Day. I. Want to hold this hearing i believe we should not being written forward on this nomination a lot of people on our side just ram it through not until the election is ended i would like the world and the country to know more about your spirit this is a vacancy this occurred there a tragic loss to the great woman and were going to build that they could see with another great the stakes are extraordinarily high for the American People theres nothing unconstitutional about this process. Also coming up corona virus infections are rising across europe but nowhere is the surge as great as in spain and that people say they know who is to blame to not get in more do not want to experience that again the government has to do its homework and must keep its promises and more personnel. Lets you our viewers watching on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin the day watching americas politicians trying to hold court today Senate Hearings of the conte
Surrounding coronavirus here in germany restrictions seem to change by the week critics say there are too many different rules which often make no sense. And the arctic ocean is dying thats a warning from scientists returning from the largest ever expedition to study Climate Change surround the north pole. And unify most unwelcome u. S. President donald trump is back on the campaign trail 10 days after it was revealed he was positive for corona virus on monday a white tells dr announce that trump tested negative shortly before the president headed to a rally in florida meanwhile his democratic rival joe biden held an event in ohio in other battleground state 3 weeks ahead of the election day early in person voting has begun in some states in georgia queues formed at some polling stations. And im joined by g. W. Correspondent. Washington bureau had a frozen traumas florida rallied why tells doctors gave an update on this health what exactly did they say. They said theyre trying tested n
Cities krs the u. S. From the urban institute this runs an hour. Were about to hear some very good Economic News after recordbreaking declines in economical activity in the Second Quarter of 2020, well be see eyepopping consensus, 25 growth in the third quarter. We should not lose sight of what that means for people who are still struggling and the fact that we still have a deep hole to climb out of. Much has been written about the kshape recovery. Workers at the low end of the distribution who dont have options to work from home and for whom federal help has already been paid in a way. Weve seen who will owedout downtowns with fewer workers coming in, buying lattes. What does that mean for city revenues . One estimate suggests its in highrent zip codes, highrent districts, employment is still at 45 of precovid levels. So we are about to explore these things today. We also have a blog my colleague and i have a black about what this means for cities and each industrys mix and, of course
Maria is there with more. What do we know so far . It seems like they are going to be talking on the 750 billion euros stimulus. Is that rhetoric . Maria it is unclear whether we get a deal. We do know european leaders have been stuck in a room was 10 hours debating what to do with his Recovery Fund. It is clear there are three major sticking points. One has to do with the size of the Recovery Fund, how big it is going to be. Euros wouldbillion be granted as grants to countries in Southern Europe that have been badly hit by the coronavirus. That could change during the weekend. There is an issue with the format, how much this money will be in terms of grants and how much will be a typical bailout just cash for reforms. Secondly, this is becoming a major thing, the governments. Who is going to make sure a country like italy after they get this money, who is going to make sure they use it for reforms . For a country like the netherlands, for the dutch Prime Minister to whom i spoke to in
U. S. Trade representative Robert Lighthizer was on capitol hill to testify on the Trump Administration trade policy. The use of tariffs, trade with china and implementation of the u. S. Canada trade agreement. Mr. Lighthizer was asked about the Global Supply chain of the inquisition of personal protective equipment during the coronavirus pandemic. The Senate Hearing is just under three hours. Im pleased to welcome ambassador lighthizer. Thank you for joining us. We need to have you here because we face great challenges whether its the murder of floyd or whether its the economic downturn we had because of the pandemic or the pandemic itself. We have a lot facing our country. Its not going to be easy to bring us back on the course of iran and their brave but good trade policy will be one important part of doing so so im glad we have that discussion today. Trade policy is immediately significant because we need to make sure we dont have any unnecessary taxes on goods g2 the recovery or i