Meet afghanistans robotic team winning prizes and acclaim across the world, against the odds. Sometimes when ive heard some bad news or bad things that had happened outside, ijust, here and do democrats response was swift. Some mechanical things. Live from our studios the failure to produce this witness, in singapore and london, 00 01 11,005 2147483051 37 20,217 this is bbc world news 2147483051 37 20,217 00 00 02,764 its newsday. The failure to produce these documents, um, we consider yet additional strong evidence of obstruction of the constitutional functions of congress a coequal branch of government. Democrats were keen to question Gordon Sondland because hed been dealing with ukraine in the run up to the phone call between President Trump and that countrys leader, in which mr trump asked Volodymyr Zelensky to do him a favour and investigate the bidens. Us military to ukraine had been suspended days before. In Text Messages given to congress, veteran us diplomat bill taylor wrote.
Good morning. Thank you for having me. Great to have you with us straight to the Global Market picture. Comes off a flat week for most of the markets dow had four negative days in a row to end the week, ended flat given it had slight gains monday s p up friday. And nasdaq up a half percent friday 2 for the week. Underperforming sek ter was energy and health care, best performing sector up over 3. 5 . Best week for health care for this calendar year this morning, we are taking a lead around the rest of the world. We have seen gains around the world. Start with asia. Markets closing higher overnight. Hang seng and shanghai, strongest stocks up shy of 1 . Oil prices stronger, firmer overnight. Part of the reason we saw the lift in asia indonesia, singapore, malaysia, Philippines Closed for end of ramadan. Japanese up slightly, despite that takata bankruptcy it was expected. We know the trouble the company had. It was going to be delisted end of july. Still a shock to the market, and some
Translator this decision is after four years of being in office and is anything but trivial. And oil prices provide a boost to stocks. And the president elect meets critics and supporters in a bid to assign key cabinet roles. Good morning, everybody. Welcome. I am surprised with the french primaries and the landslide. I remember you saying last week that you thought that the polls were turning. A lot of analysts didnt realize how much the polls were turning on the ground in france. It just happened within the space of the last week. That was a lastminute turnaround for him. Precisely. Well be talking about this coming up. The European Markets are down by. 30 heading into trade. Weve got quite a bit of activity in looking at the various sectors out there. You are looking at the main European Market being mixed. The xetra is down along with the cac 40. You have the opec meeting in a weeks time, so well be talking more about oil. The first week saw gains over a month or so. And we are see
Excuse to crack down on free speech. A historic summit on the Korean Peninsula the south is preparing to welcome north Korean Leader kim jong un for talks about peace and Nuclear Disarmament he was the first north Korean Leader to set foot on south korean soil in more than fifty years the bensouda has seen some dramatic diplomatic strides in recent weeks and expectations are high they come a step closer to ending the decades of hostility. Pinning messages of hope to the fence dividing the two nations its here in the border village of panmunjom that kim jong un will make history on friday. When he crosses this border markets with ten b. Into korean summit hell be the first north Korean Leader to set first on south korean soil since the korean war ended more than sixty years ago its a Significant Location inside the Demilitarized Zone straddling the border to north korea that pyongyang has promised to end nuclear and missile tests hoping for a lifting of sanctions in exchange in south ko
And jellies. Follows president across the white house its hoped there would be no no handshake moments like this. With drugs in. Five minutes tumbles in the crash of the types of coach says his team deserved to win the Champions League semifinal match but theyve gone by injuries and missed opportunities against defending champions madrid. A historic summit on the Korean Peninsula the south is preparing to welcome north Korean Leader kim jong un for talks about peace and new good disarmament he made the first north Korean Leader to set foot on south korean soil in more than sixty years the band insular has seen some dramatic diplomatic strides in recent weeks and expectations are high that the two sides will come a step closer to easing their tensions pending messages of hope to the fence dividing the two nations its here in the border village of panmunjom that kim jong un will make history on friday. When he crosses this border marker to attend the into korean summit hell be the first