four .com. eight pm here in the french capital you're watching live from paris on france twenty four i'm told but just wilson these are the top stories. european commission president gives her first anannual state of thehe union addresess tackling a number of issues from brexit to emissions targets. r. u. n. report accuses the venezuelan security forces of carrying out systematic human rights violations which it says. amount to crimes ainst humanity. japan's prime minister of less than twenty four hours that you'll see he tastes who got unveils a new cabinet which includes about hafiz predispositions are abbas ministerial line. looking back

we begin in brussels with the european commission president has today given her first annual state of the union addresess of the europeaean parliament. unsuitablble deleld tackled a number of issues in her a address including measures to rebuild the bloc's economy after the damage injured by the coronavirus. she also revealed a series of ambitious emissions goals for the european union. and your words of warning for turkey telling the country to stop threatetening its neighbors i'm wordsds of warning for the . k. telling the country not to breach its brexit withdrawal treaty. on front street was drinkakable yet today tells us more need for access. as leaders all around the world continue to grapple with the korean virus pandemic you commission president us live on the line is certainly no exception. in her annual state of the european union speech learning from the mistakes made by the group was. at the top p f

her agenda. so for me it is cruel. clear we need to build a stronger european health union. it is time to do that. to do this the european commission president wants to establish a biomedical resesearch agencyy to help prepare for future pandemics on the line laid out plans to boost europe's economy has beenen hit hardd by cave in nineteen to do this she stressed that climate change action would crereate millions f jobs. the head of the commission pledged a 30% of the block seven hundred and fifty billion euro recovery fund. would be raced environmentally friendly investments. green bonds. to get the bill contract for the future. on the line has increasedd the group's twenty thirty green deal targets of reducing emissions from forty to fifty five percent. also on her agenda combating the migrant crisis. this is a hot topic in ththe wake of a fire that devastated this migrant

camp on the island. of lesbos leaving thirteenth people. only a small group of member states have agreed to take a fraction of migrants in. with pressure growing on the easy to respond to the humanitarian crisis us live on the line called on member states to step up efforts and for each country to play its part. in the midst of stalled trade talks between the eu and the united kingdom. on the line with any attempt taken by prison to unilaterally modify the residual treaty would be ililgal hi thihis is. ralph and trust. and good faith i remind you of the words of margaret thatcher. i quote. britain does not break treaties the fact. this in the wake of the british government's unveiling of a draft legislation last week which undercuts possible divorce deall that was signed with the european women in january. meanwhile the e. u. it chief us live on the land also said today that plans are underway to reform of migration rules in

the block. the circle dublin regulation which was established back in nineteen ninety governs which member state handles and new arrivals asylum play and under the new rules under the old rules rather the country an asylum seeker first arrives and is responsible for registering. their asylum application let's take a closer look. europe is closing the curtains on a rule ththat has regulated its borders for the last thirty years. i can announce that we will abolish the dublin regulation. and we will replace it with a new europeann m migration governance system. it will have common structures on n asylum ad returned. and itt will have a new strong solidarity mechanism. under the dublin regulation asylum seekers have to register in the first you country which they arrive it if they move on to another member states in the block the asylum seekers can be sent back to the first country.

in which they were processed. the convention was intended to prevent refugees from making asylum requests in multiple european nations. however as efeffectiveness has been tested in recent years. because of that position geographically countries the first arrival like it's silly greece and spain have been swamped with applications. they have complained that the bear the brunt of europe's migrant crisis. in august of twenty fifteen german chancellor angela merkel set aside the dublin rules. germany allowed nine hundred thousand mostly syrian refugees in even though they had failed to register in the first cocountry of a arriva. of coursrse t system to redistribute migrants among eu member countries hastily agreed in the same year was never fully implemented. campaigners say the dublin regulation needs to be replaced with a better system to facilitate family reunions. to combat the current system's weaknesses the commission is due to present his reform of migration policy later this m month. now are you

an investigators said today that the venezuelan security forces in various groups allied to them have committed systematic human rights violations. which amount to crimes against humanity. amongst the of violations extrajudicial killings and torture. and the reports in the report rather the u. n. investigators said that reasonable grounds exist to believe the president nicolas maduro. and his inner circle ordered contributed to the crimes documented in the report. from singles of jones out across the us is in geneva the home of the u. n. human rights council which set up a fact finding mission. he gave me this update. the findings are based on two hundred and seventy full telephone and a secure video interviews. the independent experts could not conduct on the ground investigations in venenezuela their r requests w were rejejecd but basicically they investigatd cases. and reveviewed a andree additionalal two thohousand eigt

