And the show goes on despite the coronavirus pandemic for a major Film Festival in qatar. A long awaited inquiry into the conduct of a study in special forces in afghanistan has found credible evidence of multiple war crimes. The report contains details of 39. 00 unlawful killings of civilians, all prisoners, and the cruel treatment of a foe. The 2 other allegations include weapons being planted on bodies to conceal crimes, just aspersion, conceded in detail. 57. 00 allegations of incidents and issues. He found there to be credible information, to substantiate 23 incidents, of alleged unlawful killing of 39 people by 25, a strong special forces personnel predominantly from the special air service regiment. Nicola gauges in congress with more on the investigation. This is been a very long running inquiry, and it has been extremely critical of the culture within a strongly as special forces unit in afghanistan, the inquiry looked at allegations and incidents that occurred between 2520168
Good morning, everyone. Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. A lot going on, because we have Christine Lagarde testifying in parliament. We will bring you anything that comes out of it. The markets focusing on infections rising around the world. They are focusing around the fact that we could see a stimulus. Lets get to the markets. I dont know if we have them. If we do, it could be great, and it would be a good time to look at them. Overall,ok at stocks they are falling along u. S. Futures, tougher restrictions, progress toward a vaccine. We have plenty more of course on that. Astrazeneca at rising amidst positive news on its coronavirus vaccine. We are hearing from Christine Lagarde. We had an exclusive conversation days ago. The focus is on the need for a stimulus. The focus is also on the need for markets to do a little bit more. She said basically the ecb delivered in the first wave. She is talking about the physical packages, on course for a fis
Well have a live report on that. President obama says Americans Care more about cheap gas than they do from the environment. Well hear from steve moore, whether this was a cheap shot. All that and a lot more on making money. Stay tuned. David its a huge market day. Nasdaq hitting alltime highs once again today after surging more than 10 last month. Vaccine hopes stronger than expected Economic Data and rumblings on capitol hill of a bipartisan covid relief bill are boosting market optimism. Joining me two markets experts to break it all down for us. Bellpointe chief strategist, david nelson. Great to see david again. And nicole webb. Let me start with the big picture. We didnt mention the fed announced, frankly nothing moves market more than free money. They said essentially there will be a lot more free money as long as they dont see any signs of inflation, the money printing will go on ad infinitum to pay all the bills but we still have a fear in the market of a more antibusiness, at
Rally has fed into crude. Propelled thates price. People look beyond the covid to a look beyond to a returned to normal. Gold pretty much stable appeared bitcoin at record highs. Up about two thirds of 1 . We have a u. S. Dollar index unchanged. Lets have a look at the copper price. Copper advancing. The highest price and a more than six years. It is under president elect joe bidens formal transition. The hope is there will be a move toward a Lower Carbon Energy future. That britain the outlook for its demand. As has what is going on in china up. Joining in all of that. Lets have a look at the transition in more detail as we get over to new york and join Karina Mitchell for the first word news. Introduced biden has his foreignpolicy and Security Experts as he seeks to calm relations with International Friends and foes. The president elect is promising a multilateral approach, reversing the America First tragedy of the Trump Administration. He will prioritize ending damaging executive o
Politician, bobby, why, and a judge orders the u. S. Government to stop expanding Migrant Children who cross the 7 border. And arpita simply go to school to englands purposes who took part in stone for the 1st time in 16 years. And better, more later in the program, i am thank you very much for joining as u. S. Drug. Make a 5 pounds to request emergency approval for discovered 1000 vaccine in the coming days. This softer results show that its safe and around 95 percent effective in old age groups. The vaccine developed with its german partner by intake has shown consistent results across various demographics with no major side effects. But there is growing concern masa, buying of any vaccine by the wealthiest nations could result in the exclusion of the waltz forests. The Campaign Group global justice now has warned that up to 85 percent of the global population wont have access. Thats because pfizer and by intake have already sold 82 percent of the 1300000000. 00 they can produce by t