Come on and address members of the media to tell us what is going on. She has not been seen for quite a few days. Nikkei to 25 decline of 2 . Seng, the worst run of losses we have seen since the hangover. Lets get to the currencies because the trade war is certainly having an impact the yen seen as a haven trade once again. Appreciating to 106. It at thee to see moment. Korean yuan continues its fall back as well. For thet below 1200 First Time Since january 2017. Trade tensions not between just china and the u. S. But south korea and japan taking its toll. Cny, the seven handle being breached. Gain of 1. 1 . We see the dollar index actually flat. David our top story right now, the latest on what is happening in hong kong. General strike today. Flights already cancel. A couple disruptions for public transport. Over the weekend, the city witnessed more violent protests clashed with police. Warnedthe other thing, that beijing will not let the unrest continue. Sophie kamaruddin is at the
A negotiation. After days of unrest tens of thousands of iranians rally in support of the government. North korea tests its hotline with south korea ahead of talks designed to ease tensions on the peninsula. And whats believed to be michelangelos First Painting now on display in the. U. S. President is threatening to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority and a tweet donald trump asked why the u. S. Should pay palestinians when they dont want to talk peace or show respect to the United States they also tweeted that he had taken truce off the negotiating table from bangor palestinians last month by recognizing jerusalem as israels capital his latest weight contrast with one last month in which he said he had not taken a position on final status issues palestinians insist occupied East Jerusalem should be the capital of the future state in a series of tweets the Palestinian Liberation Organization has responded to Donald Trumps threat saying this the Palestinian People will not be blackmai
From around the world and the United Nations a group which has looked at the Palestinian Refugees the decades also on the great another small step in relations between north and south korea for the first time in two years north korea has reopened communication inside the Demilitarized Zone which separates the and there are now government talks planned for next week and off the six days of antigovernment protests in iran the Government Support has come out in the thousands to condemn the violence that has wrestled with twenty people dead. Trains taxis and universities are at a standstill in parts of india as its lowest cast the ballots and demonstrate against violence we have reaction from the protesters and from those fresh treated by the boom in traffic harding connected us with a hash tag. Youre with the news on air and streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and at aljazeera dot com. And for the third day running we have seen another blow to whatevers left of the middle east
Access to anything that hooks up to the internet and make it look like its coming from some place its not. Bill and some conservatives balking at the new plan and detail are open for negotiation. With members of the senate, members of the house and stake holders across the land and weve gotten to a sweet spot. This is a work in progress and continues to be so. Shannon senior counselor to President Trump Kellyanne Conway and first well kick it off with john roberts. Good morning to you. On the issue of the cia leak and what came out on wikileaks the white house dont even want to acknowledge the idea like that could be true because it could be bad on a number of fronts with the sensitive tools intelligence uses to gather information in the Public Domain and the idea that we heard about some of the spy agencies targeting americans and could that be going on. The cia for its part not saying much about this today in a statement only saying, quote, the cia has no comment on the authenticity
The story broke in the New York Times, the headlines. Here are two key passages from the reporting. Quote, the discussions came as the special counsel was building cases against both men and raising questions about whether the lawyer dowd was offering pardons. The report continues, quote, the talks suggest that mr. Trumps lawyers were concerned about what mr. Flynn and mr. Manafort might reveal were they to cut a deal. The Washington Post has more of a time frame. And what else was dowd doing right about that time . Keeping him honest, he was denying what he was doing what the times and the post reported he was doing. Take a look at cnns coverage from july 20th of last year. Taking a look at issues related to pardoning potentially his aides and family members if necessary. Even inquired about the ability to pardon himself. The president s lawyers called that reporting nonsense. Now at the time the post reporting did not mention floating the prospect of pardons. Quote, there is nothing