Japans National Treasures the 500 year old. Im melissa chan youre watching news asia thank you for joining us india officially changes the status of kashmir today thursday it is now no longer in autonomous state and instead has been split into 2 federally controlled territories one is called jadwin kashmir and the other is a dock. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the decision back in august since that announcement the regions been under lockdown with no internet local politicians arrested and limited information filtering out some of what we know is coming unexpectedly from european visitors. Indian administered kashmir news of the european lawmakers imminent arrival sparked angry protests across the region 3 months into delhi security lock down tensions remain at boiling point. More than 80 days of protests but no ones paying attention people are getting killed slaughtered everythings closed theres a communications lockdown. In delhi the any peace will welcome personally by Pr
Have been racially motivated the suspect who police say is an Italian National has been arrested it comes after this member body of an eighteen year old italian girl was discovered hidden in two suitcases near much rater and they syrian migrant was arrested in connection with the death we spoke to an Italian Journalist about how the country is reacting to the issue of immigration. At the moment we have a lot of arrivals and the. Is not is leaving early in facing these issues if the situation is not managed to properly we will have probably. Aggressive campaigns and of course this kind of aggressive campaign. Can lead to more violence in the future. Turkey and greece have reignited a decades long feud over the sovereignty of two small islands in the aegean sea and grows even threaten violence against top greek officials if they travel there. Athens will feel the anger of turkey we will break the arms and legs of any offices of the Prime Minister or of any minister who dares to step on t
The point of compiling report in different places and i dont know if you would agree with me but that i think there is a certain degree of i think trolling and even read to kill Police Targeting not so much russia but the congress do you think the way these report has been compiled ease it in keeping is it in compliance with the congress requirements i think they did their best to comply i think they actually added more information than i even expected them to add. To your point though this the design of this report was to be a name and shame list and the effects of the practical effect of it is that people Business Partners people in joint ventures banks that are engaged in transactions with these parties would move away from them or enhance Due Diligence in regards to their commercial activities and give a higher higher level of scrutiny to those activities well i. And this is what many years officials have suggested that this least was designed to be some sort of a psychological too
Financial institutions so i do think its going to have some practical effect but to your point there was already a toxic environment in many of those parties were already there sanction or subject to such enhanced diligence now mr fry just a technical question i know that the how being your clients to navigate various sanctions regimes and. Formally speaking of these are not sanctions this is some sort of quasi i official document a little bit like a Wikipedia Page verified by treasury secretary was the right way of thinking about this report in legal terms does it actually compile the american the Financial Institutions to do anything about the people who are no it doesnt and treasury stated right in the report this is not a sanctions list which is why it was so surprising when later on in the week treasury and secretary minutia mention that this report could be a preview of potential future sanctions targets after heavily caviare in the report saying its not a sanctions list and ther
55 said no. 45 said yes. One of the morning papers here, the reUnited Kingdom. The no voters, jubilant last night as the results started to come in. 2 million scotts voted no versus 1. 6 who had voted yes. They were absolutely ecstatic, the no vote, to see what was happening. The yes voters, as you can imagine, extremely unhappy. Uk Prime Minister David Cameron, thats not him, thats alistair darling, but the uk Prime Minister David Cameron just a few hours ago addressed the nation. Good morning. The people of scotland have spoken. And it is a clear result. They have kept our country of four nations together. And like millions of other people, i am delighted. As i said during the campaign, it would have broken my heart to see our United Kingdom come to an end. The british pound rallied sharply overnight as the results started to roll in. Weve seen it pullback now, but still above 163, almost to 164. So maybe some of that priced in. But you can see the rise overnight. Let me show you wha