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julie norman with ucl. it is amazing, the ability to keep up with the news. it is difficult to know what the important bits are. markets are looking past the noise in washington to the prospect of more fiscal stimulus, and the idea of some sort of unity, but it is unclear what that will look like and what exact label get pasted and the next couple of -- will get passed in the next couple of months. tom: in my youth, it was the benchmark. 1.89 04% in the 30 year bond. 1.891% in the 30 year bond. the high yield of the united states, tom. tom: yes, "the real yield" with jonathan ferro, the early years. we look over to seeing that. coming up, michael gapen of barclays on the future economy. on radio, on tv, this is bloomberg. bloomb- [announcer] imagine having fuller, thicker, more voluminous hair instantly. all it takes is just one session at hairclub. introducing xtrands. xtrands adds hundreds or even thousands of hair strands to your existing hair at the root. they're personalized to match your own natural hair color and texture, so they'll blend right in for

professor of university college of london, julie norman.mate change has been the big push from the boris johnson government to try to build a bridge with the incoming joe biden administration. no idea how effective it will be, but that has been the idea out of the british government. jonathan: well said -- tom: well said. feathers ruffled in ottawa on climate change, one of the first actions to update our allies is on the keystone pipeline. no question the debate occurred and mr. bided acted rapidly. jonathan: that is the story coming out of d.c. let's talk about the story out of the u.s. economy. in about five minutes we have to turn our attention to jobless claims in america. unbelievable to still see a number close to one million. that speaks to the amount of churn in this labor market that continues. tom: i will do the math and we will see it with the job report. the january report in february. with the way the curves are happening, i will not mince words, there is no vector, there is a real stasis at 900,000. jonathan: we will break do

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thanks so much for your analysis on that julie norman 10 newborn babies have died in a hospital fire in western india staff rescued 7 other infants at the government run hospital in the state of maharashtra there is thought the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit this is the 3rd fatal hospital fire in india in the last 6 months there's a problem has more from india's punjab state. the fog broke out at around 2 o'clock in the morning and what's called the special newborn care unit of the band out of district hospital the district's administrator says that there were 2 nurses and to help at the time in the ward that they immediately raise the alarm that the fire brigade was called and the staff managed to rescue 7 babies but couldn't get to the 10 others because there were explosions in the ward the police say that the fire was most likely caused by an electrical short circuit a senior doctors has most of the 10 babies died from smoke inhalation but one from severe burn and to resign before the blaze was pushed out of the fog a did manage to stop the blaze from spreading to

julie norman welcome back to the news. does this have any real immediate impact it was one of 3 it was the only one that was about to die but now it's back on the table well peter it is certainly notable as you mentioned this for the last nonproliferation treaty between russia and the u.s. it was set to expire next week i'm february so there were insurgents in behind i miss the with nuclear weapons the nuclear agreement the whole idea is to be protecting against long term risks but the fact that this agreement went forward is notable it is important and it's important to both russia and the us to put this hour from the beginning that they don't want the arms race to accelerate any further or we understand there has been a telephone conversation between mr biden and mr putin as well they discussed everything from afghanistan to alexey novell nea of course he's a key kremlin critic back in moscow behind bars as we speak and also allegations of russian meddling in the last u.s. presidential election campaign not the one just

conservatives who go are suspended it over extreme contents and apple is threatening city the same well julie norman is a lecturer in politics and international relations at university college london she says she believes trump will continue his rhetoric to spites that's what's a ban. ever since trump took office and even before that twitter has been his main megaphone he had over 88000000 followers and really used it quite readily tweeting often dozens of times a day and that included up until and through the events that we saw on wednesday at the capitol so by closing that account as well as restricting terms ability to tweet from any other accounts it certainly does muffle that make a phone however trump's message is already going out very far there are many other apps and groups that have taken up his messaging and so even though this will muffle the effects of that many of trump's messages will continue to get out and he will still find other outlets to continue his rhetoric trump in so few out his term has criticized the social media sites as cracking down on him personally and restricting fre

doctor julie norman, thank you for your thoughts today.and lebo diseko were at capitol hill throughout the events of last night. lebo was inside the capitol building when the rioters breached the building — we'll hearfrom her in a moment, but first let's hear from aleem maqbool who was outside amongst the protestors as events unfolded. well, we are just outside the capitol building, as you can see, and just in the last few minutes, after a lull of an hour or so, we heard sound bombs, we saw tear gas being deployed. and that was just to clear, you might be able to make out the top level, all of this stage and this scaffolding that was all set up for the inauguration in two weeks' time, the trump supporters took over all that area and there are still hundreds all around the building. they are right up the steps at the back of the building, right to the door of the capitol building which of course has been shut now. but no sense that people are suddenly going to leave in less than an hour when that curfew comes into force. i've spoken to some

norman. >> reporter: shayna is one of the survivors, sick for weeks after contracting covid last march, but thought she was turning the corner by may. >> all of a sudden, later into june, early julyjust had a slew of new symptoms. severe muscle pain to the point that some days i didn't feel that i could walk, my legs hurt so bad. >> reporter: the once fun-loving 26-year-old found herself here months after her initial diagnosis at the mt. sinai center for post covid care in new york city, undergoing tests and treatment for persistent covid symptoms. >> i felt like no one was taking me seriously before, and because there was no founded, historical, medical evidence of covid long haul, i didn't feel like i ever had a voice that people would listen to. >> so for you, what does a good day look like? >> not having to nap. taking a walk down the block without needing to recover afterwards. it's tiny victories for me at this point. >> reporter: shayna is one of a growing number of people suffering from acute post covid syndrome. they're being called long haulers, people still experiencing debilitating symptoms long after having covid. in the u.s., over 25 million people, 1 in every 13 am