Health organization where cases are surging and when the 2nd wave is likely to come. Out of us welcome to the Program India and bangladesh are assessing the damage left by one of the most violent storms in years cycle on im fun has left a trail of destruction in coastal communities and west bank goals main city kolkata millions of people that without electricity and the coronavirus is hampering relief efforts. In a last ditch effort these bangladeshis are preparing for the worst. Filling sandbags with their bare hands they braved conditions brought on by one of the most powerful cyclings in decades. Meteorologists have dubbed it a super cycling and as it headed inland it lived up to that name. It sent water surging inland some 25 kilometers the damage compounded by winds of up to 195 kilometers per hour. In comic conditions inside kid of bangladesh volunteers help to bring locals to safety more than 2 and a half 1000000 people who were evacuated to shelters like this one which brought
Hotspot while infections in india rise at the fastest pace in asia. Zealandsnks new postvirus recovery. We are joined this hour by the rbnz governor, adrian or. Orr. Haidi lets take a quick look at markets. We saw that exuberance over the Moderna Vaccine progress really dissipate quickly. We saw the late session swing when it comes to trading in the u. S. As it has concerns over the efficacy data from moderna causing some concern. Take a look at the futures in asia. We are seeing downside when it comes to futures trading in japan, australia, and hong kong, although we are looking at a little bit more of a positive open when it comes to trading on the mainland, and just also keeping an eye when it comes to Energy Markets as well given that we are starting to see backwardation between that june and july contract for the wti, suggesting some of the storage issues have started to ease. Lets take a deeper look at the markets. Investors are increasingly debating whether the broader stock mar
Reaffirming its redline over taiwan. Coronavirus claims more deaths as cages cases approach ive million. U. S. Closing travel from brazil. Protesters to announce chinas security law in hong kong. Washington says it could be the death knell for asias leading financial center. How is that playing out across these markets . Declines from last week, there is a little bit of trepidation and caution across futures now. Your getting brent crude, pleasant surprise from the upside, nothing screaming higher. 29. 65. 2965. 34. 72 brent crude. Coming off weeks of sharp gains. Looking ahead you have more data that perhaps would give us more visibility on the path. We could get consolidation as we were talking about earlier in the program. Lets talkoned, about the renewed tensions between the chinese and the americans here with the foreign minister of China Morning the u. S. To give up warning the u. S. To give up Wishful Thinking about changing china. Saying some in america are pushing relations to
A great thing as far as im concerned the President Trumps task force presents and confirmed research saying heat and humidity have an impact on the coronavirus the holy month of ramadan has begun but this year it will be very different for the millions of muslims around the world. Thank you very much for joining as we begin with yet another grim tally of desk coming out of the United States from the new coronavirus 3176 people have died in just 24 hours taking the total number of deaths nearly 50000. 00 the highest anywhere in the world globally there are now 2700000. 00 infections and over 190000 deaths on the economic front the u. S. House of representatives has passed a new 484000000000. 00 relief bill to keep Small Businesses afloat and provide funds for hospitals it passed with bipartisan support and will now go to President Trump for final approval more than 26000000 americans are now unemployed in just 5 weeks all the jobs created since the end of the 2009 recession have been wi
A. Deadline to disarm gunmen blamed for an outbreak of fighting in the capital of the Central African republic the a few hours left to surrender. Or the day sporting kidding. And he. Returns from entering to leave the bucs to win over the Chicago Bulls all the n. B. A. Action coming up later. But we start with breaking news out of iraq where thousands of protesters have entered the secured green zone in baghdad and marched to the u. S. Embassy most of members of the iranian backed Popular Mobilization forces one report suggests some have pushed down the door and broken into the compound they condemning u. S. Air strikes on sunday on bases belonging to an iranian backed shia militia in iraq u. S. Embassy stuff and the ambassador are reported to have been evacuated the u. S. Says the attacks against the hezbollah brigades were a response to the killing of the u. S. Civilian contractor the funerals of at least 27. 00 shia fighters killed in those strikes a taking place in baghdad now the