singapore and london, this is bbc world news. it s newsday. thank you forjoining us. it is 7am in singapore, midnight in london, and seven in washington, dc, where the investigation into donald trump s links with russia has taken another extraordinary twist. donald trump junior as revealed e mails showing he was eager to accept an offer from the russian government to help the campaign against hillary clinton. he wanted to incriminate her. his response, if it is what you say, i love it. that is at the very least an attempt to collude with a foreign power. gavin hewitt has the details. congratulations, dad, we love you! donald trumer was at the heart of his father s election campaign. today, he embarked on a high risk strategy. fearing more revelations about a meeting at trump tower with a russian lawyer in june of last year, he decided to disclose the e mails today between himself and the publicist who arranged the meeting. the e mails raised serious and disturbing questions.
1:00am in london and 8:00pm in washington, where the investigation into the trump campaign s links with russia has ta ken another extraordinary twist. donald trumer, the president s son, has released e mails that show he was eager to accept an offer from the russian government to help with the election campaign. he was promised official documents that would incriminate his father s rival, hillary clinton. trumer‘s response if it is what you say, i love it. at the very least, an intent to collude with a foreign power. gavin hewitt reports. congratulations, dad. we love you! donald trumer was at the heart of his father s election campaign. today, he embarked on a high risk strategy. fearing more revelations about a meeting at trump tower with a russian lawyer in june of last year, he decided to disclose the e mails between himself and the publicist who arranged the meeting. the e mails raise serious and disturbing questions. the four pages of e mails reveal exchanges betwee
out in washington dc. here s president obama arriving on capitol hill earlier. he was there to talk to democrats in congress about trying to save his affordable care act, or obamacare as everyone calls it. it s a complicated law but at its heart is a requirement for all americans to have health insurance and for some to get subsidies to do that. the republicans have always hated the way it works and now that they control congress and soon the white house. they plan to do something about it. none of this is a surprise, donald trump has repeatedly said this. obamacare obamaca re has to obamacare has to be replaced and we will do it and we will do it very, very quickly. it is a catastrophe. as well as mrobama, vice president elect, mike pence is also on capitol hill today. reuters reports he s said the republican plan to replace the affordable care act will evolve in the months ahead. he is promising immediate action. we have the grand battle between the outgoing administr
i m tracy in dubai. hong kong, where it has just gone midday. to bloomberg markets: middle east. all right. this, it continues to be dollar story dollar story. because we ve seen the index a little breather today. still rallying in asian stock continues. that s exactly right, heidi. the dollar has come off a little today. but over the past few weeks, the rally has really been quite stunning. a chart here. take a look at this. we ve had a more than two deviation, appreciation in the u.s. dollar over the past two years. actually, two standard deviations, two weeks in a row, something that s only supposed 2,000pen about once every times, assuming a normal distribution of probabilities, perhaps we shouldn t be assuming that much anymore. but still, quite stunning. development that has a lot of impact on the rest of the world, as you know. yes, tracy. the asianmes to session, we do have quite a bit of upside. in thefluctuations morning. the tokyo session, we had that hit ea
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