market analyst franco berridge joins us from london now let's talk about bad communication to start with something we've got used to with a trump administration but something that the chinese is seeming to struggle with. yeah that's right i think the root of the problem is the fact that policy at the white house has been made alternately directly by the president often with high the no input or even contradictory import from various advises to the result of this is that as we've heard this week for example with could lose recent statements the senior advisers like to add a lot of contingency into the communications they put out and even to say a deal is being reached always make it contingent on final approval from the president and as you said you know chris sort of a messy communications environment and you can see financial markets reacting to that was 1st sort of sentiment driven often on the room or even one little true woods and you'll see quickly a risk on risk off response in fixed income equities and foreign exchange what then is it going to take to clear all this uncertainty. i

now earlier we spoke with one experience head of market analysis ranko berridge we asked them how much the erratic communication surrounding the trade discussions were a disadvantage for the chinese. that's right. i think the root of the problem is the fact that policy at the white house has been made alternately directly by the president often with high the no input or even contradicting important from various advisers as a result of this is that as we've heard this week for example with could lose recent statements the senior advisers like to add a lot of contingency into the communications they put out and even to say a deal has been reached always make it contingent on final approval from the president and as you said you know chris sort of a messy communications environment and you can see financial markets reacting to that for more on just how the financial markets are reacting our correspondent yan's quarter is here to give us the view from wall street yang's after yesterday's highs the end of this trading week is marked with a bit more uncertainty how does it look from your end

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it just a quick look at the headlines now demonstrations in iraq's capital have fled a berridge of gunfire and take asked a security forces move in to clear protest site the iraqi human rights commission says at least 4 people have been killed in baghdad and more than 100 wounded anti-government protesters have been on the streets for weeks now saying they're fed up with corruption a struggling economy and a lack of basic services going to name has more i think what you're seeing by security forces here in the capital is a strategy to couldn't find protesters to tahrir square that has been the epicenter of these protests since they began on october 1st what we're seeing are clashes between security forces and protesters in areas surrounding tahrir square you mentioned clashes in which the iraqi human rights commission says at least 4 people were killed this evening those clashes took place at a square leading to tahrir square india's supreme court has ruled a disputed religious site in the country's north be given to hindus the land in the town of has long been claimed by both muslims and