Exposing the flaws in the covert 19 track and trace cisterns countries across europe struggle to contain a surge in new infections and voting begins in ivory coasts president ial election but 2 of the opposition candidates are boycotting the poll. And in sport tennis world number one Novak Djokovic has suffered a shock defeat to indiana the serbian star was knocked out in the quarterfinals by a player ranked more than 40 places below head. Start with the search for survivors in western turkey after a powerful earthquake struck the area on friday parts of greece also felt the effects of the magnitude 7 tremor ons of the aegean sea where rescue teams have been working through the nights and into the day in the city of is mayor so far we know at least 27 people. Have him killed as cross life night see in him because you are who joins us from is mere cinema night 22 hours on from the moment that devastating earthquake struck and the search continues for survivors in this mayor and the surr
We have seen the g10 space benefiting from that, especially when it comes to the pound. There are brexit negotiations starting today in brussels. So far there is possibility of progress. It looks like we are in this seeing people are are saying this is the yen buying path of least resistance. We are looking at, when it comes to commodities, the gold futures. Right now. Silver and aluminum having a big comeback. You see brent crude hovering around 42 right now. One big interview to tell you about today. We are talking about market debuts in hong kong, gto express. Here is the bond market first. Not a lot of movement when it comes to the aussie 10 year yield. 77 basis points as people wind back the rate cuts. 3. 11 for the chinese 10 year still. This is what i was talking about. He is joining us for an exclusive interview at the bottom of this hour. A pretty stellar debut to start the week. Haslinda like you said, a lack of conviction. From get Market Analysis the asset strategist at j.
To break trump has yet the stimulus long gem. Softbank backs the virus handed record losses in may at a drop of the value, some may change with earnings later. Lets get a quick check of how the markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures under a little bit of pressure, down 1 10 of 1 . We have President Trumps executive actions on stimulus measures boosting sentiment. That weighed in indices. The s p 500 saw the highest close in sixmonth in the longest winning streak since 2017. Aska futures at the moment japan comes back from mountain day holiday. I mentioned softbank earnings coming back later. The japanese yen Holding Around the weakest in more than two weeks. The bloomberg dollar index unchanged at the moment. This after it touched a oneweek high. Watch out for some data this morning. We are getting south koreas 10 day trade data. We are getting japan numbers, not to mention singapores final gdp numbers. Crude headed towards 42 a barrel after gaining the most in a week after s
U. S. Protesters to find curfews to vent their anger over Police Brutality but the violence subsides are these demonstrations a watershed moment for civil rights in america and after months of lockdown italy declares itself open again for tourists but it may be a tough sell of travel rules make the trip more of a headache and a holiday. And those corona virus spreads intent and we will find out how the country is coming up with new ways of putting it in the medical document it needs to save lives. Kelly welcome to the program we begin this hour in london where a mass rally is being held over the death of george floyd who died in the u. S. In Police Custody last week the black lives Matter Movement organize. The demonstration in hyde park to draw attention to the abuse of black peoples rights worldwide and protests began after 46 year old mr floyd died in minneapolis after being arrested for allegedly using fake money video of his final minutes show a Police Officer kneeling on the side
Have a postdoctoral program, we have a number of postdoctoral fellows here at sais this year with us doing their work. And one of them has just finished a book before she got here, and we were really delighted to end publicize it and the first public release of the book. So cornelia has this new book. So, peace, security and defense cooperation in postbrexit europe. Pretty timely. Shes been working with her colleagues on those questions. So so we thought the context of the book would be good to talk about a very timely issue now which is whats going on with brexit, what does it mean not only for the u. K. And the e. U. Member states, but also for broader Security Issues which start to affect, of course, u. S. Interests quite intensely. So what well do is i will just briefly introduce the speakers. You have had an invitation and so on, more about their backgrounds, but just to keep it brief, i want to have cornelia tell us briefly about the book, and then were going to go to two colleag