Years ago today on the american access to believe role in german politics. Despite the many crises shes faced, the often nicknamed the mother of germany is now more popular than ever. And a president ial election in west africa, large by extremist violence to people in turkey. Now faso, head to the polls today. But a growing Islamist Insurgency means many voters wont be able to cast their ballots. On a call for leaders of the worlds wealthiest countries are meeting online for a g 20 summit hosted by saudi arabia. The virtual gathering is dominated by efforts to end the kono virus pandemic and deal with its economic fallout. A draft declaration shows the biggest economies will pledge to pay for a Fair Distribution of covert 19. 00, vaccines and testing. So that poorer countries are not left out debt relief as also likely to be extended denied the opportunity for face to face pageantry. This was how so dia rebiya opened the g 20 a 7 plane fly over of riyadh to mark the 1st ever summit ho
Well, we expected leaders to sign adjoins declare a declaration later today. And then we will see how strong the language will be there with regards to covert 19 and Global Access to vaccines. However, its important to stress that many of them said here set in the day a Virtual Conference Video Conference, that its very important to coordinate their efforts. And that it is very important for everyone to have x. And access to their vaccine. French president mccall stressed that this is a test for g. 20. We just heard german chancellor Angela Merkel talking about the importance of strengthening international organizations. The only one, however, who didnt talk about the Global Situation was you asked president donald trump, who praised cheese economy and his administrations efforts to develop a vaccine to support companies, develop a vaccine. And his message to the leaders was basically, he wants to tax needs u. S. Citizens 1st. Right out. Whats on the agenda today . Climate change expec
The gloom crew. They have been wrong, wrong, wrong. We will reassess. We start strong with james bevan in a moment. Francine we have a lot of Economic Data that could support the rally or not a little bit later. Consumptionat price and other things we need to watch out for. Lets get to first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Joe biden ritika joe biden wants to change the slogan from America First to americas back. Restore u. S. Ties with International Organizations that President Trump spurned over the last four years. President trump heads to pennsylvania in his campaign to overturn Election Results there. He will meet with state republican lawmakers examining accusations of voting impropriety. Pennsylvania has already certified that joe biden won the election. Trump supporters complained that observers were not allowed to be close to virga two workers counting votes. U. S. Health officials are working on guidance to shorten the 14 day quarantine period if they are exposed
Down 1. 6 yesterday, off of session lows. The dow industrials down 650 650 points, that was 2 and a quarter percent lower at 4 00 on wall street. Investors rattled over no progress on stimulus and a rise in covid cases. Its a big day for earnings, dow components merck, 3m. Caterpillar all reporting quarterly numbers this morning. We will get a snapshot of the airlines when jetblue reports and a look at big pharma when pfizer reports. The road to the white house, we hit the one week to go mark, americans are headed th to the polls in seven short days. President trump and joe biden begin the final push before election day. Stimulus negotiations losing momentum, time is running out for lawmakers to make a deal before november 3rd. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she remains opt my particular over talks optimistic over talks. Congressman tom reed told me yesterday if we dont have a deal by election day, we may not have one until february. Todays the day, my new book, the cost, trump, china
Day or thinks. We dare to ask. This is whom boss the one business show you cant afford to miss for in washington coming up tensions are on the rise between russia and the European Union its sanctions have been imposed over the poisoning of election of all of the straight ahead we bring you up to speed on how the escalation could affect business between the 2 and a mystery ongoing trade war between the worlds 2 largest economies china u. S. Imports have exploded leading. Up to the 2020 president ial action later on were going to bring in 2 experts on International Trade on what the trade gap means in these critical times with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the European Union stating wednesday that it will impose economic sanctions against russia after russian Opposition Leader alexina of only a corruption investigator and longtime opponent of russian president Vladimir Putin was reportedly poisoned with a nerve agent now according to German Autho