hundred ninety one cases to correct r right correct rightht- papatterns of violatitions and crcrimes. includiding sixixteens of police and military operations that resulted in fifty three extra judicial killings and reviewed on noww that two and a half thousand additional info incidents which involved the killing of more than five thousand people. by security forces the panel also. points the finger and says that that 60% of the- k killings way by two units of the security forces. the police body in charge of criminal investigations oci c. p. p. c. and also the special action forces of the national bolivarian police. on top of that the experts say that they have the names of twenty people from the- national intelligence service or sabine. and twenty five names from the directorate general of military couounter intelligence who they say

should be investigated and prosecuted so they've got out a lot of hard evidence- and it remains to be seen. going forward what will happen. there was from civil john are cost is reporting geneva. now the number of coronavirus cases here in france is continuing to rise for the nine thousand seven hundred and eighty four new cases have been announced this evening the preceding twenty four hours as the third highest number of daily infection since the start of the e pandemic. the number of people in france who've died from kevin ninineteen is also up by forty six well during the course of the last month the number of kevin nineteen patients in intensive care units across ththe countryry has more than doubled i did not say one of the epicenters of the second wave of infections. but doctors are warning that the hospitals are approaching saturation p point. meanwhile te worlrld health organization has this week been warning that europe is expected to see a rise in the daily number of covered nineteen deaths in october and november. the world health organization director

for europe says and i quote. it's going to get tougher school across the continent the number of cases has risen sharply and thehe number of new cases and that't's each day i is now. m more than it was at the peak in april of the number of. that test is also much higher. earlier in ththe week the fifty five european w. h. i. member states held an online meeting to discuss the response. and a five year strategy. well let's get more now and speak to microbiologist simon clarke at reading university in the uk. i thank youou so much for speaking to us. the world health organization's legal number of cases here in europe is back up to the sorts of levels. we saw in europe and yet the number of deaths. isn't yet anywhere close to the april figures not just wondered if you had any theories as to why that might be. i think essentially itt is becaususe the infection iss occurring predominanantly white representative leads. in younger people and youngerer

people whilele thehey are. not a new generator risk having a much lower risk of getting s soe serious disease. that will wind up in hospital and in extremist into intensive care. okay so you would. dismiss all talk of perhaps people having higher vitamin d. levels in their blood stream at this time of the year because of course it's- it's sunny hehere in this more natural lights. well that's a possibility but some we missed some- had peaks in places l like florida and california. we have it's generally quite sunny in the summer we also use i've seen an awful lot affecting sections in brazil where it is also sununny most of the year round so. are you seeing the victim in the story is probably a bit of a non starter that t there is no evidence for. and what about the theory that the virus is sort of gradually weakening as it works its way through. more

more people gets passed on from person to person. does that hold true a toll. pasas r recall lacsonon- again- i dismiss stop one somebody very sedia in singapore by the very silly- command center a few weeks ago i saw. a certain strain that was doing the third rounds- possibly- accounted for the moment that's great here look the fact of this straight cocoles most of the infections in the u. k. and then frogs. back in. in april and march around may- when lots of people were dying so again there is no. evidence of out of school. we'll have we'll about kobe ninety these lost six or seven months about we had no i or about the beginning of the of the pandemic and i mean really in your particular field of microbiology. sorry we learn

toward beginning to learn a bit about the immunolology to popowr systems have led what is importantt there werere a lot of silly predictions made back in the spriri how about y you get this virus oncnce you'll never get it again- but if you test positive for antibodies. you can have a possible to get on with your life. i we now learning. is know what's true- people's immunity- only ststay around the body counts start to weigh in on after a few bugs when we starting to see incidences all second infections. it's important to remember those second infections may be very rare. very unusual alternative made these just might be the first ones that we're starting to see i believe a doctor was diagnosed. for second time in spain n recently. okay so that'- new and again something quite wiring and just going back to what the world health organization has been saying for years a w. h. over europe

direct to stress the point. that an eventual vaccine is not suddenly going to eradicate the virus and they seem to be a lot of people out there with a lot of. optimism about grey's vaccines and the who's seems to think that optimism is full soul misguided wouould you agrg. i would agree yeah i did it the w. h. i. reasons quite right so that's- why. it's important to remember that we may never g ges a virus. vaccine sorry. the other thing to rememember is tht it may not be all that effective when the first one comes along if we get one. and the second one is we dodon't wat is going to be if it does come up for the third item stories that w wdon't knonow. when it's going to come along if it does- you know really. i do wonder whether some people's reluctance to observe. the sort of social distancing hygiene procedures that are needed to control these fires. is somehow affected by a rookie misistake

