when i was at the london school of economics, a professor noticed me as somebody who is quite professionalhe then became the dean of economics in the university of south pacific in fiji. sitting there, wondering how he can find highly qualified professors that are willing to work for very little money. so, brilliant idea. brought to this bulgarian woman, i got the letter, the invitation to go and teach. i had to virtually go to the map and see where fiji was. getting from bulgaria to fiji in 1990 was an adventure. so i handed my passport to the passport control lady, she types something, looks at me, and says where are you from. bulgaria. she types again, looks at me, says there is no such country. the first bulgarian to go to fiji. no, the professor liked me. he offered me a job. i still remember, he offered me a job, $16,000 a year. i had no idea of my market value. at that time i was paid $100 a month. but i still did not take the job. why? because it was so far from bulgaria. so i went back. i got a chance to go to mit, to come to the united states. and the rest is history. david: did

getting to a lot of questions, czech, assistant professor of global health policy at the london school of economicsh does not had such a high level, ask yourself, you really need to make thatjourney and, if you do, you need to carry with you the kind of behaviour you should be adopted in that area with a higher number of cases. i hope we have managed to make that clear and a nswer have managed to make that clear and answer a lot of your questions. a british company has cut the price of medical cannabis, meaning it‘s now cheaper than illegal street cannabis. despite the government allowing prescriptions, they‘re only given rarely on the nhs — that‘s because of the high cost, guidelines saying they should only be offered when all other options have been exhausted, and the fact that some of the products don‘t have a licence. private prescriptions can cost hundreds of pounds, meaning they‘re too expensive for most patients. but that‘s now set to change. chris hemmings reports. i started using cannabis around about 2007, i was getting lots of nausea from anxiety, not going out at all, i woke up one morn

that is peter trubowitz, professor of international relations at london school of economics. te is happening at 1:30 a.m. london time tomorrow morning. in the meantime, markets are trading lower amidst reports of potential meddling interference attempt from russia and iran. that is according to a top u.s. intelligence official. about .5%europe down already. look out for u.s. 10-year yields as well. plenty more right around the corner. from dubai and the rest of the world, this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ yousef: economics, politics, finance. i'm yousef gamal el-din in dubai. over the u.s. election meddling claims, switzerland is the quasi-liaison for u.s. interests. iranians are responding to claims from a u.s. official that there were attempts to interfere with your selection, not only from iran but also from russia. other stories, first word news with leigh-ann gerrans. leigh-ann: there seem to be further progress on a stimulus deal in washington. senate republicans are continuing to raise objections about the size of the package. a spokesman for nancy pelosi says democrats in the whi

guy: thank you very much, indeed, charles goodhart of the london school of economics.hank you very much. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: you are looking at nancy pelosi, the house speaker giving a press conference, talking about stimulus. she says she did have productive talks with treasury secretary steve mnuchin. she does hope the house will vote on the democratic bill today, but still nothing concrete coming out of d.c. this is really, truly a last-ditch effort to get the stimulus going. how do you get that $1 trillion to somewhere you can scale up and keep everybody happy? guy: it is state and local that seems the biggest gap probably exists at the moment, and there are significant gaps still between the two sides of that particular issue. david westin is going to be talking to nancy pelosi a little later on on "balance of power," so hopefully we will get more clarity from that in terms of where the problems lie. nancy wrapping up that press conference as she prepares for her interview with david westin. [laughter] alix: she will go prep right now. i also want to point

she is also a fellow at harvard university and the london school of economics. nder of china big idea. that is a daily strategic briefing service. and she is one of the authors of a new book, called huawei goes global: made in china for the world. welcome to you both and to my audience members and a solitary round of applause from me. and remember, you canjoin the conversation as well, it is #bbcglobalquestions. let's go to our first question. it is from an engineering student from zambia, who is currently studying in china. your question, please. my question is, is the quality of technology in america faster than a match made in china? which technology superpowers produce better quality that is more effective? right, shirley yu, who has got the better quality? thank you for the question, thank you, zeinab badawi, for having me. in technology, i think speed and scale matters, but more importantly competition matters. china has become better in quality, primarily because of competition. two of the leading sectors that are characterised china of the leading sectors

