Time for europe to come up with a new resettlement policy. Locked up for daring to protest against the better russian president we meet the women now determined to carry on their fight. Plus facing trial for marking a massacre some of hong kongs most prominent prodemocracy activists appear in course of a tenement square memorial. Its been described as a betrayal by the palestinians but is being trumpeted by the white house the United Arab Emirates and bahrain are about to sign a deal to normalize ties with israel its all being overseen by president i will trump in washington d. C. While protests have already been held in gaza and across the occupied west bank against that deal palestinians have described the move as a stab in the back correspondent need to him is in the west bank and well get reaction from the in just a few minutes but 1st lets go to our White House Correspondent can be how it can be any minute now to Foreign Ministers and a Prime Minister is supposed to be putting pen
Across the americas. The spread is unacceptable. South korea braces for a second wave. Lenders are backing away. Bank of considering cutting a credit line, writing off its and calling it quits. We are just getting some indications, early indications of the economic rebound in australia. The cva australia pmi manufacturing preliminary number for june bouncing back. Just in contractionary territory but certainly much better than the 44 from the previous reading. The Services Number also much better i we get parts of the Services Economy reopening after the restrictions coming in at 53. 2. The previous reading was 26. 9. That composite number for june, 52 point six. 28. 1 and out of contractionary territory. That is a preliminary reading but things looking a bit more positive. Also looking positive for asian markets, lets get over to Sophie Kamaruddin for a look. Futures are in the green with s p eminis and he restocks resuming gains while the aussie dollar remaining on the on foot at the
Dangerous president if their history of the scott was on the w. H. O. Warns coronavirus is more deadly than the seasonal flu and appears to be spreading much more quickly outside china than with him. But well have all those stories coming up for you but 1st some breaking news out over afghanistan where 3 separate attacks of left at least 19 people died all took place in the could do is region 15 soldiers were killed in a raid on a base in buckshot cuts elsewhere 4 Police Officers were also killed and 10 Border Patrol officers were kidnaps after the 3rd attacks meanwhile the u. S. Says its bombed taliban positions as a defensive measure following attacks by the armed group in Helmand Province thats in the south of the country the u. S. Is calling on the taliban to keep to the commitments the. Maids under a deal signed in cutter last week lets get more no from aljazeera as author of the hamid she is live for us in kabul thats 3 separate attacks occurring overnight what more can you tell
Optimism. Upside and. 1 to the friday coming out of the doldrums with regards to the hong kong market. Profit plunge perhaps possible, coming things down as the bank index. Lets have a look at currencies in play and whether the rally can last. Some predicting we will see 70 u. S. Cents. Still, holding on and it is 1. 29 still. The bears doing do likewise. The dollar much unchanged, andngthening in the system three currently. Hat is where we find ourselves su keenan has a first word news. We are going to start with saudi aramco. The companys worth maybe 1. 5 trillion for even less according to research by potential investors. The 2aluation is below trillion target initially set for the kingdom and it suggests a struggle. That it will start stock trading next month. To add a foot note to that, you see oil prices 20 and thenout came down by 10 and all the future traders saw this. We have 1 8 of the Oil Production in the world and the oil traders they saw this and that means it is really s
There. But the cooling trend is under way. So well talk more about that in a few minutes. And mike, you can tell it is summer. And look at that, the beautiful bright sunshine, sunrises early, sets a little later. And we have a little bit lighter traffic. That happens after the big first burst about 5 30 in the morning. So now we have fastrak lanes which have built up, the lanes off to the east a little easier if you bring cash. A little build for the upper east shore and also highway 4 in toward concord out of pittsburg and bay point. The slowing that we typically see. I am concerned about the car fire on 680 through fremont. Well get you an update coming up. This morning an apparent driveby shooting sending one man to the hospital and two others detained by police. Thom jensen is live just off 280 at the corner of scott and richmond. I understand you have new information . Reporter yeah, were right at the corner of scott street and actually on the 400 block of richmond avenue. And you