Of knowledge to. Add will get reaction from kenya where doctors had been forced to drop some of their Reproductive Services because of a lack of dont aid from the u. S. Now the new us president has just reversed that policy. Plus weve got the story on what is behind the turtle hatchlings in kenya 7 beaches. Hello im kristie wonder its good to have your Company South africas chief pandemic advise us say a 3rd wave of covert 19 which is expected in the 2nd half of the year could be even worse than the current to 2nd way south africa is the worst hit country. A continent with 43000 deaths and 1400000 cases now the number of infections has soared because of the new variant of the virus that is say to be 50 percent more transmissible now the country is expecting its 1st delivery of 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine thats made to arrive on monday ill be talking to professor sally in a deal karim after this report. Health care workers at the frontline of south africas Coronavirus Cris
A live update from the nicaraguan capital for not one plus paris. Thank you. Were looking at exclusive d. W. News footage of an air strike in ethiopia is tikrit province. The rebellious region has ignored a government ultimatum to surrender. Ethiopias defense minister tells us he expects the military offensive on to grad to be over within a week. And play richardson welcome to the show. The United States has announced it will be, bringing some troops home from iraq and afghanistan by made in january u. S. , President Donald Trump had earlier suggested he wanted to accelerate the troop withdrawal from both countries by the end of his charm and office. The pentagon says it just to choose hours and 500. 00 troops will remain in each nation respectively. These conflicts have lasted through 3 american presidencies, with u. S. Troops stationed in afghanistan since 2001. And in iraq since 2003, National Security adviser, Robert Obrian says, the troop drawdown fulfills an election pledge impor
Good fun and foreign minister speaking there but he has will answer like that satisfy the demands of the protesters. Yes i think many of. The marcus activists they appreciate this message coming from chairman e. In the past few months that they have seen chummy as one off their Major International allies. Also said in the past that hes considering to treat free trade talks with island because off and to democratic developments in the country so his message coming from germany today i think is highly appreciated here among the activists in bangkok also happy that the International Community pays attention to their programs and to their grievances here in the country and yet it seems like they have a chief goal that they wanted to achieve with approach this in front of the Embassy Today by getting some sort of reaction like this from the German Government which is they also are ultra royalists and thailand and they criticize the protest movement and social media they even threaten violen
Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Happy monday. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. Toin, a very busy week, on the u. S. Election and about 16 days. Looking at futures, the hope is that we will get stimulus, and i am looking at treasuries. The pound already up after reports that officials were prepared to water down controversial brexit legislation and a move that could revive failing talks with the European Union. Also, the yuan seann gains. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Nancy pelosi says a preelection is possible, but she has set a tuesday deadline for making more headway with the white house. President trump is confident he can persuade the republicans to back a good deal, renewing his offer to go beyond the dollar amount that is now on the table. Now china has passed a new law to restrict sensitive exports to protect national security. It provides a framework for beijing to fight back
Plus, so that is a little bit of a lift that is maybe not identified within the euronext. Go, Kevin Cirilli could not sleep this weekend. This is exciting. Ranting cap it is exciting. I have been excited for the last two weeks before this because it is the polls, it is the final stretch. How much campaigning are joe biden and donald trump doing in the next two weeks . Tom it is going to be huge. These guys are in the final stretch. Money is an issue. We will talk a lot about that. Martin schenker joining us in the next hour. What is exciting about this is it gets back to basics. President trump is out there in nevada this weekend. He is in arizona today. Francine there are very few undecided voters from what i understand, and several people have already gotten out the vote. 52 of those are women. Lets get to first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. In china, economic recovery from the pandemic continued in the third quarter. Ago,ose 4. 9 from a year less than expected bu