Fe well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. D by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Welcome to outside source. Coronavirus is tightening its grip on europe. More than 30 thousand new cases have been reported in one day in france. The french policeave rated the homes of the ministers, part of an Ongoing Investigation over negligence of the pandic. In the u. K. , the government puts half of its population under tighter restrictions, including london. Manchesters mayor says that his city should not go to the highest level. This is an important moment. Manchester will stand firm. We are fighting back for fairness and for the health of our people. Kamala harris has canceled her travel plans after one of her staff tested positive for coronavirus. One man out jogging in utah survived this terrifying encounter with t cougar. Lets begin in europe as it battles the second wave
At whatstake a look going on in to those brexit talks. The pound is up by. 2 . Stronger dollar story throughout the day and dollaryen is up to. 6 . 58 basis points. Thats really steep. Time for the morning brief. Ahead. A look at the week today theresa may is scheduled to meet with Jeanclaude Juncker. Then social democrats hold their convention. Congress has to act to avoid a Government Shutdown and we are also going to get on friday u. S. Jobs numbers. Big week ahead. Topics tax, u. K. , cvs buying aetna. The talk on the talk shows was all about taxes. Had towhat the senators say. When you heard the president say we are very close to the finish line you know he has wanted a 15 right from the beginning. Is parted to a 20 rate of the discussion. The house as a 20 right now. We are happy with both of those numbers. If something small happens in conference that gets us across the finish line we will look at it on a casebycase basis. Business tax all the way down from 35 to 20. It could be
Pretty big gap, niel, what we want to do is a clean repeal. What we want to do is tell the voters what we were going to do and sent us here to do and thats repeal obamacare and get in the debate about replacement. It should be a separate piece of legislation because frankly we dont agree on that yet. The leadership bill says, we are going to repeal obamacare but we are going to keep a bunch of the obamacare taxes. We are going to keep Medicaid Expansion and extend it out for several years. We are going to repeal obamacare but also start new it entitlement. Thats not how its supposed to work. So thats not what we told the voters we were going to do. We are going to introduce a clean repeal. Lets do that much because thats what we told the voters we were going to do. Neil all right, now, you do have some agreement with the approach they want to take, not only with the Affordable Care act with what your Republican Leadership cover, keep kids on policy a little longer, till age 26, i belie
As the big tech firms respond to the latest Wikileaks Revelations well be getting the inside track on all the biggest tech stories of the week with our Technology Correspondent rory cellan jones. Theres a report in the times in london that fewer people are taking time off sick from work because they frightened for their jobs. We want to know whether you have hauled yourself in as sick as a dog for fear of the sack. Just use bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in detroit in the usa where in a few hours time volkswagen is due to plead guilty to charges of fraud and Obstruction Ofjustice by cheating diesel emissions tests. The formal plea will draw a line under the us side of the scandal following a plea bargain reached in january. But its far from over. Vw has admitted 11 million vehicles worldwide had software installed to beat Regulators Checks on emissions. In some cases they were up to a0 times higher than the us legal limit. So far thats led to around 20 billion in settle
Also wheres the evidence . Congresss House Intelligence Committee demands from the president that his phones were wiretapped just before the election. After turkeys ministers are blocked from attending some european rallies, president erdogan threatens to take the netherlands to the European Court and accuses germany of supporting terrorists. Diplomatic freeze. Blizzards in americas north east forces german chancellor merkel to reschedule her trip to the white house. Im katty kay in washington, Christian Fraser is in london. It is 53 days since donald trump took office, its 233 days since britain voted to leave the European Union. So much has happened since then and yet nothing at all has happened at least in terms of the formal brexit negotiation. But things are about to hot up. Tonight, the Uk Parliament takes its final vote on the brexit legislation, which should clear the way for the Prime Minister to begin the process. It has just rejected both of the amendments. And on the eve of