Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us most major countries in the region have congratulated joe biden as the next u. S. President of china has not saying it will wait its not clear until when but for the rest of asia governments face a new reality for the past 4 years donald trump has shaken the foundation of what u. S. Relations mean for the region with his tough talk and courting of traditional rivals so whats the outlook now for americas allies and competitors in the end of pacific. Joe biden has promised a new day for america but what does biden have in mind for asia the u. S. Has a powerful reach there over security trade and Climate Change but also a rival for economic and military dominance. A confident china which has managed so far to beat back its coronavirus epidemic and now looks to outmaneuver the u. S. As a global superpower. Meanwhile protest movements in thailand and hong kong look to the u. S. As a champion of democracy for the region. In nuclea
Restrictions coming to bay area businesses as coronavirus cases continue to surge this comes as state Health Officials announced. A new grim milestone today, more than 18,000 californians have died due to complications from covid good evening, im ken wayne and im pam moore, 3 of californias largest counties are among 10 statewide which are rolling back on reopening businesses and on other activities. An increase in cases and hospitalizations has forced Contra Costa County to move from rinsed year to the more restrictive read to year San Francisco county remains in the yellow tear but Health Officials say the county is more is imposing more coronavirus restrictions so that it can remain in that tier today, San Francisco mayor london breed said 2 weeks ago officials anticipated a covid19 surge and now the city is seeing a 250 increase in cases since early october. The fact is. The virus is spreading. And we have to make the hard decisions. Citing a consistent uptick in cases since last m
It is armageddon, moments ago the president told fox friends, he would not name his nomination to the court until after the services for Justice Ginsburg are completed, he said he would announce friday or saturday. He said he would move quickly, he said time for a vote before the election. Now look at this, a wall street selloff, major leagues, all kinds of problems for investors, election chaos seems to be a certainty that could even be a constitutional crisis of the Supreme Court has to decide the election and there are only eight sitting justices, there could be a tie. A second wave of virus infections has hit europe, especially britain, there are worries and comes here. China holding military maneuvers as a u. S. Envoy heads to taiwan. Grandpa got up and look what you got. The dow will be down 500, maybe 600 points at the opening bell, the s p 53 points lower in the nasdaq down 170, that is a selloff, in a moment you will hear more from the president because later on today he is he
Measures of the Federal Reserve is leading the way, after spending trillions buying Mortgage Backed securities, corn rat securities, Treasury Bonds all that sort of thing this is another arrow in its quiver that is not really been explored or to my ive been following these bites here, even explain what a main Street Lending facility will be, but the very talk of it did bring us off our lows. Again, just throwing that out there as one of the reasons why we dipped from down about 280 points to now down about 180 points. Lets get the read in the meantime about the worries for the Market Going Forward here, and that will be in another couple of hours or so, the president outlining his plans to respond to china, presumably on this crackdown going on in hong kong and throwing in their concerns the president has about how the chinese handled the coronavirus, something is up which has a lot of stocks that depend on trade with china down. Blake burman with the latest. Hey, blake. Reporter hi th
100 people. Its raining, troops opened fire on the crowd surrounding an age, convoy in central gall tax, almost 800. 00 office. The one cam here in the russian capital. This is all T International and its sunday, which means that its the weekly. We talk through the top stories of the past 7 days, plus any late to stories to not so we all going to stop this out with something about breaking news, which is reaching us from southern russia, 6 minutes and so electrically had links to ice. So have been eliminated in a Counter Terrorism operation, according to officials. The what during a shared out overnight as 5 then broke out in an Apartment Building in the shuts here why the operation took place on the blaze was a tub boat on the control russians. National and Terrace Committees of 3 of the 6 militants had previously been involved in criminal activities, that one no casualties along civilians or the russians Office Stores of the week, well, high ranking time and military offices. Theyve