Youre watching Worldwide Exchange, bringing you Business News from around the globe. All right. Hello. Welcome. Weve got two hours of the good stuff coming up. Were here at work today. Thats the good news. Im still here today and tomorrow. I love working with you, ross. But yesterday i got to work with louisa and we talked hockey the whole time. How do you beat that . You dont. Working with louisa is an unbeatable experience. Ice hockey . No, field hockey i can do. Field hockey . I dont know. The canadians, we dont consider that you should. We have lots of fun stuff to talk about today. Lots of politics still. It is day two of the u. S. Government shutdown and there appears to be no quick resolution in site. How republicans tried to get three bills passed tuesday to fund certain programs, National Parks and operations for the district of columbia. But the measures, which needed a twothirds majority vote all failed. Democrats and president obama opposed the piece mail strategy. Aids say
England is back in a National Lockdown as soaring covid case numbers threaten to overwhelm the health service. The move follows advice from the uks chief medical officers who raised the coronavirus alert level to the highest possible. Mrjohnson said the weeks ahead will be the hardest yet. It will be the hardest yet. Is clear that we need to t more it is clear that we need to do more together to bring this new variant under control while our vaccines are rolled out. In england we must therefore enter a National Lockdown which is tough enough to contain this variant. That means the government is once again instruct you to stay at home. You may only leave home for limited reasons omitted in law such as to shop for essentials, to work if you absolutely cannot work from home, to exercise, to seek medical assistance such as getting a covid test or to escape domestic abuse. Boris johnson didnt announce any new support for businesses though, something that worried a lot of Business Leaders. H
The major bank claimed to have sorted issues with its app and online banking, which first emerged on Tuesday evening. It comes after Greggs, Sainsbury s, Tesco and McDonald s were hit by IT errors.