Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The market is taking in a few things, european stocks dropping due to these new travel roles. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Israel and the united arab startes have decided to talks. The two sides will hold a range of talks in the coming weeks. In the meantime, israel has agreed to suspend its efforts to annex part of the west bank. Palestinian officials quickly criticize the move, calling it a betrayal. The u. S. Is adding france and netherlands and malta to its quarantined list. People now have to isolate for 14 days. It comes as the u. K. Has even more lockdown measures and even tougher penalties for ignoring social distancing rules. Fines for not wearing a mask will double to a maximum 3200 pounds. Lai kong media tycoon jimmy accusing china of arresting him on trumped up charges. Lai pushed back a
Region. In the u. S. , the senate has gone on vacation. It cannot get over this . It cannot francine get over this. Lets get to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Ritika good morning, francine, lisa. President trump hasnt delivered the deal of the century he promised in the middle east. He can claim a foreignpolicy victory after israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed to normalizing relations. Even joe biden called it a historic step. With joe trump clashed biden over masks. The democratic president ial candidate said every governor should require masks for the next three months. He said that would save more than 40,000 lives. Bidenst trump rejected approach, saying, we want to have a certain freedom. That is what we are about. Vacationers will be unable to get back to work when they come back from their holidays. They must be quarantined for 14 days. China, the economy continued to bounce back last month. Industrial growth remained steady, rising 4. 8 fro
Police. Its good to have you with us tonight russias most prominent Opposition Leader alexina of all me is back in prison after being rushed to the hospital yesterday his attorneys suspect that a chemical agent was used to poison her client but that has not been confirmed and of all the as one of president Vladimir Putins harshest critics hes serving a prison sentence for leading an authorized political protests. I like on his way back to prison one of russias most prominent opposition figures nevada he was rushed to hospital on sunday after taking ill in his detention cell clinic talk to say nevada he had insufficient allergic reaction but his personal doctor isnt convinced speaking to the press she said her client was poisoned and warned he could be in danger if he returns to prison. When you bring up the human. Its unclear whether what he has is contact dermatitis or not but he was in a life threatening condition and now they are sending him back to the same place where that same to