To try to boost peoples job prospects. Who do you think would win out of a lion, a hippopotamus and a rhino . Sir David Attenborough takes questions from the children he says hold the hope for the future in their hands. And coming up this hour. The water saving toilets wasting billions of litres every week. More than a Million People around the world are now known to have died with coronavirus since the start of the pandemic. The United Nations secretary general Antonio Guterres called it an agonising milestone and a mind numbing figure. Johns Hopkins University has recorded over 1. 1 million lives have been lost to coronavirus. The us has the worlds highest death toll with about 205,000 fatalities, followed by brazil on 1a1,700 and india with 95,500 deaths. And the total number of deaths from covid 19 in the uk is 42,001, according to department of health figures. 2 Million People in large parts of north east england are facing a legal ban from tomorrow on people mixing with other hou
Hard today even as House Speaker nancy pelosi said there could be no action on a standalone l2 eight airlines or any other sectors of the economy without a broader stimulus package. Eventually maybe a deal will get done, even if it comes after the election during possibly a joe biden presidency. Parts of the real economy feel with one servicing nearly six immune americans expect someone in their household will lose a job or take a pay cut in the next four weeks. Joe, there seems to be an ongoing dispute between stimulus talks dragon on and the market getting hopeful. Mnuchin meanwhile, hua stinson lee as far as we know represents the white house in this, talking about starting a fact. N though there wasnt maybe theyre going to pick it back up again. We want to help the airline workers. This legislation that we had in the cares act, we hope that we could continue another six months or so. That expired at the end of september. Separately, but we cannot do it unless there is a big bill. P
Territory. The week has had news of ashares cell a share sell. China puts money on chips to counter rising pressure from washington. It has the same level of backing as the Atomic Program enjoyed years ago. Sophie lets get a check on the set up in asia. Some much awaited pullback on wall street. Asian stocks look set to fall. 1930still Holding Around levels and the yen above 106. But when it comes to stocks in china and hong kong, a drop is productive at least 1 . Softbank is said to be considering a bid for tiktok. In the Semi Conductor space, news that china is planning to support the domestic industry, which launched a billiondollar route in u. S. Chip stocks. Also in south korea, watching for any details of a potential in thecash handout budget that could be announced this weekend. A snapshot of the u. S. Close, the s p fell the most since march, and it was the biggest sincefor the s p june, the biggest drop for the nasdaq since march, with apples market cap falling below 2 trillio
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Extraordinary august. We had such important conversations. Lets get to the data quickly. And3, dow futures up 132, we are all casual. Chairman powell was casual yesterday. Im sure mr. Kaplan will be casual for Michael Mckee in a moment. Thein the time of within tumult, everyone is being casual. Lisa are we going to keep the bowtie . This is going to be the question as the fed shifts their inflation their inflation policy. Lisa this is an important conversation, as he spoke to James Bullard yesterday, as we spoke to William Dudley moments ago. Michael mckee advances the discussion with mr. Kaplan of dallas. Michael thank you, tom. Good morning. Thank you very much for joining us today on Bloomberg Radio and television worldwide, and thank you for not wearing a tie and not making, adhere. [laughter] not making tom look bad here. Robert i try. Michael there are those who safety framework review changes all well and good, but what makes you think you can even get to 2 inflation, let alone