High berlin and moscow criticize sanctions against the gas pipeline accusing washington of interfering in internal affairs. Credit suisse, confirms it had former executive board member followed after the domestic regulator opens a probe at the lender. China plans to reduce tariffs on more than 850 goods as it looks to boost imports in the coming year. According to the finance ministry, beijing will lower the rates for goods such as diabetes drugs and frozen pork to help with shortages caused by the swine disease. This as the second largest economy faces slumming growth and trade tensions with the u. S. President donald trump says progress has been made in the socalled phase one trade deal after a phone call with president xi on friday u. S. Leader tweeted he had a good conversation with his counterpart and a formal signing of the agreement is being arranged chinas news agency reported during the talk the chinese leader expressed deep concerns about the, quote, negative words of the u.
The u. S. Gets pumping again. According on kong is deciding whether police can Enter University campuses after fierce battles with student protesters overnight demonstrators are blocking streets in the city center for a 3rd day authorities have warned hong kong is on the verge of a total breakdown of the rule of law but anger at the use of force by police is fueling young rest and the city is braced for more chaos to apologize us now from from hong kong did what were should we start you want to talk about this this Court Situation 1st for get us up to speed on whats happening where you are. If its all right with you all to start with where i am right now and thats hong kongs financial district to the left is the Stock Exchange im surrounded by luxury shopping malls big bags important to offices that. Get the wheels turning in hong kongs financial this does this and its come to standstill as you can see here is the protesters have simply ripped up bricks from the sidewalks scattered the
Many of his European Partners in the alliance certainly dont agree though they call is words drastic and dangerous in an interview with the economist magazine the french president blamed the us saying its commitment to nato is weakening micro cited the u. S. Failure to consult it before pulling its forces out of Northern Syria he also questioned whether the alliance is still committed to collective defense and he called on europe to think of itself as a geopolitical power and ensure its in control of its destiny microns remarks come ahead of a summit in the u. K. Early next month to mark nato 70th anniversary u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or says nato must change or risk irrelevance. They dont run is always the risk that it will become obsolete now because the partnership now because the political commitments for ever become i dont think is between in the transit and those commitments between our countries will ever become obsolete. But it does run that risk if it doesnt do the
A strong show of support for exiled president morales. A new wave of israeli air strikes in gaza has killed 10 people air raid sirens have also sounded in southern israel 20 palestinians have died since sunday i mean tuesday pardon me when israel killed a Senior Commander of the armed Group Islamic jihad fighters in gaza have responded by firing around 220 rockets towards israel egypt and other International Officials are working to mediate a ceasefire between israel hamas and Islamic Jihad joins us live from near the israel gaza border so what is what is the latest right now gary. Well the things seem to have come down to a certain extent there was another alert in the area around gaza just 10 minutes or so ago but not the kind of virus that we saw earlier this morning however the israeli airstrikes have been continuing certainly throughout the morning and we heard some of them from here a couple of hours ago and the numbers of deaths have increased quite substantially inside gaza as
French president raises eyebrows by describing nato is brain dead is the airlines weakening can europe create an alternative this is inside story. Hello welcome to the show i am sam is a than nato is experiencing brain death so says french president emanuel microloan many of his European Partners in the alliance certainly dont agree though they call is words drastic and dangerous in an interview with the economist magazine the french president blamed the us saying its commitment to nato is weakening microns cited the us failure to consult it before pulling its forces out of Northern Syria he also questioned whether the alliance is still committed to collective defense and he called on europe to think of itself as a geopolitical power and ensure its in control of its destiny microns remarks come ahead of a summit in the u. K. Early next month to mark nato 70th anniversary u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei or says nato must change or risk irrelevance. They dont run is always the risk