Deaths rise above 700,000. Double if theld pandemic is not stopped. And tiktok continues to make news. Microsoft may now be into its worldwide operations, while facebook continues to push a homegrown u. S. Rival. Shery we are seeing u. S. Futures coming online flat at the moment, after stocks climbed in the regular session. We had some optimism over a potential stimulus package, but investors are cautious. The s p 500 gained for a fifth consecutive session. Communication and tech stocks led the gains. Apple reached a record. We did get a lift for stock markets in the afternoon after President Trump said he could act unilaterally on some stimulus measures. We also have positive initial jobless claims numbers. Lowestll to the since the pandemic began. There will probably be a slowdown given the rise in infections recently. Take a look at how oil is doing, just under the 42 a barrel level. In new york, it fell for the first time in about a week after wavering between gains and losses thro
Silent night. Also coming up. The story of why terrence wont be spending christmas alone for the first time in 20 years. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Police in new zealand have confirmed that theyre planning to head back to white island tomorrow to recover the bodies of those killed by a volcanic eruption on monday. At least eight people are known to have died, and another nine are missing, presumed dead. The recovery operation has been hampered by ongoing volcanic activity on the island. In a News Conference earlier this morning, police admitted that the operation would be risky but said they will do what they can to find any unidentified bodies on the island. Tomorrow will be more about. We know exactly where they are, those six people, so, our First Priority will be to get those six people off, and we will have very limited opportunity to look about for the two others we suspect are out there somewhere. But we have done lots of aerial reconnaissance and with the eyewi
Thanks. And well have all the weather. If youre stuck indoors you arent missing much. This is the view, cloudy, murky, pretty wet in places. A lot of muddy fields if youre taking the dog for a walk later. What is in store for the weekend . Ill have all the details. Thanks. Also coming up the underwater treasures of Hms Invincible. The 250 year old captured french warship that revolutionised the royal navy. Hello, everyone this is afternoon live. After weeks of campaigning, voting is underway in the general election. This morning, the Party Leaders were out casting their ballots. Its the third election in less than five years and the first to be held in december for nearly a century. The first results are expected before midnight. Heres our Political Correspondent ben wright. And a warning his report includes some flashing images. Voting at 7am. The prime minister, borisjohnson, had some canine company as he cast his ballot at this polling station in westminster. Have you all got your p
Bringing down the sector with results from quarlcomm overnigh. And bank of england is looking for a 25basis point hike or 50 ill speak with Andrew Bailey at 4 00 ap. M. And wall street futures are coming down with the results from apple and amazon and investors are looking to see how the Performance Division is doing. We have been following Economic Data this morning particularly on the pmi front. Earlier on, we had german and french pmi numbers and now eurozone numbers for july. The figure coming out at 48. 6. The final composite pmi number for eurozone the flash figure had been 48. 9 a slight dip when you look at the services pmi, it is 50. 9. It is expansion territory with the flash number at 51 p. 1 this is the final pmi number that was Flash Services at 50. 9. The flash at 48. 9. Very interesting to take a look at the drawdown with the pmi eurozone activity does ak ex acce accelerate, but a decline with the composite number at 48. 6 versus 48. 9 which is what we have been looking
Is peter pritchard. He is former editor in chief of the usa today newspaper and he is former president of the newseum and he is the author of this book killing grace, a vietnam war mystery. Mr. Pritchard, what made you write a novel about the vietnam war . I had dreamed of writing a novel, but then life intervened and i became a newspaper editor and an executive. But when covid hit, i finally i had the time to try to write a novel and i wanted to write something that wasnt really a combat novel. That was more in the vein of quiet or the ugly american. Both of them, both books had great influence without away any spoilers. Whats books synopsis . Two employees in saigon in 1967 at the height of the war are called to the investigate the murder of an american tourist named grace waverly, who whose body is found in the saigon river. And it appears to be a drowning. And she is an antiwar activist who said she came to vietnam as a peace tourist. But her real goal is to help smuggle arms back