A Government Expert says its a big step forward. It means that we can spread the vaccine around, it means that we can really start to impact on this pandemic notjust here but right the way across the world. Some Primary School children in wales could be back in the classroom after half term, if Infection Rates continue to fall. And the trailblazing African American actress cicely tyson has died at the age of 96. And coming up in sport on bbc news, Dina Asher Smith makes a winning return to International Athletics as she storms to 60 metre victory at the World Indoor Tour event in germany. Good evening. The Prime Minister says the European Union must urgently clarify its intentions over its decision to temporarily override part of the brexit deal as the row intensifies with astrazeneca over a shortfall in supplies. The eu has introduced new controls giving Member States the power to block exports of the Coronavirus Vaccine to countries including the uk should they want to. Under the bre
Entered a new wave of cases. Europes twin battles. E. U. Leaders make no progress. Chancellor merkel says finding compromise will be difficult as france and belgium are said to have urged e. U. Leaders to step up contingency plans for a nodeal brexit. Very good morning to you and happy friday. What a week it has been. Witharted the week off optimism and euphoria with markets on a high into vaccine news and we will be ending the week on a much more sobering tone. The news coming out in the United States, california imposing a new curfew, with pressure on officials. We wake up to a public clash between Steven Mnuchin and jay powell on unused lending funds and we saw that hit the futures market. S p 500 futures paring some of those losses. We have nasdaq futures relatively flat this morning. Treasury yields steady. In the pound, north of 132. We do have sources telling bloombergs that Emmanuel Macron is urging his e. U. Counterparts to start drawing up contingency plans for a nodeal brexi
Short two to three week circuit breaker. The northwest of england, the northwest, the northeast. The list is growing longer. Tom it is going to be interesting. To say the least, the lockdown in america is not a lot done but is very regional, as mentioned in the debate last night. The upper middle west really hit hard right now. In new york city with our news, ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and joe biden covered a wide range of issues in last nights second debate. Amongst them, racism, corruption, and the manner in which the president handled the coronavirus. Trump no choice. We cannot lock ourselves up in a basement like joe does. He says we are learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it. He also said the vaccine would be coming in weeks. In that of a guarantee is that a guarantee . Pres. Trump it is not a guarantee, but by the end of the year. Mr. Biden anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of america. Ritik
Good morning and welcome to bloomberg survellance. Francine lacqua here in london. The interview of the day is when we have a conversation for the Vice President from facebook emea. That we also heard from ursula von der leyen, the president of the European Commission. 225 billionlanned euros in green bonds that may have an impact on markets. Later on we look at etf. Stocks are actually rising ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting. Treasuries and the dollar pretty much steady. Crude oil extending gains. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Ruled the u. S. Violated International Rules by imposing tariffs on china. It is unlikely to lead to changes in washington. The white house can veto the decision by appealing. It has paralyzed the wto by blocking new appointments. President trumps controversial pick for the Federal Reserve senateoes not have the support needed to win confirmation, according to the number two republican in the chamber, senator john thune. Received critic
The warning comes just hours before france downgrades Fourth Quarter growth to zero. And the u. S. Legislators propose sweeping antitrust reforms on tech giants including alphabet and amazon. 449 page report recommends curves curbs on acquisitions. 6 00 came in london, 9 00 a. M. In downtown well done, welcome to the myriad of tweet storms. It pulls the ripcord on fiscal negotiation. A very machiavelli move, then he offers the art of the deal. Good morning. We are betwixt and between. Annmarie good morning, a bit of a tugofwar because these came after jay powell was pretty unequivocal about his stand on what is needed for the u. S. Economy, saying the risk of overdoing it seems to be small. Youre looking at the trump tweets instructing his team to close negotiations. Manus the other thing that comes to mind is this, from promises to do a deal after he gets reelected. The risk is this, we have a fiscal void, that is the risk until february. Fiscal void takes you through to february. Tak