5. 1 Million People filing for unemployment in the last week. We have the numbers and full amounts this morning. Ahead of the numbers, futures pointing to gain at start of trading, take a look at futures, 100 points on dow industrials, s p is up 15 and nasdaq higher by 72. This after worse than expected news yesterday in resail sales and disappointing earnings led to selloff in market. Dow industrials down 445 points. Nasdaq down 122 and s p was lower by 62. Earnings season rolls on. This morning more banks on tap. Weve got all the numbers you need to see this morning as we ahate Morgan Stanley, blackrock among others. Plus the origins of the coronavirus. More focus this morning turns to a lab in wuhan, china. Something ive been highlights for several months now. Mornings with maria begins right now. Global markets this morning look like this. Cac quarante in paris is up 28 and germany taking steps to reopen its economy and Angela Merkel announcing some stores can reopen next week and
A hit. Wanted for Drug Trafficking in the u. S. Charges venezuelas president with what it calls narco terrorism and offers a reward for his arrest. A surprise twist in Israels Parliament Opposition Leader benny gantz is elected speaker signaling a unity deal Benjamin Netanyahu. So then another spike in the number of new coronavirus cases in italy has taken the global total to more than half a 1000000 more than 6000 infections and 662 deaths have been reported in italy in the past 24 hours and this means 80000 people have the virus just 1000 behind chinas total another e. U. Country struggling to cope is spain 650 people have died bringing the toll that to morrow. Than 4000. 00 across the United States nearly 70000. 00 people have been infected and the death toll now exceeds 1000. 00 the senate has approved a 2 trillion dollars package to support the economy as a number of unemployment claims sause to a record 3200000. 00 and india has unveiled a 23000000000. 00 stimulus package to prov
News. Theresa may has announced a series of measures ahead of the conservative Party Conference which she is hoping will appeal to younger voters. Theres to be a freeze on tuition fees and students wont have to start paying back loans until they re earning over twenty five thousand pounds a year. The Prime Minister says these are the first steps in a wider review of university funding. Labour which has promised to abolish tuition fees has called the proposals desperate. Our Political Correspondent alex forsyth reports. Bruce davidson has told delegates to unite and fight for the country, in the past hour. The first day of conference, a big day for the Prime Minister. Reporter happy birthday, Prime Minister she has not had much to celebrate lately. Theresa may knows she has a lot to prove, to her party and voters. Her first pitch is to the younger generation, with the promise to look again at how tuition fees work. When we set the policy, what we expected would happen would be a range,
This week as an opportunity to try to stamp her authority on a party that has got very used to squabbling amongst themselves. Laura, thank you. Our Political Editor there. As weve heard theres to be a a review into University Funding as well as a freeze on tuition fees in england. But what do the Younger Voters make of theresa mays make of theresa mays hopes to tempt them of the conservative plans . Of theresa mays hopes to tempt them our education editor Branwen Jeffreys has been finding out. Just a mile from the tory conference, a student cafe. Chewing over the changes, liam and grace. I cant imagine it being any more expensive than £9,000. It is expensive enough as it is, really expensive. As it is, really they dont take into account things like maintenance and stuff like that. Like maintenance and liam says freezing fees doesnt go far enough. They should be encouraging more people to get into university and things like that. So scrapping them is the best idea for me. But im not re
Plunged the eu into crisis. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Polls have closed in the spanish region of catalonia after a day of voting that descended into chaos and violence. The catalan authorities went ahead with an independence referendum declared illegal by the spanish courts only to see the Central Government in madrid send in riot police. They managed to close down some polling stations, with more than 800 people said to have needed medical assistance. Tonight, as the votes are counted, the Catalan Government said the actions of the Spanish Government made it the shame of europe. Tom burridge reports from barcelona. This is how a vote turned ugly. Spanish National Police moving in to disrupt an independence referendum in catalonia which spains government women literally pulled by their hair out of polling stations. Across barcelona Violent Police raids to grab ballot boxes. Hundreds injured when they went to vote. One of the policemen took him by the head, took off his glas