Been a what i know is that the people of lebanon have electricity shut down every day and its not working the provision of imports and exports has collapsed because of the Financial System so there are its is for the short term that we need as we know the answer is to fight corruption reform the energy and electricity systems the customs we need transparency for imports and exports we need reforms for all the sick does and insist on these changes quickly what lebanese authorities have detained 16 people as part of their investigation into the blast according to state media 18 port and Customs Officials involved in Maintenance Work at the ports have reportedly been questioned the death toll has risen to 149 but that is expected to rise dozens of people are still missing and hospitals are overwhelmed our correspondent burnet smith is in beirut with more. All we saw all day were armies all mainly young people out with groups and pickaxes and shovels trying to clean up the trying to clean
Couple of things. They are looking at numbers of infected across the world, but also the fed decision. Stocks are struggling for direction. Treasuries pretty steady. It is all about the fed, the policy meeting, and what they will give us in indications. In asia, modest gains in hong kong and south korea. They outperformed in china but low volumes. 1957. 157 lets get straight to the first word news in london with laura wright. James the uks looking at ways to loosen its coronavirus quarantine rules after restrictions on trips prompted backlash. One possibility is abandoning blanket restrictions in favor of regional bands and another is reducing the time passengers arriving in britain need to stay in quarantine. The u. K. And u. S. Voiced concern about hong kongs election after a flurry of media reports the government is considering postponing the vote maybe for a whole year. Hong kongs opposition argues the coronavirus outbreak is being used as an excuse to push off the pivotal election
That is where we are at the moment. Another down day for crude. Brent also down. Tom lets get more analysis on the market. When you look at what happened with help things are playing out in asia, is it taking offer a stellar quarter . Probably a bit of both. Concern withys the cases we have seen. In cases like texas. They have a bit of a crisis going on there. The fact that new york, new jersey, and connecticut have now set a quarantine for people who travel from these hot zones and the rest of america. Imposing an economic constraint. They are worried there will be another abruptness to this. That the Economic Growth that america had. In states of new york, when they take this action, that is a worrying time. That would hurt businesses on a much bigger basis. That is what wall street is concerned about. The hit to the economy. There has been talk the u. S. Government is getting ready to do a fourth round of fiscal stimulus. There has not been any details yet. The market would be conce
And lovely cant couldnt mexico on the beach with the palm trees swaying in the monkeys chattering special guest with us today alex patch off sea. Bit fury theyre rocking it out in the mining space thank you marks remind you finally and tell us about its a company that was very early into big and we heard about it we talked about on kaiser report going all the way back maybe to 2011 or so but tell us a little bit about it sue before it was wrong to be in 2002 well initially it was like everything was just beginning from the whole big suv the people with so many different businesses they realized the beat when existing the start to try mining going and then they decided just to create the company and they were nice cheap and they started building the data centers a 6 you mentioned a 6 what are a 6 chip special custom designed i. C. Cheap one performing on the one single functions. A lot of things youre hearing skills just created its like bigger capable of course just to create the cheap
And industrial is that correct yeah thats correct su the chip was not invented only by bt quietly using them from the seventys but the normally revolution if you feel about the beat going like about the infrastructure its the warmer all the operational expenses and this is a reason why instead of the c. P. U. The speech for g. P. U. Because the working more efficiently and consume less Electrical Energy and then they go to f. P. G. A. And right now all the new cities using a seems ok so theres a bit of an arms race in the technology of big client mining and in china of course you have huge players who not only design chips but they also have a lot of Energy Available to them and they dominate with between 40 or 50 percent of all the mining depending on how you look at it is is that concentration of mining in china is that an accurate description and is that going to continue in the near. Future and is the new coronavirus does that threaten chinese mining in any way to. Its was just lik