Speaker who we aree so honored o have with us, senator tammy duckworth. Senator duckworth probably needs no introduction to most of you watching. She is an iraq war veteran, a purple heart recipient, former assistant secretary of the u. S. Department of Veterans Affairs and napa yes, senator for the state of illinois. For both of us working in our security, certainly for those of us who are women in National Security, when you think about people who are breaking down barriers ahead of you, store duckworth is the top of the list when the first handful of women in the army to fly combat missions during Operation Iraqi freedom cup first u. S. Senator to give birth while in office, and particularly relevant to todays event the firsts member of congress was born in thailand and the first asianamerican who was elected to congress from the state of illinois. In addition to the work shes done of defense and Veterans Affairs, senator duckworth spent a lot of time thinking about the military cha
Am Kathleen Hays in york, welcome to daybreak asia, related stories this hour, monthly suggests the recovery is continuing. The Bloomberg Economic saying recovery above three point five percent. Nancy pelosi says a deadline for stainless steel well President Trump calls for a big spending package. Central bankers worn support will be needed for some time to come and new zealand stocks rise in the kiwi strengthens after the historic victory. Labor has the seats to govern alone, but she is considering a new coalition. Haidi taking a look at markets in asia we are setting up on a pretty cautious note when it comes to trading in the trading week here in asia, however we are looking ahead to Third Quarter gdp out of china with investors and traders came to see what the expectations were for this study growth were to continue. We are expecting numbers of about 5. 5 when it comes to economic expansion. This is our way of seeing into the first couple of minutes here in sydney just about two pe
Deborahears, my wife and i have traveled across the country, especially across the towns, to learn about those parts of the american story. For conversation about future travel, i am glad to welcome the. Eo of airbnb, brian thank you so much for joining us. I have questions about your business in the olden times, in the future times. I want to start with one big picture question about all the enterprises that have an affected by the enterprise, yours has to be most affected. You are about mobility, and people have not been mobile. What is the main lesson, surprise, or discovery that you personally have taken from the experience in the last eight months or so. Ourn we lost about 80 of business in eight weeks, that we had spent about a decade building. That was quite surprising. What may have been even more surprising what is what happened next. What happens next is people, no matter the circumstances, in the midst of the pandemic, still had the desire to travel. They did not want to get
Thousands have been asked to stay home although the total number of cases outside China Remains relatively small we are concerned about the number of cases which is more clearly tickling so i just travel history to jail all contact with her valid case were especially concerned about the increasing cases in the Islamic Republic of iran where there are no 18 places and for those in just the past 2 days. But pride is in the Southern City of daegu with more on the white reaching impact on south korea. These latest figures do make for very grim reading once more showing a doubling of this basically a pattern now has been established over the past few days that we have a doubling each day it seems this time last night friday we were talking about just over 200 cases in south korea were now talking about well over 400 and the focus still is very much on this area daegu and the adjoining chung go county where we have a number about half of all of the cases are now reported to be members of thi
Loud to end an important caveat though as it seems that normal one residence if you dont have a specific reason for having to leave the city youre not going to be allowed to leave still so its not like were going to see a massive exodus but this is a significant significant change and it does signal some positive movements meanwhile south korea is still on high alert over the outbreak its announced another big jump in new coronavirus cases the number of deaths from the virus in south korea stands at 7 after 2 more were announced on monday the Israeli Military has carried out strikes on gaza and the syrian capital damascus after the Palestinian Group Islamic Jihad fired 21. 00 rockets into southern israel to the groups members were killed in the strikes the group said it launched its attack after Israeli Soldiers fired on a group of palestinians killing one of its members forces in west jerusalem he says the israeli airstrikes came as no surprise. Well certainly the strikes inside gaza