Supporting the occupation and pakistans Prime Minister visits afghanistan for the 1st Time Since Taking Office and pledges to help promote peace there. And joining us go with sports, as leno messi returns to spain and says hes tired of always being blamed for the problems of oslo. No thank you very much for joining as we start this news hour with the coronavirus pandemic and the race to find a vaccine. British pharmaceutical giant astra zeneca says its phase 2 trials show promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those aged over 70. The vaccine is being developed in partnership with oxford university, and its now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings that a positive news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to rise. More than 2000000. 00 cases have been before today in africa, but low rates of testing means the caseload is thought to be much higher across the continent. In the past cases of increased compared to
Advisor morning that the covert infection rate here is still too high, as the daily number of new cases remains above 20000. And thats despite the early 3 weeks of a partial lockdown. Im, off, its good to have you with us u. S. , secretary of state mike pump a, who was in the middle east on a trip thats seen significant breaks with established u. S. Foreign policy. For starters, he became the 1st us secretary of state to visit a jewish settlement in the occupied west bank and occupation, still not recognized by much of the international community. Then in the afternoon, he stopped in the israeli held go on high say disputed area that israel annexed from syria back in 1967, syria has condemned the visit, calling it a provocative act. Its a 1st for israeli american relations. And a parting gift from americas outgoing top diplomat, mike pump a was a visit to the golan heights, makes him the 1st u. S. Secretary of state to visit the disputed territory. Since israel sees the region in 1967,
Lives health system, and the death toll in uganda rises to 16 up to protest against the arrest of Opposition Leader bobby wind and palestinian leaders condemn the us. Secretary of state, unprecedented visit to an illegal israeli settlement on the occupied Golan Heights. And he just came in to go to a sports returns to spain and says hes tired of always going to blame for problems at barcelona. Good to have you company. Welcome to the news. We start with the corona virus pandemic and the race to find a vaccine for tisha pharmaceutical giant astra. Zeneca said its phase 2 trials show promise in protecting the most at risk groups. A strong immune response was shown in those aged over 70. Now the vaccine is being developed in partnership with oxford university. And its now in the final stage of human testing to confirm those findings. The good news on the vaccine front comes as cases continue to rise. More than 2000000. 00 have been reported in africa, but low testing rates mean the actual
To work our way through. Let me start with the Michigan Consumer sentiment index. Headline number coming through at 76 point nine, broadly in line with expectations of 77. Current conditions at 87, i had of expectations. At 75. Tions youve got the difficult situation i think the consumer has got to figure out. Do i worry about the here and now and worry about the impact the virus is going to have over the next weeks and months, or do i think about what the vaccine is ultimately going to deliver . Like the markets, i think the consumer is probably having to balance those factors out. Kailey i want to point out housing data as well. The Housing Market has been particularly strong. That does continue. A pace of 909,000, versus the estimate of 975,000. We are getting october personal spending data, and for more on that as Bloomberg International economics and policy correspondent Michael Mckee to break it all down for us. Michael michael it is may the most important number of a lot of numb
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