In los angeles, home to a Film Industry where women are routinely paid less than their male counter parts. But how does that reflect life as a whole in the United States . A conditional peace fire in syria is largely being observed. Some artillery and machine gunfire has been reported, but no major attacks. Now the main Syrian Opposition said that 100 rebel factions have agreed to respect the truce. It does not include isil and the al nusra front, which is learned to alqaeda. Theyre both designated terrorist groups by the United Nations and were not part of the truce deal. Al nusra is calling on its fight tours intensify attacks on government forces. The a suburb in the capital of damascus is not included in the truce, and it will continue to be bombed. Well, russia says that isil and al nusra will continue to be targeted. We take on the peace fire in totality. The control of the situation has won territory every day using unmanned drones, space and other types of intelligence to fight
Francine welcome to the pulse. Manus i am manus cranny. We will bes aiming to Peter Altmaier we will be speaking to Peter Altmaier. Francine there is more evidence of the china slowdown this morning. 8. 8 in august. That is the most since 2011. Nick bottoms is standing by with more. What is driving the downturn . Whammyhis is a triple for a lot of these industrial companies. The stock market crashed affected in a very bad way. A lot of their investments and demands are low for a lot of these drivers of the old economy. You want the valuation coming home to roost. A lot of these companies had lending denominated in dollars. Their debt becomes more expensive. You are seeing a confluence of factors and the data showing how hard it is heading chinas industrial companies. Manus where we see that evidence. If we look at the broader economy, we have had a raft of measures. Drawing conclusions about where we are, whether it is a hysterical slowdown. Or whether it is going to be a glide lower.
Look at oil prices. It has been one of the keys to working out what is happening in the markets at the moment. The oil route continues. I have a wti chart here. In the far righthand corner, we see 34. 59. Arab opeca meeting of members in cairo over the weekend. The Iraqi Oil Minister talking about how we do not need to be pessimistic about oil prices. A similar message coming from the qataris. Spain faces unchartered Political Uncertainty this morning after the Prime Minister lost his majority in an inconclusive election. Thety lost a third uncertainty may see spanish bonds open lower today. Brent crude fell to its lowest level since july 2000 or amid the speculation that supplies pricesacerbate a global are down 37 this year. Iraqs oil minister says oil well bounceback because the current price is hurting reducers. He did not say when that would happen but insisted that market fundamentals are strong. Toshiba slumped the most in seven months. The comments came after the nikkei said to
Malnutrition. Documen diplomats try to find a solution to a problem affecting 800 Million People. As a nation we will settle the score with every terrorist and their dispatchers thats the messages from israels Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. It means that bulldozers are destroying the homes of palestinians that attack israelis. Binyamin netanyahu says its a necessary deterrent. Critical it collective punishment this is the home of a man who rammed his car into a Light Railway station a few weeks ago. A woman and child were killed, and now Israeli Forces demolished his home. This is collective punishment. You cannot punish the whole family for the actions of an individual. The situation is getting worse. We have no hope. This is the inside of the family room. Israeli forces removed the rest of the families living inside the apartment blocks before exploding this flat, leaving it in rubble. The israeli Prime Minister made it clear those attacking israelis will have their homes demolis
Talked about museum in australia, a madonna montage and a machine that deaf defecates. Wait until you see whats behind that. Breaking news out of nigeria. Theres been an attack by fighters in borno state. Troops are currently fighting fighting fighting attackers in mandula. This is where boko haram have launched so knowledge assaults in the last 18 months. I would planning the finger of blame is pointing at them and tell us more about what you know so far. Well thats why the Nigerian Military are saying that they have engaged boko haram fighters who attacked the capital city of borno state midugery, there is no precise number of boko haram fighters that have been engaged by nigerian fighters. This comes just 24 hours less than 24 hours since president Goodluck Jonathan visited there. Parliamentary elections are taking place and some are wondering hmm does this have anything to do with it, the fact that the president was there and there has been disaffection and unhappiness in the way t