Prime minister. Also in the news the future of social media at tick tock still uncertain but there are reports of a deal that could satisfy the United States government. Strong winds threatening the efforts to battle wildfires in the northwestern United States get a live update from california. Well start with the news out of japan where the governing party has elected its new leader to succeed. Is a longtime ally of the outgoing Prime Minister the liberal democratic partys leadership vote now paves the way for suger to replace in a parliamentary vote this week. Is japans longest serving Prime Minister he resigned last month for health reasons. Well nobody as we faced a nationwide crisis of the krona virus hope araik we cannot have a political gap we need to overcome this challenge in order for every Single Person in japan to have a safe and stable life i need to proceed with what Prime Minister abbott has been working on and move it forward i believe this is my mission. Robin broad is
The cash trade here in europe is less than an hour away. Lets get your top headlines. Softbank plummets on reports it made big bets on derivatives linked to u. S. Tech. A selloff looks set to continue, although u. S. Stocks are shut today for the labor day holiday. Johnson plays hardball. U. K. Officials say britain is not scared of walking away from brexit negotiations emptyhanded. Talks restart on that note in london this week. And cracks in the pipeline. Germanys board member former minister links nord stream 2 to the poisoning of alexey navalny. We are less than an hour away from the start of european trading. There will be no u. S. Equities trade today. You can see european futures are gaining. We are getting more german data out now, economic data. Up 1. 2 . Strial output the estimate was for a gain of 4. 5 percent, so a mess in terms of Industrial Production so a miss in terms of Industrial Production. Yearoveryear, there was a drop. The actual drop was 10 . The estimate had bee
Poisoning. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. Shows joe a new poll biden has a doubledigit lead over President Trump. Ae democratic nominee has 5242 advantage. Meanwhile, the survey also says in theden has a 6 lead battleground state wisconsin. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel is now ready to link the nord stream 2 gas pipeline the poisoning of a russian dissident. Merkel, whoift for said that the russian backed pipeline should be completed and remains a separate issue. The kremlin has said it sees no issue that germany will block nordstrom. Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning. Now in hong kong, protests have resumed after weeks of calm. Police arrested hundreds of people. Among other things, demonstrators were protesting the decision to delay Legislative Council relaxants for a year Council Elections for a year because of coronavirus. India has surpassed brazil as the second worst hit country. India reported more than 19,000 cases more than 90,00
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Protests against his government will be live and had at it. And speculation is rife in spain after former King Juan Carlos left the country while the investigation for corruption. And sport the l. A. Lakers had secured top spot in the n. B. A. s western conference for the 1st time in a decade bron james his Team Clinching the number one seed with a win over the top. We begin with a Global Pandemic countries which are once had coronavirus under control and all struggling with a soaring number of infections and that is forcing governments to reimpose tough restrictions on their citizens in a fit of pain since capital manila and surrounding provinces have gone back into the lockdown public transport has been. Shutdown and some businesses closed and people now need special passes to leave their homes or hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to the australian state of victoria to help enforce isolation orders the state has introduced a number of measures to control its own break