the grenfell tragedy become law. burying more dead in india as the rampant covid outbreak prompts further offers of help from the international community. after a police community support officer is murdered, detectives search woodland in kent. it isa it is a week until the scottish parliament elections and we are in aberdeen are talking independence and economic recovery. and the noxious, neighbourhood dump, raising a stink for thousands of people, in staffordshire. welcome to bbc news. borisjohnson has sought to play down concerns about how the refurbishment of his downing street flat was paid for, saying he doesn t think there is anything to see or worry about. the prime minister has made clear the conservative party will comply with the outcome of an electoral commission investigation, but has refused to say whether he ll abide by the recommendations of his newly appointed standards adviser. labour says it s a ridiculous farce that mrjohnson has failed to say who paid t
will try to fill in his space as he expresses his culinary abilities. francine: we will get clarification on what he is working on. let s get to the bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. ritika: good morning. s&p global is on the verge of a giant deal in the financial information industry. bloomberg has learned that the company is in advanced talks to for $44s markets billion. an agreement could be announced as soon as today. it would be the second biggest deal of the year. president trump s coronavirus taskforces propping promising a rapid rollout of the vaccine to 2 million americans i the end of the year. the surgeon general expects that most americans will have access by early in the second quarter. he says the government hopes to quickly ok requests from two drugmakers for emergency approval of their vaccines. a group of opec-plus ministers could reach an agreement on whether to delay january s oil a fullincrease, before meeting of the cartel an
pelosi helping a little bit. she was sounding a little more optimistic on stimulus in the united states, the s&p trading down by 0.9%. tech is underperforming a little bit, but we saw a lot of call buying yesterday. the pound is recently is reasonably well bid. big day tomorrow, as boris johnson speaks to ursula von der leyen. we are expecting a u.k. briefing after the eu briefing this afternoon. crude off of its earlier lows. now down only 4%. alix: part of that may be, as nancy pelosi speaking earlier, says the trump diagnosis changes the dynamic in the stimulus talk. stephanie kelly joins us from aberdeen standard life investments, their senior political economist. how does it change the dynamic in stimulus talks? stephanie: it is kind of tricky because if you look at the nature of these negotiations, it hasn t is been republicans debating with the democrats. it is much more around president trump s desire to get fiscal stimulus, and certainly in light , this diagnosis c
denying this fact could be interpreted by some as being a crime against humanity. a british man has been killed and his son wounded, after being shot during a suspected robbery, outside a five star hotel in buenos aires. around 2,000 properties are still without water in and around bedfordshire, after supplies failed on friday night. and, who will win? sport stars from around the world gather in aberdeen for this year s bbc sport personality of the year. good evening. labour s leader, jeremy corbyn, and the shadow chancellor, john mcdonnell, have apologised for the party s defeat in thursday s election, which saw them lose 59 seats. mr corbyn said he was sorry they came up short , while mr mcdonnell said he owns this disaster . speaking to the bbc‘s andrew marr, he said it was unfortunate the party hadn t been able to articulate its message more effectively. he also blamed the media s portrayal ofjeremy corbyn insisting that he d been demonised for four years solid . h
mustn t be kept in the union against their will. you cannot sort ofjust lock us in a cupboard and turn the key and hope that everything goes away. a marathon un climate summit in madrid ends in a compromise leaving many delegates unhappy. there are millions of people all around the world who are already suffering from the impacts of climate change. denying this fact could be interpreted by some to be a crime against humanity. china s state broadcaster drops its plan to show arsenal s match against manchester city this afternoon in the wake of comments by mesut ozil, criticising the country s treatment of the uighurs. and coming up at 16:30 bloodhound: chasing the land speed record. how 22 years on, a british driver is trying to break his own world record. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. jeremy corbyn and john mcdonnell have apologised over labour s defeat in thursday s election, which saw them lose 59 seats. mr corbyn said he was sorry that they came up short