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cleveland clinic. ofelcome you to the first the 2020 presidential debates between president donald j. trump and former vice president joe biden. the debate is sponsored by commission on presidential debates. the commission has designed the format with two-minute answers from each candidate to the first question, then open discussion for the rest of each segment. both campaigns have agreed to these rules. for the record, i decided the topics and the questions in each topic. i can assure you that none of the questions have been shared with the commission or the two candidates. this debate is being conducted under health and safety protocols designed by the cleveland clinic, which is serving as the health security advisor to the commission for all four debates. as a precaution, both campaigns have agreed to candidates will not shake hands at the beginning of tonight s debate. the audience here in the hall has promised to remain silent, no cheers, no boos or other interruptions,
germany is set to rein in public and private parties. it s inflation rate falls further below zero. the ecb may need to do more. christine lagarde speaks in 90 minutes time. disney cuts deep. they will lay off 28,000 workers at its resort business, leaving one of the deepest economic scars of the covid era. welcome to the program. just gone 7:00 in london. waiting for data to come out from the u.k. economy and some news expected from shell. let s get to the u.k. data first. this is the final reading on u.k. gdp, coming in not far away from where we anticipated it to be. estimate was 21.7. 19.8 percent for the quarter on quarter numbers. these are all negative. a retreat of 19.8% in the second corner. the estimate was 20.4%. that s just a small detail. we are dealing with incredibly large negative numbers. they are very backward looking. the real question will be, how does that data perform? how has the economy performed since the second quarter? how will liberal perform as
and say there was not a lot of politics or policy. look at the post to see who won, but the wider implication is that it was chaotic. it was acrimonious. think it is going to be hard to get a clear-cut winner, or certainly it will be tense. coverage in washington, driving the story forward to october 15. a town hall meeting in miami. first world news in new york city, here is ritika gupta. ritika: it was billed as the first presidential debate, but last night s event in cleveland quickly slipped into chaos. insults drowned out ideas. at one point, president trump and joe biden battled over coronavirus. he knew it was a deadly disease. what did he do? he is on tape acknowledging he knew it. he didn t give us a warning because he didn t want to panic the people. you don t panic, he panicked. the only thing i have not done a good job, that s because of the fake news. better what you say, they give you fake press. they give you good press and they give me a press because that
tom: francine, did you stay up and watch this? francine: i went to sleep and set an alarm to wake up. it is a bit messed up. that is t talk today, why. tom: for an international audience, to be kind, it was absolutely original. my goal today come cross the hours of surveillance, is to spin forward. do you realize we are going to do this on october 15, in miami, with the great steve scully of c-span, in a town hall format. i can t get my head around that, but that s what we will do with bloomberg politics and david westin and s kevin cirilli, to recoup and prepare for the eyes of october. francine: the focus is on the polls. we had an initial post it will be interesting over the next 24 hours. we will have leslie vinjamuri on, polls. leslie was tweeting last night around four clock a.m.. i think she was in a pub with ferro. i don t know what she was doing. francine: let s get to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. ritika: it was billed as the first