Demolish to, used to be known as east timor. Because the pope, Pope Francis, is arriving there. It is part of a very big tour, and this is a mostly catholic nation, formerly a portuguese colony, in southeast asia. It is a three Day Visit which will include an open Air Celebration of mass, and The Vatican says that it could include half the population, which is around 1. 3 Million, so, they are expecting very big crowds there. The pope, who is 87, isjust leaving his car, it seems, we canjust 87, isjust leaving his car, it seems, we can just see on the other side of the windows, i think. At the start of this trip in Timor Leste. Part of a Big Tour Organised by The Vatican. He has just come to Timor Leste from papua new guinea, and you can see there the pope. Applause and cheering. Being escorted there by his aides. He is 87, and he has been on this big tour, attendance of Tens Of Thousands of people expected to gather there to meet him. Applause and cheering. You can hear some of the cro
We start this hour with a Special Report from afghanistan, a country where millions of children are malnourished, and where in one hospital, 700 children have died injust the last six months. Its a humanitarian crisis that deepens every day, with much of the Country Living in Extreme Poverty, after years of war causing economic collapse. The un says more than Three Million children under five are malnourished, with the delivery of aid becoming much harder since the taliban took control in 2021. The bbc s yogita limaye, Camera Journalist sanjay ganguly, and producer Imogen Anderson have been in the country for the last two weeks, chronicling the disaster, and a warning their report shows images of children in distress. This is what an average morning looks like at jalalabads main hospital. Hundreds throng every corner, every passage, as Extreme Poverty pushes more children into disease each day. Zara, 13 months old, one of 3 Million malnourished children in the country. A disease thats
Will limits political ads before americans go to the polls in november that message from facebook the giant tech company says it aims to stop election misinformation but does this convince everyone would it work this is inside story. How welcome to the program. Facebook has announced steps to prevent its platform being exploited in the week leading up to the u. S. President ial vote it will stop accepting new political ads 7 days before november 3rd election but it will continue to show whats already in the system the social media giant has been criticized for allowing political as to be micro targets only seen by small and select communities instead of being debated by a wide audience its also accused of not. Doing enough to fact check articles on his platforms c. E. O. Mark zuckerberg unveiled the new measures in a Facebook Post he says this election wont be business as usual and admits he has a responsibility to clear up confusion he says hes worried about divisions in the country a
Because last sunday on august 30th it was the holy day of assura in iraq its a very important day for share muslims across the world it is a day that the grandson of the prophet mohammad it was killed in karbala in 688 d. And they converge on to curve a lot to commemorate his passing and although the government had this had said that they will be a limited number of people able to allow and enter the shrine of imam hussein there were still hundreds of thousands who attended to pay their respects as opposed to the numbers weve seen in the past last year there was over 3000000 people who visit a curb along the shore and the government has urged people to try and abide by the guidelines but after that day weve seeing a spike over 5000 positive cases in the past 24 hours this is something the authorities are very worried about the countrys already in a semi lockdown there is a partial curfew from 10 pm till 5 am 25 percent of Government Employees are allowed to go into work schools are sti
Annualized basis. Slightly less bad in the estimates. They do expect a contraction of more than 20 . Nonetheless, the nikkei up 2 . You looking at u. S. Jobless claims and payroll, adding urgency around stimulus in washington. The snp active futures in the u. S. Up 1 10 of 1 . The dollar still a big story in terms of the weakness. 6. 97 . Offshore at stronger data suggesting the economic recovery in China Remains on track your the bloomberg dollar index flat. This is what is happening with the dollaryen, flat essentially. The pound on a tear. Have a the boe that will meeting thursday and no action is expected. We will look at some of the commodities as well. 56,10 year yield below yelled at 55. Today we are expected to get details around a treasury in cash issuance and the economic recovery plans in the united states. Thats whats happening with oil at 43 a barrel, down 6 10 of 1 . Lets get to first word news with Karina Mitchell in new york. Karina global coronavirus cases have topped