leisha sa ntorelli. the thank you so much for the update. leisha santorelli.ll in positive territory. wall street stocks finished modestly higher. 0ffbeat economic —— up peak —— upbeat economic —— up peak —— upbeat economic data was offset by concerns about us monetary policy. have a great birthday, goodbye for now. britain's theresa may is in china to forge new partnerships ahead of britain's exit from the european union. the fbi says it has "grave concerns" about a report thought to outline alleged surveillance of the trump presidential campaign team. a public inquiry into the deaths of five children at hospitals in northern ireland between 1996 and 2003, has found that four of them were avoidable. chris page reports. claire roberts was nine when she died 22 years ago. her family were told at the time her death was caused by a virus. since then claire's parents, jennifer and alan, have been trying to find out what really happened. the grief is still overwhelming. even standing at the sink looking out at the back garden come summertime, you can still see her

first, let's go to our asia business hub in singapore where leisha sa ntorelli is following the storyin asia. that is a fear factor, if rates go up significantly in the us, asia is one of the losers. absolutely and we have questions around us inflation and questions around us inflation and questions around what the rates will be for the rest of the year and investors in asia did not find any clarity in the results released earlier so we are seeing a lot of risk appetite weakened because of concerns that we will see it will go up by more than expected. markets see a 90% chance that federal rates will go up from the march meeting but it was a merry picture in the chinese markets because they have reopened after the week—long new year holiday and they scored their best growth in 18 months and the investor mentality was to buy. the best performers were consumer and transport related stocks like 0antas, consumer and transport related stocks like qantas, and the rationale is clear as we saw millions of chinese take trips overseas and they are spending a lot of money shopping and eating out

first, leisha sa ntorelli is in singapore. just explain the logic of this deal, please. open important new markets for south korea and its auto sector and electronics sector all stand to benefit. talks have been going on for a while. the trade packs will eliminate duty on about 95% of all goods and services traded between south korea and these five countries. the south korean government also forecasts it will give a big boost to economic growth over the next decade and create at least 3000 jobs, important given they have a very young population, all looking forjobs and it is a political problem for them. seoul has said it is an important avenue for them to a given concerns over increasingly protectionist trade policies. thank you very much indeed. let's have a look at the markets. that is the australian market. the hang seng is moving up but the dow had a slightly weak day. let's have a look and see what the details are about what is going on. that is how we have opened. all of the markets are down a little bit. let's see what is on wall street today with joe miller. on