hong kong stocks fall more than 2.5% during the asian equities lower as a broad risk off move. cash trade is less than an hour away. stocks and futures decline as investors have concerns over the spread of a virus from china. and a digital tax truce. emmanuel macron and donald trump reach a truce not to impose punitive tariffs this year. president trump addresses the world economic forum in davos today. we are just under an hour away from the start of cash equity trading. at stake a look first off at futures. we have a picture you might not expect if you see the digital truce headline. that would seem to suggest it should be risk on. fewer tariffs, better for the economy. viruseless, this chinese and maybe the hong kong downgrade as well kind of spooking the market. as a result, you see futures down more than 0.5% across european indexes. take a look at the u.s. equity index and keep in mind the u.s. markets were closed yesterday for the martin luther king holiday. downasda
If you did not know cancelled. If you did not know what the event was before today you do know. It is an important industry event began with mobile phones but all take players come to barcelona every year. 110,000 people rock up in the city so it is vital for barcelona. 500 Million Euros of wealth is generated during the event and it is suddenly cancelled. The people and the authorities in barcelona, the mayor, they say they have had a couple of cases, nothing to be concerned about. And that is of coronavirus . Exactly. But the pressure is coming from big corporations saying they do not feel comfortable sending stuff there. They have responsibility to their staff and they say we cannot put you in this environment. Big Chinese Companies had already pull back numbers of people coming and begun to wonder whether it was sensible for them to be there
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Im kasia madera in london. Also in the programme. Health chiefs warn that a deadly pneumonia virus is spreading beyond china with a case confirmed in the us. And could a spot of meditation in the office help boost staff morale . We visit the singapore start up where mindfulness is part of the working day. Live from our studios in singapore and london. This is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 8am in singapore, midnight in london and 7pm in washington, where the impeachment trial of President Trump has officially started in the us senate. Not a lot of progress yet, though. Republicans and democrats cant even decide on how it should proceed. Heres our north america editorjon sopel. Hear ye, all persons are commanded to keep silent on pain of imprisonment. 1868, 1999 and now 2020, for only the third time in american history, the sergeant at arms tells senators on pain of imprisonment that they must maintain silence in the trial of a sitting president , the asth, donald] trump
And climate activists. We must reject the perennial prophets of doom and their predictions of the apocalypse. Comparisons are being drawn to the impeachment of president clinton in 1999. But on that occasion all 100 senators agreed unanimously to the rules. How times have changed. Well bring you all the key moments in the senate as proceedings fully get underway hello and welcome im katty kay in washington and Christian Fraser is in london. The impeachment trial of donald] trump is under way. Though there is no real pretence that the men and women sitting these are the live pictures we can you from the floor of the senate. Though there is no real pretence that the men and women sitting in the senate are acting as impartialjurors. The republican leader of the senate, Mitch Mcconnell has already told us the outcome is predetermined. He is setting the rules, in coordination with the white house, to make this hearing as speedy as possible. The president could be acquitted by the end of nex
Among those present was the teenage climate activist, greta thunberg, who tore into political leaders, and the economic priorities driving their decisions. You say, just leave this to us, we will fix this, we promise we wont let you down, dont be so pessimistic. And then. Nothing. Silence. Well have the latest from davos and from washington, on the impeachment process against President Trump. Also tonight in china, experts warn that a new respiratory virus can be expected to spread right across the country and into other neighbouring states within days. The duke and duchess of sussex have issued a legal warning, after the latest photographs by paparazzi were published around the world. And in australia, after the devastation of months of wildfires we report on the signs of hope emerging at long last. And coming up on sportsday on bbc news a busy night in the premier league, but will Manchester City miss the chance to close the gap at the top . Good evening. At the World Economic forum