Before 1492 before columbus is journey to the americas the ocean as a broad portion of the world surface as a as a major space that figured into our sense of the globe really wasnt there in the middle ages the world was thought to be a single large landmass a veritable mega continent without ocean. So the ocean really plays no role at all except to show a limit the ocean shows the limit of society and shows the limits of actually of gods kingdom of the kingdom on earth to the east beyond the Ocean Clay Eden lay that the Promised Land lay heaven beyond that there was really nothing baptist. For most of Human History the oceans were projection screens for the imagination and unexplored and irrepressible loved my. Area a place of terror. Despite its dangers the ocean became more and more important over the centuries. As global trade developed merchant fleet is transformed the oceans into vast shipping lanes people from past centuries would never have dreamed of laying claim to the ocean f
Impersonator of americas youngest ever congresswoman deletes her social media accounts after reportedly receiving Death Threats from supporters of alexander a concert. Youre watching are to international bring you your live news update from our studio here and moscow welcome to the program. Britains Defense Ministry has launched an investigation into why and how a trove of top secret documents apparently ended up in a trash bin in london it comes as a huge embarrassment for the u. K. s top secret chemical weapons facility porton down from where the thousands of files originated playbook reports. One mans trash another journalists treasure in this case it is quite an extraordinary story the daily star newspaper big splash on it today they say they were alerted to this trove of documents found in a bin by a member of the public last week and this secret files were dumped in a north london we leave in a receipt killing bin to be precise the kind that sort of stands out on the street outsi
Paul good morning and welcome to daybreak australia. I am paul allen in sydney. Annabelle i am Annabelle Droulers in hong kong. We are counting down to asias major market opens. Shery good evening from bloombergs World Headquarters in new york, i am shery ahn. The top stories this hour. Takes birthday in two weeks helps u. S. Stocks again as treasury yields go higher and argentinian experts in freefall as a government deals with the political outsiders shaking up the election race. Chinas property prices affecting the listed industry. Shery we meet a man who could be taiwans next president. He tells us exclusively how he plans to reassure voters and maintain peace. U. S. Futures coming online slightly higher in the asian session. This, of course, after we saw u. S. Major benchmarks gain ground, tech leading the gains. It was a lowvolume session, not surprising given that august is a slow month, but a small tin can make a big difference. The russell 2000 of smaller stocks fall into a on
Good evening, thank you forjoining us tonight. 41 people have died after their small boat capsized as they were trying to make the crossing from tunisia to italy, the latest in a string of tragic incidents in the mediterranean. Joining me on our panel for the next hour is the political Sketch Writer tom peck and victoria coates, former Senior Energy adviser to the trump administration. Also on the programme, joe biden is expected to issue an Executive Order banning Private Equity and Venture Capital investments in some Chinese Technology companies, escalating washingtons efforts to Prevent Beijing from developing Cutting Edge Technology for its military. Well get reaction from two congressmen that sit on the select committee on china. Its been one year Sincejoe Biden launched his plan to boost the Us Semiconductor industry. We will check in with a member of the chips team to see if the promises have been met. And if you are the type of person struggling to get in your 10,000 steps a da
Jacket this morning. But hopefully by this afternoon to be a lot better. John. Absolutely. Yet that sunshine is already warming us up slowly. Its still cool and jacket where the per share, but well get to some really nice feeling weather later on today. Looking behind me, San Francisco. Nice and clear and your view from the east bay hills. Just a sunny and clear right now without a cloud in the sky on the horizon. Temperatures back in the 40s to more and more 50s now oakland sitting at 52 pittsburgh, brentwood also in the 50s santa rosa. Fell to the 30s earlier. Now youre at 50 48 degrees. As for the rest of the day today, we will see those frost advisories expiring but going right back into effect tonight into tomorrow morning. We have several more cold evenings ahead of us. So do anticipate that today and tomorrow are going to be comfortable and dry afternoons before next, chance of rain and mountain snow all get to that. Your full forecast rain. All right, john, lets get moving here