then lunging at the president, i'm going to throw this actually to you robin. i am no fan and i'm a fan and for a variety of reasons. in this case, it looks like this was done in house by represented grocer, staff, someone said, could he said, are we talented? do you think this outrage over the video is justified? considering it's really just a replication of what's out there. they just put everything, go merge air, go sir, and other people's faces over a product that was already there. this always is crazy when i see things like this, i'm also not a big fan of enemy, but i've got 2 kids that are and look and maybe he's trying to appeal to a younger demographic. but personally, i just wish that we would be better than this, and this is trickling down into all of our elections. i just ran i last for mayor of tucker, georgia, and just kind of victory. all these kind of petty juvenile attacks we actually saw on municipal level, which i've never seen before. so i just wish that we could sort of ditch some of the juvenile tactics of politics and talk about things th

ok, so i want to start with you robin. is this more about diplomacy or actually raising the vice president profile on the international stage? i would love to say this was about diplomacy and looked, president crone invited her so she couldn't very well say no. but i just raised this question last night on my podcast. we haven't got to find out who's going to be running on the democratic ticket in 2024. i believe in my heart. that's what this is about elevating her. because we just had a big election last tuesday a week ago today. and we're heading straight to the mid terms now, which also means 2024 was interesting that you brought that up because you know, after this, you allen on this point, president chrome did invite vice president, combo harris over. so what does it say? just to, we're having to go back with this ministration. he's inviting the vice president to go over and talk to him rather than back to the president himself. you know, joe probably really did not impress the crone, although they've known each other

how robin watching lodge is there a life headquarters here in doha, coming up, pay warning to germans on cove at 19 the health minister says that the the get vaccinated recover or die from the virus. but its whale is opposite. surely the hon . wide osi community and calls the rebuilding after a heavy defeated regional elections and the former south korean president chin dog hon has died. his autocratic rule in the 1980s sparked mass protests and the countries transition to democracy. ah, welcome to the braga, ethiopia, prime minister says he'll travel to the front line on tuesday to lead the military against rebel forces. tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed in battles between the ethiopian army and to grind forces that began last year, which will again be reports. ethiopians prime minister says it's time to lead by personal example. it's a dramatic new step in the conflict. it's devastated the northern te gray region in a statement released on social media. abby act had said, this is a time when leading a country with martyrdom is needed. i will go to the fron

robin? >> alex, thank you. joining us now is matthew rude who was attending the parade with his family. matthew, our hearts go out to you and everybody there in waukesha. how are you doing this morning, matthew? >> i didn't get any sleep last night. i kept replaying what i witnessed, and what could have potentially happened to myself and my children, and just thinking about the families that were affected last night. their lives are forever changed. i just was replaying that over and over again last night. >> i can only imagine you doing that, and it's hard to imagine what you and so many others witnessed. can you please tell us what you saw yesterday? >> so just my two girls, harper and delilah, 5 and 2, took them there to have a wonderful experience. they were enjoying picking up the candy, seeing the floats. and just all of a sudden, i heard screams and chaos coming from my right, and that caught my attention. i looked over and i saw an suv coming towards us relatively quickly, and i knew

robin, great piece got a lot of attention this morning. you talk about its share of the options market, share of hedge fund trading, retail fascination. what of those metrics do you think is the most interesting? >> i think it's hard to look past the options side. i mean, tesla is obviously a huge company, very successful company, and share price has gone through the roof, but what is really unprecedented about it is just the scale and the activity and the options tesla options. we're talking 240 billion dollars worth of nominal options, trading a day that is device as much as amazon and almost twice as much of the rest of the s&p 500 complex combined so, it's just staggering, right? there have been days where more tesla options have traded than everything else combined and that's unprecedented >> why do you think this is? is it say something about sentiment overall? is it about this giant turn that we're making in one of the biggest industries in the world? is it about his cult of personality as the richest man in the world >> all of the

