to continue to hammer until november the thought all right to an official there outside the white house allan thank you our desires need barker's in london he reports on the precarious situation faced by european governments the british government's been accused of sleep walking into a 2nd surge of coronavirus if so this was the alarm call dispassionate data delivered by the you case chief medical and scientific officers showing a doubling of infections every week let's say that there were 5000 today would be 10000 next week 20000 a week after 40000 the week of them and you can see that by mid october if that continued you would end up with something like $50000.00 cases in the middle of october per day. more infections mean the likelihood of more deaths urgent action is needed elsewhere in europe spain's ruled out a 2nd national lockdown favoring partial restrictions where contagion levels are highest in the capital madrid police checkpoints are back the city's poorest areas are suffering the most a blow for businesses already on the breadline. in the czech republic a surge in cases has cost

on the verge of recording 200019 deaths well alan fischer joins us live now from outside the white house allan so president trump is off to a high over a campaign rally that's despite the u.s. as you were saying they're closing in 120-0000 deaths from the coded 900 pandemic trump seems to be ignoring this grim milestone. well it's not something he's acknowledged in very many of his news conferences certainly when he left the white house here a couple of hours ago he talked about the pandemic but he framed it in terms of talking about therapeutics and vaccines being well on the way and he suspects and he who says that there will be a vaccine available before november the 3rd a very important date in the united states of course because that is the presidential election in ohio in the last hour he really can agrees dover the whole idea of the pandemic all he would say is that he blamed china for it and he was holding china to account but we know that when asked does he take responsibility for what's happening during the pandemic he has said no no the national cathedral here in washington d.c. yes

with that but it appears that oracle has won this race we'll see what the white house makes of those proposals alison stewart allan from international marketing partners thank you for joining us thank you. to some of the other business stories making the news. google says it plans to switch to carbon free energy sources by 2030 that means its offices and data centers will all run on renewable sources of power the company says it will need to create 5 gigawatts of new carbon free generation capacity to reach that goal. and u.s. mobile network for rise in is to by truck in a specialist in cellular prepaid services the deal is said to be worth up to $7000000000.00 and will see $21000000.00 customers move to horizon that would put the company ahead of rival team. german can make a dime that has agreed to pay $1500000000.00 to settle emissions cheating allegations in the united states the u.s. government and california accuse the sadie's maker of using test defeating software they also say the company sold a quarter of a 1000000 non-compliant cars and vans to u.s. customs. today's settlement with time or since a clear

with that but it appears that oracle has won this race we'll see what the white house makes of those proposals alison stewart allanfrom international marketing partners thank you for joining us thank you. to some of the other business stories making the news. japan is following china and south korea in suspending german pork imports officials last week confirmed a case of swine fever in germany's why would bore population german pork exports have been soaring after the disease devastated pick stocks in china. and european carmakers are calling on the e.u. and u.k. to avoid a no deal breck's it they want to cost sector 110000000000 euros in lost trade over the next 5 years failure to security you would mean tariffs and vehicles more expensive and hitting demand. for the organization of the petroleum exporting countries opec is celebrating its 60th anniversary it's marks the occasion by downgrading its outlook for global oil demand for this year a coronavirus pandemic has pushed already low oil prices down even further that's proving a disaster for oil reliance economies particularly in africa 7 of opec's 13 members

with that but it appears that oracle has won this race we'll see what the white house makes of those proposals alison stewart allan from international marketing partners thank you for joining us thank you. to some of the other business stories making the news. google says it plans to switch to carbon free energy sources by 2030 that means it's offices and data centers will all run on renewable sources of power the company says it will need to create 5 gigawatts of new carbon free generation capacity to reach that goal. and u.s. mobile network for rise in this to buy truck phone or a specialist in cellular prepaid services the deal is said to be worth up to $7000000000.00 and will see $21000000.00 customers move to horizon that would put the company ahead of rival team. german car make a dime that has agreed to pay $1500000000.00 to settle emissions cheating allegations in the united states the u.s. government and california accuse the sadie's maker of using test defeating software they also say the company sold a quarter of a 1000000 non-compliant cars and vans to u.s. customs. today's settlement with time or sinc

allan any reaction from the state department yet. no still nothing from the state department although we are expecting a statement from the white house shortly the americans were aware of how well the emmy awards and we got confirmation and that in this statement from the kuwait city when they confirmed that the emir had actually died here in the united states it was an american military hospital plane that flew in from kuwait that he after he had an operation there in july to rochester in minnesota that happens to be the home of the campus of the meal clinic regarded as one of the best hospitals in the world called the mayo clinic to see if they had any statement in the immediately referred me to the kuwaiti government so clearly the emir had been in hospital all this time we had received no update other than the day after the operation where we were told that he in fact was stable the relationship between the united states and kuwait has been complicated in recent years so. only in kuwait itself you will find many people who have warm affection for the u.s. and its people and that goes back to 1991 of course the iraqi invasion of k