7. 09 offshore. Spread between offshore and onshore is particularly wide. 106. 10. Trading at if we look at the s p 500, it is semiconductors, copper stocks, casinos and gaming with exposure to china, asia, and all of that area. One bright spot, tyson foods after a whopping quarter. Guy european stocks are down. They followed asia, down by nearly 2 on the stoxx 600, and it is on big volume. The german tenyear, 50. We are now 52. See a haven bit attached to the german bond market. Talk over the weekend is that brexit cannot be stopped, and that we are headed for a new deal brexit. That was the message coming from the chief advisor now to Prime Minister boris johnson. The pound on the move as well, but coming back to flat. Vonnie china of course pushing back after President Trumps tariff threat, allowing the yuan to cross seven per dollar for the first time in a decade, and instructing company to suspend imports of u. S. Agriculturals. We are joined now by Charles Robinson charles robert
Say that this investigation is carrying on meanwhile the British Ministry of defense has decided that it is going to fast track the deployment of another war ship the h. M. S. Duncan which has been on drills in the black sea it is now heading straight to the gulf where you may remember there was an incident over the last few days where a british warship there the h. M. S. Montrose had to intervene so the british say between 3 iranian vessels that they thought were threatening a British Oil Tanker now this boosts the British Military presence or will do when the action is duncan gets there and is a direct response of whats happened in the rising tensions in the gulf the british feel that there is a direct threats to their shipping in the gulf and they have raised security levels to level 3 for Merchant Shipping there which is the highest possible level. Still have foiled the program Syrian Government forces are on the defensive off to rebel fighters launched a furious onslaught in hama
Industry we find out if it could be game over for the likes of sony and microsoft. So as the soviet union imploded it turned its back on the african continent in the 1990 s. But now under president putin russia is making a push to engage the reason is simple western sanctions the pivot to china hasnt been a huge success and hopes of billions of dollars in investment from the middle east havent arrived in the quantities expected plus african votes count in the United Nations. Russias trade with africa rose 26 percent to 17400000000. 00 in 2017 moscow doesnt have the financial power of beijing just in 2017 trade with africa amounted to 170000000000 dollars the u. S. Is of course worried its trade with Subsaharan Africa was 39000000000. 00 in 2017 and this is what russia is doing in africa it has oil and gas deals with algeria egypt ghana nigeria and mozambique it has Nuclear Deals in place with rwanda zambia and south africa although that is in limbo while it is a big supplier of arms to
Guarantee they will be power when they get home because of daily and frustration electricity cuts to struggling Civil Servants and millions of others this is now an everyday reality in zimbabwe. Aljazeera. Still ahead on the monitor nor have the latest on heavy monsoon rains causing havoc in their class. Party stands largest coal mine im a farmer been in the paradigm and ill tell you why workers here claim that this could be progress on solution to it and if you price is 100 years the cup. And i think arguably its luzon that wants the right in the philippines its been rather short this season but its certainly running as far north as maine where its basically the central and southern sudden philippines where the rays falling it is heaviest and thats the case in the forecast as well the darker green is where the expect to get the big southern philippines but it does just about reach. South of always in particularly almost all of indonesia is the dry season so its fairly reliably dry in
Corrupt people. From johannesburg. A lot of time was spent talking about the gupta family jacob zuma was accused of using his influence back when he was president to help them set up a news paper its alleged that he made a phone call to a Government Official a transcript of their phone calls without during the commission and as a leads jacob zuma told this Government Official my brother they are these gupta guys we need to meet with you and need your help please help them so you know was in us to respond and he said i dont remember making the score it might have happened he did insist he is friends with the gupta says it is family does speak to the doctors but he says no law has been broken he says all this is part of a Conspiracy Theory that goes back to about 20 years any alleges they are players for foreign and local who are trying to remove him because he says he thinks its because he knows too much when he started speaking at the hearing he claimed that he knows he has a list of p