What will be watch . We will watch wage growth. Good morning, this is bloomberg surveillance. Guy johnson is with us. There is a really dramatic photo of a helicopter dropping down on a cruise ship. What is the mood in the london weekend . Guy the mood is everyone is trying to figure who has what. We dont have enough test kits. Knowledge as to wether or not this is spreading quickly, slowly, how we people have it. It does not exist right now. Tom i believe it would be called unknownunknown. Screens tothree data start things off. With our first word news, here is viviana hurtado. Viviana we begin with the coronavirus. Almost 100,000 coronavirus cases have been diagnosed globally. The majority in china. Beijing reporting the number of new cases and deaths are falling. The u. S. Outbreak is getting larger. There have been more than 130 cases reported and at least 11 desperate there is a key to wether the Central Banks cut rates again. This from robert kaplan. He is looking at how fast the
So that an explosion has hit a convoy carrying sudans Prime Minister and what the government has described as an assassination attempt adela was traveling through called to when there was a roadside blast the vehicle he was in was damaged as well as several others government says it was a targeted attack investigations are underway to try the term in who thats responsible. For that was that ill be the Prime Minister and the convoy members were not injured they are all safe except one person who fell from about a cycle of the Prime Minister is doing his job now from his office and investigations underway we know that there are people who are trying to target the revolution of the sudanese people and to attack the gains of the revolutionaries but we stress that revolution is going on at the revolution will continue its path. Lets speak to him organise life in khartoum what more do you have for us. Well at the moment what we know is what we heard from the Government Spokesperson the minis
And we will meet a yemeni entrepreneur defying all the odds to keep the countrys famed jewelry traditions alive. So were looking at lebanon where the president had been planning to hold consultations with Political Parties to decide on a new Prime Minister but that has been postponed until thursday of course lebanon seen months of protests against corruption and sectarianism which eventually led to the resignation of Prime Minister hariri but there is a possibility he will return to the job if hes appointed by the president michel aoun thats my demonstrators angry protests over the last 2 nights have ended in violence of course one as any father is in beirut she has more now on those Political Consultations that have been put off. The constitutional process to appoint a Prime Minister and form a new government was supposed to begin now the president s palace issued a statement saying that those parliamentary consultations have been postponed until thursday in that statement it mentions
This is how it looks at the moment. Nikkei feeling it at the moment although there is a deal on trade between the u. S. And japan. Nevertheless nikkei still 2. 2 percent down. Asx also feeling its. All in the red. Everything is negative as far as the market goes. Where is the money going . Lets have a look at what is going on. On top of that the u. S. 30 year. Gold up. At levels not seen since 2013 or thereabouts. 54 accounts. At one stage yen was at 144. 45 against the dollar. We have recovered a bit, 105. 24. There are all sorts of resistance. There we go. To the downside. 97, 51 for dollar, 30 yield 9. 81 . Money ise is where the going as people seek safety. Whats move things along and look at the first word news with selina wang. Macau has chosen a pro China Businessman as its new leader after a political process that featured no other candidates. Hell be the third leader since he territory was handed back to china in 1999 after more than four centuries of rule by portugal. Unlike
Hello to you. Scientists have discovered particles of plastic falling in snow in the arctic, highlighting the scale of plastic pollution. A region so many of us think of as pristine is contaminated with microscopic particles, carried on the wind from thousands of miles away. Our environment analyst Roger Harrabin travelled to the Arctic Circle as the Research Teams were working. Heres his special report. The arctic, a place of pristine beauty. Smothered with snow, clean and pure. Or, thats how it appears. But its an illusion. Arctic snow is tainted with microplastics and rubber particles and clothing fibres. Given the amount of pollution in the atmosphere, its perhaps hardly surprising that were finding microplastics in snow. But we have such a strong belief in the essential purity of this stuff that some people will find this news rather shocking. Dr Melanie Bergmann led the research. First stage involves a bit of low technology. A dessert spoon and a flask. I think were not treating