The ad. You were watching from around the world. Friday it will for your info and to hit and run when they do so much for joining us. We begin with confirmation of a widely expected move by japan that grows more cold water on the struggling korea japan relationship improved and you risk textbooks that claim koreas coco islands and its new diplomatic blue paper shows no movement on the wartime sexual slavery issue of Foreign Affairs correspondent of how he reports and how these measures may have re some of the gains from last months summit talks in tokyo and washington. Eight out of twelve texted that will be used in japanese Elementary Schools starting next spring will falsely state that for mystical island is part of the pack. And the eight expats approved by the Japanese Education Ministry friday. Six acre bn is illegally occupying local known as tacky she met a japanese auntie Kerry Max Beck mark the island as japanese territory though it is physically closer to parity and the body
Are in the works for sears according to ceo Eddie Lampert who is attempting to turnaround business. Disney easily tops wall street earnings estimates stocks slide as investors rotate out of tech and more. On light volume the dow fell 130 points on selling in banks. The nasdaq slipped 57 points as twitter and yelp dropped dramatically. And the s p closed down 17 points. Gold and oil were just about flat on the day. Larry shover of sfg alternatives joins us on this wednesday morning. What do you think . Will janet yellen, the fed chair be a market mover today . I dont think shell be a mover today. Shes got two days to speak today. Thursdayi do believe she understands that the market is just depending on her to stabilize the marketand i think thats what shell do. I dont think shell reiterate anything other than were data dependent, we continue to watch the inflation and jobs reports. Disney had Earnings Report last night that topped expectations. Will that move the dow . I think it will.
But thanks to clever marketing on the part of the retail giant alibaba in china it is now the countrys biggest shopping event. And its likely to be the worlds biggest retail event. Aliba ba created singles day 2009, and it has grown bigger every year. In fact, sales increased by 35 every year for the past five years. Just to give you an idea of how big a deal this is, last year, singles day generated 8 times more sales than the us led black friday event which traditionally marks the start of the Christmas Shopping season with over 38 billion dollars in sales injust one day. Joining us now from shanghi is robin brant. Lots of people have been buying and they have been doing so for the last 13 and a half hours. This event is huge and the figures, some of which you mentioned, are mind blowing. It is the biggest retail event and one figure i have seen today encapsulates it all. It says that at its peak today there will be 580,000 separate sales per second. Per second. And they are expectin
Three weeks after his 100th birthday hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First, india and bangladesh are on high alert as we come on air. Theyre evacuating milions of people from the bay of bengal as one of the biggest cyclones in 20 years, powers towards them. Cyclone umpun is expected to make landfall later on wednesday. With winds of up to 185 kilometres an hour set to wreak havok on the region, as it still grapples with the coronavirus outbreak. There are fears that those fleeing the cyclone could end up spreading covid 19. Also on the programme the World Health Organization has it is still an extremely severe cyclonic storm, and it has the potential to cause devastating impacts across parts of northeastern states of india and also bangladesh. Notjust due to the strength of the winds and the huge storm surge across low lying areas of 4 5 metres high, but its the flooding r
Hello, im ros atkins, welcome to outside source. Scientists here in london have begun human trials of a revolutionary vaccine against the coronavirus. A team at Imperial College are working at record speed. If it works, the vaccine could be mass produced. It means that we can make the equivalent of 2 million doses in the volume of a litre. Imagine a litre bottle of lemonade, that would have 2 million doses in it. As india reports 16,000 new cases of coronavirus in the past 2a hours, we get exclusive access to an intensive care unit in one of mumbais top hospitals. More than 100,000 people have now died from covid i9 in latin america, with over half of those deaths, in brazil. A Us Appeals Court orders a federal judge to drop the criminal case against President Trumps former National Security adviser, Michael Flynn. There is only one guaranteed way to get out of the coronavirus pandemic and that is a vaccine. And the bbc has been given exclusive access to human trials of a vaccine being