prpredictions that vavaccine wil launch sometime soon we were told back in the spring by certain groups. of vaccine will be along. by sepeptember it softly through september. and there are e no signs of f acsi.. okokay i will one question fofor you questions are l let your i'e the place we're the fact i don't have a strong. sign back but i just want to ask you this because i get. off the loss and i hear about anecdotal reports of people from certain blood groups being more affected by. the virus that others have you had anything. to do with blood group and the extent to which people get a severe case or a mild case of crude covert nineteen have you heard anything that sounds reasonable- convincing as an argument. i'v've heaeard thingst not been sound reasonable or convincing. their studies when you statart to connnnect up blod greed to any sort of disease doesn't matter what it is are usually pretty weak are usually

done in really small- numbers sorry the data that you get from them i'm not very powerful tool- are you would take the state to the pinch of salt in fact i've heard them alive compleletely forgot what theheyy because that probably complete rubbish. right well you very much indeed for putting that theory it to rest and all the others as well a microbiologist simon clarke at reading university thank you very much indeed you're welcome. japan has a new prime minister yoshi hit a sugo was elected by parliament earlier today as a replacement to the long serving permissions are abbe. who stepped down for health reasons. well cigar is pledging to continue with many of his predecessors policies. on the twenty eight member cabinet he unveiled today retains many of the existing ministers probably feels you can roll it has this report for us. a roll of laughter as a single vote wednesday another member of his own policy. otherwise there was

little surprise as yoshida seda was elected japan's ninety ninth prime minister. by an overwhelming majority. with the main opposition data trading fall behind. the seventy one year old estefan's fast new prime minister in almost eighty years but few expect anything more than a simple change of face. what do. you do with the- hello the night. in order to keep. because i'm a good listener. sigo on the routing pa the right one promise of stability and continuity and inherits a country deep in rececession japan's gdp shrunk y almost 8% in the second quarter of this year amid the corona virus pandemic. the so called abenomicss ultrara easy monetary policy fails to fundamentally strengthen the economy. on foreign policy cigna is expected to continue

prioritising japan's relationship with the united states. after the previous government paves the way for japanese self defense forces to fight overseas the defefendant ally. meanwhile issuess such as a territorial dispute with russia a set to remain deadlocked- the basic japanese forereign policy basased on ststrengtheningg us s japan secy alliance. we're not tryining too dadamage its relations withh cha as much a as thehe as you can wt if one shying away from balancing agagainst china. with hoffa cabinet made up ofof members of the previous one and having a vase younger brother as the new defense minister. said this government is largely seenen as more of the same. it s time now for a check of the top business news stories i'm joined by a business that is a cake moody had a cake hi tom from the us federal reserve and how it expects the economy to fare. as the corona virus pandemic shows no signs of going away america's central bank has as expected kept its

interest rates near zero- and suggested that it's unlikely to change that until. twenty twenty three it's a so them to keep that a comma stance at its bond buying program at a higher than usual rate. for as long as the economy needs it. fed saying it's hoping for inflation above 2% for some time. has said that economic activity and employment have picked up but it's still much weaker than at the beginning of the year. the future of the us ececonomy will depend almost entirely on state of the corona virus pandemic. offer some insight we can speak to christian lawrence senior market strategist at rabobank new york thanks for speaking to us on france twenty four this evening. let's start again with the federal funds rate we were expecting that to stay near zero we surprised at all by the time line not looking. at any change for the next three years. expected to arrive or bank we certainly didn't expect the fed to raise rates before then. and

if you look at the markets implied probabilities of rate hikes- the market wasn't expecting any rate hikes before then either so. i think this just a cemex what was expected anyway. drum hell has given less clarity about how long we expect the bank to continue its asset purchases at this levelel currently around a hundred andnd twenty billion dollars worth per month.. that's rightht and-i think that that's really being the main driver of markets it wasn't until we go to a lack of clarity on to any forward guidance with respect to asset purchases. the we sold the stock markets start to head lower but i certainly think there's a bit of disappointment that we didn't see a longer term commitment to those asset purchases and that's why we sing equity markets start to forwrward a little bit. no about eight point 4% u. s. unemployment rate is already lower than the fed had initially predicted for the end of twenty twenty. do you really see that momentum continuing

through the end of this year even as we know that there a are more big layoffs looming. w well even the bureau o of labor statisticscs admits that because of some difficulties calculating the unemployment rate. in reality it's probably closer to nine point one percent. of course that's still better than most expected but i have to say that i think the- the bulk of the return of the jobs market h has probably happened now. and the pace of job creation going forward is likely to be a lot slower. and it is of course mainly these low income jobs that aren't going to o be comoming back as quickly. and that. bodes very poorly for consumption going forward so i certainly think the slowdown in the improvement of the labor market is going to feed through into some. economic weakness in the coming months you mentioned that slowdown that we've seen in some of the economic data- retail sales factory production as well. but not recovering at the pace. that the us might

