angela merkel is headed to a crisis meeting _ up. eaded to a crisis meeting today - up. angela merkel is headed to a crisis meeting today with - a crisis meeting today with regional leaders to discuss what she describes as a dramatic covid fourth wave. belgium, austria, the netherlands and sweden are also among those in europe who are increasing restrictions. so what impact will this have on economic recovery across europe? marc ostwald is chief economist & global strategist at adm isi. good to see you. can you give us your take on all of this across europe in so many countries where we see restrictions and lockdowns returning. restrictions and lockdowns returning-— restrictions and lockdowns returnina. ., ~ returning. we are. i think most governments — returning. we are. i think most governments appear— returning. we are. i think most governments appear to - returning. we are. i think most governments appear to be - returning. we are. i think most. governments appear to be trying to err on the side of not going too fast that make far

my maid angela head has more from the rocky captain . the situation remains tense near the dad's green zone of tar fridays. clashes between the protested and security forces. now, these protests have as well supporters of the political parties that lost in the legislative election say that friday was the last day for peaceful protests. they say that they are going to escalate because their part is lost in the, in the election, when they say that they're going to escalate until and unless the election commission conducts a manual recount of all the votes. on the other hand, they let the election commission says that it has conducted a manual recount of 25 percent of the votes and the results are identical. they're not different from the old reserves. now, the violence on friday has been condemned by officials political parties across iraq. and in fact, the political quote is, are accusing the government forces of are cracking down on the protest. us was the ha knob we have been attacked by right. police and other government forces debris

earlier approving mandatory health passes in the workplace, and now german chancellor angela merkel meeting with the headsf 16 different regions in germany. they have just approved that workers and employees in care homes get vaccinated against the coronavirus. they are also discussing new measures such as tightened restrictions for the unvaccinated at certain public events. >> just days after getting the go-ahead to set up their stalls, retailers are now shutting up shop. covid cases forced munich to cancel christmas markets for the second year running. >> [speaking foreign language] >> christmas markets are taking the hit as covid cases hit another record high in germany. morehan 65,000 new infections were reported over the is restre who have been vaccinated or tested. new legislation would allow individual states to introduce further measures depending on the number of cases reported regionally. coming out a politically sensitive time, the bill led to heated debate. angela merkel's government is set to be replaced by a coalition of social democrats, greens, and the pro-business party. >> [speaking fore

when angela merkel was looking for someone new to head the european central bank, she recruited christine lagarde, then the head of the european monetary fund. as the head of the central bank, christine lagarde has had an enormous impact on how the european union and global economy moves forward. i had a conversation with her on how europe is recovering from the global pandemic and the slowdown in the economy. as we now look at the post-covid environment, but would you say is the situation in europe? is europe recovering more rapidly, or not quite as rapidly as you thought from the covid pandemic? ms. lagarde: europe is recovering more rapidly than we had anticipated, and we have significantly upgraded our projections. our projection for this year is +5%, a significant upgrade. +4.6% next year. this year is certainly going faster than we had thought, to the point where we would have recovered to pre-covid-19 levels before the end of the year 2021. we had anticipated it would be early 2022 at best. david: are you worried about the delta variant impacting what you just said, or the so-calle

when angela merkel was looking for someone new to head the european central bank, she found christineagarde. as head of the bank, chris taylor guard has had immense impact -- christine lagarde has had a tremendous impact. i had a conversation with her about how europe is recovering from the pandemic and the global slowdown in the economy. as we look at the post-covid environment, what would you say is the situation in europe? is europe recovering rapidly? or not as rapidly as you thought from the covid pandemic? christine: europe is recovering more rapidly than we had anticipated. we have as a result of that significantly upgraded our projections. our projections for this year is plus 5%. it is a significant upgrade. plus 4.6% next year! pre-covid type of growth. this year is going faster than we thought to the point where we will have recovered to pre-covid-19 levels before the end of the year 2021. we had expected it would be early '22 at best. david: are you worried about the delta variant impacting what you have said or the so-called mu variant that is on the horizon? christine: i

[laughter] when angela merkel was looking for someone new to head the european central bank, she recruited christine lagarde, then the head of the european monetary fund. as the head of the european central bank, she has had enormous impact as the head of the european central bank, and enormous impact on the way the -- bank, she has had an enormous impact on the way the european and global economy moves forward. i had a conversation with her about how europe is recovering from the global pandemic and the slowdown in the economy. as we now look at the post-covid environment, what would you say is a situation in europe? is europe recovering more rapidly are not as rapidly as you thought from the covid pandemic? ms. lagarde: actually, david, europe is recovering more rapidly than we had anticipated, and we have, as a result, significantly upgraded our projections. our projection for this year is plus 5%. that is a significant upgrade. plus 4.6% next year. and the back to sort of a pre-covid type of frequency. this is certainly going faster than we have thought, to the point where we will have

angela merkel is handing over power, france is heading - into an election, joe biden is yet to assertays he's hawkish, it's not clear. - putin is having a lot- of fun testing and pushing and conspiring, and this is what he does well. i he still feels, as do a lot- of russians of his generation, a sense of bitternessl about the break—up of the soviet union, _ the annexation of former soviet states into nato, and this. is just that continued poking, ribbing, provoking, testing of nato and of the west. . steve, we heard from president lukashenko of belarus at last on friday, speaking to the bbc and he basically said "i did not invite these migrants, but it is absolutely possible my troops were helping them over the border or trying to get over the border into poland". the fact is it's now a humanitarian tragedy that is unfolding, and the poles don't seem to be helping very much because they are banning ngos, banning people from providing health care. they are basically saying "you cannot come and see what is going on here". is there a danger that the eu could end up looking like a villai

