[chanting] the people want the fall of the regime and protests sweep the lebanese capitol beirut for the second day. Hello, start of a new week but the worlds Financial Markets looks like the same story fears of a slow down in the worlds biggest economy are continuing to spook markets in asia and europe after the big drop and sent global commonty prices and currency tumbling. The shanghai index wiped out its entire gains for the year dropping 8 1 2 at closing time on monday, the sharpest fall since 2007 and that had a Ripple Effect across the asian markets and the niki the biggest since 2014 and 5 trillion dollars has been wiped off the market since china devalued its currently earlier this year. Crude oil has fallen below 45 a barrel and currencies across asia are badly hit as well. In india it takes more than 66 to buy a dollar, that is a twoyear low. Adrian brown has more from beijing. Reporter shanghais stock market is a very scary place. Within minutes of the market opening today
Plus. Im in kuala lumpur where an ancient river is getting a new leash on life. Fears of a slow down in the worlds second biggest economy china are continuing to spook markets across the globe and shares plunged across asia and europe and currency is also falling. Chinas shanghai complex went down 8 wiping out the entire gains for the year and its the biggest oneday fall in years and beijing deployed the billion dollar fund to pump up the market with 400 billion of assets to buy stocks failed to stop the decline, from malaysia to brazil oil and commonty exporting nations have seen their currencies hit multiyear lows and as chinas economy slows its not importing the Raw Materials to power its factories and sent the bloomberg Commodity Index to its lowest level since 1998 and neglect in crude sent Oil Prices Tumbling to 44. 55 a barrel, the lowest since march of 2009 and more from adrian brown in beijing. Reporter the share shell off began within minutes of the Shanghai Stock Exchange op
2017, it will be 43 years ago and a lot has happened at that site since then. The park has been developed yearbyyear. Initially, it took about two years to get the buildings out and to put in grass and it is mainly now a grassy space. More money now, i believe in the neighborhood of 60 million has gone into refurbishing the parks further. So not only was the fair beneficial immediately in terms of transforming downtown spokane, but now the better part of 50 years later, there is still momentum that began their that is part of the spirit of that place, the spirit of the place of the middle of spokane falls. Our cities to her staff recently traveled to spoke at, washington to learn about the rich history. To learn more about spokane and other spots go to cspan. Org cities to her. You are watching American History tv. A weekend every weekend. We continue with our look at the history of spokane. Up next on American History speak to a gathering house by the association of africanamerican mu
Relations. We had horrible relationships with the black community in particular. A lot of people had been beaten up. I was one of the people severely beaten by the police and made the decision i was going to become a police officer. This was commonplace in detroit. It was probably around that time the naacp attentive to integrate , and Thee Department Police Department went on strike. We had all these things occurring. In the 1950s and 1950s, people had been shot and killed by the police. All of these things festered. We had a great deal of people that moved up from the south who wanted to get jobs in detroit because of the big three. They found things were probably as bad here as they were in the south. They were getting frustrated in terms of the things going on. Watch the entire program on the 1957 detroit riots at 8 00 a. M. And 8 00 p. M. Eastern on monday. Up next, nina howard speaks to a gathering hosted by the association of africanamerican museums about designing museums and p
Particularly for people like me. Now called lgbtq, something something something. Host that movement is larger than the gay movement treachery fastly i grew up. I grew up believing that all of these movements for social justice were connected, that we are all part of a larger struggle to end war and end racism and poverty. I think thats changed a bit over the years but it is still the way i look at and i think it would be helpful for people viewed it that way. Host how would you define the gay movement today, 2017 . Guest right now in 2017 i think lgbt people face a real challenge. Ac we have won some very important victories in recent years, particularly during the obama administration. Now i think all of those advances clearly are in great danger of being reversed. D. So we have a Younger Generation that grew up under obama and never really knew the kind of struggle my generation went through. Generation went throught was part of my impetus to write the book of what people to know wh