Unchanged policy. Coming back from the typhoon slower by 116 points. We are talking about hsbc, one of the laggards here, missing out. The largecaps under pressure, 4819 right now. We are looking. When it comes to dollar dynamics, we did see a stronger dollar, which led to a hit. 379 right. 7 now. The china 10 year yield, we just got the pricing on the dollar bonds. Gold taking a retreat. Brent crude Holding Around 42. Tom lets bring you back to the top story in this region. Xi jinping will bring a major policy address later, in the next 20 to 30 minutes or so. Across the border in shenzhen, to talk about an integrated tech corridor to rival silicon valley. Stephen engle is following the story and joins us from hong kong. Steve, what are you looking for in this speech . Stephen i am looking for a better tagline. They are calling this a chinese socialist pilot zone with chinese characteristics. I think the greater bay is the grander scheme. And xily china wants to jinping with a trip so
A suspected poisoning an air ambulance is on its way to siberia to bring id like see an evolving to germany for treatment. Im going to richardson thanks for joining us in the u. S. A joe biden has officially accepted his nomination as the democrats president ial candidate due to the coronavirus pandemic he delivered his acceptance speech from an empty Conference Hall in his home state of delaware on the 4th and final day of the Partys National Convention Setting out his vision for the presidency biden a vowed to represent all americans and unite the country he promised to tackle what he calls for crises facing the nation the coronavirus pandemic economic downturn Structural Racism war and Climate Change biden urged voters to have their say in what he said will be a life changing election which he framed as a stark choice between hope and unity or fear and division. The current president has called american darkness for much too long. Too much anger too much fear too Much Division here
Viewers like you. Thank you. Welcome to outside source on the bbc news. We are covering the very latest coronarus development here in britain and globally. Ship. S. Navy hospital which is heading to dock in new york, the states governor saysf the scal coronavirus deathser is already stag. This Conference Center in london has been transformed into a hospital in just one week and will eventually accommodatup to 4000 patients,ec ed to be of all ages. We have been surprised by how many you people we are seeing and people who do not cve other healditions. And i think in madrid, spain becomes a thirdhe nation in t world to confirm or virus cases than china. Live in brazil as president bolsonaro continues to play down the crisis and flout sial distancing. A warm welcome toed thiion of outside source. We will bring youd upe with the latest coronavirus a developmenund the world. Globally, more than 766,000 people confirmed confirmed cases of this virus. More than 36, lost their lives to it. 160
Other thanks for joining us here with your global news update this is r. T. International. Lets start with the latest figures for you from the covert 19 pandemic the number of cases worldwide has now surpassed 1508900 people have lost their lives the United States has the largest number of infections followed by spain and italy 337000 people have recovered from the disease. Lets start in russia where the number of confirmed covert 9000 cases is now past 10001400 new infections have been registered in just the past 24 hours most of them in moscow and since the start of the outbreak a total of 76. 00 people have died. Taylor has the latest. Well in his recent addresses to the nation flaten akutan did say that neither globally nor in russia has the peak of their coronavirus pandemic past and it seems that todays late because do support that overnight russia has registered 1459. 00 new case says that its highest daily rise and a considerable increase in what we saw just even 8 days ago tha
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