A very warm welcome to you watching r. T. International with mina care and our top story this hour the leaders of libyas warring factions are in mosco for talks this monday in the hope of signing a cease fire deal it follows russian and turkish efforts to deescalate hostilities between the internationally recognized government in tripoli and forces loyal to the rebel general Khalifa Haftar well that helped broker an initial ceasefire in the conflict on sunday and signaled the 1st break in fighting in libya for months the talks underway in the russian capital are expected to put a political solution back on the table while for more details we can go live to our correspondent rym on culture right now rym on whats led to this potentially pivotal meeting in the russian capital today. Well 1st of all were getting news right now so the leaders of the. 2 warring factions in libya are indeed in moscow but reportedly a they have not sachs asia other they refuse to tell to shut off each other so
Pricing in less than a 50 chance of a cut and fewer cuts for the year as well. Looking at where we are for the asia thing index, extending gains to about. 5 . Xaomi jumping on early signs of success for its ev. It received 90,000 orders within the first 24 hours. In china, no momentum after it rose the most in about a month on monday. Two sets of data suggesting his recovery. Currently, the csi index down. 2 . Speaking of china, it is about the yuan. Versus the usd, weakening ever so slowly, which we are keeping a watch on. We had weakness persisting despite yet another strong fixed by the pboc and speaking of currencies, the yen on watch as well weakening towards 152 versus the usd. The finance minister tried talking about, but nothing we have not heard before. Speaking of japan, japanese officials were ramping up warnings against speculative moves in the yen. Lets discuss prospects for intervention with our guest this hour who is synonymous with imaging and Frontier Markets investing
right across brazil as those variants that p. one variant takes hold the more people would comply with the measures designed to try to fight the pandemic but it doesn t seem to be going that way i mean millions of brazilians do but there are also millions of brazilians tens of thousands as we saw earlier on on sunday out on the streets defying those measures saying that they support president job also nado who has always had a very lax a daisy attitude towards the pandemic he had himself but he s always said is nothing worse than a little flu and asked brazilians to stop moaning about it they re out there supporting him waving the brazilian flag waving it wearing the brazilian national. saying they don t intend to comply with those measures. ireland and the netherlands have joined a number of countries in halting the use of the astra zeneca vaccine of a blood clot concerns the drug s firm says it has reviewed data and says there s no increased risk protesters in jordan are de
military s crackdown on anti cooper testis martial law has been declared in 6 young gone townships scott hyder reports now from bangkok in neighboring thailand. what we re looking at now on monday people have been coming out again in yangon in those districts that we saw a lot of violence on sunday but also in mandalay we re hearing also now that there is live ammunition being used at least at one protest in mandalay so it continues but what s interesting we look back at what happened on sunday when you look at those districts around yangon we saw the most violence the government has announced that they re going to be under martial law or they already are now under martial law they were to they were announced on sunday and then 4 additional areas and now it s today on monday protesters on opposite sides of the world are taking up the fight against sexual violence directed at women thousands have joined rallies across australia to mounting justice for victims and that been sim
close advisors the british foreign secretary says that assad s regime subjected the syrian people to quote a decade of brutality the security forces killed at least $39.00 people on sunday the worst day of violence in a month and a half long crackdown on the anti couth but state television says that one police officer was also killed scott hired has more from bangkok in neighboring thailand. despite that some protesters have come out today on monday after this after the announcement that those areas are under martial law now they are still coming out what we saw on sunday as you mentioned the deadliest day so far around 50 people were killed one though one within that number is a policeman that according to authorities in myanmar but the deadliest day we re kind of seeing that the repetitions of that the army taking a further step of their control of the streets in those debt districts 6 districts in yangon and 5 districts in mandalay indonesia has become the latest country t