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financial system. this is the second hour of daybreak asia, coming to you live. it is just after 8:00 a.m. in hong kong. and it is just after 7:00 p.m. in new york. australia is just tapping up an interview with the qantas ceo alan joyce. we are really focused in the u.s. on the fed and what they indicate for u.s. rate hikes and how it might impact central banks in asia. i am feeling that confusion in the start of asian trade with that failing soon comments. doesn t mean does it mean a march fed rate hike on minerals? do we ever think the fed will be clear? it is a balancing act for them, talking about inflation, too, not a whole lot of people in the fed think it is a problem at this point. as mentioned, odd minerals desperate first let s take a look how the market open is shaping up. were just you discussing, the central banks focus is on r.b.i., and today bank of korea will be in focus. it s forecast to hold its record of 1.25% as it waits clarity around a d ....
brought to a standstill, rain soaking the west and it s not over yet. have you not found a more productive way of supporting the syrian people? artists taking on isil using cartoons and comic books to keep young muslims from taking up arms for the group. good morning, welcome to al jazeera america. cronk took it down to the wire, but the government is still running this morning. the house barely approved a $1.1 trillion spending plan. the bill is heading to the senate, while a stop gap measure keeps federal offices open. some democrats threatened to derail the plan over provisions loosening banking regulations and allowing bigger campaign contributions, some republicans voted no. we have more. we have democratic holdouts voting in favor of the bill. what changed their minds? some things changed yesterday, because we have the president and john boehner on the same side, but it s still government by crisis management, nothing gets done until the 11th hour, b ....
teachers and students it s supposed to help. we begin in washington. the senate is debating a 1 trillion-dollar bill that would fund the government through september: it narrowly passed legislation last night. but the battle over some of the bill s provisions have exposed a huge resist between the democrats and the white house. mike is at the white house for us. mike, how strained is the relationship between the white house and the resist on capitol hill? it is really dramatic. you can t help but come to the conclusion that this is what a lame duck presidency looks like. considering this fight over the 1 trillion-dollar spending package that will keep the government running for one year. president obama teeming up with john boehner and of all people jamie dimon, they all had reasons for getting the bill passed but that is an odd team when he consider the opposition, nancy pelosi, elizabeth warren and a vast majority of the democrats. it was put on the house floor an ....
protesters across the country have gathered for what they are calling a justice for all protest. it s also in new york, rather, it s called the millions march. really all of the same cause. it s a reference to the million man march held by activists 20 years ago in washington. these are live pictures of what is happening right now. thousands showed up in the town manhattan this afternoon. more from al jazeera, courtney kealy who has been with these protesters. the pictures we are showing, there are thousands of people packed in the streets of new york city. what are you seeing where you are? i am at one police plaza, the police headquarters. this is where the marchers are ending to conduct this rally. it already has started. it s dark now. this whole like three-block area is cordoned off with policemen standing quietly by letting them protest and funnel into this area. what we saw was about a mile long protest. it would be tens of thousands of people. one of the large ....
make sure that people can feel assured, they can come here and get the vaccine safely and so i would really encourage everybody including the clinically vulnerable to get the vaccine. that is the best way of keeping yourself safe from covid. travellers coming to the uk must now test negative for covid i9, and self isolate for ten days on arrival. and coming up at around 9.35.i ll be joined by two travel experts to answer your questions on the new travel rules, in your questions answered. ministers come under pressure to extend the £20 a week uplift in universal credit, as labourforces a commons vote on the issue. the foreign secretary condemns the detention of kremlin critic alexei navalny, who was nearly killed by nerve agent poisoning last year, as appalling . and propelled by a rocket and launched from under the wing of an old jumbojet, virgin orbit puts its first satellites into space. good morning and welcome to bbc news. people aged 70 and over and those listed as c ....