have hoped for. yet i don't think a lot of that has to do with the fact that- a lot of the fiscal suppoporte had from the government's cares act. right now it's at the end of july the extra six hundred dollars a week in unemployment benefits run out at that point. soso it's no sururprise thatt pe haveven't been spending to the same extent. i'm going forward unless we get another fiscal ststimulus bill fromm the govevernment unfortunately we likely to see households suffer even more going forward we can expect retell slower as silence to slow even furthther. that't's why even the fed has saidd that we need some more support from the government in the in the form of fiscal action. that we mentioned that that stimulus bill that sort of stalled in congress for the moment. mr powell d did say he thougug didirect financial support would be needed. if the economic situation can deteriorates more. what tools might. the fed still haveve at its dispososal.

well i was we learned- since really the global financicial crisis back in two thoususand ad nine. unfortunately the fed's memeasures don't t tend to trice dodown to main street now this time around they did have specific main street packakages. t the take up of thohose is being nuked p point two pererce. so e eentially the fed's actions they help support shareholders by helping support the equity markets. but they're not really doing much for the average person in the street particularly those that don't have jobs at the moment. we need help from the fiscal side- in order to provide some support for the lotus. do you think it's at all significant that this is the last. power meeting for the fed before the esidential elections that impacted the lananguage t that you've heard from m mister powel or or the federal reserve statement. no i don't think so- but of course this election is well hey it's like none other we do we've seen in history. two very opposite candidates

and quite frankly when we look at the polling data yeses it dos show blood in front. but i don't think that we can rule out to trump victory so there's a lot of uncertainty around that and that's very clear when you look at financial markets and d you lookok at what their pricing in. the not only pricing in more uncertainty around the electction but actually in the w weeks after te election because there is a growing consensus the we're going to have to wait to wall to find out the true results. right christian learns from rabobank in new york thanks so much for joining us on france twentyty four. let's check inn w on the days of trading action wall street is trending higher. it was boosted by that guidance on a long term low interest rates- and continued support for the us economy. the dow jones up nearly one percentage point that with less than an hour of trade to go the nasdaq still lagging behind slightly below the flat line. we saw a mixed clothes for the major european indices. on insults you one hundred and a nearly half a percentage point in the red. a slight gains in paris frankfurt and madrid. shares of

the fashion giant inditex the parent company of zara. jumped 8% after it reported a return to profit following the lockdown. an eighteen month investigation by u. s. congressional panel says that both boeing and government regulators were to blame for the deaths of three hundred and foforty six people in two deadly accidents. whihich led to the grouounding of the seven thirty seven max fleet around the world. the skating report describes the jewel tragedies as the horrific culmination of failed oversight design flaws and a lack of transparency. the families of the victims say the report exposes what they describe as an unforgivable crime the trick of reports. corporate pressure a lack of transparency design flaws and a lack of government oversight. all the blame for the two crashes of the boeing seven three seven max according to a us congressional report. bowing under pressure to compete with airbus and deliver profits for wall street escape scrutiny from t the faa withheld critical information from pilots and ultimately put planes into

service that killed three hundred and fororty six innocent people. the two jets one with indonesia's lion and the other with ethiopian airlines went down within fivive months of eah other in october twenty eighteen and march the n next year. the max was grounded worldwide shortly a after it was suspected at the time the maneuvering charactcteristics of meditation system and cass was to blame. it was meant to prevent the max is more powerful engines to letting the jets off by pushing the nose down. however an eighteen month investigation found the system had been little publicized in an effort to get the extra large three certification said the pilots wouldn't need extra training. the report blames not just blowing but the federal aviation administration to for farming outside the site to boeing's own employees. and demanded serious reforms to the approval system.m. boeing for is part saidd it had taken t the recommendations on board when it came to the seven three seven max. once the faa and other regulators have

determined the max can safely return to service it'll be one of the most thoroughly scrutinised bancroft in history. and we have full confidence in its safety. boeing's already settled of the accounts that los from the liner crash. however the families of those on board the ethiopian airlines jets are currently demanding that us lawmakers still hold boeing and the faa accountable. singapore is encouraging the public to take a holiday closese to home the government's handing out h hundred dollar vouchers that's just over sixty euros to spend in local hotels restaurants or attractions. it's part of the rediscover singapore campaign launched in july to support the struggling tourism industry overall throughout your program will cost the government around two hundred million euros a thomas is in the same vein as the uk's eat out to help out program. which gave discounts at restaurants for part of the summer trying to encourage people to get out and spend their money really keeping it local. okay so staycations the order of the day the sub a

great zoo in singaporere by thee way- highly recommend i expect to take those vouchers if six that's what i'd been mine on thank you so much a business that is that kate moody. that's it from. us i'll be back in a couple minutes ago

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