Lets check quickly on the markets. If you look at the markets, and a lot of them are looking at the concerning news or news brexit is going to weigh markets were hoping. The stocks european 600, down and the pound, looking to see if there is any swing on that. 1. 3243. Lets get to the first word news with leighann gerrans. A british official says brexit talks need to show progress by tonight if they are to continue. European unions chief negotiator is said to have denied any breakthrough on the issue of fishing license. Boris johnson is due to speak with the Commission President ursula von der leyen. Donald trump says his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus. The New York Times says the 76yearold was admitted to hospital yesterday. The president wished him well. Giulianis son tweeted his well. Is feeling the u. S. Is said to be ready to sanction more chinese officials over the role of the recent disqualification of hong kong legislators. Familiar,to people
Hold onto a recent rebound and global stocks head for a second week of losses. The European Union is giving Boris Johnson until the end of the month to back down on his controversial brexit bill. Cable holds at 1. 28. And citigroup names jane fraser ceo, making her the first woman to run a major wall street bank. She faces the challenge that alluded her predecessors, boosting the banks profitability in line with its rivals. Just under an hour away from the start of cash trading in europe. Lets take a look at where futures are pointing here on the dax, ftse, and euro stoxx 50. Futures all pointing down, although slightly lowered right now, with ftse futures off by about 0. 3 . Take a look at u. S. Futures quickly after the drops we saw yesterday, almost 2 drops. We have a bouncing futures bounce in futures. Anna lets have a look at some data out of the u. K. We are getting monthly gdp data. The u. K. Economy growing by 6. 6 in july. It is almost in line with the estimate of 6. 7 . No su
Half of next year. Time for todays global exchange. From dubai to frankfurt, to brussels to london, to Rio De Janeiro and princeton, new jersey, our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. In turkey, the lira is gaining against the dollar following a 200 basis point cut. Joining me with more from dubai is paul wallace, bloomberg emerging markets reporter. Is this going to be enough president erdogan . Paul that is a key question. The lira has barely budged despite that 200 basis points cut being more than markets expected. Analysts were expect and about 150 basis points. The lira has had to endure a lot in the last six months. Erdogan has sacked his central bank governor. Since then, the new one has overseen a whopping 1200 basis points of rate cuts. Amazingly, despite all of that, the lira is actually up against the dollar since the end of june. We will have to see what erdogan thinks of this latest move to see whether he is satisfied that it is enough, or w
The civil war photography. He is the Vice President of the center for civil war photography, hes been a licensed battlefield guide for 25 years, hes appeared on numerous productions shown on the bbc, cspan, Pennsylvania Cable Network and on history. He works full time as the chief historian of the American Battlefield trust. Without any further interruptions or excuse me introduction, i now present to you my friend, garry adelman. Thanks, tammy. Hello, everybody. All right, this isnt easy, doing the whole civil war in such a short period of time. Well see if i get it done in 49 minu49 minutes or 53, whatever it takes. Good luck for those of you that like to take notes. The seeds of the civil war are sewn in the constitution and soon after, slaves are partly a person, for some purposes theyre a person, sometimes theyre not a person. You have north and south starting to look at each other differently. You have the southerners look to the north and though they speak the same language, the
Hello im Christine Wonderwall come to africa its good to have you along if youre a girl born in nigeria theres a good chance youll be married before youre 18 years old thats because nigeria has one of the highest number of Child Marriages in the world thats according to the u. N. Were talking about this as the world mocks the 30th anniversary off the convention of the rights of the child as we report the rise of many girls in nigeria are being violated. A muslim neighborhood in kaduna a city in Northern Nigeria i came here to find out about a girl who was locked up in this place for 2 years without much light or food and left on her own her name is her son she was a child bride these pictures were taken when she was released from captivity just a week ago she was held here by her family because she refused to return to her husband she was only 15 when she was forced to marry a mother of 4. A child bride one of millions in nigeria if youre born a girl here theres a 44 percent probabilit