There with global news update this is r. T. International thanks for joining us. Lets begin with the latest figures on the covert 900 pandemic the number of cases worldwide that is now past 1408200 people have lost their lives the United States has the largest number of infections followed by spain and italy and worldwide 302000 people have recovered from the disease. A British Court has ruled that an extradition hearing for Julian Assange will go ahead in may despite the current lockdown that weeklys founder is wanted in the United States on espionage and hacking charges songes lawyer had asked for a postponement t. Argued that it hes been unable to communicate with his client while in belmarsh prison for 3 weeks because of the pandemic and that it will be impossible to hold a fair trial in may he made that request for a telephone Conference Call with Westminster Magistrates Court the judge though refused saying its too early to tell whether the course will be operational come may we
International thanks for joining us. Lets start with the latest figures on the covert 19 pandemic more than 800000 cases of now being confirmed globally an increase of 9 percent in the last 24 hours or than 38000. 00 people have lost their lives 172000 have recovered. The Global Movement is gathering pace calling on landlords to stop charging rent for housing during the Ongoing Health crisis and one multibillion euro firm has latched on to the idea how did ask is refusing to pay rent on its stores in germany because of the current lockdown politicians a furious into other explains. A stay at home to save lives is being the all encompassing mantra of this pandemic but for those that cant work from home well it has meant losing their jobs for some than having to rely on state benefits for one of the Worlds Largest sports money factures its made them well refusing to pay rent for some of the stores theyve been forced to close off what adi das is done and its drawing fire from the German G
Moment a spanish t. V. Reporter thought she had won a big prize in the el gordo lottery. Not only a stooge aeroflot she had won hundreds of thousands of euros but it turned out the prize was not worth as much as she thought to have the full story for it. Next by sir thanks for joining us. Thousands of christian pilgrims and tourists are gathering in the west bank city of bethlehem to Mark Christmas bethlehem is regarded by christians as the birthplace of jesus and each year a Midnight Mass is held in the church of the nativity senior officials from the Catholic Church will provide over the Christmas Eve festivities palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is also expected to attend. And for more on that were joined now by journalist sami as for call in jerusalem sami can you walk us through whats going to be happening today yes well thats been a nice sunny day here in jerusalem. Today the bits of pizza. From a convoy of the old city of jerusalem to this in the convoy. Of course through here
Bloomberg casa julie hyman is with us. Julie pullback has continued and accelerated in todays session as investors are looking for more details on fiscal policy prescriptions that werent really given at that press conference. We still he is not in office yet. We will at some point presumably get more details. I wanted to look at the scorecard of where the three major averages stand since the u. S. Election. About a 5 gain for the three major averages. If you take a look at the bloomberg ive made a chart of the three majors going back to november. The dow has been in the lead consistently ever since the election. Whats interesting is the nasdaq was lagging throughout the month of december and as we got into the new year it played catchup and overtook the s p 500 in terms of its return as the nasdaq has been setting new records. He yesterday it was the three major averages to close at a record but its a different story today as we see tech stocks pullback including Companies Like apple a
Welcome to worldwide exchange. Im kelly evans. And im ross westgate. These are your headlines from around the world. Slowdown in germany wore worse than expected. Annual gdp came in at 4. 7 . Urging for actions, president obama and tim geithner say Congress Must raise the debt ceiling or cause irreparable damage to the u. S. Economy. And jump t to the top of the ftse 100 after Third Quarter revenue beat the forecast, burberry had earnings higher than expected. All right. Sorted out my mike issues. Worldwide exchange is slightly different today because were analyzing the first german gdp numbers. And i come to the u. S. Where its all annualized and we stick to the European Data and its quarter on quarter. Given the context, were still working through what all that means. Exports in november, down 94. 1 billion is where we essentially went. 98. 4 billion was the october numbers. So exports in november driving down. And that gdp number is worth pulling out. Exports for the year, up 4. 1 .