Politics is taking over the trend. Im fascinated by the challenges to the leadership and belarus. Francine i am, too. Something the started last week that seems to be growing. We will followup on belarus and russias support to the leader. Lets get first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika nancy pelosi has called the house back from vacation to do with the Postal Service crisis this week. Warned 46 service has states that it may not be able to deliver their ballot on time for the election. Polls indicate joe biden maintains a solid lead over President Trump going into this weeks Democratic Convention. Biden was up nine points in the wall streets journal poll. In japan, the economy shrank in the Second Quarter by the most on record. Gdp declined at an annual rate of 27. 8 . There worlds thirdlargest economy was already hurting when the coronavirus outbreak hit. Japan had already slipped into a recession. In belarus, it was the biggest antigovernment protest yet. Tens of thousands demonst
Im lesley barton. Welcome to the election headquarters. We are awaiting the biggest wave of results that we will get tonight. 263 polls about to close to alberta that includes ontario, and the northwest territories. Some battlegrounds places you just need to win if you want to form government. The picture where the country is headed is about to get a whole lot clearer. Should tell you that its about an hour delay but there is one that will wait a little bit longer. Weve got reporters across the country where the leaders are and where the voters are and there will be results from coast to coast on what they could mean as we say for the future of canada. Results have already started coming in from east to west and remember 338 you can see already let us give you a bit of a snapshot of this. In the numbers at the bottom of your screen in two hours we will see how the rest of the country has decided and how close the race could be. Certainly there were some tight results coming in and goin
Hello and welcome live from tehran, you have to press tvs world news, im marsia hashimi, thanks so much for being with us, well no end insight to the israeli massacre. Palestinians as the regime pushes its bombing of the besieg gaza strip for the 17th consecutive day. The latest israeli air strike since plums of smoke spiraling over northern gaza strip. Thats after the regime killed 70 palestinians in its attack overnight on sunday. Uh, hundreds of thousands of gazans have already moved south to take refuge in temporary shelters. However, israel is also hitting the areas they have fled to. The un agency for palestinian refugees, known as undra, also says it has lost at least 29 of its staff in the israeli bombings. More than 5,00 palestinians have been killed since the regime launched its onslot on gaza over two weeks ago. More than 15,000 people have also been wounded. Well, 18 years old d alamdani and her family were among the thousands of gazans fleeing south after israel till pales
Required give and take on both sides. I believe that the joint report being published is in the best interest of the whole of the uk. European banks rally as global supervisors finally sign off on agreements ten years in the making the chair of the Basil Committee says the compromise reached was worth that long struggle it was not so easy to get to the number 72. 5, but give than we do have a compromise, everybody has signed off everybody is prepared to implement it in this particular way. A shutdown averted for now President Trump will sign a shortterm funding bill to keep the u. S. Government in motion for another two weeks as the search continues for a political compromise a positive start across europe this morning. The stoxx 600 up 0. 4 . A lot of green on that board alo lot of that driven by marke sentiment about these votes. We can see that the ftse is up nearly 0. 2 . The xetra dax strong start to the day, up more than 1 the cac up in 0. 3 the ftse mib up more than 1 lets look
Starts to fray. We will speak to the governments key Economic Advisor at 8 30 gmt. We are less than 30 minutes away from the start of european cash trading. Futures are up and running. It is likely we will see a positive start, but we are looking at the fair value calculations a little later on. Lets take that and put it into context. Gmm, as ever, good context. The consumerof staple stocks doing well, chi as market up by 1. 56 overnight. London had a good day friday. We see the brexit story there, but nevertheless, it was interesting to see how the pound traded through. The s p, surging on the back of that jobs data. Keep an eye on the aussi dollar story. That is fascinating as we watch economic developments down under, and whether we will get a rate hike or not. Check out this data on gold. I put this up your because of what is happening with bitcoin. Lets look at what is happening across the gmm. Here we go. Gold, up by. 1 . The cftc data shows a huge pickup in shorts on gold. I put