Of knowledge to. Add will get reaction from kenya where doctors had been forced to drop some of their Reproductive Services because of a lack of dont aid from the u. S. Now the new us president has just reversed that policy. Plus weve got the story on what is behind the turtle hatchlings in kenya 7 beaches. Hello im kristie wonder its good to have your Company South africas chief pandemic advise us say a 3rd wave of covert 19 which is expected in the 2nd half of the year could be even worse than the current to 2nd way south africa is the worst hit country. A continent with 43000 deaths and 1400000 cases now the number of infections has soared because of the new variant of the virus that is say to be 50 percent more transmissible now the country is expecting its 1st delivery of 1000000 doses of the astra zeneca vaccine thats made to arrive on monday ill be talking to professor sally in a deal karim after this report. Health care workers at the frontline of south africas Coronavirus Cris
Shanghai composite, 3 10 of an percent of the upside. Lets have a look at what is going on currency wise. This is the dollar index. Not that much changed. Bitcoin. Oves is down nearly 2 at the moment. [indiscernible] thetocurrency left to 18,000 level. Citigroup causing a stir with a 300,000 plus estimate with regards to bitcoin. U. S. Dollar index pretty much unchanged. Stasis as weoil in wait to see what is happening with some of these internal squabbles taking place with members of opec, mainly the uae. Mitchell with the first word headlines. Early south koreas trade data shows exports extending their recovery. The yearose 11 from earlier. South korea shipments received a boost from china and the u. S. Cap exports were up almost 22 . Singapore sees at the economy expanding by between four and 6 next year as it rebounds from the virus. Thirdquarter gdp shrunk by 5. 8 on the year and the estimate for contraction was revised to six to 6. 5 . The decline for the Third Quarter compared t
Back to an eight day holiday. They are putting much playing catchup. We have gains across the board. Shanghai is up 1. 6. These services pmi rising for a fifth month. The you on getting 6. 73 versus the dollar. This was stronger than expected. This is a weak dollar story. Some yen strength there. The bank of canada governors has negative Interest Rates remain an option. Courts seems like a lot of the action is in the shanghai markets here today given that robust reopening after the eight day holiday. We will speak exclusively to the Everest Medicine ceo. This is 27 right now in its debut in hong kong. The Trump Administration signaling that the administration is again leaning toward a largescale stimulus bill. That comes after nancy pelosi pushed back on the idea of peace for a. She is excepting refusing to accept help for airline without wider bill agreed. We want to help the airline workers. There is legislation that we had ed the cares act that we hope we could continue for the next
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If you write a book about the collectivity of achievements i would give you a choice. I could do a short synopsis of my book or i can tell you a story. So a lot of the book is about culture and how that matters and by that i mean where we are from and ancestors make a difference of how we do our job and how good we are what we choose to do for a living as a whole second half of the book and sometimes a difficult thing to wrestle with. One of the examples i use in the book illustrates the point of how much culture matters. There is a whole chapter on plane crashes. But now i will warn you i will tell the whole chapter. And its also a good deal scarier. And then he will be flying in a plane in the next month . Im sorry to hear that. [laughter] so with this plane crash isnt scary because its unusual but scary because it is typical. So the plane it takes off from columbia january 25, 1990 bound for jfk airport in new york. Columbia is not that far from the United States. Just on the other