Restrictions in one city, but investors are brushing that off. As well, up firmly part of the Semiconductor Story, looking forward to samsung earnings. Looking at currency, the dollar story almost the weakest in terms of the bloomer dollar index, for close to two years bloomberg dollar index, for close to two years. Down for tense of 1 . Hasonshore yuan strengthened. The aussie dollar up as well. On the next board, looking at gold, futures breaking through 2000 announce. You have the likes of bank of america predicting you could get 3000 in therice next 18 months. Wti up 3 10 of 1 . The 10 year yield has edged up marginally at 62 basis points. You can see there has been a marginal rotation out of chinese 10 year as well, more risk on sentiment in the mainland. Rishaad all right, lets look at one of the biggest movers, 7 . Shares up around one at one point. We have a company that has become the worlds 10th biggest stock. Our guest from aberdeen standard investments. Thank you for joinin
A run for president. Growing backing for scotlands leader disapproval of braggs driving renewed support for independence from the u. K. Now china is threatening to take action against australia Prime Minister Scott Morrison and out a series of measures in response to hong kongs new security law this trailing in government is suspending its extradition treaty with hong kong it will also extend visas for hong kong residents in the country china imposed the new security law last week it gives police sweeping new powers and publishes a range of crimes including criticizing the government. Our government together with other governments around the world have been very consistent in expressing our concerns about the imposition of the National Security law on hong kong and today we have agreed to announce that that National Security law constitutes a fundamental change of circumstances in respect to our extradition agreement with aung Hong Kong Katrina u. Is standing by for us in beijing for m
A crime. The president of kosovo indicted for war crimes he stands accused of nearly 100 murders. And the show must go on but when its the british theres a industry struggles to find a way forward a bit the covert 19 pandemic. A watershed moment that will cause the most serious violation of International Law thats how u. N. Secretary general Antonio Gutierrez has described israels plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank members of the Un Security Council and the arab league have been meeting to discuss israels move which could be put into motion as soon as next week most of them were united in their opposition with warnings that israels unilateral action could trigger a major escalation in the region. If implemented these moves could dramatically alter the local dynamics during instability across the uk by palestinian terror and maybe beyond this cult has been marked by periods of extreme violence but never been caught in the risk of escalation been accompanied by endless school
Us her in a sentence says 16 years in prison for spying in russia putting more strain on relations between the 2 countries. I think we can hold the power to account. We cant do anything a big blow to press freedom in the philippines 2 journalists are convicted for the 1st time in a libel case. And after years on the run sudanese militia leader alex shay because of war crimes and are for appears before the International Criminal court. Around 15000000 people in the indian city of shinai and several neighboring districts are going back into lockdown as corona virus infections sore the region recorded 1974 new cases on sunday taking the total number of infections more than 44453 people have died. A full lockdown will be enforced starting on friday until the end of the month india had been gradually easing restrictions over the past few weeks even though new cases were still being recorded lives with raanan joins us now from new delhi so liz lifting restrictions always comes with the risk
And illustrating how to get the message across we need artists highlighting the dangers of covert 19 and one of the worlds most crowded places. China is marking a significant milestone in its fight against covert 19 its reported no new deaths for 10 Straight Days and while that might offer Something College meant for other nations still in the grip of the pandemic that is persist over the accuracy of beijings figures in the 1st reported cases of the virus what in chinas was province in december and since then the Chinese Government has reported nearly 84000. 00 cases after no new deaths in recent days efficient death toll still stands at a little over 4601 province says it has cleared all critically ill patients but a study at the university of hong kong says the number of. Infected in the 1st wave of the outbreak may have been 4 times higher than official figures and researches say the true number could be even higher than those estimates in hong kong sarah clarke reports theres growi