As they do now. Now on bbc news all the latest Business News live from singapore. A weaker philippines currency is taking its toll on the economy, how will it impact president Rodrigo Duterte Rodrigo Duterte infrastructure plans. Canada, the us and Mexico Rehashing the north American Free trade agreement, 23 yea rs American Free trade agreement, 23 years after it went into effect. This is newsday. Thank you for joining us. The philippines will be posting growth figures for the Second Quarter and it is one of the Fastest Growing economies in asia but it has a weakening currency and concerns over a growing account deficit. Rodrigo duterte on a campaign to increase Infrastructure Spending but he needs funds to do this. We match up with carlos dominguez, the finance secretary. We think it is a very important neighbour and it is important for us to test the market in china so we are coming up to a small issue of 200 million and we just want to sit how well it will be received. To see. You a
Now 11 republican senators say they will support him and object to the official results. French police shut down an illegal rave that had been under way since new years eve with more than two and a half thousand partygoers. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Pressure is growing on the government in the uk to keep all schools in england closed for two weeks after the christmas break amid a surge in coronavirus cases. Teaching unions say it is unsafe for their members and want all teaching moved online. Some unions are advising teachers not to return to school on monday as planned. It comes as the Oxford Astrazeneca vaccine has started to arrive in uk hospitals, with the first doses due to be given on monday. Elsewhere, india has begun testing its plans for a huge Vaccination Programme. A full scale rehearsal is now under way, involving tens of thousands of Health Workers and
International response by saying that to must stop using twenty six teams failed to pass an excuse to crackdown on free speech. For a new protests in our media as demonstrators demands elections after the resignation of the countrys Prime Minister but with no end to tensions between the opposition and the ruling party will russia intervene. Welcome to the Program South korea is preparing to welcome the north Korean Leader kim jong un for talks about peace and Nuclear Disarmament will be the first north Korean Leaders to set foot in the in the in the south for more than sixty years and potentially has seen some dramatic diplomatic strides over recent weeks expectations are that it will come a step closer to easing the tension between the two koreas. Pinning messages of hope to the fence dividing the two nations its here in the border village of panmunjom that kim jong un will make history on friday. When he crosses this border markets attend the into korean summit hell be the first nort
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Also coming up next dumble in the clash of the titans their coach says his team deserve to win the Champions League semifinal that they were undone by injuries and missed chances again. Im brian thomas great to have you with Us Amnesty International says the turkey must stop using its ongoing state of emergency as an excuse for silencing critics the report comes a day after a court jailed journalists at the leading opposition newspaper her yet they were accused of supporting the movement of the government says was behind the fell through twenty sixteen the country has been under a state of emergency since the. Family friends and supporters of the defendants gathered in front of the court in celebrity outside just stumble waiting for the ruling at the end of the nine months to hurry at trial the journalists were charged with helping terrorist organizations. Three of them were acquitted but the Court Sentenced fourteen defendants to prison terms ranging from three to eight years among th