Steeper falls on this but this is still early doors with what is going on with the benchmarks. Certainly what we also have going on is the treasury market as well. Seen a bit of the paring of the gains we have seen. Yields moving slightly to the upside. 1. 71 or thereabouts on that. Looking at futures. Flat for the s p on the futures. Lending a little bit of support. Cnh pretty much on move, we could see a gradually could get weaker. The offshore yuan 7. 07. Looking at sterling, we have 1. 30. Ver we have continued polls coming out suggesting the conservative well, boris johnson, did with the majority after the december 12 election. Thats what we have at the moment. Lets go to new york and join su keenan. Su we start with President Trump who is done a you turn on nato switching 180 degrees from his criticism to claiming credit for strengthening the alliance. Trump was especially vocal on efense spendingspens complaining that washington bears the burden for your safety. He warns nato me
Admired around the world for his wit and humour, has died at the age of 80. Good morning. It is 9 00am in singapore, 1 00am in the morning in london and 8 00pm in washington, where President Trump has signed into law legislation backing protesters in hong kong. The law has been passed by both houses of congress, but until late on wednesday, the president had no shown huge enthusiasm for the bill. He said he had respect for chinas president , xijinping, and was sure he would resolve the situation. But now, he has signed. So what difference does this make . Joining me now, ben bland, a Research Fellow and director of South East Asia project at Lowy Institute in sydney. Thank at Lowy Institute in sydney. You so much forjoinin tell thank you so much forjoining us. Tell us how significant that President Trump signed this bill, and what does it really mean for the Pro Democracy Movement in hong kong . This is a really big, symbolic victory for the Democracy Movement in hong kong. Activists h
I just wanted to mention a couple of special guests. We have our distinguished speaker this evening, i wanted to mention a couple of special guests. We have our distinguished speakers daughter here and her husband. We have betsy hewitt, the wife of newly elected hugh hewitt. Our distinguished speaker was to dr. Kissinger as dr. Kissinger was to nixon. He was with dr. Kissinger during the peace accords in 1973. He was with president nixon in moscow during his first president ial trip there. He was there for kissingers shuttles between arabs and israelis. He was a key actor in president nixons historic trip to china. He was state Department Director of policy and planning, ambassador to the peoples republic of china and assistant secretary of state for South East Asia and Pacific Affairs part he conducted several hours of oral histories of dr. Kissinger on behalf of the Nixon Foundation. He conducted several hours of oral history on behalf of the Nixon Foundation and the collection of in
Camps in western china are used to brainwash the muslim uighur minority. The billionaire former mayor of new york Michael Bloomberg announces he wants to run for us president as a democrat. Good morning. It is 1 00am in london, 8 00pm in new york and 9 00am it is 1 00am in london, here in hong kong, where the pro democracy parties are on course for an overwhelming landslide victory in local elections. With about half the vote counted, the pro democracy camps have won seven seats for every one held by parties backing the government. These are only local District Council elections, but this is a huge vote of support for the protest movement, after almost six months of often violent demonstrations that have brought this city to a standstill. Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports. In the Eastern District of Hong Kong Island this morning, the queue to vote at the shau kei wan polling station went on and on and on. Were seeing queues like this in districts all over hong kong today, people waiting f
Theres plenty more on our website thats bbc. Co. Uk news and on the bbc news app. Now its live to singapore for Asia Business report. Gubera disappointing. Shares are down after the latest earnings fell short of expectations. The us commerce secretary visits indonesia with a delegation of senior us business executives. Hello, and welcome to Asia Business report. Im sharanjit leyl. Welcome to Asia Business report. Im shara njit leyl. We welcome to Asia Business report. Im sharanjit leyl. We begin with uber because the rolled hailing doesnt ride hailing firm missed its expectations for monthly active users. While Street Investors are pleased with the numbers with shares following 5 in extended trading. This mirror has seen has more from new york. Does make filing. I think the biggest headline now is over 1 billion in losses for the quarter. That is a huge amount of money that the company has lost in the last three months. And if you look at the same time last year, we saw that that numbe