For becoming the new Prime Minister of malaysia. And the sugar plantation in uganda that environmentalists say threaten using protected rain forests and hundreds of its animal species. And im santa hamas now have all the sports page a League Baseball welcomes back fans as the Atlanta Braves when the opening match of the National League championship series. While we begin this news hour in cyprus where the government is suspending a controversial citizenship for Investment Program after an undercover investigation by aljazeera is expose high ranking officials expressing a willingness to aids convicted criminals so say an e. U. Citizenship. In august al jazeera as investigative units released the cyprus papers which revealed serious falls in the citizen by Investment Program and as phil reece reports the investigation led to see the highest offices of the cypriot state the cyprus Investment Program allows foreigners to buy a european passport for an investment mostly made in property of
Leader Anwar Ibrahim pushes his case for becoming the new Prime Minister of malaysia. And the sugar plantation in uganda that environmentalist say threatens a protected rain forest of hundreds of its animal species. Us President Donald Trump has been back outs with the crowds to fire up an Election Campaign that was interrupted by his covert 19 infection trump addressed supporters in the battleground state of florida without a mask a decision is democratic rival joe biden described as reckless aljazeera and a gallagher reports from miami. After a dramatic 2 weeks that seen President Donald Trump contract covert 19 and to the Walter Reed Medical Center and make an apparent speedy recovery hes now back on the campaign trail his 1st stop Central Florida where thousands gathered to welcome him back. Following the example of the president many in the crowd didnt wear masks and social distancing was nonexistent as Florida Governor on dissenters and to the rally he gave high fives to the crow
Donald trumps demand that schools reopened in september as coronavirus cases saw in several u. S. States. Were not going to put our children in a place with their health is in danger. And the u. K. Has long relationship with chinese tech giant huawei may soon be over. Now china is accusing the United States of trying to stir up trouble in the South China Sea thats after secretary of state mike pompei are said beijings claims to the region are completely unlawful now china claims almost the entire area but thats just future by several other Southeast Asian countries when he reports from bangkok. In several areas of the South China Sea islands at ols and reefs have been transformed china claims almost the entire area and for years has been militarizing the islands constructing remote outposts taiwan also claims parts of the South China Sea along with several Southeast Asian countries including vietnam which is mounted the strongest challenge to beijing last month a vietnamese Prime Minis
Welcome to the 2017 National Competitiveness forum. I hope all of you that were with us last night had a lovely evening at the University Club for our annual dinner. I know we were all absolutely blown away by the fantastic talk that was given on sustainability. Thank you again for that wonderful poor divorce of the imperative for sustainability in our future. Allow me to recognize and thank our sponsors for their support and commitment for the council of work and i want to recognize the company and Lockheed Martin are premier sponsors and want to recognize our national for pepsico, deloitte, our chairman sponsor asu, university of california san diego as well as the benefactors and patrons a ten tv and Michigan State university, university of action, verizon, Marquette University and whitecap investment. We cannot do that for him and i thank you very much for that. We have a full day, very exciting talks, as well as the relief of some of the critical annual policy work of the council
We have the world covered here on daybreak asia with the wrapup from the trade ministers meeting over the weekend. Help President Trump fared in riyadh shortly. This is daybreak asia. I am betty liu in new york. A. M. In just after 7 00 hong kong. Political risk will be dominating the headlines once again this week. The first leg of President Trumps middle east trip. It seems as so far so good, the opec meeting, the fed meeting this week, but plenty on investors place. Ceos like lots and lots of money being invested in their own home country, so pretty smooth sailing as you say, but there are still a lot of questions about the Political Risks. You saw Goldman Sachs taking down their target for the 2. 75 , ayield down to bearish a signal there. Markets have been choppy, but we have not seen total collapse. On jamesld depend comey when he testifies this weekend whether we get new information over the russian meddling scandal. See how things going. Asia kicking off so far, following the l