That really has been down to currencies. The dollar index is up at the moment, but if you look at it over 24 hours, actually, its down by. 3 ,. 4 percent. One of the main beneficiaries of crown weakness has been strength. Sterling has been propelled about 1. 5 in the last day or thereabouts. The dollar weakness has been felt with the yen also moving to the upside. Theres another reason we are seeing upside on equities in japan. Gold not a major beneficiary, though it was at oneweek highs at one stage after the dollar was sagging earlier on. Thats a look at markets. Lets head over to tom. Tom lets get you up to speed with some of the other first word headlines. The Trump Administration is ramping up tensions with china once again, designating six asnland Media Outlets foreign which it says are controlled by beijing. They include the economic daily, which provides a look at beijing economic news. The Administration Says all six are substantially owned or by atively controlled foreign gov
Reporting that at least 18 fighters iranian backed fighters were killed in those strikes it wouldnt be the 1st time we did mention that israel has been targeting iranian backed fighters in syria for years but what has been happening as of late sami is that were seeing israel expanding the scope of its military operations targeting iran and iranian backed fighters wherever it can syria 2 weeks ago lebannon and then we have these mysterious strikes targeting iraqi groups groups that are backed by iran targeting their arms depots targeting their leaders very close to the Syrian Border what israel is trying to do is we can iran across the region prevent it from gaining more influence and that area of this book camel area there is really a heavy presence of iranian backed fighters because this is the land corridor or it lies along the land corridor that links their front to damascus damascus to beirut. Thanks so much. Still ahead on aljazeera the families who say their lifestyles in the ama
Symptoms of the problem so putting out fires if you qualify you posted put it out that far more importantly when you think about ways to avoid those fires being led to the scraping into the forest in the 1st place and all of the systems and the understanding the technology needed to do that is all in place we just need resources to be able to implement it better and to ensure that the rules that brazil already have has really ready were world class environmental legislation that is in force and if it wasnt forced and if farmers were properly supported especially farmers who have no choice of which is not the main source of the problem but they need support as well in order to ensure that their practices can continue insisting the way to be gotten a joining us from stockholm to i thank you so much for your time thank you very much for having me on the emergency in the amazon of course stretches beyond brazil nearly one and a half 1000000 hectares of tropical rainforest in both. Via have
A bill to stop his do or die pledge to leave the e. U. At the end of october with or if necessary without a negotiated deal with brussels could the last minute revolt save the u. K. From a no deal bracks it and even topple the Prime Minister at the end of the road for johnson thats our question for today and here are the guests who will answer it Alex Forrest Whiting is a d. W. Reporter and a former westminster Political Correspondent she says the countrys parliament and the conservative party are tearing themselves apart over breakfast at Prime Minister johnson appears to have lost control and features taylan is with us hes an expert on business and economics who formerly wrote for the german newspaper steve bell and the bitch and he says democratic convictions are more deeply rooted in the political system of britain than some populists seem to believe and its a pleasure to welcome john edwards he is an e. U. Citizen with you. A passport to visit berlin hes a blogger political adviso
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