to break the vicious cycle also coming up hopes of finding more survivors in a drawn fade off to sunday s earthquake there on declares a day of national mourning for the more than four hundred people who were killed in the disaster. and u.s. present donald trump waves goodbye to asia i ll just try to detour of the region and take a look at the highs and the lows of his whirlwind diplomatic efforts. on a woman will continue i m. it s a story that has provoked outrage here in germany public broadcasters i.d.f. says security workers at a refugee shelter in berlin in fact several shelters have set up prostitution rings that prey on refugees the investigative report by the program from tile twenty one found guards were grooming young refugees to become prostitutes and making money out of the sordid business. it s dusk into your garden berlin s biggest park. young men are sitting around waiting to be approached by older german men. to learn more about this scene a pakistani reporte
programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. and you can be part of the conversation today. we are asking for your reaction to the da vinci frenzy the 500 year old painting sold for $400 million, smashing all records. are you amazed or appalled? is it worth it or wealth gone mad? your comments to hashtag #bbcthebriefing. we start the programme in zimbabwe. south africa s defence and state security ministers have arrived in the country, and they now hope to hold talks with president mugabe and army leaders, following the military‘s seizure of power. mr mugabe remains under house arrest, although the military says he is safe. it denies staging a coup, instead claiming to be acting against criminals surrounding the president. the african union has demanded an immediate return to constitutional order. 0ur correspondent anne soy joins me now from zimbabwe. we ve heard that there s a calm but tense atmosphere on the streets of zimbabwe s
existing us home sales falling. we are all in the green. .4%.&p 500 up oil is also moving higher for the second day in a row. let s go into my bloomberg terminal. energy is the biggest gainer up by 1.75%. and part of the trend has to do with energy. but are not 100% correlated they do move in tandem lately. ramy: they have been moving quite closely. the fall in oil has had a knock on effect. nymex crude is pretty much at session highs. it looks like traders are looking ahead to tomorrow when the eia releases its latest inventory report. inventoriesting likely rose one million barrels last week. morgan stanley said, not so fast, a rebalancing might not happen until 2017. as oil rises, oil stocks are getting a boost. by 1.3% breaking a three-day fall. and apple is falling today. .13%.now down bylowered its price target five dollars because of production cuts in apple s supply chain. for itsstock is headed worst annual fall since the financial crisis. and caterpillar is up the m
senators who sent a controversial letter to iran s leader. what i do know is this letter was absolutely calculated directly to interfere with these negotiations p. it specifically inserts itself correctly directly to the lead are of the country saying don t negotiate with these guys because we re going to change this. olivia: it has been predicted he will make a bad deal with iran. crude fell today to its lowest price in six years. trading below $ 4 a barrel before rebounding slightly earlier this morning. there is speculation the record oil glut in the u.s. may start to strain the country s storage capacity. and the man arrested in the shooting of two police officers in ferguson, missouri, is said to have admitted to pulling the trigger but authorities say jeffrey williams told him he was shooting at someone else and not at the police. a prosecutor says they aren t sure they buy that part of the story. the officers were wounded at a protest in ferguson last week. a sho
iraq escalates, there are concerns of a return to widespread sectarian violence. the u.s. combat troops preparing to leave afghanistan. could they suffer the same fate as iraq. the country s president tells the bbc that won t happen. there is some disappointment for brazil fans as their team fails to beat mexico. also in the program, aaron is here, he s taking a look at the threat of rising oil prices. yeah. that attack on iraq s largest refinery led to a small jump in oil prices, but i tell you what, the markets are very worried we could see a longer sustained rise in those prices and that s not good news. that could derail the global recovery. it is midday in london. iraq salahuddin province where sunni insurgents are reported to have gained control of the biggest oil refinery. product has been shut down at the plant. foreigners told to leave so they re in safety. an hour s drive from the capital baghdad, the government has regained control of the town baqubah whe