hit that unlike September September october probably Early September maybe the summer everything goes by so fast its kind of like were in parallel dimensions in the big quaint space so its now obviously like exploded well past that but we now have. People in the bitcoin in the gold space talking about referring to the fact that goal are they one of the lying this is a headline from daily reckoning and by the way you know you and i first when we first met back in two thousand and three daily reckoning was one of the only sort of online sites available at that time one of the go to sites this is way before facebook and twitter and all that sort of stuff we went to the daily reckoning all the time they talked about gold they talked about silver and heres a headline from the daily reckoning how bitcoin killed gold most seasoned traders concluded that the advent of Bitcoin Futures what unraveled the insane crypto ra