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Halt an influx of migrants crossing over from france it is putting pressure on the government which promised to take back control of the borders after breakfast. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program the 2020 nobel prize kicked off a short while ago with the naming of the winners in the field of physiology or medicine this year it is a trio of virologists harvey j. Altera Michael Houghton and charles and rice the panel at the institute in stockholm awarded them the prestigious prize for their discovery of the hepatitis c. Virus the medicine prize carries a particular significance this year with the corona virus pens and make highlighting the importance of medical research for societies and economies around the world. So lets get more with 5 correspondent Eric Williams who is here with us in the studio so tell us more about the winners and whether you were surprised with this choice well to be honest im almost always surprised i mean ive been doing this for a lot of years and there are
The chinext is lackluster here. Indonesia coming online. The futures are not going anywhere in singapore today. We are watching that dollars story once again. The dollar weaker here. We did see the pound falling after the bop made the clearest signal yet that it may be considering negative Interest Rates. 104. 81 for the dollaryen. Take a look at crude. You better not be challenging us. You are watching a bit of a bid for iron ore. Global coronavirus cases have no topped 30 million with more than 940,000 deaths. Reported the most cases since the lockdown in may. There were more than 10,000 new infections. The northeast of england is introducing tough new restrictions. The bank of england has given the clearest signal yet that it may consider cutting Interest Rates to below zero for the first time in its history. The policy is part will be a similar move shortly after. Here in the u. S. , the Federal Reserve has started the second round of wall street stress tests. Unprecedented restrai
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Been grappling with global interconnectedness for as long as weve been a species this book starts from our ancient past indeed our 1st migrations out of africa as modern human beings and takes us through how technological advances in agriculture in writing with alphabets in ocean navigation with the steam engine and now in our time with the digital age have reshaped this interconnectedness its quite a story of course it is the the history of humanity because we are globally interconnected in fundamental ways whether we have nationalism or not we cant help but having this interconnectedness of course a days before this book was being finalised came the pandemic a so i you quickly scrambled with a preface at the beginning to say well this is quite horrific its not the 1st time pandemics themselves have reshaped our lives as well they are also emblematic of globalisation you know we have government advisers on this show sometimes quite a quite a few but we dont have people who advised mor