the surge is threatening hospitals in hotspots and prompted angela merkel to express concern about the call for the pandemic headingnto the winter. she also had coalition talks to form a new government. global news 24 hours a day on air and on bloomberg quicktake, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am ritika gupta. this is bloomberg. guy: it could definitely become a problem quickly. thank you very much indeed. let's tie what is happening with the virus, the spread we are seeing at the moment in europe. the story in the united states and talk about the pfizer news and how this impacts the labor markets. the latest jobs day the out this morning certainly showing the labor force participation rate unchanged. that is a huge deal. that number needs to improve. labor secretary marty walsh joining tom farrell earlier talking about the fact -- joining jon ferro earlier, talking about the fact that the virus or means one of the main reasons why people will not be going back to work. marty: what we put out yesterday was not a mandate. it was companies over 100 people either testing -

during early in the presence of an angela merkel came to visit washington the first time, the head time i think in "politico" was leader of the free world meets donald trump. and i saw that and it was, you know, it was very clever in its irony but it's also heartbreaking because it was true. the president of the united states was no longer the leader of the free world. he was attacking the free world. he was cozying up to dictators and it was angela merkel who is now the beacon of hope for the democratic people's. and see that torch passed away from the united states, it was heartbreaking. it was heartbreaking. on january sixth, to realize what was happening to our capital and how it looks to the rest of the world, it's a terrible tragedy for us. it is in many ways the worst tragedy for many people around the world because there's nowhere else for them to turn. people who are in prison cells can journalists in prison cells in turkey, they look to us. there's nowhere else for them to turn. political prisoners in prison in iran look to us and they will not look to china. they will not loo

jason miller, angela mccallum, trump's executive assistant on the campaign and bill stepien. how could i forget bernie kerik, former new york city head of the police was involved in the campaign events. so you say, well, we know this. what do we think each of them did? why is the january 6th committee interested? let's start with flynn. we know he was donald trump's national security advisor for about two and a half scaramuccis, you know, 25 days or so, not very long. he was -- he was involved in the meeting december 18th, this strategy meeting in the oval office, as it related to what donald trump could do to block the election results. he floated invoking marshall law and he has to have his documents to the committee by november 23rd but i would say, ryans has the right point here. steve bannon is going to set a lot of precedent for what this committee can and can't do. i want to play you something from michael flynn. this is michael flynn on newsmax. let me hit play here. >> he could order the -- within the swing states, if he wanted to, he could take military capabilities and he could place them in those states and basically re-r

head up. so i do think children should be part of the vaccination programme. angelaation programme. angela merkel appears to be — vaccination programme. angela merkel appears to be the _ vaccination programme. angela merkel appears to be the only _ vaccination programme. angela merkel appears to be the only senior— appears to be the only senior politician talking of a fourth way but of course she is not running for reelection. i think politicians probably are aware of the pandemic fatigue that is out there but i wonder given that they are invariably blamed for the spikes, are they even though they are kind of the threat, are they wary of talking about it openly and honestly and is that part of the problem? mil and is that part of the problem? fill health is political to some degree always. i do think the pandemic in various countries and various places has been politcised and we certainly saw that in the us. people are tired and they have done their part and many of them think and they want to get through this. the thing is we do have tools. we have so many tools now

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angela leon. >> i think it's hard not to have loved tammy. she was vibrant and outgoing and full of life. full of energy. always positive. >> did she turn heads? >> tammy was the kind of person that she didn't even notice she was turning heads. >> during one of tammy's sales calls she met columbia businessman ben staples. they became close friends. >> could tammy sell anything? >> she could sell anything. it is just our personality. everyone liked her. >> and tammy had something else that set her apart. talent. >> i can't remember the first time i heard her sing, but i was amazed. amazed at how great she was. >> tammy sang with a local band, jumpstart. woody woodward was lead guitarist in one of her biggest fans. >> voices like that are just gifts. somebody gives you that from above. >> friends thought she could take her talent big-time. but tammy seemed happy to remain in columbia. one of her gigs was at her friend ben staples annual barbecue. is this time tammy's stage? >> well yes, she enjoyed this. tammy was an entertainer. she didn't just stand up there and sing. >> along the way, in 1996, tammy met and married a local boy, brett parker.

head towards opec meeting next week. germany's latest covid surge has taken its total death toll death toll passed 100,000 since the start of the pandemic just as olaf scholz repairs to succeed angelato our german reporter. what is the government proposing to do to contain covid, three different parties coming together. are they all on the same page when it comes to covid? >> we have seen they haven't been on the same page. olaf scholz was primarily concerned with getting this government together. they are under massive pressure to do something. he said they will set up a crisis management team but the question is how fast will they get that and what kind of measures they will be able to bring. we know the liberals are standing somewhat on the break -- brake, they are criticizing long reaching lockdown measures and have also seen too much interference into people's life so they are a bit reluctant to introduce mandatory vaccinations print >> we will see -- vaccinations. >> we will see how things develop their. what is the wider program from this new government. climate was going to be center stage. germany has its own challenge when it comes to the energy transition. >> definitely