yeah, because i'm looking for those who robin motor bucks read us was hoping fuel from bunker president julius mother b o, who is in scotland attending cop 26th climate talks on saturday. called it a horrendous loss of life. the head of sierra leone, national disaster management agency echoed the same sentiments, saying it was a terrible, terrible accident. the port see of free town, which is home to more than a 1000000 people has faced several serious disasters in recent years. in march, more than 80 people were injured during a major fire in one of the city slums that this place more than 5000 people. the government has brought in the army to assist local police and medical personnel. enough in the door such a ari al jazeera, an internationally mediated plan to get sedan back on the road to democracy. appears to be in deadlock with both sides, rejecting proposals. pro democracy activists called nationwide strikes against any power sharing arrangement to the military source to say the generals who lead last month on the takeover have also refused the plan. general update factor are goo

ah robin bad dreamer shaped bankers are those with dares sinks we dare to ask ah ah, with this is whom both the one business show you cannot afford to miss. i'm been one. remember at jaguar in washington here we have coming up. the holidays are just around the corner and the supply chain situation isn't looking great, which might, 4th, consumers detain, holiday shopping habits. we'll talk about what we can expect this coming season. and then thinking of supply chain constraints, coupled with inflation and the economy struggling to recover from the pandemic. how does the highly lucrative holiday retail season.

of trick all these ordinary jo bagget donuts with their free stimulus jacks, said go into like the robin hood apps and, and trade of micro share, right? you could buy a dollars worth of apple stock for example, because the numbers too big, but you can buy $1.00 and pop up their whole system. well here what, how these agencies kind of get consensus for their continued rule is the law of big numbers is like 6000000000 dollar as you know is and we could solve world food, hunger and, and at the same time, part of the reason why we have food hunger is because of so much money printing driving up the cost of the, you know, food prices. so food prices are going up because while the money printing, just like they did after the 20082000 life financial crisis, food prices went up because of all the money printing and their system that they command to control the economic collapse, the boom and bust cycle that they keep on pumping and pumping and pumping. now we have a similar thing. thing of a, a collapse in supply because of the same system. these guys say that they are command and control it. ri

robin brant, bbc news, shanghai. thank you so much for your company here on bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news. rescue teams in canada are trying to reach 18,000 people stranded by floods and mudslides in the western province of british columbia. although water levels are starting to recede, entire towns remain cut off and many roads are blocked. there are fears that the flooding could cause nationwide shortages. a us state governor has halted the execution of prisonerjuliusjones hours before he was due to be put to death. jones was sentenced to death in 2002 for killing a man in a car—jacking incident. he maintains his innocence. his sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment without parole. there had been an outpouring of appeals and hundreds protested to halt the execution. germany has announced tough measures to exclude the unvaccinated from certain public events. healthcare workers and employees in care homes will be obliged to get the vaccine. germany's lower house of parliament approved new measures, including restricting access to public tr

robin for astir walker al jazeera tbilisi busy news day here on al jazeera and plenty more to come. we will meet the cia and senate candidate who lost his sight and sense of smell and taste. after being shot in the face by police. the t a guest will say searching for bombs out this afghan village protects itself from the remnants of war. and it's fully funded, who's leading the way at the season ending world tour, chanting chicken to ah ha, once again, the weather remains remarkably wet across southern parts of india. we got 2 areas of low pressure to watch out for the still the clutches storms here in the south, west of the by have been gold. another system over towards sir the arabian sea, this one of the raven safe and bringing that very heavy rain up towards good herat . and he can see how it will bring further showers in across even across the northern place. shouldn't be seeing this at this time. if you my, to the western gats, also seeing some heavy showers, we've got this other system here, little yellow shading on our rainfall chart. there shows whether central, the storm i

