Intense in various parts certainly whales, if you are talking about the u. K. And scotland, certainly the north of england. What we are going to be looking for todays further details, various tiers of lockdown from the chancellor. Tom so if i ferry across the it is a london centered london trying to make rules for the north. Has opened, and this up decadesold tensions between the north and the south very clearly. There were clearly tensions on t front opened up by the places that have been very much marginally slightly devolves come if you would like. A new mayor has been appointed, and now this is a test of these guys. Tom there was a discussion devolving me at the house last night. With first word news, here is ritika gupta. Ritika the second and final president ial debate is tonight in nashville, one of the final highprofile chances for President Trump to change the narrative of the campaign. Polls show him losing to joe biden. Debate rules have changed. The candidates microphones w
Poisoning. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. Shows joe a new poll biden has a doubledigit lead over President Trump. Ae democratic nominee has 5242 advantage. Meanwhile, the survey also says in theden has a 6 lead battleground state wisconsin. In germany, chancellor Angela Merkel is now ready to link the nord stream 2 gas pipeline the poisoning of a russian dissident. Merkel, whoift for said that the russian backed pipeline should be completed and remains a separate issue. The kremlin has said it sees no issue that germany will block nordstrom. Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning. Now in hong kong, protests have resumed after weeks of calm. Police arrested hundreds of people. Among other things, demonstrators were protesting the decision to delay Legislative Council relaxants for a year Council Elections for a year because of coronavirus. India has surpassed brazil as the second worst hit country. India reported more than 19,000 cases more than 90,00
Us. Apple warnse, the path reopened after the super tuesday victories and what is shaping up to be a two man some iphones will be in short race for the democratic supply as Stores Slowly reopen in china. Nomination. First, the death toll from the that is up next. This is bloomberg. Coronavirus rising to 11 across the u. S. With california reporting the first death in this state. The fatality rate is 3. 4 percent, higher than the seasonal flu. Cases continued to surge in south korea, the u. K. 23 members of parliament have fallen no. U. S. Stocks rebounding, perhaps theing the rebound from surprise victory. Are expecting to see some decent trades some decent gains. We did have the new zealand Index Trading higher than more than hire more than 2 . Volatility is the name of the game. 1. 7 onhe asx slip by wednesday. It is going to recover all of that today. The nikkei also pointing higher. The nikkei broadly flat for the day. The cost fee looking higher by more than the cost be looking hi
Leader Chuck Schumer asked Mitch Mcconnell for there to be additional witnesses called in a senate trial. John bolton, mick mulvaney. Mitch mcconnell has just responded and said that is not going to happen. Democrats not going to like that response. Meanwhile, we are also getting new words from nancy pelosi about who will lead the prosecution process from the house of representatives in the senate trial. Once the houseboats to impeach president trump, there will be a handful of impeachment officials from the house who will make their case in the senate. That willlosi said not come until the next day or so. All indications are pointing toward House Committee chairman adam schiff and House Committee tworman jerry nadler, familiar faces with this process. Kevin thanks so much to kevin cirilli. Now we turn to edward evans in london. We heard Prime Minister johnson once a brexit no matter what year. Edward so much so he has changed the law so that the transition period of that will apply af
Dubai to london. In hongg, and the kong, a Record Number of candidates cast their ballots. Bloomberg spoke to the said Party Founding leader to get her take away from the election. Now the ball is in the governments court, and really have to respond to the five demands with an independent inquiry into recent events. Theres also the demand of universal suffrage. The government at least has to say that they are listening. Alix for more, bloombergs yvonne man. Joins us now. How does this affect what is happening on the streets . Yvonne all eyes will be on chief executive carrie lam as she speaks Tuesday Morning to reporters here in hong kong. She has delivered a lot of these press conferences before under increasing pressure. Before, that pressure has translated into a democratic exercise. 2. 9 Million People showed up to cast their ballots, a record turnout of 71 . It was a landslide victory for the prodemocracy camp. These district elections are pretty low level. These counselors dont h