And tear gas the streets. Australia orders large scale from bushfires as the death toll mounts. Sophie lets check in on the open in sydney after the asx 200 best annualrop the performance since 2000. We see it open slightly to the downside as we wait for markets to come back online elsewhere in the region. We are getting some data from australia coming out this morning. Home prices notching up the biggest threemonth gain in a decade. We are not seeing much reaction in the aussie dollar, softening a touch after hitting a fresh high. New zealand equity markets remain closed and the kiwi dollar keeping fairly steady after topping 67 this week and japan also remaining offline thel january 6, again, currency cap a Fourth Annual gain. Paul thanks very much. President trump says he can assign the first phase of a trade deal with china on the 15th of this month ahead of a visit to beijing where talks will begin on the next part of the deal. Lets bring in our china correspondent now, selina wan
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