Starting with corona virus really focusing on europe where governments across the continent and the u. K. Are finding they have no choice in some cases but to impose more restrictions in france to get a handle on the situation the Prime Minister has Just Announced curfews that will extend further than before including into overseas french territories now this is from france info a french rolling news channel showing. The curfews will affect about 70 percent of the countrys population all across france over a 1000000 confirmed cases weve got spain as well with the Health Ministers warning of more drastic measures spain reached the 1000000. 00 mark on wednesday and the government is accused of mishandling the crisis however it did survive a no confidence vote in Parliament Germany is also seeing a rise in infections with the daily count rising about 10000 for the 1st time which is well above the numbers seen during the initial wave in march though it has to be said testing has increased
Their restrictions. Closer to approving a constitutional amendment that would give the president more power. And south korea is named as lebanons Prime Minister for the 4th time hes promising to rescue the very country that rejected him. How much now have all the support. European champions by munich kicked off their Champions League title defense in emphatic fasten the german club fashion athletic 4 nil at home. So nigeria 1st stop where the president is holding an Emergency Security meeting as parts of the commercial capital lagos smoke as you see billowing this is from a prison after earlier reports of gunshots again there have been almost 2 weeks of protests now which initially began against Police Brutality and. International is saying at least 12 protesters were killed in lagos on tuesday night. Manager is of course following the story from for us anything more on that fire at the prison. Come all the for the situation according to officials has been brought under control securit
Their cause in parliament. Important, and of course were talking more and more about just a week after revealing his hospitality and how hard has been hit. You are absolutely right. A coronavirus diagnosis, quick word on those Economic Growth figures, we have the latest figures Donald Trumps doctor gives him the all clear to return to public duties. For august telling us the economy a great night for scotland grew by 2. 1 , far below expectations and Northern Ireland, but it is worth pointing out half of all of that growth came from the both win penalty shoot outs, and are now one match away return to restaurants and bars, that from reaching the european championships. And it is a day of sunshine and out to help out scheme was in force showers today across the uk. Most of in august. Eat out to help out, you will be looking drier, but it will be that little bit colder. All but the economy is about 10 smaller the details here on breakfast. Thanit but the economy is about 10 smaller than
Secretary talks to cnbc moments ago. Shares of Morgan Stanley are slightly lower, it would appear, ahead of the open. The bank topped revenue estimates by a billion on what was stronger than expected trading revenues and ev price war elon musk cutting the cost of teslas model s for a second time in one week, carl meantime, guys, got to take stock of this selloff here in the premarket, jim general take this morning is that the market is now catching up to what we know has been a problem in europe, and these lockdown restrictions in the uk and france are getting more serious. Dollar strengthening, some believe, because the situation here is at least better than europe on a relative basis. I think were importing their negative ty. I dont think it is going to last you cant make any moves to the positive until about 11 00 when you start seeing their markets peter out. It is one thing, it is very frightening when you read what is going on there. It is obvious it is a second wave it seems mor
Plus, defiance after a deadly crackdown. Gunshots as demonstrators came out onto the streets despite a curfew after a peaceful protest was broken by shooting, allegedly by nigern police forces. And paying tribute to the history teacher who was killed outside his school last week. Im brent goff. Two viewers on pbs in the United States and all of you around the world, welcome. It is a major shift in the Catholic Church. Pope francis says he supports Civil Union Laws to protect the rights of samesex couples. He made the comment in a new documentary about the pontiff which premiered today. The statement marks a decided shift for the Roman Catholic church. The film also tackles controversial issues such as racism, climate change, sexual abuse, and relations between christians, muslims, and jews. Earlier, i asked our religious Affairs Analyst what exactly did the pope say. That it was the responsibility of societies to pass legislation to protect the rights of people in samesex unions. This