Jane often this is al jazeera live from doha plaza coming up catalonia is deposed leader says hell appeal any attempt to extradite him from belgium of his colleagues are the races in madrid. U. S. Secretary of state prepares to visit me and ma on his agenda talks on the roof and a crisis. Its sixty is since a russian trained on became the first living being to venture into outer space. Eisel the group whose dramatic rise captured headlines in two thousand and fourteen is staring at the feet in its final stronghold in both iraq and syria. Syrian state t. V. Says the army and its forces of course tries a lot of the eastern city of benghazi was the groups last remaining syrian stronghold and the capital of an oil rich province bordering iraq the military campaign to recapture that as all began in september when the army managed to break its three year long siege on the city and its residents. And in neighboring iraq the army and shia militia fighters have captured the last International B
And we shall hear this is. Also coming out catalonia suppose later says he will appeal any attempt to extradite him from belgium. Venezuelas president hell renegotiate his countrys deaths with banks and investors. To spend sixty years since a russian stray dog became the first living being to venture into outer space. I saw the armed group whose dramatic rise captured headlines in two thousand and fourteen is staring at defeat in its final strongholds in both iraq and syria. Syrian state television says the army and its ally forces have pushed out of the eastern city of daraa zoar it was the groups last remaining syrian stronghold in the capital of an oil rich province border in iraq the military campaign to recapture doors or began in september and the army managed her breaking three year long siege on the city and its residents. The engineering units are now combing the city removing the explosive canisters and booby traps planted by the terrorist operatives and buildings and squares
The deal he this number pivotal ahead of tomorrows opec meeting. P. M. , the twoyear had a did to cover ratios yesterday, the highest in a year so watch the option. , whent the fomc minutes it decides to leave rates on home. How does the Balance Sheet pay into that . Robert kaplan and Neel Kashkari will be speaking. David it turns out china has a lot of debt. We may have known that before, but it is official overnight. They downgraded chinese debt for the first time in 30 years. The Senior Vice President had this to say about the decision. Be a gradualto erosion of credit metrics. We are looking at the policies the government isnt lamenting. The authorities have recognized the risks with high leverage and have a very broad structural reform. We think that counts to the point where leverage will increase more slowly than it has in the past. Still, these measures will not be enough to reverse the increasing leverage. David joining us now is chief economics correspondent for bloomberg. It
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Technical difficulties. I feel very oprah. We are seeing Oil Prices Fall back 7 over the past five sessions. Oil has fallen for four of the past five days. The excuse appears to be increased production out of libya. Its the ongoing for a mentals of oil and fundamentals of oil and technical factors and levels helping send oil down. Oil is now down 20 from its highs of the year. Its not just oil that is falling. We are seeing copper also decline for the sixth session in seven. Copper down 1 today. Its pulling down some of the miners as well. Report mac rent this report mac and rioreeportmcmoran down as well. Other sectors mitigating those losses. The s p pulling back. The nasdaq down the most of the three, but by a smaller margin than in recent days. There are groups mitigating the declines. One of them is health care. Health care higher today. Regeneron has been gaining steam in particular. Stocks fell initially today after novartis said a potential blockbuster its developing to treat v