Were these demonstrations over the Christmas Period targeted in small pockets or widespread . Dan mostly small pockets. Targeted at shopping malls in particular, looking to hit the retail sector, which has really been battered by six months of protests. We saw clashes at shopping malls. 20 people were injured. There is another rally tonight, in a suburban area of hong kong, and a couple over the weekend, all pointing to the big rally downtown on new years day. Matt what are the plans for that big rally, further protest . How organized is this movement . Dan the Group Organizing the een convening some of the largest rallies we have seen. There are various elements of the protesters. Siderganized side, the that tries to abide by laws, and then the frontline protesters, the ones lighting fires and battling the police, and a sort of work in parallel. On january 1, thats organized by a group that tries to get police permission. That is pending right now. We are likely to hear about 48 hours
Live on tv and radio. Your bond market reopens stateside with the powerful rally on the 10 year yield. 4. 66. Tom lets see how it comes off as a flight to quality as a general statement. Think we have to let it play out. The news flow from israel is minute by minute literally. Jonathan this is a treasury market that missed out on the haven flows yesterday. And you have to throw in the fed speak which started with your interview with mary daly and letting the bond market do the work for them. Then the rally starts. Lisa i wonder if that will lead them to reverse some of their stance. Is this less of a haven trade type of a bid and more of a response to fed officials signaling that maybe they are done. That really is maybe the confused soon confusion in the tea leaves. Tom i think they are going to wait to see what ppi is. When is cpi wednesday or thursday . But the answer of ppi is possibly more important. Jonathan the update on israel, the latest from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
The scope of safeguards and there could be some extensions of authority that are appropriate as part of this agreement. The iaea will require continued Financial Support. The process for Financing Agency activities is to get approval i should wind back again. The iaea is a member of the United Nations family of organizations. As such, it has its own membership and has its own budget and a formula for assessing members in accordance with approved budget to carry out programs. To change that requires today the approval of the 35 governors which is very difficult under any circumstance so whether all 35 would be enough or whether it forcing it to a vote is unusually not the way that the agency would operate. So i would hope that part of the American Perspective on how it can make this effort succeed is to consider a contingency grant to the agency of something on the order of 50 million which sounds like a nice round number but it is much smaller than the i have to say, i dont know exactl
Okay. It is a small reprocessing facility and we wont play that game. So i dont want to be reassuring because when i talk to a Nuclear Engineer and they tell me that Nuclear Plant is perfectly safe i get nervous. There are things that can go wrong. There are things that iran could try. But we have spent years to negotiate this agreement to make sure if they try, we will catch them. And the chairman and people know this very well, the framework for north korea was four pages long. The agreement that george w. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld and john bolton negotiated with the North Koreans in 2005 for denuclearization with no provisions at all was five pages long. The treaty of mosque ow between bush and putin was three pages long. Had no verification provisions and got 71 votes in the senate, all right. This is over 100 pages long. It is like no other nonproliferation agreement ever negotiated and signed. It pails only in compare an to the most detailed arms agreements with the soviet union a
Progress has been made because of the aggression of iran. Anna and greek deal delayed again. Euro area finance ministers failed to Reach Agreement as the clock ticks down to Debt Repayment in july. We are live in brussels. Welcome to bloombergs daybreak europe, our flagship morning show from london. Im anna edwards. Matt and im matt miller in berlin. Anna, take us through the breaking news. Anna lets get straight to the top story, the last in manchester. At least 19 people were killed in a suspected terror attack. The Greater Manchester city police are treating this as a suspected terrorist attack. It took place at a pop concert in manchester in the northwest of england. It if confirmed as a terrorist incident, its the worst incident since the london bombings that took place there. 50 people are injured, according to the Greater Manchester police. You saw the city police chief giving that televised statement, fairly short, no questions were taken. The incident happened monday night out