Steadily rising towards the peak of the 1st wave back in spring. Italy recorded 623. 00 coronavirus fatalities on tuesday, and more than 50000 people have now died from covert 19 across the u. K. Thats after another 595 fatalities were confirmed of the past 24 hours. The countrys highest daily death toll since they were very much hoping that 2 things will start to come to our aid. Number one, the mass testing the kind i just described, the rapid turnaround testing. And then the other thing is now the prospect, the realistic prospect of a vaccine. So you have a kind of, as it were to boxing gloves to the disease in that, in the weeks and months that followed. But ive got to stress that were not out of the woods yet. Well, corona virus restrictions are being reimposed in several states across the u. S. As infections shatter, more records there. According to the covert tracking project, more than 130000, new cases were confirmed on tuesday, texas has become the 1st state to record more th
Investors see less chance of new regulations, equity futures writing rising in tokyo and hong kong. In china tries to reassure the Business World that it is open to trade. Concern of the moran sealer approach. Shery breaking out of south korea. We are getting the currentaccount surplus in south korea for the month of september, widening to 10. 21 billion. We had seen a previous surplus at around 6. 5 billion. This has widened to over 10 billion. The goods surplus coming in at above 12 billion. We have seen continued surplus for the current account in south korea. Consecutivee a five months surplus, not to mention exports in october contracted a little, but in september they rose for the first time in seven months. South koreag pmi in so weoday twoyear high, are getting a widening of the surplus. Haidi pcb numbers crossing the bloomberg, betterthanexpected, eating the analyst estimates on the bloomberg, Third Quarter 1ome coming it at just billion, better expectations than 850 million.
Thanks for joining us youre watching R T International where we start with breaking news this hour from france. 3 people are being confirmed dead in the southern french city of nice following a knife attack here in the 1st pictures that weve received from the scene several of the people are reported to have been left injured the incident occurred early in the morning in the city center or 30 say that they suspect has been arrested. Lets go to paris now our correspondent there is Charlotte Dubin ski charlotte just give us the latest information on this breaking story. Well grim details coming up about this latest attack this mass stabbing that took place in the Southern City of nice as you mentioned there 3 people have been confirmed as being killed in that attack some reports a Police Source saying to the Reuters News Agency that one of those individuals was beheaded that has not been confirmed but if it is confirmed that would mean the 2nd beheading in just a few weeks here in france
Unchanged policy. Coming back from the typhoon slower by 116 points. We are talking about hsbc, one of the laggards here, missing out. The largecaps under pressure, 4819 right now. We are looking. When it comes to dollar dynamics, we did see a stronger dollar, which led to a hit. 379 right. 7 now. The china 10 year yield, we just got the pricing on the dollar bonds. Gold taking a retreat. Brent crude Holding Around 42. Tom lets bring you back to the top story in this region. Xi jinping will bring a major policy address later, in the next 20 to 30 minutes or so. Across the border in shenzhen, to talk about an integrated tech corridor to rival silicon valley. Stephen engle is following the story and joins us from hong kong. Steve, what are you looking for in this speech . Stephen i am looking for a better tagline. They are calling this a chinese socialist pilot zone with chinese characteristics. I think the greater bay is the grander scheme. And xily china wants to jinping with a trip so
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