Out the deadly disease. Welcome to our coverage on bbc news. Irans Supreme Leader has defended Tuesdays Missile Attack on israel, saying it was the minimum punishment for what he called israels crimes. Addressing a crowd in tehran, Ayatollah Khamenei said that iran would not hesitate on further action. Overnight there were more israeli Air Strikes in lebanon. Us officials say israel was targeting the potential successor to hassan nasrallah, the hezbollah leader, who was killed last week. The attacks happened in Southern Lebanon and also in beirut where buildings have been flatted. Lebanons Health Ministry says 37 people have been killed in israeli Ground And Air attacks. Lebanons Transport Minister said missiles have hit the Main International Road to syria , a key road where people are are fleeing from lebanon. There have also been reports of 20 rockets being fired from lebanon into israel with some intercepted as they travelled towards the city of haifa. Lets speak to Sir Peter westm
. O a presumed debate october 15 crisis, go to cash. Do you understand we are 3 from a dow record high . Jonathan the narrative has really shifted away from the worries about a contested election, and now the conversation about the potential of a blue wave. No question about it. We like to see more polls coming out. The candidates really migrate to arizona today and tomorrow to come off the messaging from utah. Have you seen the polls for going to be at polls from quinnipiac . A fivepoint lead in iowa for biden. The average right now, 9. 4 points to biden. I feel you, tom. I get it. Everyone else does, too. They are conditioned by the experience of four years ago. That is a conversation with kevin later this morning. Tom again, i look at the markets. The doom and gloom out there, the vix, the volatility at 28, im sorry. Look at the equity recovery and look at corporations adjusting. This breaking ibm news is important. Jonathan after a big acquisition last year of red hat, the restruct
Protests hammer u. S. Cities nationwide for a seventh straight night. President trump threatens to deploy the military to end what he calls the lawlessness in the streets. U. S. Futures slipped as new york goes under curfew for the first time in over 70 years. As we pointing higher said. The u. K. Virus infection rate falling to its lowest since march. And a second wave of stimulus cannot hurt. Angela merkel looks to broker a deal on a stimulus package with 100 billion euros here as the u. K. Chancellor plans to prepares plans to bolster growth after Emergency Support is withdrawn there. We are just under one hour away from the cash equity trade here across europe. Lets take a look at futures, keeping in mind that the german dax was closed yesterday. It is up about. 5 in terms of futures. Euro stoxx 50 futures, the 6 . Chmark up. Ftse futures up. 4 . They have been positive just about one hour ago, at least partially. Now mastec futures are still keeping their heads above water. We are
That will not happen today. It means attention turns to with the Withdrawal Agreement bill. This is a huge piece of legislation that would essentially bring the brexit deal and a part of the u. K. That is due to be published later this evening and then you should have votes on that tomorrow, the first of which would be a second reading and essentially if that goes through, it would be seen as a big win for the Prime Minister because it would mean mps back to brexit deal. They are happy for legislation to go forward to bring the brexit deal into u. K. Law. What would happen after that and what we expect the government to do is introduce a Program Motion that would accelerate the passage of the Withdrawal Agreement through the house of commons hoping to have it passed all its stages in the house of commons by friday. That would then set the stage for it to become part of u. K. Legislation by october 31. The current brexit deadline. David thank you so much. I think i understood that, but
Back into the ashes . Berlin and paris. Really, although the third test at headingley gets under way this morning. Open to ideas, no fundamental shift, and looks whos ready to steam in again. Because the fundamental problem is that the eu sees that have got to be good morning. There is still some ove rco m e that the eu sees that have got to be overcome still remain. And mr rain in the forecast in the northern half of the country. Tomorrow, as we johnson has got to present new ideas head into the weekend, a bank if they are to move at all. And holiday for some is going to be mostly dry and hot or warm depending aside from these talks particularly, is there a sense in france of our on which end of the country youre in. Ill have more details in 15 new Prime Minister . What do they make of Boris Johnson . To be honest, minutes. Its thursday, august 22nd. I think many are waiting for this, waiting to see what mrjohnson has our top story borisjohnson to say. But with little hope will go hea