Heres to you norfolk. A white wine from the broads, beats global competition, to be crowned one of the worlds best. And the legend of king arthur gets the guy richie big screen treatment. Our own knight at the round table mark kermode will be giving it his verdict in the film review at 5 45pm. Its five oclock. Our main story Julian Assange the founder of wikileaks and urged on the belt that prosecutors in sweden have dropped their investigation into Rape Allegations against him. He said in a tweet i do not forgive or forget. He has always denied the charges. The development emerged this morning as the swedish prosecutor announced they would discontinue the investigation into an alleged sex offence committed in 2010. Julian assange has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy since august 2012. The met police say they would still be obliged arrest him on a lesser charge if he tried to leave. He has now gone back inside the embassy and has not said what he will do next. Victory is howJuli
Names a new crown prince, replacing his cousin. What does this mean for reform, the region, and the markets . Speech. Queens u. K. Parliament opens with the monarch presenting theresa mays agenda. But where is the deal with the dnp . Take a look at pages across the board. You are looking at, as far as the futures go, you. 4 drop on the ftse index. Add ine bit more if you the peripherals. Take a look at funds bunds. A little bit more nds pushing down the yield. I know there are some green numbers there. Less yield. Investors kind of got a width of this and the drop in oil and already were hiding. Guy saudi arabia, fourth time in. Great stuff. The market was softer. Argentina, stays as a frontier market. Keep an eye on these two. They are fascinating. Peso, again,an similar sort of story. Move onto to the next animation and talk about what is happening. Argentinian bond market. This story, it is important. It is not just a china story, it is a whole bunch of other things. Story, the arge
Be as markets are giving us a lot, a lot of news, just in themselves. There is a lot overall. Oil is still sliding. Global stocks are retreating and you can see that clearly in europe with the stoxx 600 down 0. 7 . The yen strengthening. We see a risk off mode with crude oil tumbling into a risk off mood. That will persist. We also want to look at the shanghai equities, and the chinese domestic stocks. I will show you that shortly and then the pound, of course, it is the cleans speech it is the queens speech today. Lets construed to the bloomberg first word news. Reporter saudi Arabias Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud has replaced his son as heir to the throne. The shocking announcement sonsidates the sokings power. Algian shoulders have shot suspected assailant from brussels. Had allin station wit tarins haulted. The interior Affairs Ministry confirms that military staff had intervened to neutralize an individual. Chinese stocks will be added to the msci indexes. While
Biggest amount in seven years. Largely because of President Trumps pro business agenda. We have the full details on how it could impact your business coming up. Meeting with saudi Arabias Deputy Crown prince. This is on the heels of opecs new report showing conflicting data on saudis Oil Production. Saudi arabia directly reported to opec it increased Oil Production in feb to 10 Million Barrels a day. This conflicts with the secondary sources that saudi Oil Production decreased. Lets bring in brenda shav schaeffer from georgetown, university. An issue thats hurt oil prices before we go on to saudi and opecs impact and that, of course, is u. S. Inventory levels. Is that a genuine fear for oil prices . I think we have to look at the short term and the long term. The short term, obviously were seeing this is having a huge impact on the oil price, a very big dip down to november 2016 levels. So its the saudi data, the confusion about the saudi data and also the u. S. Inventories. If we look
Same time. We will get the latest. Plus, we will speak with Pulitzer Prizewinning investigative journalist David Cay Johnston, who just obtained two pages of Donald Trumps 2005 tax returns. It shows most of the taxes trump paid were due to a special tax on high earners that he is now trying to abolish. But is there any hope the nation will see more of trumps Tax Information . Pres. Trump the old one who cares about my tax returns are the reporters. The only one. I won. I mean, i became president. I dont think they care at all. I dont think they care at all. I think you care. I think you care. Amy and we help look at how the state of arkansas is looking to execute eight men in 10 days. Arkansas says the state supply of the sedative midazolam will soon expire. All of that and more coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Calls are growing for President Trump to release his full tax returns after part of his 2005 return was made pu