100000000 people in 4 months. Germany is going into lockdown again as it imposes more covert 19 instructions after cutting measures fail to reduce infections. And fears over missing students after gunmen attacked a school in Northern Nigeria by the families blame the government. British an e. U. Leaders say braggs it talks are going to go on even though negotiators havent reached a deal sunday is supposed to be the deadline for the deal but both sides have been meeting again the head of the e. U. Commission most of all the lay in the says that osce told topics that deserve more discussion. Despite the exhaustion after almost one year of negotiations and despite the fact that deadlines have been missed over and over we both think that it is responsible at this point in time to go the extra mile. We have accordingly mandated our negotiators to continue the taffs and to see whether no reach an agreement can be reached even at this late stage while so far there have been several sticking p
1. 30. Immunereally, it seems, in the pound crosses to the brexit headlines. You get a little bit of movement, but not very much on the headlines being generated out of brussels. Crude down 0. 6 . A cautious outlook coming from opec . The virus story front and center. Alix virus cases. Leaders virus cases surging across europe. Leaders weighing options. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is holding a press conference right now, saying they cannot take the same measures as in the first wave of the virus. Joining us with more from roane bloombergs is alessandro. Ndro the milan area has requested a curfew from 11 00 p. M. To 5 00 a. M. To stop the activity, to stop people mingling together and going out for a drink in the evening. This is not enough to stop the spread of the virus. We had almost around 10,000 cases per day daily, below the european average, but still higher than what we have seen just a few weeks ago. We are expecting new numbers for today any minute now. Guy when you
Today as republicans look to fast track her nomination before the election day and in the gulf, clean up from hurricane delta continues this morning as nearly half a million residents still remain without power and technology under fire yet again this time from across the atlantic its monday october 20t12, 2020 youre watching Worldwide Exchange here on cnbc. Sh good monday morning kicking off this morning with a hearty congratulations to the Los Angeles Lakers you can see them there jumping around they won their 17th nba title beating the miami heat in game six last night 10693 lebron james helping lift the lakers over the top with a triple double himself while Anthony Davis logged a doubledouble of his own you can see the dow jones implied higher by 16 points and the nasdaq up by 134 Big Technology in focus yet again. And with fridays 160 point advance the dow is now positive for the First Time Since september 22nd you can compare that with the s p 500, the dow transportation stocks a
The show. A new Prime Minister for japan tokyos parliament confirms your shahid a sukkah as successor to shinzo all day the former Health Minister says his priorities are fighting the pandemic and strengthening japans whaling and cars. And israel signs historic agreements after the white house with bahrain and the United Arab Emirates establishing diplomatic relations present trump says theyre just the 1st of many such deals to come. Im brian thomas could have you with us today European Commission president to ursula fong the lion will shortly give her 1st state of the Union Address shes expected to unveil her vision for a more ambitious. Climate deal for the block migration also expected to figure prominently final line will also outline plans to relaunch europes economy which has been hard hit by the coronavirus and denmark. Lets go live now to the abuse of Brussels Bureau chief alexander phenomena whos standing by there for us where the speech is about to begin shortly this speech a
And the worlds highest daily increase in covert 1000. 00 infections plus. Im webb in a tea plantation in kenya as highlands more than 60 years ago british colonialists forced the local people off their land to make space for it will be speaking to the few that still survive about their fight for justice. In the sport and finally to take on paris for the European Champions League title will be in lisbon ahead of the big game. The opposition and belarus has called for another round of mass protests to push for president Alexander Lukashenko his resignation 2 weeks after he claimed victory in a disputed election these are the scenes in the capital many square tens of thousands of people are now streaming into the center of the city defined has ordered the army into full combat readiness in the past hour of the Russian Foreign minister has come out in look assange has support. Says there is no way to prove the embattled belorussian leader did not win the president ial election despite a vi