Consulate in the city of chengdu after it shut down in a worsening diplomatic dispute also ahead. Of the biggest thing has be untold suffering. In tanzania an Opposition Leader almost killed 3 years ago returns from exile hoping to run in the forthcoming elections and im stunned how much with all the sport events crowned the italian again christian or another helps his team came to syria title for a 9th straight season. Before we get into our top stories a developing story coming to us breaking news out of israel where the army says theres been a quote security incident along the northern border with lebanon yet to go into any detail of exactly whats happened but israelis living along the border have been told to stay indoors lets take you live to western islam and al jazeera is correspondent there harry forsett harry what do we know. Well as you say the official information coming from the Israeli Military is pretty limited at the moment they say that there has been a security inciden
China, the u. S. Rejecting chinas claims to the South China Sea. China than sanctioning u. S. Officials like ted cruz and marco rubio. U. S. Futures are pointing higher. We are also looking at what is going on with the virus as well as states like california reversing its reopening plans. U. S. Tenyear year, bonds up. U. S. Tenyear. We saw the dollar gaining a bit of steam against the yen, but seems like we are reversing some of that. Lets look at the boards and watch were Chinese Markets are going to see any reaction to the trade figures. We saw a bit of a pause in the risk rally when it comes to mainland equities, after we are seeing equities inching toward that 10 trillion milestone. Flip the boards and see what is going on there. Smallcap, those rose to follow five year highs. We have basically been flat the last 30 minutes of trade. Shenzhen stocks have been on fire. Hang seng down 184 points right now. Also with the city introducing the toughest virus measures since the pandemic
India on the countrys grapples with a raging coronavirus and havoc. And theyve got a nose for the job the dogs being trained to play a Critical Role in detecting the corona virus. And in sport cattle has officially expressed an interest in staging a future lembit games the 2022 world cup to bring the olympics to the middle east for the 1st time. Israels Prime Minister is warning has been all that its playing with fire Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the Lebanese Armed group of launching an infiltration attempt in the border region of shaba farms hizbullah denies that its fight has tried to penetrate the border or engaged in any confrontation the United Nations is being restrained from both sides and speaks well to serious carry forces are joining us now live from west jerusalem but we have a clearer hairiest what actually happened in that border region today. Well there are 2 disputed accounts of what took place israel is entirely rejecting the hezbollah statement in which it said it di
At 4. 8 , premuch in line with expectations. 1. 8 , worse than expected. Retail sales are the weakest link in the recovering story in china. Than what the market was expecting. Property investment year to date coming in pretty much at 1. 9 . Versus an estimate of 1 . We also have the jobless rate coming in a tad better at 5. 7 versus 5. 9 . Which was expected by the market. Overall when you look at the economy, it looks like it is adding to signs the economy is picking up momentum. China probably will be reflecting in the rest of the world. Yvonne one of the key disappointments is still the consumption side with retail side still amiss in a negative fringe for a fourth straight months of 120 . About theuestions back half of the year. But the gdp is still the stand out. Take a look at the adjusted quarter on quarter. We are talking double digit growth of 11. 5 . The highest quarter on quarter at least nine years for china. This is how we are seeing things play out in the markets. Seeing
Widely condemned around the world so i want to see where the answers she gave us. A. Region that youre welcome to a conference on hello you recently wrote an article about very controversial new security law that china is going to impose on hong kong and you said this does not to necessarily spell the death of hong kong separate systems but youre taking a huge gamble backing this law onto because beijing has done everything it can to prove that its not interested in those separate systems not interested in freedom of expression human rights or the rule of law is that. I dont think you need to come to a conclusion because china already has its own National Security lol you know which is only a few pain just long watch consist mainly up principles exhortations open occasions. I think the fact that it needs it feels opalocka is true and that the whole cold version reflects its understanding that. Hong kong to russia which is consistent with our common law system thats why i think thing is