In front of his home crowd the world number one showing his fighting spirit to help spain and france to the davis cup semifinals. We begin this news in the u. S. Where the state department has released records related to its dealings with ukraine that a 100 page document was made public after a freedom of information request by an ethics watchdog it confirms multiple contacts between secretary of state mike pump a. O. And Donald Trumps personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani earlier this year the exchanges took place in the months before but then the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine marie you have out of it was recalled it supports testimony at the impeachment inquiry that senior officials were in the loop on efforts to pressure kiev into investigating trumps rival joe biden lets go live to washington d. C. John hendren is more is there john what more do we know about these documents how did they come to light. Adrian we are still going through these documents that came out in a civil lawsuit against
Theres more news on our website bbc. Co. Uk news and via the bbc news app. Now, we can go live to singapore for Asia Business report. Froms highway reprieve, the Technology Giant is giving another three months before a us bank takes effect trumpa huawei. And why tata steel is cutting 3000 jobs gcioss tata steel is cutting 3000 jobs across its european business. Hello. Welcome to Asia Business report, i am sharanjit welcome to Asia Business report, i am shara njit leyl. Welcome to Asia Business report, i am sharanjit leyl. Washington has granted an extension for businesses to deal with blacklisted telecoms giant huawei. It comes as regular does continue to work and rules that the Front Administration says pose National Security risks. The bbcs mira hussein has the latest from new york. Huawei has been one of the most volatile flashpoints between the us and china. The tax giant has long been viewed with suspicion in america. Its status as a supplier of leading Network Technology as well
Australias biggest business bank. Theteargas returns to streets of hong kong as police and protesters clash again. First, lets get you started with a quick check of the markets close on friday. S p 500 index seeing the biggest fall in seven weeks. Of course, there are people just waiting for any sign of progress on the u. S. China trade negotiations. At the same time, it was a shorter trading day just after thanksgiving before the weekend, so it was 16 below the 30 day average. Energy and Consumer Discretionary leading the declines. Nasa fell and nasdaq fell half a percent as well. We have the opec plus meeting this week. There are signs they may not want to cut even further at the moment. Lets see how things are shaping up in asia. After managing to cap a third month of game, asia stocks tech starting december trading, nikkei futures up more than 1 in chicago. Ross mcewan starts monday as the bank faces a list of challenges. At the weekend, the australian newspaper reported they faile
Tiffany. Stock has been rising in the green market ahead of the open. Paul lets get a check on how were doing on the markets at the moment. Weve had new zealand trading for a little while now. Looking higher by about, there you go, about a third of 1 giving up some of the earlier gains. We saw a very good trading major in the u. S. , all ndexes higher, small caps as well. 1 . Australia, up. 1 of bear in mind with australia, we here. Staggered open still performing well after up 2. 5 . s gains westpac. Ting for brian, the day, c. E. O. Buckling to what analysts saw as the inevitable and down in the wake of these Money Laundering llegations from one of the countrys regulators, 23 million separate breaches. His sword and n bringing forward his retirement 20192020 st half of as well. Trading t of chicago flat, similar story despite i ns that we have seen as mentioned fueled by trade shery. M, shery the u. S. Dollar strengthening broadly on the trajectory d the next year will be a result of
Plus financial secretary. Were standing by for Election Results in argentina. The president is under pressure there. We will have the latest. Paul lets take a look at how things are shaping up in the market today. The straily just up and one minute ago. In as are coming online order in australia. Not a lot of action. Futures were indicating pickup of about a third of 1 . Futures for the nikkei traded out of chicago. They are looking slack right now. U. S. Equity markets are also pointing higher. Sytock global stocks back to the highest levels seen this year. Lets check in on the first word news. Su we begin with the california fires. Workingters are to contain blazes across northern california. This has forced the evacuation of 200,000 people. Homes have burned to the ground. This is driven by a windstorm packing 90 mileperhour gusts. Gavin newsom has declared a state of emergency with nearly 3 Million People without power as of sunday. The result of argentinas election is expected in