It extends Unemployment Benefits of 600 to january 31. It helps give money to local governments and state governments so that the services we need dont get taken away. All of those are in the heroes act. They have been looking more and more and more to workers. Here is why. Our response is we are running Union Members for office. We got over 1000 elected in the last election. There are low offices, medium offices and higher offices. So that a workers perspective is always there, no matter who is in power. We do that so our voice is always heard in every corridor of power. And the more working people we elect to office, i think the more representative the government is. About who we are and what we stand for. John i should note that the aflcio endorsed joe biden for president. What is your pitch to the some 38 of Union Workers who voted for donald trump in 2016 . Richard he made a good pitch in 1916 and he did not live up to that. He has hurt us in a multitude of ways. One, he has chang
Indias domestic flights take off again but infections aree stilill rising. The biggest daily increase yet. Hello. The closest advisor to the u. K. Prime minister has defied calls to apologize over accusations he broke lockdown rules. Cummings says he does not regret his actions. He traveled with his family to london to northeast england when his wife was unwell. Our reporter is in westminster. Reporter this was an unusual moment for a man more comfortable in the background of politics. The prime ministers teacher advisor has been under pressure to explain his trip to the northeast of england which appeared to defied the governments lockdown rules. A journey he was forced to take under exceptional circumstances, he said. I do not regret what i did. I think reasonable people may what i didee about in the circumstances, but i think what i did was tolerably utterly reasonable in the circumstances. A daily he has faced media storm outside his home says the journey to ensure his fouryearold
S officers says stimulus is on the way. Euro german bailout. A. M. Has just gone 6 00 in london. I am torn between the debate on whether the u. S. Chinahong kong it the backstop of central bank the narrative that drives this . Japan reopening, australia is reopening and normalizing as is the u. K. Good morning. Expectations of expansion of stimulus for june. They seem to be gaining some momentum. The market seems to be putting a side the u. S. And the u. S. China tensions. That simmers in the background. We still see this risk on an markets. And perhaps added to the story a little bit of optimism or less pessimism. Like the bailout and we getcept the news like the bailout of lufthansa. Futures pointing to similar gains that we saw in the euro stoxx 50. The 10 year treasury yields higher. Is above 34 a barrel. Iae saying demand could get back to precoronavirus levels. The number of coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Is nearing 100,000 344 global deaths around thousand. However, u. S. Presi
Its good to have you with us over the 6 months of protests in Hong Kong China has repeatedly claimed that Foreign Forces often meant to unrest in the territory now it appears used torture to try to prove its claim a former employee of the u. K. Consulate in hong kong says he was tortured by Chinese Police while on an official trip to the mainland in August Simon Chang had been tossed by the consulate to report on the protests in hong kong he says that could be one of the reasons he was detained by Mainland Police chong has claimed that while in Detention Police wanted him to confess that the u. K. Was instigating under arrest in the territory and to extract this Confession Police used torture as a tool. Api code i paid hank coughed and ive been playing for. This not to torture for example like. Me has our hand cough and for several hours and that you feel very painful. And then for example you need to do a lot of extreme exercise distract tast stat for example you need to have Somethin
I am Francine Lacqua in london. You can see the stoxx pretty much unchanged, and if you look at the chinese were nimby the renminbi, china does not want a comprehensive deal with the u. S. , and we are looking at the pound, because we are seeing a little bit of a move on brexit, things on both sides, the eu saying they are looking at a proposal but are expecting more from the u. K. , the u. K. Saying they want to speak to Emmanuel Macron, the president of france, directly, and the euro is now at 1. 0973. And hsbc is cutting jobs, but bloombergs get to first word news. Reporter ready to emerge with impeachmentrump inquiry, a Law Firm Says it is acting on behalf of multiple whistleblowers. Abc news earlier reported the second whistleblower has not yet spoken to the committees investigating the president. The white house says this does not change the fact that trump did nothing wrong, and ealspects for a brexit d fading, after doubt be a cast on whether a deal can be reached before the oc