and coronavirus on the lives of 16 to 25 year olds has been revealed in research by the london school of economics effect on thejob prospects, education and mental health of young people. it demonstrates that deprived pupils have been worst hit. kashjones reports. i remember boris standing there and talking about how gcses and a—level exams were cancelled. my first reaction was, i think, disbelief. i think that moment when life, for me, really started to change. roberta's just started in year 12 at harris westminster sixth form. it's a selective school in central london, and it gives priority to bright but disadvantaged 16—year—olds. in her year group are pupils from every borough in london, and 20 were privately educated. that break of 6 months did so much damage. usually, i'd be able to just, you know, be sitting for hours and be able to revise and really absorb it in my mind. now i get kind of restless after maybe one or two hours. and they've all come from different schools as well, so is there people in your classroom that had, like, a good six—month period where they were still getting the r

affiliated with the london school of economics, oxford. , s&poff feeling, -40 futures, all sorts of correlationska: don't count on another pandemic stimulus package before the election. they areosi told msnbc far apart on workers safety, funding and strategic testing plans. steve mnuchin says democrats don't want to give the president something he can brag about in the last weeks of the campaign. brought in a record $383 million last month. the massive fundraising calls have helped reverse the financial advantage. parisnce, a curfew in and other major studies, as part of new measures aimed at containing the spread of coronavirus. robert smith will pay $140 million to end a tax investigation. he will have to admit wrongdoing. ceo of a private equity firm. global news, 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake from bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. tom: risk off, u.s., 10 year we have been.70%, focused on the pandemic, the continent, the news out of the u.k. in the last hour. turning to american politics, stephanie kelly will

state department over in london is james carlin's a who's a visiting professor at the london school of economics research in greece turkey relations and the cyprus conflict and over a nigga c. and cyprus andrei as a theophanous was the president of the cyprus center for european and international affairs and a former economic adviser to the presidents of cyprus welcome to inside story thanks very much for your time and turkey has now redeployed that vessel to disputed waters what message is that sending out by doing so i think what president everyone is doing is saying you know we were hoping that there were going to be some deescalate terry talks under the auspices of nato european union. and well the way the government here is played it is that they they were upset when last week the greek government issued navteq so a notification that they were going to conduct a naval exercises in the aegean sea and on turkey's national independence day that's what it felt like a raw nerve was touched because that independence these are actually commemorating the end of a war fought between turkey on one si

peter trubowitz joins us now from the london school of economics and their professor of internationalt for decades at austin thinking about the political process. thank you so much for joining us. what we saw last night is original. is it a new path? will it endure? peter: that's hard to say. it certainly was not kennedy-nixon. but i will say, tom, it was more informative than actually the first debate. of course, people would say that's a pretty low bar. bidenght that last night, had a couple of rough patches, which were mentioned at the top of the segment here. the question from stephanopoulos about extending -- expanding the size of the supreme court. by and large, i think he avoided making unforced heirs, which i think -- errors, which i think his team will take as a win at this point in the race. i thought trump was alert, feisty, quite combative, i think, with savannah guthrie. i don't know how that will play. tom: peter, i don't want to interrupt, but we are going to get the play on this through the day. what i want to know from you is going from kennedy-nixon up through the de

the liberal democrats, a professor in practice at the institute of global affairs at the london school of economicshave many questions on brexit. let me just kick off on these lockdowns and these tears. how difficult is it to actually go on with negotiations and -- on brexit while at the same time trying to figure out how these ?ockdowns work and don't work well, it's a terrible mess. part of the underlying problem is that the government is trying to direct negotiations from whitehall, and the system is not able to deal with it. it is very crude lockdown measures that have been introduced, which is causing a great deal of economic damage. the is superimposed on brexit shock which is just around the corner. thinkne: how do you brexit will get resolved? we are waiting in the next 24 hours to know whether we have a deal. from downing street, is there a wanting of the deal, or would they be happy to go to a wto agreement? are people in government who want the extreme option, the other etiological rowing -- ideological wing of the movement. the prime minister, the chancellor and others are more pragmati

presidential race, let's bring in chief palmer, university of london and visiting professor at the london school of economics. thank you very much for joining us. i want to start with the administration's response to covid. on the one hand we have the president saying, you know, we're handling it, we're rounding the corner and so on. but then we have his chief of staff as we reported there saying we're not going to control the pandemic. so, forget about the public health merits of this, as a campaign strategy what's the thinking here on one hand projecting confidence, on the other resignation like it's almost gone and even if it isn't, there's nothing we can do. >> i think one message is just purely for the people that president trump may be speaking to at the moment when he's on the campaign trail where he thinks it serves his interest to say it's getting under control or rounding the corner. the other one is really more consistent with the strategy of herd immunity, which this administration has followed pretty much from the beginning. and without a vaccine herd immunity basically is an admission that you'

