Welcome to countdown. I am anna edwards. Manus i am manus cranny. It is a big day for the bank. Hsbc profit falls 545 . We have seen the stock open portrayed in hong kong. They are planning a 2. 5 billion buyback. The removed the timetable. The headline, pretax trough it 3. 61 billion. Last year it was 6. 6 billion and the estimates were for 3. 9 billion. A recession potentially in the u. K. Impacting hsbc. If you want to think about it on this scale, since 2011 they slashed 87,000 jobs. That is a bank in restructuring. Downng in hong kong, 0. 75 . Anna this is from the thirdlargest bank. Net profit for the Second Quarter is 1. 1 6 billion euros. That is above the estimate of 994 million euros. The bank also telling us the gain they have made on the sale of euro state. That bank went deal went through. Many banks booked a gain on that. They are all but facing headwinds from the low Interest Rate environment. What will be key as we go through these numbers is the bread and butter of ban
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To conflict zone thank you one of the things that western donors didnt expect to be paying for in afghanistan was the frequent mistreatment and torture of prisoners by police and Security Forces why is this still going on. There might be problems which. I will not deny it but the situation has improved big deal. At least since we are in the government did National Unity government we have taken the strong measures. There was there wasnt any about it prior to that there wasnt any any awareness and laws were not were not designed to deal with those issues but. There might be malpractise suits somewhere but it is not like we have been in a situation in country where. This was part of the Government Program thats been strong missing for years to do something about it and last year the Un Assistance Mission to your country reported the highest levels of torture in Police Custody since two thousand and ten so rather than taking strong measures the situation seems to be going back in reverse