Colleagues have come to the floor and spoken here or elsewhere about the importance of providing assistance to state and local governments, and that if that doesnt happen that theyre there are going to be police officers, First Responders and people who have essential jobs that we rely on every single day and for whom were so grateful, that wouldnt be able to get paid. I would just point out that already as part of the Coronavirus Relief measures that congress has passed, there was 150 billion sent to state and local governments, much of which has yet to be spent. And, frankly, much of which we dont know what the actual need is out there until we have a better sense for what the revenue loss is to a lot of our state and local governments. Clearly they are sounding the alarm and are justifiably worried about what happens if the downturn in the economy continues and what that might mean to their revenues. And so they are looking to washington, d. C. For assistance, and i think that as i
Still get help welcome to the Program Police in hong kong have sealed off the Polytechnic University after prodemocracy activists occupy the site and they want trying to leave now faces arrest despite being described as criminals by hong kong authorities demonstrators have won a victory to the territorys high court youll hear from our correspondent in the city in just a moment 1st this report. These students are ready to go home camped out at hong kongs Polytechnic University they are weary from increasingly violent clashes with police over the weekend. But having failed to dislodge the protesters for days the police are now preventing them from leaving. To a crowd somewhere i exhausted because weve been up since 5 am yesterday were desperate because the supplies are running low. Anyone leaving the university risks arrest and a lengthy prison sentence the students are worried. You know feeling. A little bit desperate. You can you can say. Theres. No way we can get out in the 1st they s
Financial sector to its part in fighting lemon change. Climate change. A lot of the focus is on trade or what will happen between the u. S. And china. Gold, always a good litmus test for risk. We can see the yield at 1. 85. Stocks gaining 0. 4 . A lot of focus is on earnings. Loose of ex conversation with the commerzbank she chief Financial Officer. Dont miss that conversation after 10 30 a. M. London time. First, lets get straight to bloomberg first word news. In the u. K. , the first cabinet resignation during an Election Campaign in a century. Quit after aretary report that he knew about a former aides role in the collapse of a rape trial. Ae labour party also suffered blow with deputy leader tom watson announcing he will leave politics after 35 years. He has long clashed with Jeremy Corbyn over the direction of the party. Willank of england probably keep rates on hold as brexit continues to plague the economy. It is expected to cut forecasts. Be nexttion is who will to lead the ban
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Option if he doesnt get a coalition the next few minutes is to get a law enacted to dissolve the knesset and have another round of elections in 3 months time that would be unprecedented in israeli history and he also needs to convince members of his own party the ones who only just scraped into this knesset by the skin of their teeth and might feel that given a another round of elections they may well not get in he has to convince them to vote for dissolving the knesset anyway and with their 1st piece of legislation potentially rule themselves out of a job so its an extremely difficult situation that he finds himself in thank you very much for lesters them harry for set. Well now iranian president Hassan Rouhani has suggested talks with the u. S. Might be possible if washington lift sanctions imposed of attack Irans Nuclear program it comes after the u. S. National security adviser blamed Iranian Naval mines for damaging oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates earlier thi