We start this hour with a Special Report from afghanistan, a country where millions of children are malnourished, and where in one hospital, 700 children have died injust the last six months. Its a humanitarian crisis that deepens every day, with much of the Country Living in Extreme Poverty, after years of war causing economic collapse. The un says more than Three Million children under five are malnourished, with the delivery of aid becoming much harder since the taliban took control in 2021. The bbc s yogita limaye, Camera Journalist sanjay ganguly, and producer Imogen Anderson have been in the country for the last two weeks, chronicling the disaster, and a warning their report shows images of children in distress. This is what an average morning looks like at jalalabads main hospital. Hundreds throng every corner, every passage, as Extreme Poverty pushes more children into disease each day. Zara, 13 months old, one of 3 Million malnourished children in the country. A disease thats
Short two to three week circuit breaker. The northwest of england, the northwest, the northeast. The list is growing longer. Tom it is going to be interesting. To say the least, the lockdown in america is not a lot done but is very regional, as mentioned in the debate last night. The upper middle west really hit hard right now. In new york city with our news, ritika gupta. Ritika President Trump and joe biden covered a wide range of issues in last nights second debate. Amongst them, racism, corruption, and the manner in which the president handled the coronavirus. Trump no choice. We cannot lock ourselves up in a basement like joe does. He says we are learning to live with it. People are learning to die with it. He also said the vaccine would be coming in weeks. In that of a guarantee is that a guarantee . Pres. Trump it is not a guarantee, but by the end of the year. Mr. Biden anyone responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of america. Ritik
Deal dependsen the eu and refinitiv take over. A 4. 3 billion take over with caixa bank creating 7 billion in assets. Tiktok could go for a u. S. Ipo. The deal with oracle and walmart. Its fate could be decided in the next 24 to 36 hours. A very warm welcome to street signs. Weve got a flurry of m a deals to kick off this morning the company has denied reports it is in investigations over a proposed take over bid bloomberg had reported more in recent weeks and that negotiations are in the early stage. Euronext in discussions with lse. Adding any potential sale depends on eu approval of the planned take over of refinitiv the deal news doesnt stop there. Caixabank and bankia have agreed to a deal of 4. 3 billion euros a 20 prem yium will create spains largest bank relieving costs around 77 Million Euros. So many things we could talk about. We could kick off with this banking deal, weve been waiting for more consolidation in european banking a lot of chiefs have said cross border m a has
Expected to run for president is sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption. And demands for Racial Justice protests in parts of europe with growing calls for controversial statues to be torn down. And arpita stated as u. S. Sports suffers a blow to its return from coronavirus a several athletes from Major League Baseball to professional golf to its positive despite being in socalled sporting bubbles. But we begin this hour with breaking news out of washington d. C. A u. S. Court has ruled that former National Security advisor john bolton can publish his Controversial Book thats off to a last ditch attempt by a president trying to block its release well we can now speak to mike hanna who is live for us in washington d. C. Mike i cant imagine that the white house is particularly about this. Certainly not they were hoping that the syn junction would stop publication of this book which is due in a few days time and certainly President Trumps likely to be angered at his lawyers the jud