His biggest Daily Advance in three months. Lets bring you the bloomberg first word news and the u. K. Government is telling the to work from home if possible telling the public to work from home with possible full to the Prime Ministers holding an emergency cobra meeting this morning for briefing parliament, thewill make a broadcast to public at 8 00 p. M. Local time. The billiondollar initiative to the polio vaccine around the world is moving to the next phase. Over 150 countries and regions including 64 higher income nations are taking part. Solutionis to find a to covid a little sooner than we were expecting. Pressure onto put Alexander Lukashenko are on pause. Ministers on monday failed to agree. On how to handle turkeys energy claims in them eastern eastern mediterranean. That is global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake. We will have plenty more on the markets and we will go over some of the other news we are watching. Tom, good morning. Tom francine, good morn
Of the day at westminster. On this programme, Jeremy Corbyn warns thousands of families will spend christmas fearing eviction due to the introduction of universal credit. But theresa may defends the long term impact of the new benefit. Citizens rights come under the spotlight on the second day of detailed debate on the eu withdrawal bill. And the foreign secretary urges all sides in zimbabwe to refrain from violence. We, and i think in everybody this house, would want the people of zimbabwe to have the choice about their future in free and Fair Elections. But first to Prime Ministers questions whereJeremy Corbyn renewed his call for the government to pause the roll out of the new welfare payment, universal credit. It replaces six working age benefits, but many mps have expressed concern that claimants can have to wait up to six weeks before getting any money, leading to debt and rent arrears. Jeremy corbyn kept up the pressure on the government to make a change. I was passed a letter,
Government, has got to look to what is happening in libya, a huge ungoverned space and apparently a source of some awful extremism. But was manchester a consequence of our Foreign Policy . Manchester was a consequence of one person going into a music event and killing a very large number of people, there can be no defence whatsoever of that. So nothing to do with Foreign Policy . I do not in any way change that view. That is just a vile, horrible event and those people have got to be brought to book. Obviously, the one who did it is dead but there appears to be a whole connection of them. I made the point that if we are to have a secure future, weve got to look at ungoverned spaces around the world and the consequences of our wars of intervention. This is notjust me, as i said, this is mi5, its Foreign Affairs select committee, its a number of other people. But im struggling to find the role of Foreign Policy you see Islamic State was founded well before the invasion of iraq. Its murde
Islamic state atrocities. Emmanuel macron has launched his manifesto and Francois Fillon has had more bad news today, a property of his raided by police. Well have the latest on the french president ial election. If you bought shares in the company that owned snapchat you probably had a good day, the stockjumping by more than 40 just since the company floated. There were a few hours after Donald Trumps speech to congress where something resembling calm had descended on washington, dc. But it didnt last long. There is now huge pressure on mr trumps Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions and what relationship and connections he has had with the russians. Mr trump has been talking about this in the last few hours, he says he has total confidence inJeff Sessions, that he thinks theres no need for the Attorney General to recuse himself from an investigation into contact between the Trump Campaigner russian officials during the election. He told reporters he wasnt aware mr sessions had these two meet
Islamic state atrocities. Emmanuel macron has launched his manifesto and Francois Fillon has had more bad news today, a property of his raided by police. Well have the latest on the french president ial election. If you bought shares in the company that owned snapchat you probably had a good day, the stockjumping by more than 40 just since the company floated. There were a few hours after Donald Trumps speech to congress where something resembling calm had descended on washington, dc. But it didnt last long. There is now huge pressure on mr trumps Attorney GeneralJeff Sessions and what relationship and connections he has had with the russians. Mr trump has been talking about this in the last few hours, he says he has total confidence inJeff Sessions, that he thinks theres no need for the Attorney General to recuse himself from an investigation into contact between the Trump Campaigner russian officials during the election. He told reporters he wasnt aware mr sessions had these two meet