Fascinating yet the general consensus rightly so was that a lot of what he said was completely sort of you know out of kilter with reality and with the truth there was happened in south africa but actually his purpose of appearing there was ultimately political and was focused within the a. N. C. And on those terms actually i think he was quite successful in terms of driving a wedge was his desire inside the party and so i think you have to treat him very carefully and ultimately a lot of this stuff is internally focused within the a. N. C. And that internal focus means that they can be distractions from dealing with some of the big issues the structural forms yes so hes exactly great to talk to pisa many thanks for being with us and counting the cost of. The rock imports 12000000000. 00 worth of iranian gas and goods every year while baghdad has a 3 month waiver from washington to continue buying iranian exports that are concerns about the Economic Impact for both nations once sanctio
Forcing people to cross the border in the hunt for jobs. South africa has a problem some of its biggest state owned companies pose a threat to the economy due to the huge debts chief executives have resigned frustrated by red tape or have been fired due to corruption and president still run oppose the recently won another term with the help of powerful unions has shelved plans to fix Problem Companies now if the state was to step in to bail out 2 of the biggest firms Power Company eskom imports operator transnet Government Debt would shoot up from 57 percent to 68 percent of g. D. P. Escolar said it doesnt need a 3rd of its 48000. 00 employees and for unions and ram opposed the thats a problem south africas Unemployment Rate is at 27 percent with or without a bailout power blackouts in march were behind south africas economy contract in the 1st 3 month. Of the year eskom has been given an extra 4900000000. 00 to keep operating and to pay down some of its debts trance that which runs th
It safe. And paying the highest price the killing of hundreds of human rights defenders and colombia sparks worldwide outrage. Hello again welcome back well we are going to seem plenty of rain over the next couple days here across much of the philippines and if you look at the satellite image its really the philippines that has had rain over the last 24 hours so that will continue anywhere from the Northern Areas down towards the south so manila expect to see heavy rain in your forecast attempt to there of 31. 00 degrees here on sunday coming down a little bit but really the rain expands across much of the region drier down here towards the south and scattered showers over here towards the west and singapore we do expect to see a rain shower in the afternoon when the temps are there of 32 degrees what here across much of australia we have one system entering the tasman sea another system is pushing across the bite and here across much of the east in the southeast were going to see High
Two americans facing each other. Venus williams against cori gauff, who is just 15 years old, the youngest woman to qualify for the main draw in the open era. She said its a dream to face one of her idols, now she gets the chance to do just that. Those are some of our stories on this monday, july 1st. Good monday morning. Happy july 1st. We made it. July. July. My goodness. The countdown to christmas. Oh. All right. Do you want to know what july 1st is . What, the beginning of your birthday month. Yeah, she knows. You know we like to celebrate all month. Yeah. Let the celebrations start. Thank you for joining us this morning. We do begin this half hour on the campaign trail where rival 2020 candidates are jumping to the defense of senator Kamala Harris. The democrats are slamming donald trump jr. Over a tweet questioning harris racial identity, calling it racist and unacceptable, blaming it on the same forces behind birtherism, used to spread lies about president obamas citizenship. Ra
All coming after the markets are coming off a very strong month of june. For the dow, it was the best june performance in over 80 years. You have to go back to 1938 for the month. The dow was up by 7. 2 s p was up by 6. 9 for the month that is its best performance since 1955 and the nasdaq was up by 6. 9 and thats its best performance since the year 2000. Taking a look at what happened overnight in asia, hong kong was closed for a Public Holiday but those markets that were open also up very sharply on again, this idea that trade talks are back on. The nikkei was up by 2. 1 . Shanghai composite up by 2. 25 europe this morning where early trading is taking place, youre going to see green arrows across the board there as well. Biggest gainer looks like the dx ax up by 1. 25 finally check out u. S. Treasury yields on friday we actually fell below 2 for the tenyear briefly. I think we closed right at 2. 0 . Ten year is yielding 2. 01 . Getting to all the weekend news President Trump returni