And we look at how the Space Tourism industry is finally taking off. First to libya where the United States has carried out air strikes targeting fightersal lined with the socalled Islamic State of iraq and the levant, isil. Libyan Officials Say at least 40 people were killed in the attacks west of the capitol tripoli. The pentagon says the operation hit an isil Training Camp and was aimed at killing a senior tunisian operative. He is accused of helping organize deadly attacks on a museum in tunis and a beach resort in the town of zeus last year. This was a facilitate we had had our eye on for sometime, and we had determined that there were isil fighters and folks in training at this facility, and specifically that he was associated with this facility in particular. And we believed that they posed a threat. Rosiland jordan joins us live from washington, d. C. What more do we know about the target, and the impact of these air strikes in libya . Well, even those peter cook briefed us for
Londonome we send it to for the first word is. Best first word news. Another victory for donald trump, his third in a row. The catch is 45 of the vote last night. Mark and ted cruz were battling it out for second place with 20 Percentage Points behind. If you listen to the pundits, oo werent expected to win t much. Soon come of the country is going to start winning, winning, winning. Republicans now set their sights on super tuesday. More than a dozen states and territories will hold primaries on march 3. One hit a recreational vehicle in louisiana. 30 were injured and others may be trapped in the wreckage. The u. S. And china close to agreeing on new sanctions for north korea. Both countries want to punish north korea for its recent Nuclear Tests. Chinas participation is essential. It is north koreas largest trading partner. Matt chesapeake out with earnings, coming in line on etf . 16 was the adjusted loss per share. That is what the market was looking for. It was not the earnings or
Halliburton abandoning plans with baker hughes union regulators were not happy with Loretta Lynch saying no merger is too big to challenge. Let us know what you think of our top stories on twitter. The yen dominating what is going on with japanese equity trading. The markets are closed today. Reporter talk about first trading day of may. Markets. As reshot pointed out, have a look at japan. They are down 4 . A lot of that happening with a stronger japanese yen. Australia, just about every stock on the nikkei underwater at the moment. When you take the losses back on thursday, we are down about 7. 5 over just two trading days. Lets break it down across sectors. Down onngle sector is the nikkei. Have a look at the nikkei volatility index. We are looking at a sharp jump. It up there . There we go 18 higher. That is something to watch. A lot of people are starting to downsize. When the yen starts jumping around, expect people to be riskadverse. Volatility is higher than usual. We are watch
Welcome to first up. We get straight to breaking news from south korea where the current account surplus widened to 10. 1 billion in march, after it recorded a surplus of 7. 51 billion, better than expected. We will check in on how korean markets reacted. To newasiapacific, zealand, that market is open and falling 1 5 of 1 . 69 u. S. Cents is the level for the u. S. Dollar. Rba decision tomorrow. Counting down to the opens in australia, japan and korea. Sydney pointing to a lower open. 76 u. S. Cents. Lets get over to japan. Checking futures trading in chicago. A big drop for futures and indicating a lower open at the start of the session. This, after it took a market holiday on friday. This is really the first chance for equity markets to react to that boj surprise decision to keep things as is. Japan yen 106. 65. Continuing to strengthen there. Lots of closed markets to tell you about today to mark labor day. China, hong kong, taiwan, singapore, thailand, malaysia and sri lanka and v
Asylum seekers in nalu after a scathing report reveals abuse plus. The music ga mark bias gambias people to hear. So first to hungry where officials have closed a main rail way station in the capitol budapest to stop refugees traveling to austria and germany and it has been like in the last few hours and hundreds of migrants and refugees there are calling on police to let them board trains so they can leave hungry. Security forces have been blocking the entrance to the station crossing over to Andrew Simmons who is there to talk us through exactly what is happening there and why the authorities took this step now. Reporter these people have feared Something Like this would happen. They were so under confident during mondays opening of the Train Service to austria and germany and they were flooding on the trains and police were standing back but early on Tuesday Morning the police were not standing back and they were throwing them out of the rail way station and forming a solid line, st