Leader Alexei Navalny stoltenberg called it an appalling assassination attempt by moscow and said it was an assault on fundamental rights time and again we have seen Opposition Leaders and critics of the russian regime attacked and their lives threatened seoul have even been killed so this is not just an attack on an individual but on for the mental democratic rights and it is a serious breach of International Law which to moms an International Response. We wish mr noel now a full and speedy recovery. Translation of its got through it has more now from moscow on what stoltenberg had to say. Yes stoltenberg called for russia to cooperate with what he called in passionate International Investigation into what happened with no value but also to cooperate with any zation for prohibited of chemical weapons and to disclose fully and completely the novacek program this is a program where that made this chemical weapons basically for military military use from seventys to the ninetys this call
Colorado arizona montana oregon utah and washington what were experiencing this year is simply without precedent the small town of malden in Eastern Washington was almost completely incinerated by a wind driven wildfire authorities are searching the rubble unsure whether all of the towns approximately 300. 00 residents made it out alive in medford oregon a fire swept through of mobile Home Community reducing it to a burned out health scape of an ash and twisted metal resident regina hill lost everything she owned. What youre wearing right now this. Powerful winds are spreading the oregon fires the governor invoked Emergency Powers to marshal more resources in california high winds are also fanning the flames 14000 firefighters are out on the front lines in california. Where 28 major fires have scorched over 100000 hectors tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from several of the largest fires in the States History a big fire in San Diego County is moving dangerously close to
Interrogated killed and dismembered but while 21. 00 men were detained by saudi arabia over his murder and 11 went on trial much of what happened in the courtroom remains a mystery the trial was done in secret and closed trial that there was no International Observers in the hands of the victims or the accused were not published. And theres no more. Appeal possible so the nature of the evidence only in every technical part of the trial or most has been questioned by. Internationally accepted judicial standards last year 5 of them were given the Death Penalty for the killing but thats been cut to 20 years in prison 3 others have been given sentences of saving to teen years and will say is calling a fast i think. The whole verdict seems to me to have been manipulated and i way they used of course they get behind a fig leaf according to practice Legal Practice in saudi arabia and the family has the right to commute any sentence and the family has issued as such they flourish and most prob
Losses early in the session after the ceo of russias Sovereign Wealth Fund told cnbc and moscow and saudi arabia are very close to an oil deal. Wti and brent are both coming off their best week on record. Not recent records on records ever all the way back to 1983 when they started tracking wti last week wti was up by 31. 7 . Up by 12 on friday alone. A meeting of Major Oil Producing Countries was delayed but still expected later this week that news just being told to cnbc that it looks like they are close to a deal. Andrew, ill send it over to you. Meantime, the latest on the pandemic the number of confirmed cases worldwide now totaling more than 1. 2 million. More than 330,000 of those are right here in the United States and more than a third of the u. S. Cases are in new york state. The death toll in america standing at more than 9600 overseas, british Prime Minister Boris Johnson was admitted to a hospital for tests a spokesman called it a precautionary test the Prime Minister test
Action, a really important interview coming up. Seth carpenter will join jon ferro and me on Bloomberg Radio on the negative Interest Rates in the u. S. It is about this pandemic. What do you see in london . What is new with Prime Minister johnson and how he treats this viral crisis . Francine first of all, it is friday. A lot of people will be happy it is friday. Focus on the markets and the numbers and try not to be overtaken. Two fed president s coming onto bloomberg tv later with Michael Mckee, and also Catherine Mccain Catherine Mann. London is similar to new york. I was taken aback by the jobless claims yesterday. That number may have been much bigger. You are looking at negative Interest Rates, but if you look at the human tragedy unfolding in italy, they talk about a humanitarian crisis. In london and new york, the numbers keep going up. We will see what impact this has. Tom across bloomberg, a great focus on the louisiana. Ofwill bring you mr. Bostic atlanta and mr. Kaplan of