Now on bbc news, live to singapore for Asia Business report. Is the trade war deescalating . China and the us agreed to roll back some tariffs. Three years on, we assess the impact of indias ban on high value Currency Notes. It isa it is a friday, almost the weekend, good morning, asia, helloworld, glad you canjoin good morning, asia, helloworld, glad you can join us good morning, asia, helloworld, glad you canjoin us for good morning, asia, helloworld, glad you can join us for another action packed edition of Asia Business report, i am packed edition of Asia Business report, iam rico packed edition of Asia Business report, i am rico hizon, packed edition of Asia Business report, iam rico hizon, starting off with the trade war because the two economic superpowers appear to be inching towards a endgame and on wall street, investors are pleased with the latest signs of progress with the latest signs of progress with all of the major benchmarks surging to record highs. Asia is in positive
New developments in washington as the impeachment inqury against President Trump gathers pace. Mr trumps dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry, and testimony has now emerged, from a senior american diplomat, whos told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a Smear Campaign against the former Us Ambassador to ukraine, to try to get her removed. George kent, whos in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused Rudy Guiliani of spreading what he called lies about marie yovanovitch. She was later recalled from her post. More on that and other developments from our north america correspondent david willis. Firstly we should say that he testified last month but a transcript has only just testified last month but a transcript has onlyjust been made public. Yes. And it is a long and comprehensive transcript. He gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim that there was a Smea
New developments in washington as the impeachment inqury against President Trump gathers pace. Mr trumps dealings with ukraine are at the centre of the inquiry, and testimony has now emerged, from a senior american diplomat, whos told congressional investigators the president s personal lawyer ran a Smear Campaign against the former Us Ambassador to ukraine to try to get her removed. George kent, whos in charge of ukraine policy at the state department, accused Rudy Giuliani of spreading what he called lies about marie yovanovitch. She was later recalled from her post. George kent testified last month before the house impeachment inquiry and the transcript has only just been released. The bbcs david willis has been taking a look. And it is a long and comprehensive transcript. He gave a lot of evidence to that enquiry last month and george kent hitting the headlines today for that claim that there was a Smear Campaign orchestrated by Rudy Giuliani against the Us Ambassador to the ukrain
As trade fears ease. We start with walt disney because the force is very much with the entertainment giant after a strong set of results. Disney is now more enormous than ever, following its massive 70 billion takeover of 21st century fox. And its about to begin a new episode in its 96 year history as it prepares to enter the world of streaming. Disney made revenues of over 19 billion, up more than a third on this time last year and more than wall street was expecting. It has been boosted by the takeover of fox back in march which has given it lucrative new content such as star wars. Profits were lower though as it processes that mega deal and makes huges investments in this. From tuesday disney plus will take on the likes of netflix and amazon prime offering decades of classic films and Television Shows as well as star wars, marvel and pixar movies for 6. 99 a month. Disneys theme parks have also been doing well with sales up some 17 . Since the fox takeover, it has invested in new st
intense the further north you go across the uk. looking at the weather chart, you think perhaps perfect conditions, high pressure normally means a lot of fine weather, but it doesn t necessarily equate to crystal clear skies. at the moment we have a north easterly wind coming around our area of high pressure kicking up moisture off the north sea bringing cloud and showers. quite a leopard print effect to our satellite picture at the moment. many areas are seeing cloud passing over and glimmers of sunshine coming in. some showers in the midlands this afternoon, some to the far south east as well, and a north easterly wind needs factoring in. one of the monitor you will see nine or 10 degrees, outside it will feel closer to five or six. indicators of a strong aurora to the north of the uk, even again possibly visible to the south. the best areas to get the clear skies probably somewhere in the south west of england and again to the north west of scotland. also where you get the