Well come to you tomorrow today the science show on d w. d at the risk of sounding corny id say todays show is about me not as food for people or animals but feel to generate electricity. This share of energy from renewable sources is growing every given especially in asia. Europe and north america. Most of the energy is produced from biomass from Something Like me. But the other sources arent doing so badly either. However ive come under a lot of criticism recently while you see for yourself. This field is lush and green but in a way. Its a desert a desert of corn planted to produce biofuel fields like this cover more than a 1000000 hectares in germany corn provides hardly any food for insect biologists say thats one reason for massive insect die offs. One committed by night you can generate biodiversity with a single type of plant a monoculture so you need to sow a range of different plants to get a range of insects it just doesnt work with corn it was the hope and. The idea is to re
Hello im christine one day its good to have your company there often is often electoral dispute in guinea a day off to a tense president ial election votes all still being counted but the opposition has already say it will publish its own results while the incumbent president alpha conde is seeking a 3rd term following months of protests against the move during which Security Forces killed dozens of people. And president alpha conde has called for a free fair and transparent election. He came to power in 2010 as an opposition candidate in guineas 1st democratic election since independence from france in 1000 or 58 back then his win was seen as a break from decades of authoritarian rule but now critics are accusing conde of varying towards authoritarianism himself. This year the 86 year old president pushed through a controversial new constitution that allowed him to stand for us in office. Oh. Mass protests against the move left dozens of people dead in a Security Forces crackdown. On.
Damage assessment economists expected payroll reports to show 22 million job losses, taking unemployment levels to their highest since the 1940s. Neel kashkari says the impact will be devastating. And customer orders slump. We speak to the ceo. Lots still ahead in the trading day. We will talk about siemens numbers and the lack of visibility. We also get plenty of analysis for the jobs report which we expect to see later today. With that in mind, lets take a look at futures. It seems we have found plenty of reason to be cheerful this friday. We will not have any trading in london because it is a Public Holiday, but we have plenty of positive trading coming in from the Asian Session and indeed, in the futures, we see that reflected. Futures point higher by around 1. 3 while european futures, where we see moves to the upside. Euro stocks futures up by a similar amount. Of focus on reopening, which seems to be taking place or being planned for in various parts of europe and in some cases
Parts here today. Some are literal. The princess cruise ship is one. Theyre watching throughout the day as it makes its way to the port of oakland. It is supposed to dock around 3 00 this afternoon. Well talk about that, oil off the bat with our buddy phil flynn out in chicago, price futures group, senior strategist at cme. We talked about it last week, phil. You and i were going back and forth about russia and saudi arabia. Now we have the true price war breaking out that has consequences in places like texas and north dakota. Take us through what youre thinking about today . What im thinking about is were learning today, not always is a low price for oil good for everything. There is concerns for banks, oil producers, the general overall market. Having said that, there is some hope, you know, right now with the talks of stimulus. Maybe we can pull off the lows right now. There are old saying in the business low prices cure low prices but this breakup of opec and russia, this opec plu
Violence and unrest as protesters in hong kong begin the new year with another massive march demanding greater political freedom. Supporters and members of an iran backed group of withdrawing from the u. S. Embassy compound in the iraqi capital baghdad after 2 days see each of americas biggest Diplomatic Mission leaders of the Popular Mobilization forces ordered them to leave but theres a condition they want to Iraqs Parliament to vote on our timeline for the withdrawal of Foreign Forces the protesters are angry about sundays airstrikes by the u. S. On the hezbollah brigades camps that killed at least 27 people now earlier on weapons day the crowds threw rocks and looked fires outside the comp. Irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has also condemned the u. S. Strikes and warned tehran will defend itself if threatened the u. S. Dispatched an extra 750. 00 troops to the region following the protests President Donald Trump threatened to retaliate against iran said later he didnt wa