China and russias election. Displaced in devastated the human cost of the conflict over nick on the cutback as the ceasefire between armenia and azerbaijan falters. Election abortion obamacare and just some of the topics featuring on day 2 of the confirmation hearing of President Trumps u. S. Supreme Court Nominee Amy Coney Barretts republican and Democratic Senators each have their c minutes to ask about subjects that are important to Many Americans the full senate could vote by the end of the month on whether to appoint her just ahead of the u. S. Poll on november 3rd. Well in the last hour or so barrett was questioned by democratic Vice President ial candidates come a harris she grilled barrett on a range of issues from abortion to the Affordable Care act my colleagues have asked you today whether you would recuse yourself from cases on the Affordable Care act you did not directly answer their questions and instead you described the process by which that would work or happen and so
Further. We are joined this hour by finance minister. The other big story today, lawmakers in washington take aim at the power of big tech. Saystitrust investigation they are abusing their dominant status. Australia coming online. Lets turn to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong with a checkup on markets. A two day rise, we are seeing pressure come through for the benchmark while the aussie dollar is testing that 71 popl after forming a double early this october. We are seeing action in the bond space. The front end of the aussie curb slipping with the three year yield falling as much as four basis points earlier in the session. This after australias updated debt issuance coming in less than expected. I want to highlight bhp shares. We are seeing the stock fall as much as 2. 3 this morning. Tesla bhp in focus be at flipping the board to check in on futures, s p eminis under pressure. The yen trading study but theres upward pressure on the stimulus deadlock. We are watching iphone makers aft
That could have Major National implications and affect the future of the Prime Minister. The conservative judge from chicago who could be the next u. S. Supreme Court Justice donald trump prepares to name his replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Breaking story that broke in the past what 25 minutes or so coming to us out of lebanon on within that past half hour the countrys Prime Minister designate thats mustapha a d. Has resigned hes been in the job just over one month given the task of trying to form a new government now the last one did resign amid protests over the handling of that huge explosion at the beirut port area what the best part of 2 months ago live to beirut correspondent zain a holder zina how can you have decided to do this right now. Well he was appointed just under a month ago and he was supposed to have formed a government in a 2 week period there was a 2 week deadline in fact the different Political Parties promised the french president manuel wrong that a governme
For going i think process being out also in protest has been fortified as organizing protests by local authorities and attempt to really prevent these kind of images reaching the world to speak given everyone out in the streets and that is eventually all in vain but the attempt made nonetheless now you know the mobile section is coming back and the rest become trees being. Said. Nic its day 29 of the protests in the momentum of the opposition at least where were sitting seems to be sure no sign of slowing do you get the impression people are cheating anything. Well i think this is a very difficult choice and there is no clear roadmap no clear plan where this goes the country that basically has had a new politics the course of a century where one man has made all decisions i dont rest of his i. Q. Is going to be marginalized. In gauging this going to politics hes very noble for most of the reasons they just dont remember it as to how this process goes on well the reasonable just council
Problems but the request is that we move forward with patience and a lot of attention. And the host says it will spare no efforts to support the initiative along with help from the International Community. So these historic talks aimed at ending nearly 2 decades of war and misery in afghanistan are finally taking place in qatar negotiators from the Afghan Government and the taliban a meeting in doha it had their Opening Statements today with both sides expressing optimism for peace and a willingness to negotiate however each has vastly different goals and reaching an agreement will be difficult. For those we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the narratives we all know what happened to us throughout these years and where we stand today we now need to grasp this unique opportunity to move towards a new future that we can define together. We have acted accordingly to all the poi