We begin in mauritania where at least 58. 00 refugees and migrants have drowned after their boat capsized off the coast the International Organization for migration says survivors and now being treated in the Northern City of new what hebrew it says the vessel was carrying at least 150. 00 people from gambia and was no on fuel well our correspondent mohammed follow joins me now from that smart 10 years capital mohammed what more do we know at this stage i see that some did manage to swim to safety but there are still people missing. Thats right about 83. 00 people managed to swim to the shore and they were found by the military Police Outside the Northern City of and why the that was the evening hours yesterday those people gave more news about what happened that boat capsized off the shore and after about 10 days being stranded there running out of fuel and so on so they gave more details and scores of people at least dozens of people are still missing they are supposed to be of cours
These are your markets. A bit of a move sideways for the europe stoxx 600. Mix the data across the world and mixed corporate earnings. If you look at the banking sector, it is one of the biggest gainers. We have a german manufacturing orders and Euro Area Services pmi for the month of october. Better than expected. Anything above 50 means expansion and we were expecting 51. 8. So look out for any movement on eurodollar and the u. S. 10 year yield. Coming up, we speak to the president of south africa. Come alk about s escom at a possible ratings downgrade. But first, lets get to bloomberg first word news. We begin with the impeachment inquiry for President Trump. The actions of Rudy Giuliani deeply unsettled to ukraine, outlining a quid quo pro. This is in exchange for investigating joe bidens son. Julienior ambassador said Rudy Giulianis role started as perplexing but quote became more insidious. The world has gone mad with free money according to ray dalio. He decried the current poli
Celebrates its 500th birthday with music dancing in fireworks but its all against the backdrop of an ailing economy still 100 u. S. Embargo. Plus max 1st up and that brings his maximum speed to sao paulo he holds office stiff challenge from the champion Lewis Hamilton to claim victory in a thrilling for cillian grand prix. A 1000000 welcome to the program a standoff in hong kong has led to Police Moving in against antigovernment protesters holed up in a university with police surrounding hong kong polytechnic protesters set fire to the main campus entrance authorities have warned vale resort to live ammunition if the small group of hold. Dont put down lethal weapons son of used bow and arrows and hurled petrol bombs at police. For more lets go to mathias berlinger whos there in hong kong for us. Right now looks quite calm behind you but take us through some of these very terrifying scenes weve seen over the last several hours yes so the protests as they have barricaded themselves in th
Embargo. Plus max for stop and takes it to the max in sao paulo the dutchman holds off a stiff challenge from champion Lewis Hamilton to claim victory in a thrilling brazilian grand prix. And william glue cruft welcome to the program a tense standoff has taken a violent turn in hong kong as police move in against antigovernment protesters holed up inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University authorities have warned vale using live ammunition if the small group of holdouts dont put down lethal weapons some have used bone arrows and hurled petrol bombs at police overnight police tried to storm the university and protesters 1st bonded with fires. And the police move in. But protesters sit the entrance to Hong Kong Polytechnic University ablaze as the police retreat. The police make some arrests and a few students were injured although the standoff remains tense its without serious bloodshed something many had feared over the weekend. But it remains a fiery stalemate hundreds of students inside
Your party passed a bill in the house to balance the budget. How did we get to this point . That is not just the spending. That is the deficit. Onhave gotten there based benign neglect. On the democratic side, more versus more. On the republican side, i see no evil, i speak no evil, but it is a great detriment to the american taxpayer, American Dream, but we got here. Hard, soith it will be people dont want to and have left it alone. Troublesomeularly with the weight is president has made promises to eliminate the debt. Be ahas proven to completely empty promise. He raised the debt by 9 billion. He signed off on deals raising additional billions in debt. Is that there has been zero leadership on the president ial level, benign neglect from the congressional level. Debt in one year. Where is the Republican Party that has claimed to be deficit hawks . Malignuld describe it as neglect, not benign neglect. This is a National Security issue. We cant rely on other countries our debt. It is a