Risks. Xi jinping isdent firmly in control, the message. Haidi a rate rise seems all but week, janet yellen warning danger if the fed acts too late. Risk aversion in this first trading session in asia. 30 minutes away from the open in china and hong kong. Looking at how those markets are digesting policy announcements from the npc. Rishaad the first time asia has had a chance to react to what janet yellen is saying. Sophie kamaruddin is having a look at the movers. Sophie quite a bit today. Korean stocks, the rosalind the kospi falling, Consumer Services falling over 1. 6 . A number of players falling today. Rising upperks are 1 . The kospi is asias worstperforming index and asia this year, falling nearly 5 . Hanjin we do havehanjin shipping on the decline over 21 . Hanjin shippings u. S. Creditors sellin given the nod to stateside containers. The judge overseeing the hearing rejected hanjins claim that it still had equity in the containers. In tokyo, the nikkei 225 slipping as the yen
[indiscernible conversation] i call this hearing to order. I would like to welcome our witness. Besident trumps nominee to the next director of National Intelligence. Dan, congratulations on your nomination. Welcome back. I am sure you did not expect to be welcomed back to these holes so soon after your retirement. I would also like to welcome back your wife and my good friend, marcia, and i would like to thank her for sharing you with the rest of us. Ive known both of you for many years and seen firsthand the strength of your relationship that you so thoughtfully described in your statement for the record. Our goal in this hearing is to direct the committee to consider tor coates for the consider him for the nomination. He is already responded to more than 100 questions. Today, of course, members will be able to ask additional questions in both open and closed sessions. Withoats comes to us Honorable Service in the house, the senate, and as an ambassador. Those of us who have had the
The north korean leader. The bbcs Sharanjit Leyl is outside the north Korean Embassy in kuala lumpur. What is the latest around that area . I see behind you a couple of police cars. Thats right. It has been relatively quiet all morning. We have been standing out here watching the embassy for signs of movements. Security wise it has been quite. We have had to make police cars out at the front gates, two police bikes went past earlier but where it has been busy has been the number of media who have gathered here, also watching the embassy for signs of movement. They are all camped out here, like we are. And essentially what we did see a short time ago was signs of movement. We saw a black Mercedes Benz drive into the front gates. A man got out carrying what appeared to be breakfast, and that is it so far. We also seeing potentially more cars going past but we are watching for signs. And essentially what has happened is this latest row was triggered on tuesday, where we sought the north k
The north korean leader. The bbcs Sharanjit Leyl is outside the north Korean Embassy in kuala lumpur. What is the latest around that area . I see behind you a couple of police cars. Thats right. It has been relatively quiet all morning. We have been standing out here watching the embassy for signs of movements. Security wise it has been quite. We have had to make police cars out at the front gates, two police bikes went past earlier but where it has been busy has been the number of media who have gathered here, also watching the embassy for signs of movement. They are all camped out here, like we are. And essentially what we did see a short time ago was signs of movement. We saw a black Mercedes Benz drive into the front gates. A man got out carrying what appeared to be breakfast, and that is it so far. We also seeing potentially more cars going past but we are watching for signs. And essentially what has happened is this latest row was triggered on tuesday, where we sought the north k
A National Security Council Meeting has been convened an its been decided to end the mission of selfdefense forces unit currently being deployed in south sudan, by the end of may. When the unit completes the ongoing Road Construction work there. In january this year, the deployment period of the sdf to south sudan exceeded five years, the longest ever. The sdf has been making a great contribution to nationbuilding in this newly established nation. Including the construction of main roads from capital juba to other locations in the country. As south sudans nationbuilding enters a new phase, we have made judgment that the sdf has achieved a certain level of success in the construction of infrastructure. Over the past five years, the sdf has accumulated great achievements. This policy of japanese government was already conveyed in advance to south sudan and the u. N. And the countrys president responded with his praise, saying that he highly appreciates the duties of the sdf so far. In fu