I am Francine Lacqua in london. This is what the markets are looking like. Ofis more quiet because august, not so because of august 2020. The european shares are fluctuating, chinese stocks rally in, and oil up with the opec gathering this week. Travel agencies and Real Estate Companies were the biggest drags in the 600, with the dollar weakening against most of its peers. We will have more on the markets throughout the day, but now, lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news in london. Here is leighann gerrans. Leighann in the u. S. , House Speaker nancy pelosi is calling members back about the postal service, which has warned at least 46 states they may not be able to develop ballots on time for the november election amid operational changes and a funding cuts. President donald trump has said repeatedly and without evidence that voting by mail is subject to widespread fraud. Now, in new zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has delayed the general election by four weeks unti
I thought it would begin by taking a couple minutes and talk about what i think are the forces of disequilibrium that are impacting the middle east, actually impacting the whole world, and i want to give each of the ministers a chance to talk about what they see is creating disequilibrium, but also how we stabilize the region. My short take on the world is i think we are in the middle of three Climate Changes at once. We are in the middle of the change of the claimant of the climate. Were going from what i call later to now. When i was growing up in america in the 1960s and 1970s, later was when you could fix that river, clean that lake, save that orangutan. You could say it now or save it later. Today, later is officially over. Later now will be too late. That is Climate Change. We see it in the middle east with rising temperatures and rising water issues among others. We are in the middle of a change of climate of globalization. We are going from a world that was interconnected to a
Moderates. Welcome, everybody. Thank you for skipping lunch and coming to our panel. The subject today is finding a new equilibrium in the middle east and we have a terrific panel representatives of the region and try left, foreign minister of saudi arabia, deputy Prime Minister from turkey, administer secretary defense minister from germany, Prime Minister of bahrain and foreign minister from the uae. I thought i would begin by taking a couple minutes to talk about what i think are the forces of disequilibrium that are impacted in the middle east or impacting the whole world and give each of the ministers a chance to talk about what they see as things that created a disequilibrium but how we stabilize the region. My very short take on the world is we are in the middle of three Climate Changes at once and we are in the middle of the change of requirement of the climate and were going for what i call later to now and i was growing up in america in the 60s and 70s later was when you can
Delegates at the nut Conference Vote in favour of a ballot on Strike Action in england, because of concerns about funding cuts. More throughout the evening on the bbc news channel. Coming up now its sportsday. Good evening, spurs reduce the gap with chelsea as bournemouth get thumped 4 0 at White Hart Lane. Stoke city with a win, and Valtteri Bottas claims Pole Position for the first time in his career to deny team mate Lewis Hamilton Pole Position on the grid in bahrain. And britains cyclists add to the medal tally at the World Track Cycling Championships in hong kong and defending champion mark selby makes a blistering start to this years snicko World Championship. Good evening, lots of neutral fans would like to see the race to win the Premier League title go to the final few matches. Spurs have done their bit to make sure it does. They beat bournemouth 4 0 in the days early kick off to move to just four points behind League Leaders chelsea who dont play until tomorrow. David ornste
Delegates at the nut Conference Vote in favour of a ballot on Strike Action in england, because of concerns about funding cuts. More throughout the evening on the bbc news channel. Coming up now its sportsday. Good evening, spurs reduce the gap with chelsea as bournemouth get thumped 4 0 at White Hart Lane. Stoke city with a win, and Valtteri Bottas claims Pole Position for the first time in his career to deny team mate Lewis Hamilton Pole Position on the grid in bahrain. And britains cyclists add to the medal tally at the World Track Cycling Championships in hong kong and defending champion mark selby makes a blistering start to this years snicko World Championship. Good evening, lots of neutral fans would like to see the race to win the Premier League title go to the final few matches. Spurs have done their bit to make sure it does. They beat bournemouth 4 0 in the days early kick off to move to just four points behind League Leaders chelsea who dont play until tomorrow. David ornste