He has more now from paging. Well, weve just spoken to a local in jung, Jo City and hes told us that the rain has subsided for at least 30 minutes. But the warning is that more showers and rain are expected over the next 2 days, at least. So the Government Emergency Response level remains on red alert, which is the highest level. And currently in the region, a rescue teams have been sent to help rescue people in Danger Or Help with the clean up process. Police in nigeria say they secured the release of 100 villages who were kidnapped 6 weeks ago. Many of them are women and children were abducted last month in northwestern some Farm State Liter townsend, he has main Opposition Party has been arrested for him and boy, and 10 other to him of party members which attains in the middle of the mines. The party was planning a conference to demand constitutional reforms. Indonesia has reported its highest stay the Death Toll since the pandemic began. Almost 1400 people is currently dealing with
Dont have to fire emergency workers because of the budget pressures that your state faces. Sen. Cortez masto thank you. Let me be specific. Last fall, senator kramer and i introduced the hospitality and jobs recovery act. It provides refundable tax credits to businesses and individuals to boost demand for travel once it is safe. I am curious what your thoughts are. Can tax credits be effective tools to incentivize spending, help certain sectors like travel , recover and economy turnaround . Dr. Yellen i would be glad to take a look at that and work with you, examine the details more fully. Sen. Cortez masto i appreciate that, thank you. As you said in your introduction, you know the Service Sector has been disproportionately impacted. We need to continue to provide relief and investment in this sector. I am hopeful that you and the Biden Administration will work with us moving forward. Housing i know i have a minute left. Nevada is literally dealing with an Affordable Housing crisis. T
You dont feel inadequate being the second wealthiest man in the world . Is that right . [laughter] many of the Worlds Largest pharmaceutical and vaccine manufacturers are racing to find a cure for covid19. One of those companies is glaxosmithkline. Based in england, and also now the largest vaccine manufacturer in the world. Its ceo is emma walmsley. She was trained in the classics in oxford, but now has an incredible task of producing a vaccine that will cure covid19. So, how many times a day do people ask you when youre vaccine is going to be available . Emma [laughs] yes, well, that is definitely a very regular question, whether it is from employees, customers, government, media, or my mother, so very frequently. And obviously, we have all been delighted to see the very recent news of some of the first results coming through on vaccines. I was just on the call last night with 10 of the global pharma ceos who are heavily involved in bringing solutions to covid. We are really excited
Welcome to bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. We are just getting some figures, so lets have a look at what that means. I think the Ifo Institute numbers do not take into account the latest lockdown, so it will be a good indication of before lockdown but not what we will see in the next few weeks. Before we get onto ifo, we have central bank pmi, and there is positive news on the stimulus. Of course, watch out for anything in terms of assets, bond buying program, that areges on the fed, and we hearing positive noise out of brexit. I think we have the Ifo Institute figures. I dont know if we can get them to you, if we can get them on screen, then i will bring them to you, but, again, a good indication of what we have seen since lockdown. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news here is leighann gerrans. Hi, leighann. Leighann good morning, francine. President elect joe biden is a sibling a team to drive forward his ambitious climate agenda. He picked forme
State department now trying to prosecute the sons was warned by him about a leaked documents the white house is being urged to pardon the wiki leaks. But its back at hard questions on everything from supposed russian aggression to alexina valmy well show you exactly how he replied to his annual q. And a session. Google is the latest tech toy you can learn to face crossed state legal action claiming monopoly abuse with a bird huge lawsuit in months and 2nd in just 2 days alleging unlawful exploitation of its Online Search dominant. Morning from moscow this friday the 18th of december 8th one local time here kevin irwin with the latest for you for the next half hour thanks for taking the time to check us out so 1st as mentioned in their sports talk court has rejected an appeal by russias Anti Doping Agency of the world governing body banned in south lead to International Events the ban has been half to 2 years but the countrys Olympic Committee points out there are no grounds for any pun