you know, any, think about the day the prison i saw you know, all right, robin allow thank you. thank you. rabbit, for speaking to us from a tune, is there apologies. drive us for that? for skype connection there, robert louis telling us about the protests in tenicia this sunday. let's move on to other world use now in the son of libya, former liter mom aka duffy has registered as a candidate for december. the presidential election faithfully slammed get off. he says he wants to restore unity after a decade of conflict since his father was deposed. so who is safe? al islam gadhafi while he was educated in the west and were seen as a potential successor for his father until the 2011 revolution changed. libby as political landscape, he was captured by an armed, grew from the city of in town and held there until 2017. 2 years later, the internationally recognized government in tripoli had sent in safe gadhafi to death in absentia, but he was later part pardoned his also wanted by the international criminal court for alleged crimes against humanity or libya. correspondents malik tri

robin 1st year walker al jazeera tbilisi. the state of emergency is now in effect in the canadian province of british columbia. after heavy rainfall treated flooding and mud slides, roads and bridges have also been cut off, and at least one person has died. jody vance has the details from vancouver. for almost a week, thousands of canadians have been stranded, forced to evacuate or left without a home to return to for steve booth. the record breaking rain in british columbia turned to typical weekend commute into what feels like an unending ordeal. we thought over night in our car and monday night and we were able to find a friend of a friend of a friend who lived in help and was taking people in and we yesterday morning we went there and just got a car was what was hard prime minister justin trudeau has promised support, including to playing the military. i spoke with the premier i spoke with a number of mirrors last night to talk about how people are doing in this terrifically bad situation. we're also working with them on

ah, hello robin, you're watching out. there were like my headquarters here in the coming up in the next 30 minutes. a warning to germans on the 19 health minister says leave again, vaccinated, recover or die from the virus. the trial of $24.00 men accused of carrying out the 2019. if the bombings gets under way in lanka, and the former korean president and all fun has died, his autocratic rule in the 1980 spot mass protest, and the countries transition to democracy. ah, welcome to the program. if you, if he is prime minister, says hilde, travel to the front line on tuesday to lead the military against rebel forces, tens of thousands of people believes have been killed and battled between the european army on the ticket. i enforces that began last year, victoria gayton. b has more ethiopians. prime minister says it's time to lead by personal example. it's a dramatic new step in the conflict. it's devastated the northern te gray region in a statement released on social media. abby had said, this is a time when leading a cou

so robin watching out there alive, my headquarters hearing also coming up a warning to germans on cove at 19 the health minister says that they'll either get vaccinated, recover or die from the virus. the us jury is asked to weigh a matter of self defense closing arguments in the trial of 3 weitzman of the killing of a black man in georgia. and that is what it was all position need hung. why days seeks the unity and calls for rebuilding after a heavy defeat in regional election. ah, welcome to the program. if you have your prime minister says hilde traveled to the front line on tuesday to lead the military against rebel forces. tens of thousands of people are believed, have been killed and battles between the 50 and army, and to grind forces that began last year between gate and b has the latest. e t p as prime minister says it's time to lead by personal example. it's a dramatic new step in the conflict. it's devastated the northern te gray region in a statement released on social media. abby had said, this is a time when leading a country with martyrdom is needed. i will go to the fro

laura dotted manly al jazeera ah, your ga 0 with me to hell, robin. reminder of all top stories that europe is struggling with a new crone of iris outbreak. germany is set to mark 100000 deaths while france in the netherlands are amongst those reporting record case numbers and re simmons has more on the situation from rotterdam in the netherlands here in the netherlands, or a new record or 40 percent increase in the weekly figures of infection rates and or some other disturbing percentages.

ah, i'm so robin watching of 0 life my headquarters here in doha, coming up on the front lines. ethiopia, prime minister visits troops battling t p l. a fighters in the northeast. also from migrant crisis to political crisis, france counsels talks with the u. k. of how to deal with the problem. foreign owned companies in the democratic republic of congo are accused of exploiting and abusing minors. ah, button bright. we begin with breaking news coming out of belgium, which has now confirmed. europe's 1st case of new crone virus, buried as nations world wide rushed to once again imposed travel restrictions. the variant was confirmed in a traveler who had returned from egypt on november. the 11th, they 1st reported symptoms on monday and the sample was confirmed within the last few hours. the world health organization is meeting behind closed doors to assess just how concerned we should be. it's already cautioned governments against hastily imposing restrictions. countries can do a lot already in terms of savannah and sequencing, and work together with affected countries are globally to wo

