Twitter shares fall after hours on an unprecedented hack on the accounts of prominent u. S. Figures, including elon musk and bill gate. Jack dorsey called it a tough day. Welcome. It may have been a tough day for twitter, but it is also shaping up to be a tough week for tech stocks in general. The nasdaq leadership we have seen falling back a little bit this week. Nonetheless, we did see a little bit of strength come through on the s p 500. Today, we are seeing a little bit more risk off sentiment across assets. Perhaps to do with concerns around the china data, particularly around the retail sales question. Asia, the screen and particularly in chinese equities. The 10year yield is steady. You are seeing the dollar steady after a couple days of weakness. Also perhaps the fact that we are seeing a little bit of softness in crude. It did close that a fourmonth high yesterday, shrugging off plans by opecplus to taper production curves. Lets get to the first word news now. Coronavirus case
Affect the u. S. President ial race. Both donald trump and hunter biden appear in different courtrooms. Serbia detains a political leader accused of orchestrating an attack on northern kosovo, and al jazeera gains exclusive access to the now deserted city in care about care about nagornokarabakh. We start in washington, d. C. , where the u. S. House of representatives has voted to oust speaker Kevin Mccarthy in a historic showdown. A motion passed by 216 votes to 110 votes against. It was put forward by fellow republican matt gaetz. He and other hardline members of the party accused mccarthy of making a deal with democrats to prevent a Government Shutdown. It is the first time at have speaker has been ousted from his position. This is the moment the vote passed. On this boat, the ueas on this boat, the yeas are 216, the nays 110. The office of speaker of the house of the United States house of representatives is hereby declared vacant. This was the scene, the media frenzy as Kevin Mcca
Follow on down jordan this is our jazeera live from doha also coming up Hong Kongs High Court has sentenced the prodemocracy activist joshua wall to three months in prison. Who is providing Vital Services to the Palestinian Refugee population the u. N. Says a decision by the United States to cut funding for Palestinian Refugees will affect stability in the region. And the french president called for more cooperation with the United Kingdom on the refugee crisis. U. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson has called on the world to step up pressure on north korea to end its Nuclear Program hes joined a summit in canada discussing how to tighten sanctions on pyongyang out as there was also in jordan reports. A show of diplomatic commitment in vancouver to ending north Koreas Nuclear Weapons Program but the meeting cohosted by canada and the United States yielded just one new tactic for the fight an agreement to prevent socalled ship to ship transfers of outlawed goods to pyongyang i think we