Welcome to the program a protest votes come through loud and clear in hong kong prodemocracy candidates have won an overwhelming majority in Council Elections that are successful as months of demonstrations against increasing chinese influence but its prompted chief executive kerry lamb to promise that shell listen humbly sarah clarke begins our coverage. As dawn broke hong kong went to a new Political Landscape more than 70 percent of voters cast their ballots in sundays district Council Elections the prodemocracy party secured a Record Number of seats a lot of people actually sacrificed a lot of suffering but they suffered a lot in the last 6 months to to actually get this result and i think people are very. Theyre so united and they are so together to try to actually try to win something joshua one was disqualified for running but his party claimed victory in his electorate unseating the incumbent post councilor remarkable achievement in that this election is the efforts of callers
Reach thousands of people in desperate need of help. A 1000000000. 00 jewelry collection described as unique and priceless stolen from a german museum. We begin with breaking news in the democratic republic of congo u. N. Peacekeepers of fired live rounds as thousands of protesters stormed the u. N. Base in the town of benny 2 people have been killed in the unrest the u. N. Denies its forces were responsible and is now calling for calm the protesters are angry about an increasing number of attacks by rebels in the area the city appears to be in lockdown and gun shots have been heard earlier at least 8 people were killed in an overnight assault blamed on a rebel Group Calling itself the allied Democratic Forces the government says its going to conduct joint operations with peacekeepers against the brick walls in the area well al jazeera producer ally and your county is on the line now from benny where the protests are continuing and when we talk about the protests continuing its several
Pressure well dig into that. Power lunch starts right now welcome to power lunch stocks are at record highs the dow back above 28,000. 28,012 right now while the s p and nasdaq notch new records check out some of the new names hitting highs today. Jpmorgan and fresh records there while General Electric is at its highest level. Melissa. Driven by merger mania. A market responding positively to a flurry of deals this monday starting with Charles Schwab just one month after both brokerages eliminated commissions and a luxury you have lvmh growing its empire with tiffanys, 16 billion. Also a way to increase its exposure to china. Ebay is stelling stub hub. In total, four big deals, 56 billion in deals announced just today. Theres a common thread. First lower rates to take out debt to fund these acquisitions. Third, the prospect of an Elizabeth Warren presidency. Thats enough for a reason for some of these companies to put money to work now versus later were looking at the s p at a new high
Theyre being build as an early test as how the impeachment inquiry ayg with voters. The races in mississippi and other states have captured attention. Virginia theyre two seats away, the democrats are away from taking the legislature. The top Election Security officials are focused on next years election and the on going threat if foreign interference. Chris reaves run the new cybersecurity agency. He has rare access of a classified area where theyre monitoring for online threats. The scenario that worries him is the cyber attack that causes members in election offices. What are our fall back positions. Were working on that now. And theyre making sure every electronic vote is backed one a paperwork. We have you covered on the election day. Well bring up the results and action on air as we get it and online, kpix. Com. Pg e faces wildfire liability and bankruptcy. Mayors from the bay area to San Francisco are campaigning for a buyout. This is for Public Ownership. Teams are sending this
Climbing ill tell you how its done. Market reached unheard of levels by triumphing over the concerns that caused Money Managers to stay on the sidelines to buy lower prices often hear we climb a wall of worry to get to exhausted levels but today we just didnt scale a wall but beached and busted through mine fields, force fields and cauldrons of boiling oil. This is a quite bull market. Tonight i want to go over obstacles weve overcome amazing list, outside of president on twitter seems to be celebrating is down. Challenges conquered thats a graphic obstacle number one, impeachment. I told you wouldnt matter to stock market based on bill clinton. Buying opportunity, not selling. But sitting president incredibly pro business and House Democrats are trying to take him down and stock market is ignoring whole process, maybe should impeach all president s works out for the averages obstacle number two, recession fears. Job growth is still robust versus the historical norm but over the summer