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Book the world. Francine lacqua in london. Extraordinary markets yesterday. Francine extraordinary yesterday but today they are taking a breather. On folks yesterday was moderna. Say if we haveto better news on the early trial of this vaccine. There is a huge fund being put in place by Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel. Again now, a bit more temperament or a little bit slower as we expect some countries to go against it. More subdued markets than yesterday. Tom interesting. Markets pulling back in the last few hours. With over a world news in new york city. Federal reserve chairman says the central bank is prepared to use its full range lendingd plans on rate neil zero than rate to near zero. Ritika President Trump is taking the antimalaria drugs he has promoted as a treatment for coronavirus. That is despite government warnings that hydroxychloroquine can have serious side effects. The president says he has been on the drug for about a week and a half. Mike pences press secretary test
To him for you to santos for our top story today we turn to iraq where tensions have reached a new highs between the United States and iran earlier this year washington and tehran came dangerously close to a war in iraq after washington assassinated irans top general costs and still the money claiming hed been plotting attacks on americans in the region well all 3 countries currently face the coronavirus pandemic the conflict has not slowed down with the rest of the world a series of new attacks have taken place in recent weeks and President Donald Trump is now accusing iran of planning a sneak attack on u. S. Bases in iraq citing unspecified intelligence during a press conference the president said he had very good information that the Group Planning the attack with hezbollah stating quote it was led by iran not necessarily iran but by groups supported by iran but that to me is iran is. Iranian foreign minister zarif responded in a tweet quote dont be misled by usual warmongers again
Have reached a new highs between the United States and iran earlier this year washington and tehran came dangerously close to a war in iraq after washington assassinated irans top general qassam cilla monny claiming hed been plotting attacks on americans in the region well all 3 countries currently face the coronavirus pandemic the conflict has not slowed down with the rest of the world a series of new attacks have taken place in recent weeks and President Donald Trump is now accusing iran of planning a sneak attack on u. S. Bases in iraq citing unspecified intelligence during a press conference the president said he had very good information that the Group Planning the attack with hezbollah stating quote it was led by iran not necessarily iran but by groups supported by iran but that to me is iran Iranian Foreign minister zarif responded in a tweet quote dont be. Misled by usual warmongers again unlike the us which 3rd petition if we live cheap in a fascinate iran only act in self def
Think about all this going on in the middle of a Global Pandemic shouldnt we have some International Solidarity put our differences aside just for this moment bridgette i think its disgraceful i think when you look at Something Like this pandemic that affects the entire world it affects poor people it even affects people in power take a look at Boris Johnson hes lying in the hospital right now he might die it affects everyone isnt the time theyre set down the politics sex down the bowl and you know what comes after that set it down leave it goal and face a problem that affects the entire world and should bring us all together instead of separating us farther apart while these idiots continue to fuel their war games and what angers me about the iran deal is our Mainstream Media they always go back to when iran took hostages in the early 7. These so they make people believe that iran was the initial aggression aggressor not true lets go back to the fiftys where iran had a democratically