The lower bar for sarah youre watching out is there are live from london also coming up on the program. Ivory coasts government confirms 85 people have now died in violence over the disputed election. Double the previous estimates. Sudan says it fears up to 200000. People could flood into the country escaping the fighting in northern ethiopia. And hong kongs prodemocracy legislators resigned on mass in protest at the dismissal of 4 of their colleagues. The thank you for joining us. The World Health Organization has described europe as a cautionary tale of the dangers of easy coronavirus restrictions. The continent is experiencing an aggressive surge in infections with daily deaths steadily rising towards the peak of the 1st wave in spring. More than 50000. 00, people have now died from cope with 19 across the u. K. , and thats after another 595 fatalities were confirmed over the past 24 hours. Marking the countrys highest daily death toll since may. Infections are also climbing with al
Pips. We are looking at the rest of asia doing this. 1 8kospi index down about of 1 . Some updatese, here on what happened yesterday. Military saying it is on high alert in that part of the world. Today,the top stories just a couple minutes ago, we did get confirmation out of the pboc, adding more funding to the system here. It is trying to guide the economy through a rough patch. A smaller chunk, 2. 95 . Jason. Us now is pleasure to have you. Good morning. Your top thoughts for today. What is top of mind for you . At chinas liquidity guess first the primary liquidity facility, but it does also add to the positive growth picture for china, especially on a relative basis. Covidast because the situation has been continuing in china. When you couple that with Strong Capital flows and improving current accounts balance, it doesnt mean the fundamentals are quite good at the moment. Note, and i guess on that many people say go long against the dollar. Your trade is the currency against the i
News in new york city. We begin here, organizing the Manhattan Project for coronavirus vaccine. Its called its it wants doses available by the end of the year. The program will partner with from Single Companies in the military. President trump says he think china is determined to see him lose the november election and thats influencing beijings response to the coronavirus outbreak. In an interview with reuters he says he is considering various ways to punish the Chinese Government and blames her for allowing the virus to spread. The death toll the u. K. From the coronavirus passing 26,000. Saying the government wont ease the lockdown quickly. Whereghting germany social distancing measures were relaxed. Falling both nations more than 5 for the euro area later today. In the worst is still come. We end in china where factory data showing a domestic recovery being undercut by a global slump. Slippingred pmi despite them moving into expansion territory. Of economicecovery activity is likel
A live update from beirut. Libyan war logs Khalifa Haftar announces a ceasefire during ramadan soon after launching another attack on. The with the sports man is set to be crowned champions in france as the Domestic League season is cancelled. With numbers just released out of the us that show the continuing trend of widespread job losses more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits over the past week well that takes the total number of jobless from 26000000. 00 last week to more than 30000000. 00 now the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3. 5 percent between december and february but in march it jumped to a 2. And a half year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly more than 7000000. 00 people a state governments now begin to restart their economies their easing lockdown measures more than half of the 50 states including florida or partially reopen by the end of the week as the john hopkins dashboard shows at least 1000000 people in the u. S. Have contracted the virus nearly 61000 have di
A warning it could still be a year away. And wall streets worst day in more than 3 decades as investors comic over them expect money in. Welcome to the program the Global Response to the coronavirus pandemic is ramping up but the World Health Organization is imploring governments to test far more people with suspected infection the french president emanuel macro has declared war on the outbreak and is closing frances borders from 1100 g. M. T. On tuesday the European Union has proposed a ban on all nonessential foreign travel to the shang the president of the European Central Bank Christine Lagarde has pledged to do whatever she can to stop the eurozone from breaking up while the British Government which has been under pressure to toughen its approach is now asking people to avoid nonessential travel pubs clubs and thier. Meanwhile u. S. President donald trump positions similar advice and is aging no social gatherings of more than 10 people well alan fischer brings us more on the lates