Including reforms to ensure its own future relevance plus with wildfires ravaging california the amazon and other parts of the planet climate activists will be pushing the United Nations for concrete action on the environment scientists are on their side some high ranking politicians are not. Im sorry kelly welcome to the Program Countries across europe are scrambling to contain the corona virus pandemic after a surge in new infections british Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce an early closing of bars and restaurants now targeted lockdowns took effect in spain on monday france has seen massive spikes and infections and increasingly full hospitals in germany of the city of new nick is stepping up its measures at. For becoming one of the countrys main hotspots masks will be compulsory in busy outdoor parts of the city center and authorities will further restrict public and private gatherings. In a normal year huge crowds of people would be packed into tents here in mun
Europe is no wrestling with coronavirus all over again and hoping to defeat it without shutting down public life entirely. Earlier we spoke to the chair of the global outbreak alert and Response Network at the w. H. O. Dale fisher and we asked him how prepared countries are for a possible winter spike in coverage 1000. 00 cases its a funny question to be asking in september is and. Its really quite disappointing i guess to have these sort of numbers going into the colder months and as youve just pointed out that there really need to be some things done to bring these numbers down or else youre going to be right back where where you were. In in much and. Theres nothing fancy its all the same things that weve known about for a long time its a solution of cases and strict quarantining of of contacts we should be able to do much more efficient contact try saying different mechanisms and the other thing which we we didnt know at the beginning of this outbreak was the effectiveness of mosque
A new zealand recorded 0 new code 1000 infections on tuesday there are now only 61. 00 registered active cases in the country. If youre just joining us youre watching to debut new special coverage as we track the opening of the general debate at the u. N. General Assembly Meeting in new york and we have some live pictures of whats happening at the moment coming up in the next 15 to 20 minutes were expecting the head of the state head of state of the host country of course u. S. President donald trump who will be delivering a video message President Trump is a harsh critic of the United Nations so bill will be watching to see what he has to say this is a very different u. N. General assembly this year around the World Leaders to live delivering their message via video because of coronavirus restrictions as we said we will return to the u. N. When it is time for President Trumps speech. That was the one from london with a chair of the European Parliament Justice Committee meanwhile the r
Anna edwards is in for jon ferro and lisa abramowicz. Ferro taking the entire month off. Lisa only taking half the month off. We are thrilled anna edwards could join us today as well. Remember when augusts were boring . August is no longer boring, is it . Anna i remember when all of europe went on holiday in august, but no longer. We got alltime highs on u. S. Stocks. Is that really out of kilter with the underlying u. S. Economy comes with the underlying global ok . Omic story, and is that tom the persistency across yields is amazing. Yields come up 4, 5, 6 days, and they roll over and come back down. We are not through to new lows in the last number of weeks on yield, but nevertheless, watching that very closely. We will get to that with an important guest any moment. David malpass with us later in the hour. I want to go to a story which we have been covering the last number of days. For me in america, it has gone radio silent. That is belarus. This is between poland and russia, with
Know the state of your health that day . David when i had a chance to become a regent of the smithsonian, i jumped at the after two unity i jumped at the opportunity. I got to meet someone who was building the africanamerican museum, and he was a gifted museum director. He started with nothing and made it into one of the most popular museums in the entire country. I am so proud of lonnie bunch. We could not be more proud of the work he has done. David a vacancy they belong to be the secretary of the smithsonian. I was a chair of the search committee, and we looked at many candidates across the country. It was clear he knew the smithsonian, he was committed to the smithsonian, his wife was with the smithsonian, so it was an easy choice. We are at the museum, and lonnie bunch is the 14th secretary of the smithsonian air you were the first africanamerican and the first historian. Lonnie that is right. David i was the chairman of the smithsonian at one point. Im still on the board, but i w