More than a decade after ba naz mahmods death in a so called honour killing, her sister speaks out for the first time. The moment you choose to ignore actually what happened and not talk about it, you will never get past it. And 13 years on, we still havent had that conversation. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Riot police have used pepper spray and batons during clashes with protesters in hong kong overnight, on the 22nd anniversary of its handover from british to chinese rule. The protests are the latest against a law that would allow suspected criminals to be sent to Mainland China to facejustice. Lets have a look at the live pictures from the streets of hong kong. You can see the numbers are building, there is always a dispute on at that between the protesters and the police. This is the third enormous demonstration weve seen in hong kong in the past month. The organisers typically say the figures are aroundi organisers typically say the figures are around 1 million. Th
Rally and treasury yields climbed to multiyear lows as the fed chairman opens the door to a rate cut. Today we will hear from Robert Kaplan and Charles Evans. No bluff. President trump tweets but mexico tariff threat is real. The u. S. Leader walks back on terms of potential trade deals with britain. Putting on the brakes. Renault delays in takeover talks with fiat after nissan shows resistance to the deal. Lots to talk about in the markets today. Good morning. Matt a lot to talk about indeed. Check out the treasurys trade from yesterday. It was out of control. This is a threeday chart. Spot 2. 06 to after the powell comments. If the fed is going to cut rates , i want to hold on to the higheryielding bonds i am holding out. Now we are seeing holding now. Now we are seeing yields come back down this morning. Take a look at. Futures after the biggest rally in u. S. Stocks yesterday since january 4, we now see a mixed trade in european futures. As i said, a data heavy day. That could be o
Your equity market slightly negative on the s p 500 for the second or third time this week, waking up and looking at china. To the data and commentary around that economy right now. New loans extended on chinese banks ranging to the lowest since 2009, there are concerns about what is developing in the worlds secondlargest economy. Tom you look at the income statement dynamics and the Balance Sheet statement dynamics. I agree. I believe i mentioned this the day before. The flows on the Balance Sheet in and out are what matter. This is fbi from us to them off a cliff from them to us. Maybe not a cliff, but it is down. Jonathan the data dropped in the last hour. The response clear from many on the south side. Stop gin weighing in. We will see. We have not seen it. Lisa what kind of stimulus when they are concerned about debt load in local governments . If they want to move away from leverage and create a more sustainable economy, how do they stimulate the economy where you look at these l
This morning, good morning. This is bloomberg surveillance on tv and radio. All about the bond market out there allowing the u. S. Downgrade. Some half decent jobs data and the treasury announcing a ton of supply. Yields of every single day this week. This could the board of if we can on the bond market. 10year u. K. , japan, and germany. Higher by six basis points. I wouldnt call it dramatic. Lisa it is not dramatic, the slow bleed upward has gotten new focus as we reached levels that we havent reached going back to last november. You could talk about fitch and the downgrade yesterday but a lot of people view that as an excuse to catalyze the fears of the fiscal overhang of the new borrowing schematic from the u. S. Treasury department which is bigger than people expected. This general concern that if the economy is going to recover, maybe you get a soft landing, maybe no landing. Jonathan excuse to sell or a reason to sell . Lisa it was an excuse to sell for people who werent necessa
in england, scotland and wales a new report shows that nursery now costs almost £15,000 for the youngest children. protesters in israel prepare for another day of mass demonstrations against proposed reforms to the judicial system. weather warnings for heavy snow in central and northern england. the cold conditions are expected to last until the weekend. hello. this is bbc news. a warm welcome to viewers here in the uk and right around the world including thosejoining us on pbs america. ukraine says russia has fired at least 80 missiles at targets across the country, as part of an overnight bombardment the most significant wave of attacks since the anniversary of the invasion was marked two weeks ago. the targets were across ukraine, from kharkiv in the north to 0desa in the south. at least three people are reported dead in kherson. president zelensky in a statement on telegram said ten regions in all had been hit. he added that russia would not avoid responsibility.