London mayor sadiq khan is set to recommend more restrictions. Bruised. Leaked documents related to troop 2 trillion in transactions, showing banks profiting from powerful and dangerous actors, even after the u. S. Introduced penalties. Low inlls to a 25 year hong kong. Plus, pet review. The eu starts an evaluation of a pandemic bond buying program. Policymakers are expected to discuss how long they should continue as well as whether or not they should widen the rules for older programs. Just an hour away now for than the start of from the start of cash equity trading in europe. Lets look at where markets are pointing us futures are pointing us. A drop in asian stocks. Ftse futures off one full percent. Concern of course about further or another renewed lockdown driving that market down further than the others. You see dax futures up 0. 8 . Look at u. S. Futures, not down as much right now. Looking at a drop in u. S. Across the s p, the dow, and the nasdaq, about 0. 5 right now. Anna f
Down 600 points recently. We are not near a correction yet on s p, but we are getting there rapidly. I dont think this can be underplayed the virus, the pandemic is really front and center on a global basis, even with an america distracted by an historic moment. Momente and a historic that could possibly sway the election. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning. The death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg has thrust the Supreme Court into the political spotlight. Republican leaders in the senate are hoping to rush through a replacement with President Trump expected to nominate his pick this week. Democrats are warning of a constitutional crisis. If joe budden wins the election but a trump candidate is still confirmed to the Supreme Court. President trump is celebrating the tiktok deal, despite it falling short on some of its key demands. The white house gets a promise of new jobs sources have told bloomberg that tiktok is taking a
Leader is calling on the military to switch sides. We have got to do everything we can to elect my friend joe biden as the next president of the United States democrats rally us voters to support their presumptive president ial candidate joe biden at an online party convention. Angry and exhausted by months of locked on argentinians take over the streets of listeners. Its taken 15 years and now a un biased court is finally delivering a verdict relating to the assassination of former lebanese Prime Minister rafiq hardy he died along with 21 others in a car bomb attack in 2005 the 4 defendants are members of the armed Group Hezbollah which denies involvement in the attack they wont be appearing in court then a court of reports. Its been 15 years since former Prime Minister rafiq head 80 was assassinated in a suicide car bombing in beirut 21 others were also killed in an act that changed the face of lebanon. The special International Tribunal investigating the case is due to deliver its v
A. Factory walkouts of protests continue in belarus with growing calls for president Alexander Lukashenko to resign. We have got to do everything we can to elect my friend joe biden as the next president of the united states. Democrats rally us voters to support their presumptive president ial candidate joe biden at an online party convention. Its taken 50 years and cost close to a 1000000000. 00 now the investigation and trial and the assassination of former lebanese Prime Minister at a fico d. D. Is finally reaching its climax in the last few hours a un banks tribunal has been delivering its Closing Remarks ahead of the. Picked the 4 defendants sole members of hezbollah and course refused to hand them over and denies any involvement had 80 and 21 others died in the suicide bombing in 2005 deep in exact area and political divides and their ruling judges have already said theres no direct evidence that leaders of hezbollah and syria were involved they say the nature of the killing was
A. Result that is satisfying. Also ahead on this program ali and is gather again to demand the resignation of the president after reports of a military mutiny. No protests and strikes in belarus where pressure is mounting on the president Alexander Lukashenko over his disputed reelection. If you think things cannot possibly get worse trust me they can and they will if we dont make a change in this election and the former u. S. 1st Lady Michelle obama declares the President Donald Trump is in over his head during a plea for voters to back joe biden. Tribunals has convicted a member of hezbollah over the assassination of the former lebanese Prime Minister rafik hariri the killing in 2005 set the stage for years of confrontation between rival Political Forces judges in the hague were found. Guilty of committing terrorist acts and of homicide the. Bought the explosives and coordinated surveillance on hariri beforehand the 3 other members of hezbollah were acquitted because of a lack of evi