Entered a new wave of cases. Europes twin battles. E. U. Leaders make no progress. Chancellor merkel says finding compromise will be difficult as france and belgium are said to have urged e. U. Leaders to step up contingency plans for a nodeal brexit. Very good morning to you and happy friday. What a week it has been. Witharted the week off optimism and euphoria with markets on a high into vaccine news and we will be ending the week on a much more sobering tone. The news coming out in the United States, california imposing a new curfew, with pressure on officials. We wake up to a public clash between Steven Mnuchin and jay powell on unused lending funds and we saw that hit the futures market. S p 500 futures paring some of those losses. We have nasdaq futures relatively flat this morning. Treasury yields steady. In the pound, north of 132. We do have sources telling bloombergs that Emmanuel Macron is urging his e. U. Counterparts to start drawing up contingency plans for a nodeal brexi
Being closely watched as the clock ticks down on the ballot count clicks up before we go any further lets go to come out has the latest on the numbers come up thank you adrian yes so 300 hours g. M. T. It is now which means 10 pm on the u. S. East coast and these are the polls that are closing at this hour 4 of them for you montana nevada utah and iowa im not going to go through any projections just now because we dont have any at the moment too early to call in all 4 of those states the one swing state will be keeping an eye on is iowa in the midwest so with that in mind its a good chance just to step back and have a look at some of our swing states as well so lets start in ohio with nearly 60 percent of precincts reporting donald trump is edging further and further away from joe biden his latest 130000 out of 4. 4 almost 4400000 votes counted so its close but the gap widening for donald trump in ohio lets move on to michigan one of the important ones that donald trump picked up. 4 ye
Each other of heavy shelling in civilian areas at least 8 people have been killed in the latest round of fighting over the disputed territory of the going to occur. U. S. President donald trump has said he no longer has coronavirus and believes hes immune he made the comment today before resuming campaigning his doctor said hed taken a test showing he was no longer a transmission risk. Under has more from washington d. C. Given the vague information or lack of information from the doctors and giving no more information on on sunday its left donald trump to tweet hes basically saying that he is fine that he can no longer get the virus hes claiming hes immune and that he can no longer give the virus to anyone as well now thats a very problematic or suspect statement and even twitter had to mark that tweet by the president of the United States as a tweet that in twitters words is misleading and could lead to a negative consequences when it comes to coronavirus nigeria has dissolved an eli
Are going to attack this idea of the nomination on the basis that it could well jeopardize the Affordable Health care act shes making the point that the Supreme Court on november the 10th will hear a case which is called texas against california which is a vote of protecting preexisting conditions she says that if there is a conservative majority on the court particularly with someone like amy expressed concern about the Affordable Health care act or obamacare as it became widely known that then that thing is at risk and shes hoping that that might ple into Public Opinion outside the chamber russias foreign minister has indicated that turkey will not be involved in peace talks over the disputed region of nagano color back as a by john has proposed its ally turkey be involved in discussions armenia and azerbaijan are accusing each other of violating a humanitarian cease fire. Funerals have been held in the us a by Johnny Village of here for the victims of sundays attacks on the city of
There is still a lot of fighting along the line of contact and the angry rhetoric between. John is ratcheting up accusing our media of targeting oil and Gas Pipelines armenia says john is trying to seize control of nagornokarabakh russias police over the top of this for them to observe the humanitarian cease fire dont seem to be being listened to on the big difference in the dynamic now is the involvement of turkey and headlines tens of thousands of afghans have been forced to escape 4 days of fighting between taliban and Government Forces aid agencies say hospitals becoming overwhelmed by the wounded in helmand province. Coronavirus case is a surging across europe to the highest levels in months britain has just registered the 2nd highest number of daily infections so far englands introduce new restrictions and frances Just Announced a Public Health emergency starting saturday israeli governments approved the construction of thousands of new illegal settlement homes in the occupied we