Deal. No let up in germany. Angela merkel ruled out further loosening of measures after europes largest economy records the biggest spike in cases in four months. Asian stocks trade mixed following a fresh record on wall street. European futures point to a positive open. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to the program this wednesday morning. Lets have a look at terms of breaking news. Notes coming through mace maersk. The fullyear numbers, 6,000,000,0007,000,000,000. This is new guidance coming through. That is interesting in itself. The guidance we previously had in the year had been withdrawn by this business which operates 20 of the world container fleet. They are giving us this new guidance here. Looking at the underlying profit numbers for the second quarter. This is the backward looking part of it. The underlying profit data is 359 million dollars. They have done better than the estimates. We will be speaking into the management of maersk later on in programming. We have u. K. Ct
24 hour news. This is your r. T. International pleasure your company my name is you neal. Its being quite the light in the u. K. The conservative party secured an outright majority in the general election with leader Boris Johnson declaring braggs it can finally happen as for the opposition pretty much disastrous all rather and labor suffered humiliating defeats in areas long regarded as their loyal liberal democrats who called i pride for another referendum on e. U. Membership saw their leader embarrassingly lose her seat well lets find out more and cross to r t u k theyve got all the stories from across britain because weve got our special continuing election coverage live from our studios in r. T. E. In westminster. Just while we wait to go to that one other issue to bring you as well the s. And p. Winning 5559 scottish seats pretty incredible weve got kates standing by with bill lets cross over. Just made in time. That if he. Said the 2 oclock. Just go into your brain and all right
Very bullish and effervescent Boris Johnson with a big majority to play with. This is our election special. Good afternoon. You join us live in westminster where borisjohnson is beginning a new term as Prime Minister after the conservatives won their biggest majority since 1987. The tory leader returned to downing street earlier after visiting Buckingham Palace to ask the queen for permission to form a government. Overnight his gamble to hold a december election paid off. He now has a majority of 78 and a mandate, he says, to leave the eu. With this mandate and this majority we will at last be able to do what . Get brexit done labour perfomed poorly, losing 59 seats many of them in places theyve held for decades. Jeremy corbyn says hell stand down as leader early next year. I think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing and i wont do that. I will stay here until there has been somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point. A strong
Were expecting to hear from the Prime Minister shortly outside number ten. Labour performed poorly, losing 59 seats, many of them in places theyve held for decades. Jeremy corbyn says hell stand down as leader early next year. I think the responsible thing to do is not to walk away from the whole thing, and i wont do that. I will stay here until there has been somebody elected to succeed me and then i will step down at that point. A strong result for the snp, who now hold 48 seats out of 59 in scotland. Leader Nicola Sturgeon says it sends a clear message for a second independence referendum. Liberal democrat leaderjo swinson quits, after she loses her own seat to the snp and the party fails to improve its position at westminster. Iam i am proud to have been the first woman to lead the liberal democrats. Iam even woman to lead the liberal democrats. I am even more proud that i will not be the last. We will go original this hour, looking at the West Midlands, where the tories had a good
Mr trump promises to stay out of the Election Campaign but also denies the nhs will be on the table in future trade talks. Absolutely. I dont even know where that rumour started, we have absolutely nothing to do with it and we wouldnt want to. If you handed it to us on a silver platter, we want nothing to do with it. The president will attend a reception hosted by the queen later at Buckingham Palace, where protests are expected tomorrow he joins World Leaders to celebrate 70 years of nato. Well be live at Buckingham Palace with the latest from there amid growing tensions among nato leaders. Mr trump today denounced remarks about the alliance from the french president as dangerous, nasty and insulting. Also this hour five women who allege they were abused byJeffrey Epstein urge Prince Andrew to testify in their cases. The boy killed in a hit and run has been named. 12 year old Harley Watson was outside his essex school. Climate activist Greta Thunberg sails into lisbon where climate ta