characters in a bid to have wider debate. kathleen: i don t care how many twitter characters you have come it would take a massive tweet to tweet out so much in janet yellen s speech today. when you look at the citations, the charts, 20,000 pages. i think she had one message, the fed is going to hike again, even if inflation is below target. yvonne: pretty much. i wonder what the president thinks about that twitter development. but then again, you mentioned about janet yellen. she is ono-part a two-part mission, normalizing the balance sheet. we saw the market move on this, futures up to 70% for december. kathleen: let s look at what the stock market it, rather muted, but everyone digesting what janet yellen said. you have the dow closed flat. 22,284. 0.2% of500 gained about a point. the nasdaq up nine points to 6,380. yvonne: big movers were in the bond market, yields heading higher and the dollar. let s see how things are faring in new zealand. just getting underway in
and london. this is bbc world news. it s newsday. good morning. it s 8am in singapore. 1.00am in london and 8.00am also in beijing, where china s president xijinping has become arguably the country s most powerful leader since chairman mao. in the next few hours the party will announce the names of the new leadership team who will work with him. they may not be household names outside of china but these men, and they will probably all be men, give the world an important insight into his priorities. and it shows how presidentjinping has consolidated his power ever since he first became leader five years ago as our correspondent robin brant has been telling me. yes, it s hugely important. firstly we get this very visual moment where these seven men walk out from behind a hoarding and are revealed to china s 1.4 billion people, but also to the world. they walk out in seniority. so we get xi jingping first and his premier li keqiang, he stays in post. then the five new faces. as
as reckless, outrageous and undignified. that was from senatorjeff flake of arizona, who announced he would not seek re election and would not remain silent or complicit. earlier, another senator, bob corker, described president trump as an utterly untruthful president. he is also not seeking re election next year. andrew plant reports. arriving at a lunch with senior republicans, tax issues on the menu, but criticism from inside his party already being served. reporter: mr president, any comment on. arizona senator, jeff flake, announcing he will not seek re election, accusing the president of a flagrant disregard for truth and decency. reckless, outrageous, and undignified behaviour has been misdiagnosed as telling it like it is when it is just reckless, outrageous, and undignified. and when such behaviour emanates from the top of our government, it is something else, it is dangerous to democracy. president trump has previously described senatorjeff flake as toxic. th
attacks on the president, describing his administration as reckless, outrageous and undignified. that was from senatorjeff flake of arizona who announced he would not seek re election and would not remain silent or complicit. earlier, another senator, bob corker, described president trump as an utterly untruthful president and said he had also decided not to seek re election next year. peter bowes reports. a hostile reception on many fronts. donald trump arrived on capitol hill to talk about tax reform with republican leaders, but he had to run the gauntlet. a protester accusing him of being treasonous. treason! treason! it was a minor outburst can pad with what was to come. a searing takedown from the floor of the senate. i rise today to address a matter which has been very much on my mind. at a moment when it seems that our democracy is more defined wire discord and our dysfunction than by our own values and st and principles. dysfunction than by our own values and st
the results of an eight week postal vote in which more than three quarters of eligible voters took part, were announced an hour ago. more than 61% of eligible voters support the move. the government has promised to enact legislation enabling same sex marriage by the end of the year. this is the moment the announcement was made. for the national result, yes responses 7 million 800017,000 and 247, representing 61.6% of key responses. 61.6% prismall responses. 61.6% prismall responses. 4 million 8000 70,987 for the no. 38th point 1% of their responses were no. the australian or of statistics announcing the result. 0ur correspondent hywel griffith is in sydney. many in the yes camp at prince alfred park celebrating that moment. can you set this into context. what is it like on the ground and what does it mean for australia? in terms of the initial reaction, maybe, as you expect, it was heartfelt, loud and very, very proud. although the opinion polls had suggested the yes ca