Afghani as he and. Are sworn in as afghanistans president rival. And celebrations in sudan after its Prime Minister survives an assassination attempt on his motorcade. May have played its last match behind closed doors for a while as the countrys. Plunge into oil prices triggered by a dispute between saudi arabia and russia has sent stocks plummeting on Global Markets already spooked by the coronavirus billions were wiped off the value of Major Companies on monday londons footsie 100 suffered its biggest one day 4 since the Global Financial crisis of 2008 the index closed 7. 7 percent. Hong kongs hang seng index fell 4. 2 percent thats its biggest one day fall in 2 years and that spilled into other asian markets trading was hold. On the New York Stock Exchange for 15 minutes when the dow jones tumbled more than 7 percent shortly after it opened then it closed almost 7. 8 percent that. Wild crazy barrage wiley is a professor of International Business strategy at the university of surrey
The semi finals between netherlands and sweden in the womens world cup has just kicked off were live outside the stadium. The netherlands are 0 0 with sweden. A serious diplomatic row is breaking out between china and the uk and hong kong is at the centre of it. In the last few hours chinas ambassador to Great Britain has issued a stern warning to the uk government about intervening in the territory. Hong kong had now returned to embrace the motherland, its a special administration of china. Its not part of uk. So i weighed called them to say hands off of hong kong, show respect of what has been achieved in hong kong and the one country to systems. The chinese are clearly furious about comments like this uk support for hong kong and its freedoms is unwavering. Jeremy hunt. Hk people must preserve right to peaceful protest exercised within the law. That tweet was posted as were watching pictures like this. Protestors stormed hong kongs parliament and then vandalised it. They even raised
A serious incident. And 50 years after his i have a dream speech, Martin Luther king jr. Continues to inspire people in the u. S. And around the world with his message of equal rights for all. Britain is working to lay the groundwork for International Action against syria over allegations the military there is behind a deadly chemical weapons attack. David cameron says his country will draft a resolution to the u. N. Security council to protect civilians from this type of attack. Cameron says the resolution is based on chapter 7 of the u. N. Charter which stipulates how to deal with threats against peace. He will condemn the regime of president Bashar Al Assad for an attack that happened last week. It will be put to the Security Council in new york on wednesday. Britain has urged Council Members to live up to their responsibility and that they have an opportunity to do that now. Syrias longtime ally russia is one of the permanent members of the Security Council and has the power to vet
Having continued with a stricter lockdown than england, Northern Ireland has now decided to relax its lockdown more than any other part of the uk. From tuesday groups of up to six people not from the same household will be able to meet outdoors. Drive in Church Services and cinemas will also be allowed. Emma vardy is in belfast. Belfast has been like a ghost town but its about to come back to life. People in Northern Ireland are to be allowed more social interaction than anywhere in the uk. From tomorrow, six people from different households will be able to meet outdoors, far more than in england, where you can only meet one person from another house. The Northern Ireland executive says its down to changing scientific advice, it believes theres much less chance of the virus being passed on outdoors, so they will now allow drive through Church Services and cinemas, golf and tennis to restart. Much of this ahead of anywhere else in the uk. We are told that Outdoor Activities are able to
Were eased in england. Local councils urged people today to stay away from beauty spots and beaches and, although some National Parks have reported areas being busy, many people do seem to have heeded the warning, as andy gill reports. In normal times, more than 3 million day visitors come to the dales every year, and its not hard to see why. The National Park and local authorities, though, think it is too early to loosen the coronavirus lockdown. The big fear was that the car park would be full all week, and the river bank was going to be like blackpool when blackpool was busy and open, nobody social distancing. But as it is, we have a slow increase in the amount of people coming, that feel safe to come. But in grassington today, some people were taking advantage of the new guidelines, some travelling from harrogate and leeds. If you follow the guidance and you socially distance, you make sure that you are not touching anything. We have not seen anybody, really, but everyone we have s