Terms. That is a bit worse than the preliminary figure of minus 27. 8 announced in august, which was already a record. Corporate Capital Spending was the biggest drag. Businesses are holding off from making investments due to the uncertain economic outlook. Personal consumption, which accounts for more than half of japans gdp, was hit hard as well. The quarter on quarter was revised to minus 7. 9 from minus 8. 2 announced earlier. Campaigning to choose the next leader of japans main ruling party and the country is officially getting under way. Three political heavyweights are vying to succeed Prime Minister abe shinzo who is also president of the liberal democratic party. Abe is stepping down because of health issues. The chief cabinet secretary Suga Yoshihide has been one of abes closest aides and a popular spokesperson throughout abes eight yeaears in office. Suga promises to continue abes policies including his goal of containing the newew corononavi while maintaining economic activ
Translator we will be securing hospitals to specialize in covid19. Two hospitals will now exclusively care for coronavirus patients, each offering about 100 beds. Officials plan to secure 200 more covid19 beds spread across 14 hospitals. Ministers and experts met on friday to discuss antivirus measures. The experts proposed using a fofourstage classificatation sm to monitor the coronavirus situtuation. The approach would use six criteria, including case numbers and the percecentage of coronavirus tests which provide posititive results. S. They say many parts of the country are in stage two, seeing a gradual spread. The head of the expert panel says at stage three, officials should ask bars, which arent following virus prevention guidelines, to close. Translator when the situation is classified as stage four, logically speaking, its time to issue a state of emergency declaration. The minister in charge of the Coronavirus Response says the priority must be supporting the medical system.
Washington who is author of tonights book , boss of the grips, the life of James H Williams and the red caps of Grand Central terminal. This is part of an ongoing series of programs posted in conjunction with our series the ballad of harlem. If youve not had a chance to look at the exhibition it will be up through the end of december. There are all these things inside the exhibition that i think you will hear about tonight and also it might feed your own historical knowledge about how the ballot for harlem examines several strands of black place making in the 20th century offering viewsof president s and institutions dedicated to education , politicalengagements , cultural affirmation and creativity. The exhibition as i was mentioning earlier highlights includes the brotherhood of sleeping car porters which was the first union of black workers particularly plowman porters and youll also find selections from ruby dee and aussie davises collection which we recentlyacquired. Also items fr
Want to know the real numbers we want to know whos supporting in the pens and who smoke and theres no way the kingdom of spain can agree on such a referendum like the u. K. Did it for scotland or the so we dont think were better than any other nation but were not less than any other nation but the e. U. Know that the problem with referenda and i think the bracks and station shows that the independents moment its called supports that as well is that people may change their mind the circumstances may change. Are you sure that if you have internationally recognised referendum and if the majority of catalan say no to independence is that going to put the issue to rest once and for all. Not for me or people like me but we will have a result and we will accept it obviously. The same thing if there is a yes we expect the spanish authorities and the International Community especially the Spanish Government to do what they didnt do on october the 1st 2017 when such a vote was held and they did
Understand neither the current cut on authorities nor the spain authorities consider it illegal or free and fair for you it wasnt free and fair because of the Police Presence for them it was illegal as far as the results of concerned anything over 90 percent of people who came to the polls they supported the independence cost as far as the results are concerned do you consider them legitimate or it is it more like a legacy or every torkel issue for you it was an enormous wonderful feat bringing millions of people to the polls enabling them to vote despite police disruption and brutality and its something the people of the loony achieved and the government which was in place than helped the people to do to vote freely for the future thats the way we think things should be done perhaps we didnt have the strength to fulfill the mandate of the people and thats why we. Need International Complicity and support to convince the government of spain the this is the sensible reasonable way of do