See here soon becomes japans new Prime Minister the nation faces its because economic downturn because of the pandemic. So then a 2 pronged whether assault in the United States is people fleeing wildfires in one part of the country and rushing to avoid severe flooding in another slow moving Hurricane Sally has made landfall on the gulf coast it threatens to unleash heavy rain and catastrophic flooding and another powerful storm is also brewing in the atlantic thats Hurrican Teddy and it could hit bermuda as early as this weekend and on the other side of the u. S. Coast its in Oregon Wildfires are continuing to burn and forcing people out of their homes nearly 2000000 hectares of land has been charred and a federal disaster has been declared and the impact of those fires is now being witnessed on an entirely different continent traces of smoke have been detected in europe which is 8000 kilometers away. Were going to now from jay gray who has more on hurricane sonny from my bill in alaba
Against humanity. More than 100000 homes damaged or destroyed the crane that gets underway in sudan after weeks of flooding. You see here just to go becomes japans new Prime Minister as the nation faces its biggest economic downturn because of the pandemic. And im we are hearty with all of your sports news the former head of world athletics lamine diac has been sentenced to 2 years in prison after being found guilty of corruption well bring you more on that story later this news hour. So then a 2 pronged weather assault in the United States has people fleeing wildfires in one part of the country and rushing to avoid severe flooding in another slow moving Hurricane Sally has made landfall on the gulf coast threatening to unleash heavy rain. Rain heavy heavy rain and catastrophic flooding another powerful storm also brewing in the atlantic thats hurrican teddie which could hit bermuda as early as this weekend on the other side of the u. S. Coast in oregon and the devastation is plain to
Kolesnik over could go to prison for up to 5 years. Guilty of corruption the former head of welled up plastics lamine diac is sentenced 2 years in prison. Now a 2 prong to weather assault in the United States has people fleeing wildfires in one part of the country and rushing to avoid severe flooding and another slow moving Hurricane Sally is unleashing heavy rain and catastrophic flooding on the gulf coast another powerful storm is also brewing in the atlantic hurricane teddie could hit bermuda as early as this weekend and they are just 2 of 7 storms currently moving across the atlantic 5 of them categorized as tropical storms its only the 2nd time on record this has happened the last time was back in 1971 on the other side of the u. S. And oregon a federal disaster has been declared as wildfires that continue to burn forcing people out of their homes well jay gray is in may be alabama. Were still getting a lashing from the dorm keep the brain continue to fall here and well deal about
Bloomberg surveillance. This is what the markets are focusing on. There is quite a lot of m a news. That is giving a lift to the market. What im looking at is a couple of technology stocks. Couple of other things such as crude oil edging higher, so does gold. Global shares off a back to back decline. To bloomberg first word news in london. Optimism over a coronavirus vaccine. Pfizeref executive of says its likely it will by the end of the year. They say theyre dependent on Regulatory Approval but says the firm has a good chance of knowing the efficacy by the end of october. Secretaryief cabinet won the race to replace shinzo abe. National in the group will use this majority to install him as Prime Minister in a vote on wednesday. The uks justice secretary has warned he may quit over the government plans on brexit. He says it hasnt reached that stage just yet. The controversial rule has this week. Boris johnson is facing a growing rebellion to override part of the divorce agreement alre
Exclusive interview with the winner of historic election. For the nations young people. To the Program German chancellor Angela Merkel has called on the European Union to unite stronger from its greatest challenge the coronavirus pandemic its the 2nd time germany has taken over the presidency of the European Council with chancellor merkel at the helm speaking at the European Parliament in brussels laid out her vision for germany 6 months which will be dominated by economic recovery from the pandemic. The commissions plan for a Recovery Fund for struggling. The chancellor said Member States would need to compromise in order to sign off on the Recovery Fund before next months summer recess diffidence than it might in some and if we are willing to overcome our differences and identify shared solutions and if we are willing to view the world through the prism of others europe will emerge from the crisis stronger than ever if we strengthen cohesion and solidarity no one will get through thi