Good morning, everyone. This is bloomberg surveillance. I am Francine Lacqua here in london. The markets are really focused today in the u. S. , that second wave, we were debating on whether we could call it a second wave. Big resurgence of cases. Alsos are down, futures down. Rates, but also because jay powell talking about the economic a coverage. Rebounding from the losses we saw yesterday. Gold actually holding after most of yesterdays gains. Now lets get to the bloomberg first word news in london with dani burger. Hi, dani. Ani hi francine. ,californias hospitalizations are the highest in nearly a month. According to Johns Hopkins university, the number of confirmed cases have top 2 million. The government made a string of failures and is handling of the coronavirus crisis. Executivemedical spoke about the decisions at the coronavirus briefing. It put Boris Johnson standing next to him on the defensive. Johnsons that is still too early to judge the nations response. Just eat take
Most women it is satisfied with their bodies this is nothing new but young women have become more and more in secure since the advent of social media something is always too big too small too thin too fast too little too short term or long or too much. On instagram and platforms like it those who are judged to be the most beautiful are rewarded with the most likes it motors and clicks hours spent on mobile phones fuel mutual comparisons and evaluations young women tend to focus on a lot on what they are not or do not have and they feel inadequate. We cannot escape the power of images. Its causing insecurity especially among women and young girls it affects men too but i think with all these pictures social media are causing people to feel more insecure. And whats in our society you can only be too thin or too fat you can never fit in this thinking i feel beautiful the way i am now i feel comfortable charming and attractive as much as ever being a woman isnt d. C. Pressure on women its
And i had the bridge and the honor to stand tall with thousands and thousands of young libyan men and women to defend our country against this western attack and i was appointed the spokesperson of the Libyan Government i was the voice for the Libyan Resistance Movement that time and i walked close with my colleagues and commemorates to represent the libyan point of view to the world i dealt with the International Media for more than 8 months i held 3 press conferences every day under bombardment but i wasnt alone i had the support the love and the expertise of thousands of young libyan graduates and media personnel. It is intellectuals who still after 8 years of the war was very hard to fight for the liberation of the country for the freedom and independence of the libyan people well Mainstream Media around the world called you a liar a mouthpiece for a regime that far from this well being about imperialism this was a regime that was organizing mass rape has a policy using vi agra che
The air bombardment of libyan cities which were which was brutal and false almost immediately and the International Media had to admit because they came to libya and. That is not something you can hide secondly the mass rape of 8000 plebian women the country has been under control of our enemies and the west for a chair where are the victims and where are the convictions and where are the trials after 8 years they havent been able to prove any systemic rape of women during that time and then you have the charge of killing 10000. 00 innocent protesters and the 1st 3 days where are the names where are the bodies of the most they have been able to come up with 25 people who were killed in the 1st few days we say they were armed some people say they were not armed but 25 people killed. Old is not 10000 its very rare to be able to speak to someone who interacted with western Mainstream Media jury what you call an imperial conflict what was it like being a spokesperson for the government tal
Months i held 3 press conferences every day under bombardment but i wasnt alone i had the support the love and the expertise of thousands of young libyan graduates and media personalities and intellectuals who still after 8 years of the war was very hard to fight for the liberation of the country for the freedom and independence of the libyan people well Mainstream Media around the world called you a liar a mouthpiece for a regime that far from this well being about imperialism this was a regime that was organizing mass rape as a policy using vi agra chemicals to complete mess rate policy is the massacre of unarmed protesters and you are basically a mouthpiece for a moment of civilians well in any position. We will take there are 2 powers if you have on your side then you are proven as an honest party the power of except limitation and the power of prophecy and we had both after 8 years everything we said to explain what was happening in libya proved to be right we talked about terrori