Melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us the Catholic Church has renewed a deal it made 2 years ago with china which is an officially atheist communist state concerning bishops their agreement now gives the pope a final say over the appointment of them but beijing is the one who gets to come up with the choices chinese authorities had previously selected bishops without the say of the vatican and a division formed between state sanctioned clergy and underground bishops who operated outside state control the former bishop of Hong Kong Cardinal joseph dan has spoken up about this a prodemocratic he has expressed concern over the churchs engagement with china heres the interview with cardinal to china and the facts occurred recently renewed a secretive agreement signed 2 years ago it allows both beijing. And the holy see a say in appointing push ups in china from Hong Kong Bishop Cardinal Joseph santa q. C. Secretary of state cardinal pyra lynn of betraying the 12000000
A demis eerily on is in ganja you really are they oh our this is not the 1st but the 2nd truce that doesnt seem to be holding what more can you tell us. Well the fighting continues according to what we hear from the front line despite a new cease fire agreement despite International Calls on both sides to to stop what were seeing instead is that once again as i john and armenia are blaming each other for breaching that deal im in gunja as a by john 2nd largest city its home to more than 300000 people a missile leveled several homes here in this residential area on saturday actually before the 2nd the new truce came into effect and as you can see here right behind me these used to be buildings 2 story buildings but they have been reduced to rubble at least 13 people have been killed here according to officials including a teenage girl and a baby and while both amenia and azerbaijan deny targeting civilians we see that search residential areas like this one have increasingly come under s
Root. So, ben, the market started off the week fairly happy about some comments by Jerome Powell, about this possibly great news from no no moderna on a vaccine to, and it managed to stay resilient through the week. Yeah, it really was. The news on some fronts wasnt great. Economic data was bad, new tension with china. But then you look at this other stuff, you have the vaccine from moderna, the data was from a very small subset, but it does look like vaccine is working. At least in this small group of people. Its going to take a long time, but it sends the message that the science out there to at some point get a vaccine, get more treatment, get the coronavirus under control. Were also seeing reopenings of economies across the country. New york is supposed to open in june now, connecticut is going to do some reopening this weekend with restaurants, and its a big thing. And even where there have been some hiccups along the way, were not seeing economies have to close up. Cities and sta
Levisohn, carlton english and al root. So, ben, the market started off the week fairly happy about some comments by Jerome Powell, about this possibly great news from no no moderna on a vaccine to, and it managed to stay resilient through the week. Yeah, it really was. The news on some fronts wasnt great. Economic data was bad, new tension with china. But then you look at this other stuff, you have the vaccine from moderna, the data was from a very small subset, but it does look like vaccine is working. At least in this small group of people. Its going to take a long time, but it sends the message that the science out there to at some point get a vaccine, get more treatment, get the coronavirus under control. Were also seeing reopenings of economies across the country. New york is supposed to open in june now, connecticut is going to do some reopening this weekend with restaurants, and its a big thing. And even where there have been some hiccups along the way, were not seeing economies
Levisohn, carlton english and al root. So, ben, the market started off the week fairly happy about some comments by Jerome Powell, about this possibly great news from no no moderna on a vaccine to, and it managed to stay resilient through the week. Yeah, it really was. The news on some fronts wasnt great. Economic data was bad, new tension with china. But then you look at this other stuff, you have the vaccine from moderna, the data was from a very small subset, but it does look like vaccine is working. At least in this small group of people. Its going to take a long time, but it sends the message that the science out there to at some point get a vaccine, get more treatment, get the coronavirus under control. Were also seeing reopenings of economies across the country. New york is supposed to open in june now, connecticut is going to do some reopening this weekend with restaurants, and its a big thing. And even where there have been some hiccups along the way, were not seeing economies