A responsibility of a few puts is all without risk limits that sort of demonstrations like those we saw of a weekend or health risk its an example its good it is the behavior of many demonstrators cannot be just a fight the chant is. Also coming up tonight Northern Ireland mourns the passing of john hughes the nobel peace laureate whose lifes work made it possible to turn the troubles into peace john hume genuinely was a political titan i dont think we would have to have really got the Peace Process going and. Implemented if he hadnt been down offering help and advice. Which our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the reality of the pandemic in germany and the people who refused to believe it on saturday the streets of central berlin were flooded with protesters who say the coronavirus pandemic is fake they demanded an end to face mass requirements social distancing rules and all measures to stop the viral spread when police m
On the rise ofis infections across the world. European stocks are edging higher along with s p 500 futures. Now, they are pretty much flat, down 0. 09 . Investors weighing scattered signs of economic improvement against the spread of coronavirus. Im looking at eu sovereign bonds, dipping. Treasuries little changed. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. Hasresident donald trump tweeted video of a man yelling white power. Confrontation was between antitrump supporters and his supporters. Senator tim scott, the sole black republican in the chamber, urged the president to delete the tweet that is fueling accusations the president is fomenting Racial Division after the killing of george floyd. More protests in hong kong as beijing debates a new national thatity law for the city the hong kong executive says people have nothing to worry about as long as they abide by the wall. Residents must avoid crossing red lines. In poland, voters systemsne country, two consideration when
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Speak to consumers, expected to spend a whopping 7. 4 billion today according to a dopey analytics. Jackie deangelis joins us from a mall and edison, new jersey. What is it look like right now . Well, its starting to heat up. Behind me, macys was open from 5 00 p. M. Last night in the mall is just opening inside in the concourse now so you can see h and m is still closed the people are lining up outside. Down here we have an Urban Outfitters with people getting ready to go in as well and as you said the projection is for over 7 billion this year hoping to set new records last year black friday spending was about 6. 2 billion. The average consumer that comes out today is expected to spend about 400, but the question is, is at the same kind of black friday we are used to to maybe five years ago or 10 years ago . People would line up and storm the stores for deals. You can get a lot of deals online in the deals in the stores, the discounts have been active pretty much all this week. From
Against the action that was taken by Boris Johnson to suspend parliament has been the parliamentary Speaker John Bercow his comments on wednesday have been called unconstitutional by some other senior members of the parliament but he was reacting as i say to Boris Johnsons plan to suspend parliament he said in a statement that this move represents a constitutional outrage the statement went on to say shutting down parliament would be an offense against the democratic process in the rights of parliamentarians as the peoples elected representatives. And the role of the speaker there for looks as though its going to be pretty critical in the coming weeks and so we can mettle to Bobby Friedman whos a barrister who has written the biography of john bercow the current speaker of the house thank you very much indeed for joining us i was just wondering 1st of all what your thoughts were on Ruth Davidson the leader of the scottish conservatives who Just Announced her resignation and whether you