A crime school. Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us we start with china where often weve looked at how beijing polices its own citizens online activities but the country has growing Digital Power beyond its borders we saw that recently when pro china bots and users campaigned against american basketball executive who tweeted his support to hong kong protesters we know china is actively trying to influence the Upcoming Elections in taiwan and a few weeks ago facebook and twitter announced they took down thousands of state coordinated china backed pages accounts meant to influence Public Opinion Facebooks Mark Zuckerberg pledged to be vigilant this week he said we face increasingly sophisticated attacks from nation states like russia iran and china but im confident were more prepared. Beijing was asked about these accusations including whether china might be influencing the u. S. Elections the Foreign Ministry denied doing anything wrong but what you this Young
And then eventually with the Afghan Government that all has to happen 1st ok rosa leave it there many thanks. Ok lets go back to our top story so far here on the news of those protests in lebanon list is a hasan hes a member of keep us an Opposition Progressive movement he joins us from beirut. What you want is wholesale change what youll get seeing is a drip drip drip of reforms is that enough. I think the people has made clear today that nothing is enough except for their demands and their demands are very clear they need to or they want to overthrow this Political Class and this ruling class and whatever means possible and and mostly peaceful means and constitutional means. Thats why theyre requesting the and demanding and protesting for deal that is ignition of the cabinet of the council of ministers and theyre calling for the formation of another minister at another cabinet of many cabinet or a council of ministers that is independent from the Political Forces running the country
And Central Banks are stepping up calls for help amid fears that they are running out of options. We are live at the imf meetings in washington. Sophie checking on the start of trade in sydney. Little change, after the drop of 200, halting a fiveday advance. Broadly speaking, we are setting up for a mix start in the agion, but looking to have second weekly gain. Chinese thirdquarter gdp numbers come, as corporate numbers on the mainland have shown little improvement after a bleak first half. Japanese inflation remains subdued, giving the boj food for thought at the policy meeting. Able back below 1. 29 on brexit deal hopes, pushing it to a sixmonth low to position for a negative outcome. Aussie bonds under pressure this morning as the rba governor said the economy is improving. Offshore yuan 7. 8 against the 7. 08 against the dollar after fixing. Jessica acting white house chief of staff Mick Mulvaney denies saying that President Trump withheld military aid to ukraine to persuade key h
Step down. We will get the latest. Then as the Home Ownership rate for africanamericans falls to its lowest level since 1950, we speak with professor keeangayamahtta taylor, author of the new book race for profit how banks and the Real Estate Industry undermined black Home Ownership. An examination of federal policieses enacted after the federal government taught prpractices of redlinining to te previous s several decades in te way that created new wayays for explploitation and predatory practices involving real estate in africanamerican communities. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin in sochi, russia, today as the fiveday ceasefire between turkeys military and Syrian Kurdish groups expires at noon eastern time. Restart thet to offensive and crushed the heads of Syrian Kurdish forces if they dont withdraw from the
Reinforce a sobering message. Bloomberg technologys says apples new iphone features equipment that is best in class. We are seeing u. S. Futures under pressure, down. 1 present. 1 . Make a comeback after dropping about 1 as we services readings. It managed to bounce back. Investors bet more said action will be needed. We have the 10 year yield falling for a sixth consecutive session and headed towards 1. 5 . Contact leslie gains with the nasdaq gaining more than 1 . Sophie. Sophie futures are looking mixed as the regional benchmark is set for a third weekly loss. In tokyo, we are watching for reaction to reports that the u. S. Japan trade deal will take effect on january 1. President moon is to meet with the chiefs of four business lobby groups. He will meet with investors to explain the state of the economy. Switching the board to check in on bonds this morning, we have aussie 10 year yield slipping below 90 basis points, and the kiwi 10 year yield is below one percent this morning. A