Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business, and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. New Research Suggests those who live alone are 40 more likely to develop dementia. Well be unpacking the findings later in this programme. Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Leaders in south korea, japan and the United States have condemned the test launching of what appears to be an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile by north korea. According to north korean state tv it flew 950 kilometres for 53 minutes while reaching an altitude of four kilometres. It claimed its latest Ballistic Missile test demonstrated that it now had the capability to strike anywhere in the United States. Joining me now is the bbcs paul adams, who is in the south korean capital seoul. Tell us about this latest test and their claim that they can now reach anywhere in the us. The test first, it came in the early hours of the morning. Relatively unusual timing for such a thing.
The hang hishanghai slightly lo. In europe, green arrows across the board. The dak x is up by 0. 4 . The cac up by 0. 3 the ftse up by 0. 2 . The dollar, which has been under so much pressure, you look and you see today the dollar sup against the euro, back below 1. 20 this morning it looks like the dollar yen is at 109. 89. Check out crude oil and gasoline prices, crude Oil Yesterday at a onemonth low. Its down once again this morning at 46. 18 rbob gasoline up nearly 6 yoed yesterday to a twoyear high of 1. 82 sits at 1. 83 this morning as we quont to watch the reficontinuec those refineries shut in with the additional rainfall. Gas prices at the pump could go up to 2. 60, 2. 70 we were thinking 4 dollars was the norm even after this, its amazing that were in a different kind of and can you believe that people that supposedly know what theyre talking about said crude would go down and gasoline would go up because youre not refining as much you get a glut of crude . A scarcity they we
Day. You can see the hang seng was down by 2 the kospi in south korea, where the closest to these concerns is located, is down by 1. 7 in europe there are also concerns playing out there the dax down by 0. 4 all the other averages down by 1 or greater. Biggest declines in spain, the market there down by 1. 4 . If you check out crude oil prices, the iea releasing a new report saying that Global Oil Demand will grow more quickly than expected this year. Thats not helping prices which are still down by 37 cents. Here are the big stories were watching shares of snap are sliding after the social Media Company reported a bigger than expected loss snap lost 16 cents a share last quarter. Revenue coming in at a lighter than expected 1 181 million the company added fewer daily active users than anticipated. Ceo evan spiegel addressed concerns on the Conference Call. We have always been last to market, competing against giant companies, weve been able to grow our business in markets that are hig
He and other p. O. W. S used to communicate. Every night they tapped out goodnight and God Bless America from their cells to each other. When you knew the man in the cell next to you was down and hurting his feet locked and ankle cuffs at the foot of the concrete slab come his hands cuffed tightly behind him, he had been like that for a week or a month, you get up to your wall frequently and you tapped to him gb and he knew that meant god bless. He knew that it also meant to be tough, hang in there. I am praying for you. And then in a week or a month or whenever hed be up on his wall to encourage you in the same way for example on the p. O. W. Flag, never forget, never forget. Never forget. We all came out of that prison experience as stronger men. In some ways it was like cramming a doctorate degree into those years in prison. I would like to leave you this morning with a p. O. W. Message. At the end of every day we would sign off and say goodnight. G anne for goodnight. Gba. God bles
Allowed to hold in formal religious services in their homes. Because if there is a one single nonofficial member of their religious community present in that apartment or house, or whatever, then they will be engaging in missionary activity. And the Russian Courts have already gone to town against several individuals in various parts of russia for engaging in russian missionary activity. One and a american baptist, mormon missionaries have been denied permission to come because they allegedly do not have the proper kind of documentation. The first was tried and acquitted is the only one that was acquitted. But anyway, with that restless, hopefully not too confusing overview of the situation, i close. Thank you. In the interest of time i want to go back to some things i want to have plenty of time for audience questions. One of the things that we talked about, all all of you have pointed to the internet, and i want to get your thoughts on that. In 2014 they also passed a bloggers law wh