Bubbles cannot mix unless at work. Tom im speechless. I was just talking to jon ferro, just getting up at the crack of 9 00 a. M. In london, about the uniqueness of it. There are two separate parallel worlds and the United States, where europe and the pandemic is off the radar. Clearly in europe it is unraveling. Francine it is. We are all dealing with the same virus, having the same effect on people, but if you look at germany come it is different on how they decide to do with it, compared to macron, with tighter measures. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news with ritika gupta. Ritika the chances of Congress Passing a preelection stimulus are all but gone. Treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin is blaming politics. He says democrats dont want to give President Trump something to brag about in his campaign. Democrats say the white house never took the need for another stimulus seriously enough to push for a compromise. Senate democrats are all but powerless to keep Amy Coney Barret
Response and deploys its military after concern that not enough was being done. President trump looks to calm growing fears over the us china trade war after telling reporters that the two countries will start negotiating. The largest earthquake to be caused by a fracking site in the uk has been felt in lancashire. The Prime Minister tells the bbc to cough up and pay for tv licences for all over 75s, notjust those on low incomes. Now on the bbc news channel were taking a look back at last weeks top stories on the Victoria Derbyshire programme. Hello and welcome. Over the next half hour, well show you some of the highlights from oui programme over the last week. And we start on facebook, where thousands of women in groups across the country are naming and shaming the men they claim have abused them. Prick advisor was set up to be a force for good a social media group where women can warn other women about all sorts of negative behaviour by men, from cheating, through to violence, rape a
And 21 in the towns and cities. The countryside will be more comfortable at 11pm. We have a weak cold front bringing patchy cloud across england and scotland. There will be lower temperatures for these areas on monday. Into eastern wales and central and eastern england, that is where we will see the highest temperatures again, 33 are maybe 3a in the hottest spots. Hello this is bbc news with julian worricker. The headlines. Borisjohnson has said the chances of a brexit deal are touch and go ahead of his meeting with the Eu Council President at the g7 summit. Ido i do think that they understand that there is an opportunity to do a deal. But i think the also. I think it is going to be touch and go. President trump says a very big trade deal after brexit is on the menu as the two men hold a working breakfast. The uks biggest airports will install 3 d baggage scanners to make security checks quicker. And now on bbc news, a look back at some of the highlights this week from the Victoria Der
Hello, this is bbc news. The headlines. Prince andrew has said he did not see, witness or suspect any behaviour of the sort that subsequently led to the arrest and conviction of disgraced financierjeffrey epstein. The Prime Minister has said he will urge President Trump at the g7 summit not to escalate a trade war with china. The state of global trade, i am worried about the way it is going. The uk thrives mightily on the open, outward looking free trade negotiation it will be promoting. Ahead of the summit the Prime Minister has been warned against forever being known as mr no deal over brexit. Donald tusk also said the eu will not co operate with leaving europe without an agreement. I still hope that Prime Minister johnson will not like to go down in history as mr no deal. Brazils president has bowed to International Pressure and ordered the armed forces to tackle a Record Number of fires raging in the amazon forest. Tens of thousands of British Airways passengers could be affected a
Liverpool kick off the premier League Season in style, as last years runners up thrash newly promoted norwich 4 1 at anfield. A number of Outdoor Events have already been cancelled because of bad weather well be on the Isle Of Wight where the annual sailing regatta has been suspended. Add strong wind will be the main weather story, particularly across england and wales, 50 six mrs powell wind, some disruption. Thundery downpours elsewhere, join me for the full forecast later. Its saturday the 10th of august. Our top story the Energy Watchdog has demanded an urgent report from the National Grid, after yesterdays massive power cut which affected nearly a Million People in england and wales. Ofgem has warned it could take enforcement action following the blackouts, which caused huge disruption to the rail network and cut electricity to hundreds of thousands of homes. Some rail passengers were stuck on trains until the early hours of the morning, as andy moore reports. Darkness at clapham