robin brant, bbc news, shanghai. a us state governor has halted the execution of prisoner juliusjones hours before he was due to be put to death. julius jones was sentenced to death for the murder of paul howell, during a car—jacking in 1999. he has always maintained his innocence. his case has attracted high—profile support, including from reality star, kim kardashian west. the murder victim's family said they recognised the governor had a difficult decision to make, but said they took comfort that it affirmed the guilt ofjuliusjones. 0klahoma state representative forrest bennett welcomed the governor's decision. victory for the people of oklahoma is that the system works the way it should. to those who disagree, julius is not free tonight. but he is also going to go to sleep tonight and wake up tomorrow morning and i think that is pretty great. kelli masters is an attorney and advocate forjulius jones. shejoins me now from oklahoma city. i understand thatjulius asked you to speak at his clemency hearing. what i

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hello robin. you're watching all just like my headquarters hearing. coming up in the next 30 minutes. julians get ready to choose a new president with 2 very different front runner, leading opinion polls. wrapping up his tour of africa, secretary of state hansley blinking promises the u. s. will do more to help development and alarming evidence that the fishing is pushing from stone to the brink of collapse. ah, welcome to the program. the pandemic is stirring deep public anger in some parts of europe have a new cove at 19 restrictions. the netherlands has seen a 2nd night of writing with people throwing stones and fireworks at police in the hague. 3 pretences have been treated in hospital after police open fire. thousands of people of also rallied in vienna. the world health organization has warned half a 1000000 people could die in europe by march. unless urgent action is taken, that in barbara has more ah, gathering in vienna to say things have gone too far as governments around europe try to limit rising cove in 19 infection rates. austria's bring

feel safe neither to the client's crime robin 1st year walker by al jazeera stroke . now the pentagon has formed a new task force to investigate new f o sightings. the ribs job is to identify unexplained aerial phenomena and then determine whether they pose a threat and comes after the u. s. government released a report back in june, noting a 144 sightings of mysterious flying objects. ah, hello there. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines. al jazeera has obtained satellite images that show the united arab emirates is providing military support to the ethiopian army. the investigation revealed the u. a. he hired to private companies from europe to run military flights into ethiopia. in sudan rallies had begun to honor those killed during protests, against a military taker, everlast. lumped demonstrations are taking place in the capitol, car, 2 men, other cities, at least 41 people were killed in the violence, but security forces deny using live fire on protesters in somalia, a bomb attack has killed at least 5 people in the capitol, mogadishu, and reported to

then robin, you 15000 new infection in 24 hours. there is nothing else we can do. this is an emergency break weird. this is clearly feeling politics. a family of politics will make decisions a joint and be going to listen to the doctors and we are in austria, very excellent medical care system. excellent, experts in every field are president of the medical association. boys, the secretary, i'm pushing so many new things and physically politics, been blistered with them. if politics, just listen to politics, i'm not a medicine issue. the resolved your yes ma'am. in america, the have been emotional reactions from both sides of the political defied. after a teenager, he shot dead 2 men at a rate for just his protest was claim of murder. col written, i've seen now 18, had played itself defense in the shootings last year in the city of kaneesha in wisconsin. and the information engaged for is we the jury find that a valid highly written kyle needs written house not guilty. i feel like in this case, it feels like the victims lives don't matter. i am heartbroken. rittenho

