Aljazeera. And on the. Roof. I dont at all watching aljazeera thats for money about top stories this hour george fords calls and has arrived at the fountain of praise church and his hometown of houston where people have been gathering to attend his funeral his death in Police Custody sparked 2 weeks of protests across the u. S. And around the while. Hundreds of people have also gathered to pay their last respects to floyd in minneapolis the city where he died. And burundis president has died at the age of 55. 00 a government statement says he died of a homes attack on monday he was due to step down and organist off to the recent president ial election. Well lets take you back to houston now and the fountain of praise church where as you can see the beginnings of the funeral of george floyd are currently underway a large number of people have arrived we did see the reverend al sharpton walk in with George Floyds family now u. S. President ial democratic hopeful joe biden will not be att
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The journey are diplomatic editor james bays reports. They see men women and children fleeing bloodshed. And the torching of homes in myanmar they made it onto a boat taking them across the water to bangladesh only for the vessel to sink this tragedy the Un Security Council was told a result of a massive flow of people over half a million in about a month the situation is spittles into the worlds fastest developing refugee emergency and a humanitarian and human rights nightmare. The trumpet ministrations policy towards me and maher change sharply jurong this meeting with u. S. Ambassador nikki haley demanding the prosecution of members of the meon ma military and the suspension of all arms sales to the country we cannot be afraid to call the actions of the burmese authorities what they appear to be a brutal sustained campaign to cleanse the country of an ethnic minority having heard those scathing comments as National Security adviser gave his response there is no ethnic cleansing and
Chief executive says entertainment is key driver in sonys future growth. Heres our top stories. Trading day getting underway in hong kong and china and about 30 minutes. Lumpur,e, taipei, kuala entering the fray. Heres whats happening so far. Decision day. Going into meeting later on this week, not expecting big moves from the governor. We know he is capable. Still some uncertainty when it comes to sentiment in market. Some pressure in terms of expectations. Boj cutting outlook when it comes to japanese exports. Economy outside chance that we could get a move from bank of japan. The nikkei has been swinging all morning. Pretty light volumes in consideration of where we have been. Australia giving back all of the gains from monday session. Down half a percent. New zealand stocks going strong. 12 straight day of gains. In terms of markets, a little bit of weakness from malaysia down 2 10 of a percent. Having said that, singapore stock coming online a little bit stronger. Some of the move
Were on the red carpet. Finalist in poetry, young adult literature, nonfiction, and fiction books, and of course being booktv, we focus on the nonfiction. We want to let you know who some of the nine fiction finalist are. Domingo martinez, his book is boy kings of texas. His fourth volume on the lbj legacy, and robert caro appeared on q a and at the National Book festival in september. The late Anthony Shadid has been nominated. He died in syria while covering syria for the Washington Post. His wife will be here representing him, and thats nada bachary. Katherine boo has been nominated, behind the beautiful forever, about mumbai, and Anne Applebaum has a book out and is scheduled on our q a show in september. So well be interviewing those authors as we go. Well be watching the red carpet here as some of the authors have their picture taken. Right now we want to talk to the chairman of the National Book foundation, and this is david steinberger. Mr. Steinbergers is also head of the beco