He recently served as the partys policy chief. Translator i will aim to become a leader who listens to the peoples voices carefully and earnestly. I want to become a leader who can get the people to work together. Kishida has long supported abe, but he has not secured an endorsement from the outgoing pm. Former ldp sectary general isishiba shigegeru joined the e tuesdaday. Translator it is our responsibility to the people to give them an o opportunity t to listen to what each candidate has to say and decide who is the best. Thats even if the public does not have a vote in the ldp president ial election. Chief cabinet secretary Suga Yoshihide is expected to join the race wednesday. Hes already received backing within t the party. The ldp is scaling back its election protocols to ensure a swift change i in power as the country deals with the coronavirus and other pressing issues. All 394 ldp lawmakers will get a votete, along with three officis from each prefecture. To reflect the pp of
Americas top Infectious Diseases expert says he is confident we will have a vaccine by the end of the year as infections slow and california and arizona, but florida reports record deaths. Secretary of state mike pompeo praises australia for standing up to china as the traditional allies strengthen defense ties. Shery thats get a quick check of how markets are trading at the moment. U. S. Futures opening to the upside, point 1 , this as stocks fell. We had traders assessing corporate earnings, not to mention contentious negotiations on a legal stimulus package. We have the s p 500 nearly raising money. We had traditional sectors gaining grounds. Real estate, utilities performing while energy declines. We had worse than expected results from a few companies 3m. Uding mcdonalds and the nasdaq composite also lost more than 1 . Tomorrow is the big antitrust showdown. We have the big tech giants including jeff bezos and Mark Zuckerberg testifying, so we will be watching that closely. Take a
Crude oil prices below 15. 00 a barrel. And in other news canadas worst mass shooting a gunman disguised as a policeman killed 16 people before being shot dead himself. Starting in germany which is reopening some shops and allowing limited School Classes of europe ease the lockdowns that have brought their economies to a halt the number of new infections and delhi coronavirus deaths in germany continues to fall. What the Central Government is doing though is leaving it up to the leaders in each of the 16 states as to how much they want to reopen and when dominic came covering events for us from berlin this monday morning dominick what can we expect the 16 states to Different Levels i guess that they could go to. The lots of Different Levels they could go to come all but all of them in different ways trying to get their economies back running again if at all possible so as of today federally then all states can choose to allow certain shops certain stalls which have a certain surface ar
Nearly a quarter of parents do still have concerns shutters are also lifting across poland denmark and the Czech Republic infections in europe are nearing a 1000000 and close 2100000 people have died for britain has more from london. Here in the u. K. There is 0 prospect thats what you know a quote from a government source has been reported this morning 0 prospect of it happening here in the u. K. Because as far as the government is concerned than were not were not fully at the peak yet they havent got it under control that said of course other countries more to the south of europe off further along in the curve that we are here in the u. K. Spain for example where children are being cooped up since the middle of last month since the middle of march i mean they havent even been allowed to properly exercise better sanchez the spanish Prime Minister is saying that he hopes that spanish children will be allowed out now to parts at least its and he has also been looking at that he had the
Well the white house says it will be taking part in the next step of the impeachment inquiry into us President Donald Trump he had been given a sunday deadline to say whether he would send legal representation to a hearing on wednesday the white house also says it will respond separately regarding a 2nd hearing which has a friday deadline of course the u. S. President under scrutiny for asking ukraine to investigate joe biden and his son in exchange for military ate it is a big week ahead in the impeachment inquiry so lets have a little look at whats coming up members of the House Intelligence Committee will receive a copy of the impeachment report that will outline the findings of the investigation into trumps dealings with ukraine then will be a 24 hour period to review it after which theres a vote thats on tuesday afternoon to move it forward to the next stage that being proceedings in the House Judiciary Committee which is scheduled to sit on wednesday it is the Judiciary Committee