Welcome to glad you could join us. Also to tease in south korea, have handed a 40 year jail to this 24 year old recent graduate for hitting an online sitch. Will blackmail bring the worst women into degrading sexual images and videos of themselves and sort of these onto paying their was in online chat rooms. Prosecutors said 38. 00 people were involved in total, in what they called virtual in slave moment of women and teenagers. Online. He called himself the doctor. All of south korea was arrested in march for online today, the cotton sold aside and hell spend the next 4 decades in prison for it. Outside the court. Female activists read out statements from some of the victims of september and then in order for everyone to live in a safe society in the future, the court should also impose severe punishment on accomplices and set an example to prevent such evil from happening again. In total, there were 74. 00 victims, including 16 underage girls prosecute, just said the women were black
Assets. Valuations of emu dollar bonds at the levels that no longer make sense. David its interesting you bring this up. First i want to flag, it is 2018. 20 years since the movie armageddon. [laughter] of course thats bruce willis and ben affleck. The other thing i want to type out, the valuations. Are investors getting enough reward for the risk they are taking . Thats a conversation we will be having in a few minutes. Have a look at where we are on the market story this thursday morning. Here, we are looking at a decline across the equity markets today. First decline since the year started. Were almost looking at nowhere to hide. You are getting mongolia at the top. Let me flip it around and look at the broader picture across benchmarks in the region. The story at the very top, 1. 4 drop in new zealand. Biggest drop since the u. S. Elections in 2016. Across equity markets, the biggest winners in this recent leg up are some of those getting dumped the most. In that way i guess we are
And Christian Fraser is in london. The clock is ticking and President Trump has just one day to make an important decision on the iran deal. The trouble is that even at this late stage, no one knows whether hes going to bring back us sanctions against tehran tomorrow or not. In a deliberate display of unity, britain, france, germany and the European Union today all urged him not to blow up the deal. Its known as thejcpoa. British foreign secretary Boris Johnson went so far as to challenge mr trump to prove there was Something Better than the current iran deal. The eus Foreign Policy chief also stressed that the deal is working and iran is in compliance. The European Union remains committed to support the full and effective implementation of the agreement is, including to make sure that the lifting of Nuclear Related sanctions has a positive impact on trade and economic relations with iran, including benefits for the uranium people. For the iranians are people. For the iranians are peop
Person on it. And we talk about the japanese gang person on it. And we talk about the japanese gang boss person on it. And we talk about the japanese gang boss who was tracked down after he took photos of his body covered in tatties. Tattoos. We starred in pakistan, where riots continue after this girl was raped and murdered. This video shows a large outline of a man and this young girl. She had been on her way toa young girl. She had been on her way to a koran class. She was abducted and she is holding their hand in this second video of the larger man whom you can see outlined. Her body was found in a rubbish dump several days after she went missing. They nows father has been speaking to the bbc. Translation its like nows father has been speaking to the bbc. Translation its like the world has ended. I was away in saudi arabia and only came back last night. I have no words. If the police had done theirjob properly, they would have found her as soon as they would have found her as soon
Beijing may finally be winning its war on smog. Plenty more on those stories over the next couple of hours. Calendar today is trade numbers out of china for the month of december appeared rounding out has been a year of significant recovery when it comes to chinese exports in particular. 5643. After the declines over the past couple of years we do see two years of decline followed by that recovery. We are looking at december, a 10 year on year rise when it comes to exports coming in dollar terms. Thats a little moderation from novembers 12. 3 rise. Imports looking to pick up significantly. The brighter spots in that. Continuing to paint a picture of synchronized global recovery. Such a stronghad base to come off of in 2017 we might be struggling to hit doubledigit numbers in 2018 for exports. Certainly there is also the cloud of trade tensions between the u. S. And china lurking ever in the background. We are 30 minutes away from the opening china and hong kong. Sophie, we were thinkin