[inaudible conversations] good morning Everyone Welcome to the fifth annual mississippi book festival and welcome everyone doing on cspan which is been a supporter of our efforts from the very first year. We appreciate them very much. Im chris with archives and history. If you have not done so please silence your cell phone. Our panel this morning is a spotlight on mississippi civil rights, we think energy for sponsoring it. Theyve also been with the book festival since beginning and we are grateful for the early support and sticking with us. We are in this room today, thanks to foreman Watkins Law Firm we pretrade their support. Our panelists are natalie, johnny, michelle and heather and you can purchase copies of their books from vendors outside and you can find the times are authors will be signing in your programs. You will hear from our panelists for about 40 minutes and open the floor to questions. Please come to the podium to answer your questions. Be careful of the ramp. Help m
Doubling the amount of money it has set aside this year. And this is how european markets have started their day. Well dive into these numbers in the next few minutes. And well be getting the inside track on excercising at home do you really need to go out to the gym, when you can do it all from the comfort of home . Theres an app for that. Today we want to know do really you need to spend pounds or dollars or euros to shed pounds at the gym . Is a run around or lifting weights at home better and cheaper . Let us know just use the hashtag bbcbizlive hello and welcome. Thanks forjoining us on business live. We start with the cost of borrowing because the worlds most powerful central bank the Us Federal Reserve has cut Interest Rates for the First Time Since the financial crisis more than a decade ago. Time since the financial crisis more the move disappointed Financial Markets not to mention President Trump. They wanted a bigger cut or at least a clear signal that more are to come. But
Here there are tanks and old donald trump gets his military parade for americas Independence Day but his critics critics question what message the president is trying to send. A fragile ecosystem under threat where the future of one of the worlds biggest mangrove forests is more uncertain than ever. Hello the heavy rain of the last day or so that period in South China Sea it remains a tropical depression this stuff here the white shroud of cloud which is really now affecting North Vietnam and more especially as in the next day or so will be in myanmar and northern thailand which leaves a vacuum effectively to the east so pretty dry for much as Southeast Asia the showers a stand to reform in the philippines born years locking in for cash as insular ways curiously we dont want to see showing up in java including in jakarta and running up toward singapore or start to reappear overland in borneo and in for example cambodia come saturday thats just jumps see how active the weather is and au
We still have plenty of heat across here for the moment but a change is on the way you can see that changes the cloud drifts out of the ball to see its way further southwards across that western side of russia across a good part of probably lul way down actually toward rumania as the temperatures falling behind 23 celsius in warsaw over a 10 degree drop in temperatures here some of the value there for a limited even down into book rest for out in the rain as we go through friday as you can see that makes its way across the black sea central and western past tuesday rather hot paris still getting up to 31 celsius could break 40 celsius there formatter it so the early summer heat looks set to continue hate will pick up across london by sas taking up to around 30 degrees maybe a touch higher 34. 00 there for paris staying very warm across much of western europe at this stage but further research you can see that freshening northwesterly winds will continue to see in case where you get acr
Side is perhaps them trying to use these things to their advantage trying as andrew said earlier to take advantage of perhaps a pivot in Public Opinion about what these protesters are doing inside the ledges and Legislative Council building. Really taking their time and really going to come down perhaps a very strongly afterwards on these protesters on the people involved there certainly beijing is not going to want to look weak in the face of whats happening there theyre going to want to really show a strong arm and theyre going to really say that look these are protesters for sauron we didnt we didnt provoke this and theyre definitely going to want to send a strong message there. For the moment thanks very much. Now lets talk more about this now with steve tsang via skype from london he is the director of the China Institute of the school of oriental and African Studies at the university of london thanks very much for being with us so 1st of all what do you make of the scenes that ha