A pandemic entire households in south africa are struggling to afford enough food. Lockdown measures are reinstated in parts of china after a new cluster of corona virus infections. Around santa how much now have all the Sporting Community a look at how Major League Baseball is aiming to start its delayed season and to why. We begin this news hour with a global plea from World Leaders calling for covert 19 banks seen to be distributed free of charge to all countries in a new open letter more than 140. 00 current and former leaders Nobel Laureates and i could emic a call for the global sharing of data and technologies related to the virus and that when a vaccine is developed its district. Equally and according to need comes as French Pharmaceutical Company said it would give the u. S. Preference to buy the vaccine because it was the 1st to fund the research but the french government has said this is unacceptable the World Health Organization has warned the virus may never be wiped out w
With the United States. We start within a positive note. Nejra funding the deficit, the u. S. Will start issuing twentyyear bonds in the first half of 2020. It comes as Steve Mnuchin continues to review bonds. Welcome to bloomberg daybreak europe. The data out of china and the u. S. Putting risk on across markets today, taking a look at asia, green on the screen for the Msci Asia Pacific index. He saw all three u. S. Benchmarks hit records again and tech stocks were leading that rally. Alphabet above a 1 trillion valuation for the first time. Futures look like we could build on those gains. We saw green on the screen yesterday and it looks like another day of gains. Switching out the board to look at other assets, the yen has been posting a little bit of weakness. We are at eight months low. Yield edged up after retail sales data and some other data out of the u. S. Pointed to a stronger consumer. 182 handle is where we sit. We have seen steepening after that announcement from siva mnu
President as much as he tried to weave together both the secular and religious elements of politics and he did that successfully wall that still be maintained after his death will the unemployment problems here the Unemployment Rate is now risen to 15 percent its much even are in that amongst the youth there is a huge amount of protests swirling about the fact that the democracy might have come and stayed in tunisia but the economy is not responding and there is a great deal of pressure on the government to do something about that so theyre hoping for a smooth transition but well have to hold our breath and wait and see if they get it. To algeria now where the interim leader. Has set up a 6 member panel to oversee a National Dialogue its aimed at organizing the countrys president ial election protesters said they want a complete overhaul of the ruling elite held to account for corruption and months of demonstrated demonstrations that the president that is easy with a fluke is resignati
We start with netflix. Its shares have fallen sharply, down almost 12 in after hours trading after the tv streaming giant released disappointing results. Netflix has shaken up the world of tv with its rapid growth, but that growth seems to be slowing down as it puts up its prices. Lets show you some of the details. In the three months to the end ofjune, netflix had 151. 6 million paid subscribers. Thats a rise of 2. 7 million on this time last year. Almost half the five million the company itself was forecasting. In the us netflix actually lost subscribers for the first time ever. Revenues were just over 4. 9 billion dollars, up 26 on this time last year, but again slightly less than wall street was expecting. The compa nys market position is under threat like never before. Next year it will lose the rights to its two most popular shows, the office and friends, as owners nbc and warnermedia launch their own streaming services. Disney and apple are also launching rival services. That me
Demographic time bomb we have a special report. Im melissa chan and welcome to news asia its good to have you with us the United Nations highest court the International Court of justice has ordered pakistan to review the Death Penalty given in 2017 to a former Indian Navy Commander who. Was convicted of being a spy india insists he never worked in intelligence but instead was kidnapped new delhi had asked the court in the hague to intervene heres more. Of the good russians who juggle them before the fire for just one of the indian. Was arrested in pakistan spilotro ston province and 2016 islam about kinds. Used a false passport to travel to pakistan and committed subaltern espionage and multiple terrorist acts and 2017 the Pakistani Military released a controversial confession video and sentenced to death. It sparked shoojit anger in india and stuck tensions between the bitter regional focus. On new delhi decided to outsource the dispute by taking the case to the International Court of