John lewis. We will start by reading the story from the New York Times this morning. Rning. The New York Times reports it like this. Lewis,ntative john bloodied as selma and across the historic south, and who is carried a mantle of of moral authority into congress, died on friday. He was 80. This was confirmed by nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. Stagewis announced he had stageiotic cancer four pancreatic cancer. I have fought for human rights he nearly my entire life, said. Mr. Lewis was a valiant stalwart of the Civil Rights Movement. Later,an a halfcentury after the killing in may of george floyd, mr. Lewis welcomed the resulting demonstrations against Police Killing of black people and more broadly against systematic racism in all corners of society. It was very moving to see hundreds of thousands of people from all over america and around the world take to the streets, to speak up, to speak out, to get into what i call good inuble, mr. Lewis told cbs june. Dro
Is going on in terms of economic stimulus. European shares, slipping with u. S. Futures, the dollar snapping a fiveday losing streak. Treasuries edging higher with most european bonds. A full market round up shortly. Lets get to the bloomberg first word news with leighann gerrans. Leighann the u. K. Will pump 3 billion pounds into environmental projects as part of its recovery plan. The investment will be formally announced tomorrow when gives anr sunak update on economic plans. Hes under pressure to introduce a meaningful package after the prime ministers speech last week failed to impress many economists. Emmanuel macron has reshuffled his government. Bruno le maire stays as finance minister. Improve labor affairs, hes moving elizabeth. Orne and ha appended thes National Security legislation imposed on the city last week. Her comments come hours after the government asserted broad new police powers, including warrantless searches, online surveillance, and property seizure. Im glad to
Next speaker, please. Welcome. Question hi. So a number of individuals have discussed the system and i would like to remark on it. By the way, i believe i live in district 2. First of all, i would like to remark that before this week, i never even realized that people could go to could attend board of supervisors meetings and i feel this is something that should be more widely advertised to residents of the city because certainly, i think i was in more active in local politics and i know there was a venue beyond simply emailing my supervisor or calling if i knew that i could actually attend meetings and make comments. I would have felt more emparamedic aempoweredas a citi. Also, the schedule on the website had a more of a time frame because, for example, there was a time that was noted when comments could be made where i could have tuned out and did Something Else and called back in or when the relevant discussions were. Also, for people who have addressed the issue of defunding the po
Mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. And for me ok in watching this story no for the past few months the stream has taking the round the world looking at the Global Pandemic and the impact its having a very citizens around the world today we still post at the pacific nations and ask if their isolation is actually helping them tackle covered 19 and what issues and challenges they may well have if you are new to we would love to hear from you jump into the chat and he can be part of the conversation im going to start the conversation introducing the guests and theyre going to say hello to you so ambassador it is wonderful to have you here on the stream tell everybody can you well. I am from fallout i am due for mr president of allowing ambassador to the United
That has been totally unpredictable and has led to this word going on forward, which is uncertainty. Uncertainty and economics, uncertainty across investment. Says it isnuchin across finance as well. To me, the hard question here, forget about hong kong, about Boris Johnson talking about the fdr new deal for your united kingdom. Windows thehing is next round of fiscal stimulus appear. Jonathan there will be huge pressure to deploy yet. The message from chairman powell is we will not fully recover until we control this virus in this country. And the radical uncertainty being expressed by policymakers by fed chair jay powell as well as Steven Mnuchin gives people certainty that we are going to get more stimulus both on the fiscal and Monetary Policy front. Among the things i am watching today, we are getting a further read on the Housing Market after the pending home sounds data pending home sales data. We are taking a look at where prices are increasing the most. We will be hearing from