Im Lewis Vaughanjones in london. Also in the programme the pope speaks out against those who started the amazon fires, comparing their greed to a new form of colonialism. And prepare to be inspired well meet the 75 year old whos probably stronger than you. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its midnight in london and 7 am here in singapore and also in hong kong, where scores of people were arrested on sunday after new emergency laws where brought in to try and end months of civil unrest. Tens of thousands of demonstrators took part in the latest protests and there were violent clashes as they were met by riot police. The new law forbids people from Wearing Masks to try and conceal their identity at demonstrations with a possible one year prison sentence. Our asia correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes reports from hong kong. Loud bangs. At what point does a protest movement become a rebellion . Today in hong kong, it felt clo
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Hello and welcome. A second whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment inquiry into President Trumps conversations with the ukrainian president. A lawyer involved has told American Television the second whistle blower is another Us Intelligence official. Donald trump has been accused of using military aid to ukraine as quid pro quo if ukranians agreed to dig up dirt on his rivaljoe biden. National security lawyer mark zayd confirmed the reports on twitter saying the whistleblowers have also made a protected disclosure under the law and cannot be retaliated against. What is more a lawyer involved has told American Television the second whistle blower what is more d whistle blower is another Us Intelligence official. Donald trump has been accused of using military aid to ukraine as quid pro quo if ukranians agreed to dig up dirt on his rivaljoe biden. National security lawyer mark zayd confirmed the reports on twitter saying the whistleblowers have also made a protected disclosure
Google and apple outperforming, while netflix and others have lag behind. A chief economics advisor is still with us. Martin, how much are these going to help power the s p 500 to another record . Martin i assume the Semi Conductor market has done better, and 5g, where rollout is important, and the trade negotiations are going to be a key issue, because the growth deceleration we have seen this year is tied significantly to trade friction. If we see a lifting of the trade friction, investment will return quite rapidly, and that will be very, very good news or the technology companies. Manus as far as the earnings season, i had a guest earlier. Earnings, a the slight touch of hunger, is going to hit the market . Do you think we are already priced in with an earnings dip going in . Ontin yes, the surprise is the upside rather than the downside. Trade slow four months. We have seen investment slow for nine months. We now have the labor market deceleration, and this is a key reason why we
A second whistleblower has come forward in the impeachment inquiry into President Trumps conversations with the ukrainian president. A lawyer involved has told American Television the second whistleblower is another Us Intelligence official. Donald trump has been accused of using military aid to ukraine as quid pro quo if ukranians agreed to dig up dirt on his rivaljoe biden. National security lawyer mark zayd confirmed the reports on twitter, saying the whistleblowers have also made a protected disclosure under the law and cannot be retaliated against. Our washington correspondent Chris Buckler gave us more details on the latest whistleblower. This second whistle blower has been described as a Us Intelligence official and they apparently have first hand knowledge of this controversial conversation that took place between donald trump and the ukrainian president. You might remember, in that phone call back in summer, President Trump asked zelensky to launch an investigation into his po