Boris johnson taking questions from members of the house of commons on wednesday morning on cspan2. We invite your participation via twitter. Prior to question time. We welcome questions for the Prime Minister, we start questions with ruth. Question number one. The whole house will join me, addressing condolences to the family of Jonathan Sacks who passed away saturday. This morning i attended the service to mark the centennial area of the tomb of the unknown warrior. Thanks to all those who served and continue to serve and have given their lives and service to this country. Thank you, mister speaker. According to homeoffice figures, compensation, 9 people have died waiting. 2 and a half years, what will the government do, what will the Prime Minister do to rectify this injustice and make sure no others who have come to the uk to live and work do not suffer. The honorable lady, and is a disgrace doing this collectively to make amends. I met members of that generation and this governmen
Continues to cast a shadow over the campaigning with nearly half a 1000000 new infections in the past week mike hanna has more from washington d. C. On the Campaign Efforts the 3 states hes visiting in the course of the day he took very easily and 2016 but now all polls indicate that its neck and neck with Joe Biden Biden has shrunk that gap the lead that trump had 4 years ago shrinking a significantly President Trump focusing on the states because they are critical to him if hes going to be able to win the election and more to do with in the white house. It is really a police fired tear gas at protesters over a renewed restrictions to limit the spread of covert 19th a 2nd wave is hitting your apart record new infections are being reported across the continent. The African Union is calling for calm in tanzania ahead of local and National Elections on whether to say police in the semi autonomous zones of our region of denied firing bullets of protesters a Major Opposition Party says 8 p
Struggle with a contested election, and i dont think we with a delayed or contested election come i dont the queen of the interest to that. Guy unresolved contested election, and i dont think we know the answers to that. Guy unresolved issues. Services come in, and it is a miss. Just reinforcing the idea that maybe as the virus numbers continue to pick up in the United States, the Services Sector will feel that, and just reinforces the idea that may be of this trajectory continues lower, we will need more stimulus. That is looking a little bit more down right now. Alix and the number of tremulous of stimulus is much less likely now. The president ial election does remain too close to call, and a could stay that way for days. Joe biden leading in the Electoral College at the moment, taking the lead in michigan, wisconsin, and georgia. Going us is jeanne zaino of iona college. Where are we now . Jeanne we are at 238 for joe biden, 213 for President Trump. We are still waiting for several
Investors see less chance of new regulations, equity futures writing rising in tokyo and hong kong. In china tries to reassure the Business World that it is open to trade. Concern of the moran sealer approach. Shery breaking out of south korea. We are getting the currentaccount surplus in south korea for the month of september, widening to 10. 21 billion. We had seen a previous surplus at around 6. 5 billion. This has widened to over 10 billion. The goods surplus coming in at above 12 billion. We have seen continued surplus for the current account in south korea. Consecutivee a five months surplus, not to mention exports in october contracted a little, but in september they rose for the first time in seven months. South koreag pmi in so weoday twoyear high, are getting a widening of the surplus. Haidi pcb numbers crossing the bloomberg, betterthanexpected, eating the analyst estimates on the bloomberg, Third Quarter 1ome coming it at just billion, better expectations than 850 million.
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