Work hard for the japanese people and will try to live up to their expectations. At wednesdays news conference, suga reiterated that he will push forward with the efforts his predecessor abe shinzos government had been making. Abe stepped down due to poor health. Suga also revealed his vision for the post coronavirus era, mentioning the need for further digitalization in an online world. One departure from abe will be the end of Cherry Blossom viewing parties. Abe was accused of using taxpayers mononey to entertain constituents at the annual gathering. Suga said he wont be holding such parties, and vowed to revamp a number of issues from the previous administration. Reaction to the new Prime Minister on the streets has been mixed. Translator i think ittll like the stable administration. Transnslator i wishh thehere more women in n the cabinet. Suga already has several Major Political and diplomatic events in his schedule. Hes expected to deliver a a policy spepeech at an extraordinary
A vaccine. And what does it take to recover from overnight we hear from a survivor on her experience coping physically and mentally after being on a ventilator. And we look at how president assad of syria has remained in power for 20 years 5 presiding over a nation shattered by civil war it is likely to remain at the helm for years to come. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today the e. U. Is at a crossroads with Member States looking for leadership and cash to bolster economies that have been hard hit by the coded condemning and lockdowns chancellor merkel chair talks of brussels today that will bring leaders face to face for the 1st time in months macca will be. To persuade the blocs richer nations to issue or issue direct grants to countries like italy spain and portugal to help them overcome the worst of the pandemic but some Member States including austria and the netherlands are dead set against any grants and want to see tightly controlled loans instead. While they use re
Economists expect a bond buying to exceed 3 trillion euros this year and the next. Twitter shares fall after hours on when unprecedented hack of the accounts of prominent u. S. Figures, including elon musk and bill gates. Ceo jack dorsey calls it a tough day. Welcome to the program. A tough day for jack dorsey. We will get into that story a little bit later on. Just under an hour to go until the start of cash equity trading on this thursday morning. Lets look at European Equity market futures, u. S. Futures. All of that pointing a little bit negatively. It seems some of the optimism around vaccines that dominated trading yesterday, some of that has waned just a little. Replaced by a mixed picture signals on geopolitics and the chinese data. Lets get to some breaking news. We have european Passenger Car sales dropping by 24 in june. European car sales, the slump slowly eases, believe it or not with a 24 jump. The recovery has been taking place now for a second straight month, leaving ma
For short. It will send out data from other smart phones that come within a onemeter radius for 15 minutes or more. It allows users who test positive to anonymously notify others who they come into contact with. The app doesnt harvest information on phone numbers, location or anything else that could identify users. All contact data is deleted after 14 days. The government says the app is better at protecting user privacy compared to Similar Software introduced abroad. Opinions on the hightech tool are mixed. Translator everybody is worried right now so thehe app useful. Its easy to install. Translator elderly people are most at risk. I wonder whether they with easily operate smart phones to download and use the app. The government is calling on people to download the app saying the more users there are, the more effective it will be. People are gradually coming back to airports and railway stations across japan. Travel restrictions between prefectures put in place to fight the e coron
Theres no better place than to be in the u. S. To step back and ask what do we have achieved in the last. Years when i look back i see that in the last years europeans have begun to understand that they can in a european way that we must pave our own way to stay relevant in the 21st century for me is in the way europeans are changing the way they look at themselves and starting to see you are as capable of being strong and being sovereign. We europeans often do not see ourselves as being powerful when you look at europe you probably see facts you see 450 million citizens you see 27 countries united around a common political project. You see a quarter of the gdp. You see the bigger straining blood and probably we hope you see diplomatic power. When we europeans we look at ourselves we often do not see this power. We see we sold out divisions disagreements. Consensus on important decisions. And this is changing. It is changing because of my front president is putting a lot of energy the