A briefing on the wildfires ravaging the west coast of the us. Multiple mega fires burning millions of acres have been destroyed millions of residents have to live in toxic air. California farmer now dealing with the aftermath of an unprecedented catastrophe. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today israel has become the 1st country to announce a 2nd National Lockdown to combat the coronavirus this comes after a surge in new infections Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the new lockdown will begin on friday and last for 3 weeks. As israels outbreak threatened to race out of control Benjamin Netanyahu announced the unpopular but perhaps unavoidable decision were going to be today we decided on a Strict Lockdown plan for 3 weeks with an option to extend but as of now weve decided that the lockdown will last until the end of the holiday. Door prelims lot of Health Ministry executives and hospital managers have warned us that death rates are forcing the application of immediate m
On tuesday when he returns the crisis will be waiting for him. The World Health Organization says theres been a record one day rise in corona cases around the globe more than 300000 new cases were reported in the previous 24 hours joining us now from geneva is Margaret Harris from the World Health Organization margaret what has you particularly worried right now about the coronavirus. Well it could send parts of the ground but to create the very intense outbreaks were seeing in the americas a continue to happen in the United States and in south america countries like argentina brazil but also in india which has been recording record numbers of cases they off today and has a huge outbreak but 50 percent of the cases are still in the americas were also seeing rises in the Eastern Mediterranean region around north africa and in the gulf states but also of course europe is now saying a resurgence in cases in a number of countries and israel has become the 1st country to introduce a 2nd nat
Overtures to the west to try and scare russia with. Claims of potential integration with the west to get russia to support his regime financially and with other concessions now he has that option has been taken from him given the violence weve seen on the streets and its going recent weeks and hes totally dependent and i think hell be hoping that he can make some short term concessions that you can then row back in the future just a target for these next few weeks. Back to you was just said about whats in it for putin but what else. Does he need to. Yeah i mean moscow needs a relatively coal neighbor who doesnt take to the streets trying to change to the regime the kremlin started at the moment we are helping bella who saw that we couldnt or we dont have such kalak scenes here in moscow or any other russian city kalak from the Russian Point of view if the protest in belarus are successful they could set an example and what evades the russian opposition to one day stand up against presi
Manus it is daybreak europe. Let us discuss the single bit biggest geopolitical issue in the world. For me, there is a divorce between market recalibration to risk on or less the risk off and retaliatory risk. Let us have a live picture. The foreign minister from iran speaking in tehran. The attack made the world a less unsafe place. The u. S. Is a more unsafe place. There are a number of other headlines translated by al jazeera. I is alling of soleiman big gamble and what happened was not an attack on iraqi sovereignty. It was targeting a man who was fighting terrorists. Good morning. See thee certainly do rhetoric not necessarily backing down on both sides. This is one of the questions we are asking ourselves. If weather with the u. S. Did last week was a great miscalculation and how that might feedthrough into rotelle tatian retaliation. Are we going to see rational actors being more calm in the markets as we wait to find the answers . Manus markets have repriced, and this is what i
We heard from jay powell. We will hear from him again today. The eurodollar, 1. 1278. There is a lot going on, not only about trade. Official taxes that france will vote on. There is a mood on what happened to euro depending on what we get from the ecb minutes that will be released after midday. We will watch for that and any movement on currency. Coming up, we speak with the sao paulo governor, he is joao doria. Plus we will speak to sheriff brown about u. S. Politics. Lets get to the work first word news. Deutsche bank is now being probed u. S. Justice department as an expanded investigation. The u. S. Is reportedly taking a closer look at a former Goldman Sachs executive who later worked at the german bank. Authorities havent accused which a bank of wrongdoing. Another federal probe, the u. S. Investigating frances plan to tax tax giants. Socalled 301 investigation is the same tool donald trump used to impose tariffs on china. Korear japan nor south has much political incentive to c