Quicker reform from sudans Transitional Government. Nothing in the briefing that we have just received led me to believe it is a hoax Democrats Press the white house on just how much donald trump knew about allegations that russia paid taliban fighters to kill american soldiers. European union is opening its doors to visitors from 14 countries but not the u. S. Amid a resurgence in coronavirus cases that. Everybody has to chill and revisit a town and bresson where work is becoming increasingly scarce as paris johnson lays out his plan to rescue the economy. China is just about to impose a new security law on hong kong 23 years after it took back control and promised a one country 2 systems policy its now been signed by chinese president xi jinping and will be enforced in the coming hours critics say the legislation erodes hong kongs freedoms our correspondent adrian brown reports. It normally takes a year for Chinas Parliament to pass legislation this time it happened in record time ju
The hearing on the senate health, education, labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning, and thank the senators and our witnesses or joining us from around the country at various offices. We are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe distancing, and those of us who are here are Wearing Masks on her weight in and sitting at least six feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will each have an Opening Statement, then we returned to our witnesses for their statements of about five minutes each, if they could please summarize them and oh, there it is. And senators will each have five minute rounds of questions. We have a vote at 11 40, so we we will need to finish this hearing about noon and hopefully all the senators will have by that time a chance to ask the questions. The question for administrators of 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in
Good morning. Good morning. The hearing on the senate labor and Pensions Committee will please come to order. We want to thank our staff for working through some technical difficulties this morning and thank thean senators and our witnesses who are joining us from around the country in various offices where we are all following the attending physicians protocol for safe us whoing and those of are here Wearing Masks on our way in and sitting 6 feet apart while we are here. Senator murray and i will have an Opening Statement then we will turn to our witnesses for of about fivets minutes each, if they could please summarize them, there it ais. Senators will each have five minutes rounds of questions and we have a vote at 11 40 so we will need to finish this hearing by about noon and all the senators will have had that time and chance to ask theires questions. The question for administrators of the 6000 colleges and universities is not whether to reopen in august but how to do it safely. M
Crudeng with oil, wti ps more than 100 to 1. 5 a barrel. Negative for the first time, june delivery contract, 21 a barrel. President trump says he will suspend immigration to the u. S. Over virus concerns as some states look to end the lockdown, plus u. S. Officials learned kim jongun was in Critical Condition following Cardiovascular Surgery last week. Washington is seeking clarity on the north Korean Leaders health. Just under an hour where from the start of cash equities trade. Lets look at futures after markets went negative with the plunging oil prices. You can see european futures now, down about 1. 5 to 2 . U. S. Futures, the cash trade close lower in new york yesterday so u. S. Futures are down a little less than european futures, but we are still seeing dow futures down two thirds of 1 . European equity markets on the oil price, some geopolitical news out of the korean peninsula, as well and perhaps a little focus on the data coming through. U. K. Data on joblessness coming th
India italy locking down the whole country. Lets get straight over to the markets now, we are joined by Sarah Ponczek. One of the one of the highlights . Helling say the the selling has not stopped. Saw a limitafter we down in futures yesterday, we and at the same time we have new zealand coming on, getting closer and closer, well below the 200 Day Moving Average which served as support earlier on. At the same time, we have seen dollaryen moving closer and now the yen is trading at the highest level. Prior to the president ial election in the United States, and also, the vti crude oil extending losses again after the worst day since the 1991 we have seen absolutely massive moves. Day, we didf the close down 7. 6 and if you look at the different barometers, we have seen massive moves. The average move over the last eight trading days has been 3. 7 , that is the largest going back to 2008, so to put into context the amount of volatility we have seen, the vix also at [indiscernible] lets