Hong kong, the latter saying it will maintain security and division. Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The market is actually pausing a little bit. If you look at the global stock seen, it isve pausing for breath today. The dow rebounding. The dollar actually rebounding from its weakest level since early march. Treasuries are pretty much study. Backup of 1 for the First Time Since march. A lot of the focus on stagnant asian, and a lot of the focus on the euro, depending on what the ecb does. The ecb plans to boost monetary stimulus, and of course we will look at jobs and employment data. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. Saysr general jim mattis the president is trying to divide the american people, accusing him of making a mockery of the constitution. He publicly oppose the president was the idea of deploying the military to contain pro
Also, britain braces for more antiracism protests sparked by the killing of george floyd. Authorities fear a repeat of the unrest which has seen attacks on monuments to the u. K. s imperial past. And video call giant zoom comes under fire after closing the account of a prominent chinese prodedemocracy group. Critics accuse the tech company of giving in to beijing. We talk to the activist at the center of the controversy. Welcome to the program. The United Nations is warning that millions of children are at risk of being pushed into underage labor by the Global Health emergency. Extreme poverty made worse by economic shutdowns in many countries means that all too many children are undertaking dangerous and exploitative work to support their families. The situation is especially dire in the Central African republic. The overwhelming majority of the population there lives on less than one dollar a day. She is a waiter in this restaurant in the capital of the Central African republic. He a
I wasnt going to say this at first, but im going to say it. Well take you live now to capitol hill where House Speaker nancy pelosi is holding her weekly legislative briefing. Good afternoon. Theres so much going on. Thank you for accommodating our change in schedule today. As you probably are aware, this afternoon i sent a letter to the president expressing concern about the increased militarization and lack of clarity that may increase chaos. I plan to request a full list of the agencies involved and clairephclair clarifications of the roles and responsibilities of the troops and federal Law Enforcement sources operating in the city. Well, i preface it by saying as you probably saw, the military on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The what is it . Ill read it to you. Soldiers on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. View of prison officers in Lafayette Square. The National Park service doing that violent act, hassling Peaceful Protesters the other night. States have sent in National G
Globe actually banks reports from minneapolis to tell us more about the moral and the community in which floyd lived actually please tell us what youre seeing. There sara so im here at North Central university located in Downtown Minneapolis where the Memorial Service for george floyd is that were wrapping up just moments ago rubber nose in our been delivered to these eulogy and he stated keep going until we change the full system of the trust has now he had everyone stand for about 8 minutes to represent the amount of time that george was payment to the ground the rights leader he spoke to the president earlier today and he said as a community we will bring up from the funeral to the funeral of africanamericans who have been killed by Police Officers is an unknown is unknown sara now for those who are unfamiliar with reverend al sharpton he also deliberate the ulu g. s of Michael Brown and. Garner an air of one who died in a similar function wait i do want to mention that eric garner
Now. But first, san jose was the city where protests really started last friday. I talked with mayor sam licca ghincluding chans policing, the officers seen on video taunting protesters, turning down the National Guard and covid19. Its been six days, it feels a lot longer than that, but i want to ask you how do you feel like your city has done so far based on what youve seen the last few days . Well, things have been much more peaceful in the last certainly in the last 24 hours and im really grateful. Protests have continued, of course, weve seen large crowds, but we have not seen those very few people who have been provoking reactions by throwing bottles, for example, or blowing up fireworks near officers heads, that kind of stuff isnt happening and as a result there havent been any arrests, everything has been very peaceful and we want that to continue. Also been heartened, more than 40 volunteers have shown up to help us clean up the debris, take off the graffiti in the early mornin