A cease fire deal in geneva the biggest step yet towards peace after nearly a decade of war. I appeal to all stakeholders and regional actors due respect to provisions of the ceasefire agreement and ensured its implementation we dont delay. And Foreign Ministers of mania and azerbaijan meet separately with the u. S. Secretary of state to defuse tensions over in a going to cut about. The breaking news this friday is that sudan has become the latest country to normalize its ties with israel under a deal brokered by the United States president made the announcement from the white house few hours ago the 3rd such deal in just 2 months remember previous the United Arab Emirates and behind agreed to normalize their ties with israel earlier this week a deal was also struck to remove sudan from the list of state sponsors of terrorism. And they wanted to do a deal and that was it particularly nice because they essentially bettered war with israel for. A long time i dont know if it was fighting
A boy caught in the votes and calling for civil disobedience in farewell to the original double 07 the scottish actor so sean connery has died at the age of 19. And in sport tennis world number one Novak Djokovic has suffered a shop defeat in vienna the serbian star was knocked out in the quarterfinals by a player ranked more than 40 places below head. But 1st to turkey were rescue workers are still searching for survivors in the city it is mere after a powerful earthquake parts of greece also felt the effects of the magnitude 7 quake on the aegean sea at least 28 people in or have been killed and hundreds more injured simcoe see all the reports from the city it is mere. This is the aftermath of a magnitude 7. 0 earthquake. Many buildings and as her province collapse within seconds killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds others were buried alive this woman was pulled out of the rubble 17 hours after the earthquake. There are similar stories throughout our province. Here a mother
I do want to talk about the resiliency of american corporations to adapt and adjust , whether it was Johnson Johnson a bit ago, the seven could jillian dollars the seven gajillion dollars at blackrock. Thenow the story, executable excellence we are seeing in the statistics. It is going to be fascinating. Jonathan it might be too early to say the gloom of pandemic is behind us, but it might be time that we talk about the provision build of these banks. The number comes in at 611 million. I think that is the positive out of this Earnings Report this morning. Talkednali basak really about that being a key statistic, and it is better than good. I go back 10 minutes ago, the idea that they suspended share buybacks, and yet theyve got enormous Free Cash Flow available for Dividend Growth and maybe some share repurchase. Granted, youve got the mystery of what commercial real estate is going to do. Jonathan i imagine their Capital Return Program will change drastically in about 12 months time.
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On china. Sources say curbs on jack mas group over concerns on National Security. Shery we are getting south koreas current account balance numbers and the surplus right now narrowing the month of august from july, coming in at 6. 56 billion. This is a little bit of a narrowing from that 7. 5 billion we saw in the month of july. The balance widening. The surplus coming in at 7. 0 2 7. 02on dollars and billion dollars and this is widening from the previous month. When it comes to export numbers, we have seen the plunge easing a little bit and in september, south koreas exports rising for the first time in seven months and we are seeing the goods balance surplus widening a little bit, haidi. Haidi take a look at the open we are setting up in the first few minutes of trade here in australia. We have seen that bounce following the super expansionary budget that was delivered this week by the federal government. The asx in the previous session closing at a one month high on those budget exp