The news flow in the United States and the pandemic i dont believe i have ever used this word before, it is just grim. Abi did in april. But the headline this morning maybe i did in april. The headline this morning is that we have a president. Just as importantly, as you mentioned, the Chinese Government has commented on this. It will be fascinating to see what President Trump does today and into the sunday talk programs. Francine and absolutely, we will see the executive order. I was looking at security briefings, which is something i know you want to talk about and is very significant at the moment. A security briefing for the president elect. Lets get to first word news in new york city. State and federal Election Officials are rejecting President Trumps claim for widespread voter fraud. They say that the election was the most secure in american history, that there is no evidence that any state lost votes, changed votes, or was, must. China has congratulated joe biden and Kamala Har
The world. The nasdaq up 0. 9 . Gold continues to rally. 1733. 48 an ounce. Plenty of currencies are moving against the dollar. How are we doing in europe, guy . Guy we are up, being driven by the oil and gas sector once again. We are trading near session highs. The stoxx 600 up by around 0. 6 . Relatively muted volume today, and to be honest, the volatility , soting to come down again bear that in mind. We seen a lot of centralbank news over the last few minutes. Christine lagarde has been briefing eu leaders as they kick off their summit, their videoconference. She has been warning them that gdp may fall by 15 within the region as a result of the virus. That is largely backed up by some of the pmi data we saw earlier on, particularly very Weak Services numbers coming through for the eurozone. A littlearting to see bit of tightening in some of the spreads. Btpsbunds coming down a bit, so a little bit of outperformance for peripheral bonds, but other big move upside for brent. To circl
We talk to an armed fighter who boasts of a license to kill those who dont follow his groups strict rules. And in hong kong theyre sticking up for their own former Police Officers say their on duty colleagues have shown great restraint during months of protests as allegations mount of Police Brutality. Im brian thomas great to have you with us after a year of school strikes it was great to turn bergs big moment on the world stage and she didnt hold back the 16 year old climate activist offering a stinging rebuke to leaders at the un climate some for a summit in new york her speech to rounds of applause as the conference discussed how to reinvigorate the stalled paris climate accords. People are suffering people are dying and tired School Systems are collapsing we are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is the money and fairy tales of the time of Economic Growth oh dad you know i was. It was an impassioned speech but one of those who most need to to hear it
Attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do know it does seem as though a large number of civilians once again have been caught up in a battle between taliban and Coalition Forces and a number include colluding many women and children this comes of course as afghanistan is preparing for its president ial election in the coming saturday the last couple of days have been generally quiet here in afghanistan but we have seen generally a surge in the number of attacks taking place both by the taliban who have threatened to disrupt t
Game of thrones reigning once again crowned the winner for best drama at the emmys what a look at the wins and upsets on t. V. News. Im brian thomas great to have you with us the worlds oldest travel Company Thomas Cook has collapsed after failing to secure a last minute ballad more than half a 1000000 people worldwide are currently on holiday right now with that group the u. K. Aviation authority is beginning an operation to bring home some 150000 british customers stranded abroad the collapse of thomas cook puts 22000. 00 jobs at risk around the world 9000. 00 of them in the u. K. Alone. If customers passengers have a flight booked out from the u. K. Today unfortunately your flight has been cancelled supplies dont go to the please dont go to the airport if youre overseas on a thomas cook holiday then you can continue to enjoy your holiday the cia is launching. This is the largest repatriation since the 2nd world war and we will be bringing home everybody. Back to the u. K. As close a