Over the weekend an i. T. Firm said foot traffic in tokyo remained unchanged from a week earlier. Thats based on mobile phone data gathered with users consent. But there are far fewer visitors in Tourist Spots outside the capital compared to the november 23rd long weekend. The number of people was down 38 in china town south of to tokyo. People are also getting prepared for the new year holiday season. A shrine is selling new years lu lucky charms earlier than usual. I thought it would be better to visit now than over new ye s years. It will be so crowded and we need to be mindful of others. We cant aany infections from shrine, so i want people to visit between december and february so we dont see crowds over new years. Officials reported 1,425 new cases across the countrien on monday. More than 149,000 people in japan have been infected since the pandemic began. Over 2,100 people have died. The price tag of the tokyo listens and paralympics continues to rise after the games were postp
Pandemic response. We got the gowns, we got the masks, we made the ventilators, you wouldnt have made ventilators and were weeks away from a vaccine. Were doing therapeutics already. Fewer people are dying when they get sick. Far fewer people are dying. Weve done a great job. The president has no plan. He hasnt laid out anything. He knew all the way back in february how serious this crisis was. He knew it was a deadly disease. What did he do . Hes on tape acknowledging he knew it. He didnt tell us or give a warning about it because he didnt want to panic the american people. This year has seen a dramatic rise in racial unrest sparked by Police Killings of black americans. Biden accused trump of fueling racist sentiment while the president attacked bidens views on law and order. This is a president who h ha used everything as a dog whistle to try to generate racist hatred, racist division. This is a man who in fact you talk about helping African Americans. One in one thousand African Am
Patriotic. Vaccine is on to find a amid warnings of a greater resurgence to come. Haidi pretty mixed midweek outlook when it comes to trading here in asia and for the first time in a while, we have seen equity markets kind of take a step back in terms of not headlines. A great deal of activities and commodities. Lets take a check of futures. Contracts trading higher after we saw a lack of conviction in u. S. Markets as we get concerns that perhaps this fourth round of fiscal stimulus will not be forthcoming. We are hearing the republicans are in the midst of crafting their own proposal to take to the democrats and we also heard from President Trump as he resumed his virus presser, encouraging americans to wear patrioticart of a duty. Over in japan, we are seeing outside of point 3 when it comes to trading for nikkei futures in chicago. More earnings on tap along with japanese pmi readings as well. Take a look at gold and soldiers. Pretty much flat at the moment, jumping close to a nine
A failure of statecraft for which we would be responsible for the behind the smiles there is tension irish Prime Minister veronica says there will be no concessions on the irish border issue and ireland would support an extension to the brics that deadline. The backstop continues to be a critical component of the Withdrawal Agreement unless and until alternatives are found. But we are open to alternatives but they must be realistic ones legally binding unworkable and we havent received such opposes todays meanwhile in westminster Jeremy Corbett and other opposition leaders met to plan their next steps. On monday a bill designed to block an exit deal becomes law m. P. s will then vote on government plans to trigger an early election but that vote is expected to fail Boris Johnson is then obliged to write to the e. U. Asking for an extension if he can present an acceptable deal to parliament by october 19th but the government says he will not request that extension. The Prime Minister is
This information it is as you said big deal its not going to happen immediately dont expect that the probation of parliament will go ahead tonight for 5 weeks this will happen sometime after part returns on october the 14th. Thank you for the update jonah how in london. The peace talks are underway in south sudan between the president and the exiled rebel leader reg mashad which i landed in juba on monday to sit with president salva kiir a meeting seen as an important step towards the implementation of a stalled peace deal member at least 400000 people have died since the countrys civil war started in 2013 after salva kiir removed as Vice President s. Thousands of School Students have been forming human chains around hong kong in solidarity with antigovernment protest as authorities are condemning what they call the illegal behavior of radicals and ive warned to demonstrators to stop trying the patience of the government. From friday to 5 pm am today we arrested 157 people aged between