Lavongo on their merger and the first companys earnings report. David has news on microsoft and tiktok. Want to continue to update a story were following closely given we have not seen anything like it. Tiktok the incredibly popular social media app in the u. S. And around the world, bytedance its owner, the u. S. Government saying we will shut tiktok down in the u. S. Unless you find a way to transfer all of it to u. S. Ownership and microsoft playing the role as potentially the only suitor for the business i wanted to bring everybody up to date on new reporting that ive got because it is interesting. Both sides right now, bytedance and microsoft and of course the u. S. Government is still very much involved in this as well are negotiating to try to reach some sort of an agreement under which microsoft would buy the u. S. Business of texas toks u. S. Bit from bytedance within the next two to three weeks. That seems to be what theyre hoping for in terms of a timeline obviously in these
The u. K. Considers new curves in london. The rda prepares to meet with melbourne again in lockdown. Pam braces for more economic gloom with First Quarter growth data. We are expecting a steeper downward revision. Lets get a check of where mark were markets are setting up. Here Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Here is Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong. Sophie a cautious start to the month of august after asian stocks have a fourth monthly gain. We are seeing sp Futures Holding steady and looking like a soft start to this trading week. Gold futures testing 2000, bouillon extending its rise after the best month in four years while u. S. Real yields lingered near record lows. Money managers are shifting gears a touch, decreasing the bullish gold bets to a six week low at the end of july. In the forex space, looking steady with offshore yuan staying below seven. We have the aussie dollar easing its earlier drop as investors assess the lockdown in victoria state. With a earning stock, we have t
Sends a very clear message on behalf of the british people those with blood on their hands the thugs of despots the henchmen of dictators who will not be free to once into this country to buy a property on the kings or a kings right to do their Christmas Shopping in knightsbridge or frankly to siphon dirty money through british banks rather Financial Institutions the new regime of sanctions targets 49 individuals and organizations from russia saudi arabia me and ma and north korea designed to encourage better behavior. The sanctions talk at those at the heart of Russias Interior Ministry such as a leg to chang call accused of being responsible for the death of a magnitsky the russian lawyer arrested after alleging that russian officials were involved in large scale tax fraud and who died in prison also sanctioned all those who were involved in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi including Saeed Abdullah al qahtani a senior advisors of the crown Prince Mohammed bin sajjan and the senior offi
Had a fever that raged 38 degrees thousands of protesters have tried to storm serbias parliament angry about tough coronavirus restrictions president alexandrovitch put a weekend curfew back in place after the countrys worst day of the pandemic with 13 deaths alexy obrien reports. Prices does in place beso on the streets around say be as parliament was i. Tried to storm the building some briefly managing to get inside before being pushed back. Theyre angry at president aleksander of the church and his decision to reimpose coronavirus restrictions. Some chanted calling him a thing. This demanded his resignation the government signed for the 2nd time. Put the seat. To impose current did for each. County. Its a responsibility because of the mistakes. The mistake they say was lifting what was one of europes strictest lockdowns. We gathered here to protest because our president lifted the state of emergency because of the election and now he wants to impose it again critics say the presiden
Expand testing in fact its tested 10000000 people testing 300 every day and what the worst hit states are doing is that they continue to test more people. And their facilities here and. The results of the. Spread the virus we also heard from delhis chief minister a few hours ago and he was positive about the situation despite the fact that delhi has reached nearly 100000. 00 cases and thats because he says that only a 3rd of the regions 15000 beds a currently in use do you remember a few weeks ago delhi had a real problem. But he says that most people are recovering at home having said that he pleaded with those who. Think that the worst hit cities are doing is they really. As a way of treating patients and so people are trying to the government states are trying to deal with this by expanding testing expanding facilities but you can also see behind me im at. One of the most popular tourist sites in the country on the 1st day that monuments around the country have been allowed to open