Lets see what happened overnight in asia. The flnikkeiclosed down. Hang seng down by 5 points the shanghai composite up by a third of a percentage point. In europe in some early trading, looks like the dax is up by a third of a percentage point. The cac is up bay half py a half percentage point finally check out crude Oil Prices Crude Oil yesterday down by 1. 4 on some questions about u. S. Supply and also doubts about whether russia is going to be cutting output whether it will stick with that. This morning down 1 couple big stories were watching japans softbank offering to purchase shares of uber at a valuation of only 28 billio 4 . Thats a huge drop of the most recent valuation of 68 billion. Ubers board approved the investment in october. It would expand the board and cut the influence of founder travis kalanick. Big question about whether people will tend near this offer. The consortium is led by softbank, and they plan to take a stake of 14 in uber if they dont get it at this pri
This is al jazeera live from doha it was a coming up zimbabwes new president unveils his cabinet renewing fears that this is a continuation of the mugabe regime. The date is set for japans emperor to step down making it the first to cation in more than two hundred years plus. Clashes in honduras is the country anxiously awaits results of a contentious president ial election. Ahead of the Roman Catholic church has led a mass for some one hundred thousand people in bangladeshs capital dhaka pope francis is on a six day visit of the region hes been criticized for not publicly mentioning the wrangel crisis during the min my leg of the tour but he will meet the refugees in dhaka later on friday more than six hundred twenty thousand of them have fled to bangladesh since august escaping a military crackdown in myanmar. Is following developments from coxs bazar in bangladesh where many are living in camps. Pope francis is only the second pope ever to visit bangladesh he has been holding mass o
Obviously she got food and gas, but she said they decided to go for one year without buying the extras. Like a coat that is at discounted price or some lotion at target. It was amazing, she said the mental space that was freed up when she stopped looking for things to buy. She then describe something that probably happens everywhere. You run out of your favorite lotion so you have to get more, look under the sink. You always have extra. There is one problem, if everyone did this the economy would collapse. I dont think everyone is going to do this but i will sort of exercise this. Absolutely. That is very hard to do. I love shopping so i dont know if i could do that but you are right. I always have something extra underneath the cabinet. One extra soap or lotion but that is good for her. Whatever youre doing today we are thankful youre starting with us. Mike has the day off so it is good to have you with us cristina rendon. Sal castaneda is with us as well. We sure had some traffic tro
A bleak christmas in parts of the philippines as the country struggles with the aftermath of two Tropical Storms in quick succession. Watching aljazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up pope francis is the faithful to turn the power of fear into the power of charity as he draws attention to the plight of refugees. In peru a president ial pardon sparks charges of a corrupt political deal. And is part of our special day of coverage of the holy land we look at jerusalem and why the city lies at the heart of three faiths. After leaving a trail of devastation across the southern philippines Tropical Storm tembin is heading towards vietnam thousands of flood low lying areas where the capital city has closed schools. Made landfall in the philippines on friday causing flash flooding and landslides and it killed more than two hundred people in reports. This scale of the destruction caused by Tropical Storm tembin is becoming clear as rescue workers reach remote communities
Along cell robin your geologist are alive my headquarters here in doha are coming up in the next thirty minutes turkeys president says a military assault on a kurdish enclave in syria is imminent. Or are. Accused of using vulgar language to describe african nations in the u. S. President donald trump says hes not a racist. Outside of this trial so intense and something silly travelers are protesting against pope francis i was seeing him in our side coming up ill tell you why many people in this country are worried as the pope makes his way to tele. Welcome to the program more than twenty people have been taken to hospital. In parts of an upper floor in Indonesia Stock Exchange building collapsed de vry and rubble fell from a balcony all to people in the lobby below lets get more now from our correspondents that vasant us to the exact circumstances of what happened what we know about the incident so far. Well the collapse happened when the trading was just going into lunch break basical