Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us its election day in the United States and today and all this week well be looking at the impact of the vote on countries across asia one of the most important relationships for the u. S. In the entire pacific is its in gage meant with india the 2 countries together with japan and australia from part of what is known as a quad for democracies in a clear counterpoint to china the regions large authoritarian state we sat down with indias foreign secretary harshvardhan to discuss regional politics we started by asking him whether thered be any change with a biden presidency especially given president dollar trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modis great personal admiration for each other. Other relations with the United States are really based on bipartisan support you see it in congress you see it in public lives we do believe that the force that elation ship that today is had visits to the test of time is very comprehensive and
Name is Eddie Micah Jr welcome to the program the impact of next weeks president ial election in the United States will also be felt in africa in kenya and other subsaharan countries do not try in 2017 to reinstate the ban on funding for abortion has impacted the lives of millions of women and girls the move has left some Health Care Services hanging on by a thread and desperate for change as they see women dying from unsafe abortions did abuse reports from nairobi. For frieda kansi getting pregnant was a disaster she was studying at a Secretarial College the Bright Future she was working for suddenly seemed threatened when i knew i was pregnant i had old showings. Just thinking of killing. No ds. Was just thinking that. Im not going. To and he used. A lucky break she was referred to even know my clinic she underwent an abortion and now feels she has control thanks to contraceptive implants. My dad instead of the whole does a lot of things in my future. But the clinic is under threat d
A completely new generation will approach things in a fresh and different way and then former liberal democrat president ial candidate land or pick pick i wonder if they had theyve uns and be more of the same he looks like the favorite because hes had a lot more coverage because hes been knocked in leader but in actual fact made up more on stage should win because shes really the only person i have to say whos got a chance of becoming the posse if you really pin me down my moneys on lay them around because i think all the students say way. All that to come but 1st your tweet emails and messages on last weeks show on the art scene looked at in which featured elaine c. Smith and guidance for dale 1st joel says i really love the speak show about the future and laughed out loud to funny story about their vehicle with their 784 local bank through the whole team keep up the good work with thank you and keep watching richard says just watch the interview with alex semin to speak about god for
For National Statistics show the countrys g. D. P. It plunged by 20. 4 percent in the 2nd quarter of this year this is its deepest recession on record this comes after a dramatic fall in output of 2. 2 percent in the 1st quarter of this year while the countrys Statistics Agency compared it to an annual rate of about 59. 8 percent and u. K. Chance to knock said although these are hard times theres still room for hope. We talking about this a few months ago said the hard times were coming and todays figures show the hard times that here hundreds of thousands of people have already lost their jobs and suddenly many more will. Say to people all the tough decisions law ahead for all of us no one will be left without hope or opportunity. But g. D. P. Did expand by 8. 7 percent in june showing some promising signs still that 2nd quarter really hit it hit steepest among other rich countries and 2nd quarter u. S. And germany actually lost around 10 percent of their output italy lost 12 percent
Spreading in several counties. Alameda county reporting a new single day record a 334 new cases of covid19 and santa clara and Contra Costa County also reporting more than 200 new cases each a running list of coronavirus cases and deaths can always be found on our website kron 4 dot com. And all 9 bay area counties are currently on the states watch list which has forced the closure of so many businesses that had temporarily reopened now one barry county, the Health Officer there. Well is now calling out the state saying how counties get on that watch list in the first place isnt accurate for more now on the story to kron fours dan kerman he joins us now live from san bruno. Good evening. Dan. Good evening just in San Mateo Countys Health Officer is apologizing to businesses that he was forced to close a week ago because this county went on the states a watch list actually the last county of the 9 to go on the watch list. He is saying that this one size fits all approach by the state to