Gas to europe. But no money to send home families struggle to pay for food and rent as global witnesses plunged to the pandemic. In the himalayas in disputed territory china has been exerting its presence to deadly effect 20 indian soldiers were killed in hand to hand combat the standoff between the 2 Nuclear Neighbors is just the latest move by an aggressive beijing to use its growing economic might in territorial disputes from taiwan to its control over hong kong but its president xi is reach across the South China Sea that we want to look at closely this week to do that its defense spending is inching higher and higher from 143000000000. 00 in 2010 to 261000000000. 00 in 2019 aljazeera alex go topless takes a closer look now at chinas naval ambitions. This is a photo of a shipyard in china it shows night watch ships a Missile Defense system an Aircraft Carrier and a whole craft all being built similar taney sleek shanghai and this is just one of several shipyards churning out warshi
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Was 25 n the s p 500 better than average over the last month. We are waiting on the let us check of japan, as the pandemic puts more pressure on the economy already sliding into recession. Inflation numbers are due at this hour. Haidi lets check in on the markets. We had a pretty tepid handover from the u. S. Stocks edging higher. Volumes still below what we have seen over the past month or so. Very much a rangebound trading session. We continue to seek a new catalyst. We continue to see rising cases across the u. S. , driving the idea of a second wave. Beijing struggling with a second wave as well. Conflicting data not giving a great deal of intel as to what the future holds. We are dealing and upside on s p futures, up about. 3 . Nikkei futures also a little bit higher, japan weighing the frostburg of reopening. Also the potential demise when it comes to tourism. Sydney futures are a little bit to the downside at the moment. We could see a modest bounce at the start of trading here i
You. Grew but some would never come. When i wanted to take. On al jazeera. Hello im Adrian Finighan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a look at the world of business and economics this week war games in the South China Sea washington sends an Aircraft Carrier is as beijing use its economic might to expand its territorial ambitions. Big oil gets ready for a post covert world with billions in white balance by jiri it gets ready to export gas to europe. But no money to send home families struggle to pay for food and rent its global witnesses plunged to the pandemic. High in the himalayas in disputed territory china has been exerting its presence to deadly effect 20 indian soldiers were killed in hand to hand combat the standoff between the 2 Nuclear Neighbors is just the latest move by an aggressive beijing to use its growing economic might in territorial disputes from taiwan to its control over hong kong but its president xi is reach across the South China Sea that we want to look a
Please call the phone line and make sure youre in a quiet location and that you mute any tvs, or radios. Item number one, call to order. role call . And we do have a quorum. Thank you. Well welcome to those who are watching this remotely. I hope you are all well at home. It imany are coping with lost js and keeping your family and children safe. Before we gip begin, i would lio thank the staff under the direction of bob beck who has kept the facility running and we appreciate your dedication and i know that several of you have had to be on site at the island on a regular basis. So bob, thank you in particular for your diligence. And also thank you one Treasure Island who has been coordinating with the San Francisco food bank for the delivery of free groceries for people who need it. Thank you to the staff and thank you to the San Francisco food bank and also, thank you to the School District for continuing to deliver meals to School Children on Treasure Island so they can eat three mea