Enough for winter. And spacecraft grabs a handful of cosmic rubble from an asteroid to bring back to earth. Hamas and i have all the sport including Manchester United. Sounds our mind the Champions League the red devils to win 21 in paris. Hello thanks for joining us we begin in nigeria thats where protests are already turning violent despite a 24 hour curfew it follows an appeal for calm by president mohamed hari after several demonstrators were shot the day before during a rally against Police Brutality. These are some of the scenes from wednesday morning as these crowds gathered at times with Security Forces allegedly firing at them and in another part of the city a large fire burning through a government bus station. Videos are emerging of man in uniform opening fire on killing people in lagos on tuesday but Security Forces deny involvement lets get an update from my didnt see joining us from a boozer nigerias president has appealed for calm and understanding as to what are you hea
Euroyen shows you the dynamic away from the dollar, translated. It is all about the weaker dollar across the board when i look in yields, i really look at the inflationadjusted yield as a 0. 92. 2012. Reaches the jonathan 2 trillion and 99 days. A 2 trillion spread between democrats and republicans, and 99 days until the election. You have to believe the president steps forward and says it needs to be bigger. Tom no question about it. The president just reads the riot act to his republicans about losing the house, losing the senate, losing the presidency, and getting out. I dont think it is 1. 5 trillion where we are heading with mr. Trump. What i would focus on in a week of Technology Earnings is that equities are so resilient here compared to what else you and i see on the bloomberg terminal. Jonathan a massive week ahead. Lets get to the morning brief. A fed decision coming up later this week. Tech earnings in the mix. Latere get u. S. Gdp data in the week. Heres the price action to
Goals goal or in the bundesliga final match today with teams fighting for survival for Champions League qualification we have the highlights and analysis of the last game. Im michael local glad you could be with us this weekend the e. U. Has raised over 6000000000 euros more to help Vulnerable Countries battle the coronavirus pandemic the money was raised at a Virtual Summit organized by the e. U. And the International Aid Group Global Citizen for more than 2 hours Global Leaders and influencers delivered video messages aiming to make any future vaccines test and treatments available worldwide delighted to host this incredible it was partly to ship some part celebrity telephone and appeal to pool global brain power and resources to end the coronavirus pandemic from European Commission president wilson to form their line. A task of this size can only happen if the world unites this was the 2nd pledging marathon spearheaded by the European Union and it has been championing Global Coopera
Causing many newly reopened businesses to shut down again. And the golden goal or on the bluntest league final match day with teams fighting for survival and for Champions League qualification we have the highlights and analysis of the leagues last games. Im married to evanston its good to have you with us polish voters are casting ballots in a closely fought president ial poll the incumbent andre do dome who is backed by the right wing populist government is up against a field of candidates but his main challenger is the liberal mayor of warsaw dude has been campaigning on a deeply conservative social agenda which often included radical and homophobic statements. In southern poland is one of many small towns that president is visiting during his Election Campaign. Family tradition religion those are the issues and values he hopes will win over voters in this speech he warns that what he calls l g b t ideology will undermine the traditional family and above all twist childrens morals s
And on the markets those comments from fed chair Jerome Powell boosting stock markets in the us and asia. A warm welcome to the Programme Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. It will be a very busy day ahead. And you can be part of the conversation as a perk, a Marketing Agency here in the uk allows its employees to take hangover days. If theyve been out the previous evening theyre allowed to work the next day from the comfort of their own sofa or even bed. Good idea, orflexible working gone mad . Tell us what you think just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Polls open here in the uk in a couple of hours as Voters Decide who will form their next government. Candidates in the general election are contesting 650 seats in the house of commons the lower legislative chamber. Polling stations close at 10pm gmt and an exit poll will be released then, by the bbc and other uk broadcasters. Our Election Results special broadcast will begin just ahead of that. Jo