Country. And what we are seeing now is that the majority of the passengers, this, these train links, these transport links. These british arrow old train lines are a main stay for low income people in this country. They are the ones that are mostly using these cheaper forms of travel. And the british Era Infrastructure has been meeting upgrades and repairs for many years of these as clearly does the facing a sunday deadline set by west africa nations to reinstate the post president to mohammed the regions onto cheese, have drawn up a plan for possible military intervention supporters of the crew rallied in the cafeteria, the on may or the nice heads of support the ministry we are against that co us. We will fight to the end. We do not agree with what frances doing against us. We have done with colonization, no longer last thing. We want to piece know regression by Foreign Countries against another country. We have brothers and those here a normal citizens, just east is a problem for us
we are committed to policies that are environmentally effective and economically responsible. to those who think this is autopilot, i think that is ridiculous. viviana: plus, climate change crisis is front and center at davos. bloomberg drives the conversation on the most important transformation of our time. climate change is now becoming an investment risk. you have the core of the financial system, all the investors wanting information about what, about the transition. they just need to get on with it. investors will look at us and say, what did you do for me? viviana: it is all ahead on this special edition of bloomberg best. viviana: hello. i m viviana hurtado. welcome to a special edition of featuring conversations from the welcome to a special edition of bloomberg best. we are featuring conversations from the world economic forum in davos. all week bloomberg television spoke with influential and insightful leaders in global business, finance and gov
francine lacqua will be with us from the world economic forum. if you look at g10 currencies, the aussie, the best performer is pulling back on bets on interest rate cuts. a signal from the bank of canada on easing. central banks even as we have ripples across the market because of concerns around the coronavirus. speaking of the impact, in the asian session we saw weakness, stocks resuming their decline with chinese stocks bearing the brunt. u.s. futures have been more contained, they were lower in the asian session. touch 1.70. will we get there on coronavirus risks? oil is extending declines from a slowdown. brent at 62.45. we will hear from thomas jordan from davos later this hour. let s get the bloomberg first word news from new york. the spread of the coronavirus, china is locking down a city of 11 million people. officials halting travel from wuhan. today the world health organization is expected to decide to declare a public health emergency. in the u.k., a step c
violates the constitution. now the senate has agreed on the rules for the impeachment trial of donald trump following more than 14 hours of debate senate republicans blocked every democratic attempt to obtain documents and evidence trump is charged with abuse of power and obstruction of justice she had written the reports on a long opening day that stretched well into the nice. trust of the senate to run short term at the last moment senate majority leader mitch mcconnell with his proposed rules for the impeachment trial gone was the possibility that the evidence collected during the various house inquiries might not be entered into evidence in the senate trial of the democratic party house managers and white house lawyers would now have 3 days and not 2 to make their opening statements that left the issue of witnesses and documents house. democrats argue that they were withheld in the course of their inquiries into whether donald trump was withholding congressionally mandate
The dax is down some 1 . A little bit of pressure on the stoxx 600, i guess a little bit of concern over the tax overhaul. There is a little bit of pressure on miners. The bloomberg dollar index again, the dollar seems to be pretty steady. I am looking at the pound because of theresa may and there could be some kind of rebellion brewing. We will get our Political Correspondent on that. We talk economics and Monetary Policy with larry hathaway. He is the head of investment solutions. Then, we discuss as it presses we discuss asset prices. Overhaul. The tax we are also just getting some breaking news out of indias central bank. It is maintaining its neutral Monetary Policy stance. I know we will get the chart of for you and i will bring you any breaking news that we have from the rbi of india. Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Nejra donald trump will formally declare jerusalem to be israels capital and direct the state department to start the process of moving the Ameri