Hello and welcome to world news today. More than 1,000 people have been arrested in moscow, during unauthorised protests against the banning of many opposition candidates from local elections. There were scuffles as police dispersed groups of protesters, who responded with anti putin chants. The Authorities Say around 30 candidates failed to collect enough valid signatures, but the barred candidates say theyve been blocked for political reasons. From moscow, 0leg boldyrev reports. Police warned people from moscow not to come out for this unsanctioned protest but a few thousand came out anyway and soon they paid for it by being dragged into custody. The arrests were met with defiance. The police are trying to push back the protesters, who came here because the candidates they support were not allowed to participate in elections. We dont know how many people came to protest but plenty of people are angry that the candidates theyve been supporting were denied the chance to participate in
After tens of thousands march through the town where gangs attacked pro democracy activists last weekend. And we will be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, katherine forster, reporter at the sunday times, and the home editor at the london evening standard, martin bentham. Stay with us for that. Good evening. In another policy announcement, three days after becoming Prime Minister, borisjohnson has pledged to fund a new high speed rail link between leeds and manchester. He says it will turbo charge the regions and unlock jobs, boosting growth. He was speaking on a visit to the north west, with the full details of his proposals to be published in the autumn. But labour says the plans are a rehash of past failed promises from the conservatives. Our chief Political Correspondent vicki young reports from manchester. Taking his first steps as Prime Minister, borisjohnson is promising a bright, optimistic future. I wasjust thinking that it was actually the metro. But he
Propaganda,o speak but to talk about their leadership and how it has harmed iran. Matt from the german capital berlin, good morning. Nejra i want to quickly go through numbers out of renault, the french carmaker. Linyear revenue, the top e, close to last years level. Previously it saw a rise, so Renault Joins the slew of carmakers cutting back on the forecast, the outlook for the year, with slowing auto demand in europe, down 1 , down 7 in china last month. We see a global slowdown of autos, and renault is joining. We will talk to their ceo later on today, just after 9 00 a. M. This morning. Nejra . Nejra u. S. Equities yesterday fell from record highs. All 11 Industry Groups fell on the s p 500. Futures are a little higher on the s p 500, up 0. 2 . In europe, the big story was mario draghi, somewhat undoing what the ecb statement said, hinting rate cuts and more stimulus, but mario draghi says there may have been different views on the governing council, and that the risk of recession
Alphabet and amazon report. Nejra welcome to daybreak europe. It has just gone 6 00 in london. Earnings onslaught is a great way to describe it. Roche numbers are coming through. At 30. 4lf sales come in 7 billion. The estimate was 30. 53. First half core operating profit. The red headline, let me get to that. View toits sales growth mid to high single digits. Thats very interesting. Raising its sales growth view to mid to high single digit. Thats the red headline on roche. At 11. 1. Comes in the estimate was 10. 65. Thats a beat on first half core eps. Core operating profit for the first half comes in at 12. 36. The estimate was 12. 16. Theres a beat on some of the numbers. The headline you want to focus on is the fact that its raising its sales growth view to mid to high single digits. There were some pressures whether it wouldve raised guidance a second time this year. To the ceowe speak of roast. Dont miss that interview at 7 30 a. M. London time. Dani burger is standing by with th
S p up by a point. Nasdaq down by about 4 points. Overnight in asia, the nikkei up 0. 2 the hang seng up by a quarter percent. The shanghai up by a half percent. This is all ahead of those talks expected to resume next week between china and the United States when it comes to trade. This morning on the continent, in europe we will see equities for the major averages, the dax is flat. The cac is up by 0. 6 . The ftse is up by a quarter percent. In the treasury market, you can see at this point the tenyear is yielding 2. 031 well be getting a lot of earnings, big earnings movers in just a minute. First a developing story, the embattled governor of puerto rico will be stepping down on august 2nd the announcement coming late yesterday. He had been under pressure from protester force ne he had been under pressure from protester force ne for proteste nearly two weeks after chat messages were released crowds of demonstrators erupted into cheers after that announcement were looking at some ima