financial markets have been rattled by this news shares of airlines and travel companies in particular have been hit. let s speak to nick marsh in singapore. we have two cases already of this new variant in hong kong. how is the asian financial world being affected and responding to this variant? stock markets are down the lowest they have been for almost two months, a lot of market movement in asia. in japan, the nikki was down 3% earlier, those two cases in hong kong called the hang seng index to be down 3.5%, a lot of market movement. as we heard their travel is the big one, their travel is the big one, the uk has put in that travel ban and we are still waiting to hear what governments in this part of the world will do.