Those claims. Also, coming up, another tragic milestone. The pandemic has claimed more than 200,00000 lives inn the u. , the highest death toll in the world. What does this mean for the president ial election weeks away . And wildfires ravaging california. The amazon and other parts of the planet. Activists are pushing the United Nations for concrete action to protect the environment. Scientists are on their side. Many powerful politicians are not. Im brent goff. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and all around the world, welcome. The United Nations General Assembly has held its annual debate as the u. N. Marks 75 years since its founding. It was the First Assembly where World Leaders do not gather in new york city, but instead addressed the forum via video because of the pandemic. Fafar from delivering a unified message, donald trump lashed out at china in his speech. This prompted u. N. Secretarygeneral to warn against a new cold war. Lets have a listen now to one of trumps
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to bloomberg surveillance. Inm Francine Lacqua here london. Happy thursday. Lets check in on the markets. A lot of focus about the turkish keene is alsom all over. He is really on what could happen in the near term. Apart from the turkish lira, there is quite of lot going on, and stocks are dropping in much of the world after the fed signaled continued concern on the pandemic, and that is weighing on the worlds biggest economy as well as treasuries advancing. The other thing i am watching out for is daughter holding, gold edging higher, and then we not need to talk about wheel, declining from a high after the fed and opec both sounding cautious we need to talk about oil. And lets get to the bloomberg first word news. We start with china, which says it is planning to hold talks after last weeks talks were canceled by donald trump. This is six months after the pack. The russian opposition leader, navalny has fallen ill, allegedly due to poisoning, unco
Im truly delighted to be here this evening to welcome Darren Walker to duke. Walker to duke. He serves as president of the Ford Foundation and will be our 2020 Terry Sanford distinguished lecturer. I have to say, given all of mr. Walkers extraordinary accomplishments, whoever introduces him has their work cut out for them. Born in lafayette, louisiana, Darren Walker was one of the first children in the nation to benefit from the head start program. He went on to were a scholarship at the university of texas at austin, where he would graduate with degrees in government, speech communication, and law, before pursuing a successful career as an attorney and an investment banker. For the past three decades, mr. Walker has been one of our nations foremost philanthropic executives. He has served as chief operating officer of harlems Largest Development corporation. Vice president of the rockefeller foundation, cofounder and chair of the u. S. Impact investing alliance, and for the past seven
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How to bring you the news and current things that matter to. Aljazeera. Is the coronavirus pandemic making it harder to treat other diseases in africa u. N. Agencies warned decades of progress in treating aids malaria other illnesses could be reversed how do you decide what gets priority this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program on birds. The coronavirus pandemic is putting enormous strain on Health Systems worldwide in some countries but means resources are being diverted from other treatments patients with illnesses such as age. Or malaria risk having their treatment interrupted 2 thirds of the global population living with hiv are in Subsaharan Africa if their antiretroviral therapy is are disrupted its fair hundreds of thousands could die the head of the World Health Organization is urging all countries to ensure Vital Health Services remain open this is on avoidable worst Case Scenario and not a prediction this model acts as a wake up call to identify ways to sustain all