Of the covid tunnel. Two down, two to come, Johnson Johnson and astrazeneca. Thats the main reason for the big monday morning rally with the dow jones up about 450 points. Tao, 30000. If we gain 500 points the dow jones is at 30k, again in a one half percent. Smaller game for the s p and nasdaq slightly lower. That is the market. Love the rally. Hate this of violence. Trump supporters attacked in washington dc last night with tens of thousands rallying peacefully, but after nightfall violence. A limited Police Presence and virtually no mention about this in the Mainstream Media and so far no statement from the biden harris camp. Bernie sanders now says he has not met anyone who wants to defund the police. Has he talked to aoc . Editorial, the company ministration deserves credit for the Rapid Development of the vaccines. Republican states like florida deserve credit for opening their economies to get the country moving forward and democrat governors in new york and california and elsew
There is the thenwhat later in the week that will be interesting. Francine right. Depending on whether it is a contested election, that is what i keep hearing on the markets, that if it is contested we could see a lot of volatility in all sorts of asset classes. And of course, there is a bit of news on brexit, and coupled with news on restrictions in the u. K. Economy, it is giving us more neutral pound going forward. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The president ial campaign is in its final full day. If there is of polls show joe biden leading President Trump nationally and in battleground states. Some of those states remain extremely close. Candidates will Campaign Today in pennsylvania. The state is vital bidens chances, and it could become almost a mustwin state for the president as well. The white house slammed Infectious Diseases chief Anthony Fauci after he ramped up criticism of the way the coronavirus pandemic was handled. He told the Washin
About the election . No clean democrat sweep for example or a trump . Is it telling us a stimulus package is coming, not to worry about lockdowns . We will get into all of that. You are looking at a big preelection rally. So, whos going to win . I dont know. On one side of the polls shows biting with a lead nationally, but in battleground states mr. Trump has caught up and look at this impromptu trompe rallies has popped up overall all of the country over the weekend. This was in florida with convoys of Trump Supporters shopping traffic in several states and at trompe rallies, long lines of people trying to get it in. I didnt see any biden rallies or biden bumper stickers. Theres clearly an enthusiasm. Today a mad to the finish line with people lining up that mr. Trumps rallies. I switched on my tv at midnight last night and saw the president just starting his final rally joe biden will attend to events in pennsylvania and one in ohio today. The biden camp is worried about the low turn
Programme of the decade. pres now on bbc news, the brexitcast team look back on a roller coaster of a year in politics in review 2019s brexitcast. No ones got a bleep clue what brexit is. Brexit is, um. I hadnt quite understood the full extent of this. Were particularly reliant on the dover calais crossing. I met borisjohnson once. The doubters, the doomsters, the gloomsters, they are going to get it wrong again. Remainers and leavers, thats going to end well. A process which i can only describe as a dogs brexit. This is katya adler in westminster. Its adam fleming in westminster. And laura in westminster as well. All together. The three wise people. And were empty chairing, not Ice Sculpture melting, ourfriend chris. He is on holiday already. In new zealand. So he has gone as far away as you can possibly get from brexit. For anyone who is just tuning in and has not seen us, brexitcast is a podcast that is in your podcast feeds multiple times per week. The tv show on thursday night and
Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. The scale of the conservative party triumph in last weeks uk election promises to have seismic consequences. Borisjohnson can get brexit done on terms and a timetable of his choosing. Parliamentary approval guaranteed. Not since Margaret Thatcher is a tory leader had such an opportunity to remake written. An opportunity to remake britain. Well, my guest is conservative mp and former cabinet minister andrew mitchell. Boris johnson has been handed immense power. What will he do with it . Andrew mitchell, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. I want to begin with some very interesting words coming from the mouth of Boris Johnson after his election victory. He said, this election has changed this government and this conservative party for the better. What did he mean by that . I think hes right. I think what he meant was that the paralysis that has characterised the past 3. 5 years of mrs mays government has been swept away. There is a decisive conservativ