Booked and swedish prosecutors say theres not enough evidence to carry on investigating and alleged rape by wiki leaks founder Julian Assange. Remains in prison in the u. K. For skipping bail and he also faces and extradition to the United States on spying charges. Im brant goff to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and around the world welcome we begin in washington on this 3rd day of impeachment hearings against u. S. President donald trump 2 senior officials 2 members of the ministry should have already testified and includes Jennifer Williams an aide to Vice President mike pence and Lieutenant Colonel alexander been a member of the National Security council both a listen and. The phone call between trump and ukraines president zelinsky back to july then men said today that the unequal bargaining position of the 2 leaders and ukraines dependence on the United States amounted to a demand from trump right to zelinsky and not was improper for the president to requestion to de
fears are raised of a recession this year. bank of england confirms its emergency bond buying system will end on thursday, despite reports could the experts ended. the court hears reports that a nurse accused. blood supplies falter critically low level in england, prompting nhs blood and transplant to have its first ever amber alert, meaning hospitals have to postpone some elective surgery. and in ukraine, the defence ministers were asking brussels to step up defence of its country so can create an air shield against russian missile attacks. . the bbc finds that donations to tick tock are being taken by the social media platform rather than given to families from syria. the prime minister has said she ll absolutely stick to her promise not to cut public spending. she was speaking at the first prime minister s questions since last month s mini budget, which provoked turmoil on the financial markets. the labour leader sir kier starmer said she should reverse what he called he
Then we speak to the ceo of one of the biggest providers, csop. Haslinda lets take you to markets, where avril hong is on top of developments. Stocks and bonds getting sold off, investors adopting a wait and see attitude. There is a lot to read through today, so bear with me, as we saw that set up from wall street. It was a pretty flat close. Today asian stocks are mostly over save for japan and china. For different reasons. In china, we have seen tech and property rebounding. Property as it scraps homebuying restrictions, and the idea that other tier two cities will follow suit. Thats also boosting the commodity iron ore, those prices ticking higher. In japan, the likes of an earnings release, and we got the news about the share buyback. Those are among the individual names lifting the japanese benchmark. But were also seeing the selloff in bonds, after a 10year treasury auction, and the yields in australia, as well as new zealand, you are seeing big moves about 6, 7 basis points. Don
But im Adrian Finnigan this is al jazeera life and also coming up israels Prime Minister is meeting Foreign Ministers of the European Union where theres widespread opposition to the u. S. Recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. Thousands protesting kiev against ukraines president about to go release of x. Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili has been jailed in the city. Plus how recession in greece led to a revolution in solar energy being that the country will meet its Climate Change talk its. Russian president Vladimir Putin has ordered a partial withdrawal of his troops from syria he made the underground stop in Latakia Province before heading to egypt putin spoke to his allies syrian president Bashar Al Assad at the home i mean airbase Russian Forces have played an Important Role in supporting army thats going on the significance of this now from our in kabul on whos the director of policy analysis of the Doha Institute hes with me here in the studio what is president putin up
Santa maria welcome to the news hour from aljazeera israels Prime Minister is missing Foreign Ministers on the European Union where there is widespread opposition to the u. S. Or recognition of jerusalem as israels capital also had venezuelas president banned the main opposition parties from taking part in next years president ial election thousands are protesting in kiev against the ukraine president demanding the release of ex georgian leading the counts saakashvili has been jailed in the city and the recession in greece led to a revolution in solar energy that means greece will meet its Climate Change targets. So israels Prime Minister has urged europe to follow washingtons lead and recognize jerusalem as his countrys capital despite the widespread e. U. Opposition Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking ahead of a meeting with e. U. Foreign ministers in brussels where he is facing pressure to restart middle east peace efforts. I believe that all or most of the group in countries will move