let's get the thoughts now of professor tony travers, visiting professor at the london school of economicsere is no doubt thatitis sensible idea? there is no doubt that it is a sensible idea. what is intriguing is that the government has apparently been moving forward up has apparently been moving forward up to now with, in part, a formula, but not one that we get details of, and partly by negotiation. we are clearly going to have areas of england in all three tiers moving forward , england in all three tiers moving forward, so having a package of support for individuals and all businesses that corresponds to 2 and 3, possibly tier 1, businesses that corresponds to 2 and 3, possibly tier1, makes businesses that corresponds to 2 and 3, possibly tier 1, makes perfect sense, because it stops the problem we have seen in the last few days of mayors and council leaders negotiating with the government and the risk of bad outcomes when that occurs. does it stop the wrangling, though? just because the government says this is the funding formula, this is what we are presenting you with, it doesn't m

assistant professor of global health policy at the london school of economics, and professor jonathannteresting question, jonathan? what you have to remember is the rules, the tiers, apply to you and the place you visit, so if you are in a higher level of tier then the rules that apply to that tier apply to you. in terms of visiting somebody in a different area between tiers one and two, that's no problem but you can only meet outdoors, unless part of a support bubble. so if you are travelling from an area with higher restrictions to one with lower, you should really carry the higher level of restrictions with you, as it were, in terms of your behaviour and where you meet someone and so on? yes, you inherit those restrictions, for want of a better word, and the reason is that it's an acknowledgement that because you live in a higher risk area, there is an increased chance that you might be infected and you have to take that extra care. clare, it is not work the opposite way, if you‘re going from an area of restrictions to higher, you have to adopt stricter measures? yes, it is based o

london school of pharmacy joins us now. let's stay with europe according to the world economic forum the continent is reporting more than 140000 cases a day on average that's more than india brazil and the united states combined how is it got to this state. well unfortunately we can trace it back to this very relaxed summer period where many countries had emerged out of a certain walk down and had always acted as the virus had just disappeared on its. and we saw these air bridges reopen and even party is being held at septra however experts have been warning about this 2nd wave about the concerns for winter all her summer period saying that this is the time that we have an opportunity to build an effective team test and trace this to him so that we don't have to introduce more severe restrictions again like we had to do you in march and april and because of the huge catastrophic consequences that it entails so all of this is really. turned around from trying to balance the health consequences with the economic consequences and perhaps doing it too rigorously too quickly without a saint's or courage or i think we've seen with.

going out, we have thousands of cancellations over the next few weeks in our business in central london. it is notjust the economic cost, but the personal one. at the school they want the restrictions to work, but don't really understand themm is very silly, very silly when they go to school to see everybody but at home they can't meet family and friends. they literally change it every two seconds. and you think, another rule, another law has come, so another rule, another law has come, so it is like how do you know these things? do you understand what is happening and what has changed? no. i'm captain fantastic! and the restrictions on indoor mixing will mean many cancelled parties. the children's entertainment industry wa nts to children's entertainment industry wants to be able to work indoors. for children, this is a life event. other things can go ahead. this is so important to children, notjust forfamilies so important to children, notjust for families and friends but for them and it is great for their well—being. this week, the met police broke up a wedding reception in west london with more than 100 guests. the force said with london moving to the

of cancellations over the next few weeks in our business. in central london. it's not just weeks in our business. in central london. it's notjust the economic cost but the personal one. at the schoolo work. but don't really understand them. it's very silly, it's very silly that they go to school they see everybody but at home they can't be with family and friends. they literally change things every two seconds. another rule has come. 0h, another law has come. it's like, how do you know these things? do you understand what's happening tonight and what's changing? know. i am captain fantastic. and the restrictions on intermixing will mean many cancelled parties. the children's entertainment industry wants to be able to work indoors. for children this is a life event. weddings and other such things going go ahead this is so important to children. notjust forfamilies this is so important to children. not just for families and friends but it's great for their well—being. this week the met police broke up a wedding reception and west london with more than 100 guests. the force says with moving london to the high alert they will be extra patrols near pubs and bars. the new restrictions a