alive women of color gene development a shuttle for republication september she joins me now from delhi yvonne that i thank so much for you coming on to you at least please that the global pandemic has not made politicians and policymakers talk about a war on nature the war is just on the coronavirus it's a problem to say you have a law against a little wireless because all the laws in the past have caused a lot of harm. coming from india the war against the barbarians we're all suppose we barbarians of you know of the civilizing mission it exterminated so many people and cultures my work in the last 35 years has been based on how declaring war on humans 1st in the interest concentration camps those same chemicals in the same i-g. father and the same boys are gone 10 then turn these chemicals into ever took since every chemicals which are still killing but they're not solving the problem of control of best they're creating new twists and i was also supposed to live in factories this was your own 3 you get the mad cow disease you get to by degrees assistance again the bacteria are winning when

delhi. we will have more on that. yvonne: i heard it was a surreal experience.arkets first. nothing surreal here. in asia with the exception of the philippines, down 2%. the rest of the region is seeing gains, and things stabilizing in hong kong as well. we just heard from carrie long, the chief -- carrie lam, the chief executive, defending the security bill, but not offering details. shares up in hong kong right now. we talked about the steepest discount in 20 years for the hang seng, so perhaps some bargain-hunting today. china seeing marginal gains, seven tents of 1% for large-cap. slump butaverted the they have been slashing the forecast for 2020 and it could contract as 70%, they are saying. -- it couldr by contract as much as 7%, they are saying. taiwan is higher. manila is down 2.1%. gains of more than 1% for most of the region and it seems like a lot of people are shrugging off the trade tensions, not as much of an immediate concern to risk. rallyda: a broad-based risk on, meaning the dollar is a little weaker. in terms of currencies, the dollar index do

rushed through by the delhi government .s they took pressures they imposed a 70% special corona fee on all sales of alcoholic drinks to stop a rush and then avoid the crowds. yvonne chaotic scenes. so far, there is only one drug that has been approved to treat covid. how do they get enough supply out now? onlyad: when you are the game in town, the only treatment available, that demand will be humongous a task, even as questions about the medicine's ever see have been raised -- efficacy has been raised. gilead to manufacture its treatment for covid-19, cleared by u.s. health regulators for use and the company says it has to get it onto the shelves of pharmacies around the world, and as a result, they are discussing this with some of the world's leading chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies about their ability to make this drug for europe and asia the next two and a half years. they are also talking at the moment to producers in india and pakistan about manufacturing for developing nations and how to license the drug in those markets. that is where we are. thisabouts how good medication is, but we will see how they get it to people's shelves first. to

delhi. coming up, beijing's proposed stability -- security law is akin to killing the goose that lays the golden egg according to one official. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ yvonnerom china's proposed national security law. earlier, we spoke to the founder and executive chairman at next digital over the possibility of hong kong losing its special trading status. >> as to whether beijing will back down, i don't know but donald trump said if beijing imposes the law to hong kong to destroy the economy and the rule of law in hong kong, he will do something serious. serious anow how sanction he will impose on china, but definitely the only , the only way for donald trump would be to impose sanctions because i believe president trump is a man of his word. he almost always does anything he says. we are very hopeful that by the weekend, he will impose very draconian sanctions on china. reporter: one possible step though is hong kong loses its special trading status, which if you really think about it, is almost like shooting hong kong in the foot. your thoughts on that? >> definitely. >> definitely. this is also useless for the chinese. the chinese, if they want to impo