Before they have procedural votes. Bottom line i do not expect any rapid action on this with the house dead set opposed to whatever the senate will come with, even if Mitch Mcconnell gets the votes he needs ultimately to get this through. Nfl football returns. Thursday night football tonight. All eyes on the kansas city chiefs, houston texans. The stadium can hold 76,000 people im told. It is going to be at 22 of capacity, so 15,000 folks in the stands. What is odd, there will not be mascot the or cheerleaders. It will be very thin population on the ground besides players and coaches. It might seem a little weird but football is on. Well look at potential impact what we might be seeing and might not be seeing. Meanwhile politics is it still on. The president plans to visit michigan today, a battleground state he won by little more than 10,000. Polls are tightening. Blake burman. Reporter six president ial, President Trump flipped it around by slimmest of margin,. 2 . Joe biden is leadi
The most notable name on the list the people who are actually honored in the capital with the statue from the collection of statues where each state gets to send to people would probably be Jefferson Davis, who was the confederate president during the war. Rat is basically the leadership in the senate and the house a Administration Committee in the house that wants to remove the statute anyway. What we have heard from republicans at least, Kevin Mccarthy and Mitch Mcconnell has said that you need the state to make this decision. And theyre welcome to send other statues, we have seen over the years and the change and they would like to see them gone even if perhaps some of the Southern State legislators would be inclined to replace them. Now that she sent that letter was a process. Whether or not theyre going to do much of anything, this is separate from the other issue that congress is also debating and a role for congress itself, the question of naming military bases that you mention
S officers says stimulus is on the way. Euro german bailout. A. M. Has just gone 6 00 in london. I am torn between the debate on whether the u. S. Chinahong kong it the backstop of central bank the narrative that drives this . Japan reopening, australia is reopening and normalizing as is the u. K. Good morning. Expectations of expansion of stimulus for june. They seem to be gaining some momentum. The market seems to be putting a side the u. S. And the u. S. China tensions. That simmers in the background. We still see this risk on an markets. And perhaps added to the story a little bit of optimism or less pessimism. Like the bailout and we getcept the news like the bailout of lufthansa. Futures pointing to similar gains that we saw in the euro stoxx 50. The 10 year treasury yields higher. Is above 34 a barrel. Iae saying demand could get back to precoronavirus levels. The number of coronavirus deaths in the u. S. Is nearing 100,000 344 global deaths around thousand. However, u. S. Presi
Remain independent. Economy ts, the global takes precedence over the geopolitical tensions between the u. S. And china. The price of the bailout. Brussels set its criteria for backing the state aid pac package from berlin. We are just under an hour away from the start of cac equity trading in europe. Ets take a look at where the u. K. Markets were closed yesterday. They didnt get that take part in the risk on rally that we saw across the continent. We also see u. S. Equity futures rising. U. S. Cash trade was also closed yesterday to honor the memorial day holiday. As a result we see futures in new york up about 2 on the dow and nasdaq futures as well as s p futures up 1. 8 right now. Lets get your first word news. Here are todays top stories from the bloomberg terminal. Once a virus hot spot in europe, italy reported the fewest cases since february. Below 100 for a second day. The global death toll tops 340,000 with 5. 5 million cases confirmed. In england, Outdoor Markets and car sho
Hello its friday, its ten oclock, im joanna gosling. An undercover investigation by the bbc has uncovered clerics in iraq offering children for sale in temporary marriages. Well talk to yanar mohammed, who works in iraq, helping female survivors of Sexual Violence. A paralysed man has been able to move all four of his limbs using the power of his mind and a special suit. In his only bbc interview, well talk one of the team behind the exoskeleton. A report due to be published in the next half hour into an investigation into an alleged vip paedophile ring which turned out not to exist, is expected to strongly criticise Scotland Yard. And personal trainer matt lindsays photos of his body transformation were taken from instagram and used to promote diet pills hed never used. Well talk to him and ask what you can do to stop your personal pictures being used without your consent. Hello. Welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 this morning. Do you believe everything you see on social med