the c, a newman reports now from san jose in neighboring costa rica issue is not whether nick robin president, daniel ortega, one sunday's controversial election, but rather whether he seized it might take a had imprisoned. scores of critics, including 7 of the most competitive would be candidates and bard independent observers and journalists from entering the country. international condemnation was swift and harsh, nor san resolution, and nearly this was not a free election. and this should not surprise us because this was a chronicle of fraud and foretold. albion. countries from chile to neighboring costa rica to the united states and the european union denounced the election as illegitimate and democratic. and a pantomime saying they would not recognize the results. but venezuela, hubert and russia have rushed war. take this defense. look here, when you, my uncle was the bill when the voting was over yesterday evening. the white house announced its refusal to recognize it and called on other countries to do the same . we considered unacceptable and firmly condemned such a policies through

ah, this is al jazeera ah hello, hello robin, you're watching out there and use our life. my headquarters here in doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. fears of a new cove at variant of prompting widespread travel restrictions from southern african countries and sending stock market into free fall. on the front lines ethiopians prime minister visits troops battling t p l. a fighters in the northeast and from migrant crisis to political crisis, france cancels talks with the u. k. over how to deal with the problem. angus dunn's government says it's foiled a qu, days before parliamentary elections and it's for african football leaders. vote in favor of holding more regular world cups . the confederation of african football is backing the fee for president plan to stage the finals every 2 years. ah good. have a company welcome to the news or we begin with breaking news that the world health organization has held an emergency meeting and announced a new variant of concern keeping with convention the highly mutated variant, 1st identified in south africa, has been called, omni

ah, ha ha ha robin. you're watching all of their life. my headquarters here in doha also coming up. china downgrades diplomatic ties with lithuania, after the baltic nation allowed taiwan to open an office in its capital. also trillions get ready to choose a new president with 2 very different front runners, leading opinion, polls and alarming evidence that over fishing is pushing some stalks to the brink of collapse. ah, welcome to the program. the pandemic is stirring deep public anger in some parts of europe. over new coven 19 restrictions, the netherlands has seen a 2nd light of rioting, with people throwing stones and fireworks that police in the hague. 3 protested sa, being treated in hospital after police opened fire. thousands of people of also rally didn't vienna the world health organization as war that half a 1000000 people could dine europe by march. unless urgent action is taken, that he baba starts our coverage. ah. 6 gathering in vienna to say things have gone too far as governments around europe try to limit rising cove in

ah, this is al jazeera ah hello, so robin, you're watching the out there and use our life, my headquarters hearing doha, coming up in the next 60 minutes. fears of a new cove it very into prompting widespread travel restrictions from southern african countries and sending stock market into free fall on the front lines ethiopians prime minister visits, troops sparkling tpl fighters in the northeast and from migrant crisis.

and they need to be present whenever such samples are divided, sealed and sent to all food. yoga robin shall borrow trees. but this procedure has been violated in assyria multiple times. where o p, c, w, experts. don't think about how they acquire these samples. and are they a vile at so many standards of their operation? so as we are responsible state party now built a little bit of the chemical weapons convention the shield. here we are very concerned with the fact that this way with these rules which are violated her la chain costume chain of custody is not observed. we have been asking these questions to the secretary since july, but we have not received any response let you know that you with this back to the conclusion that no who such materials, no video materials of sampling with data, they should take linux and no, no videos of no ceiling procedures exist. you have further as silent enters nonresponsive your group. well, this would mean another thing that i need to keep close to violation on the part of were technical secretariat. southern union with o gives rise to more suspi

the hell robin. the reminder of all top stories. belgium has confirmed. europe's 1st case of a highly mutated cro virus darren's 1st identified in south africa. the world health organization is meeting behind closed doors to assess the risk. a growing number of countries are suspend, again to travel to and from southern africa, while introducing tougher quarantine rules. they include the u. k, netherlands, and hong kong news, all the new credit virus. darien has been impacting global markets. u. s. stocks a down european chess, a set for thy worst self in a year. oil prices fit a 2 month flow if his prime minister of the amount is this thing, soldiers fighting rebels on the front line in the north, according to state t. v. i told reporters, the armies morale as high and enemy forces had been pushed back. tpl of rebels began their offensive from the dry region. early this year, though, advance of sparked fe is the group and its allies could reach the capital, addis ababa? i'm again using the group. th

16 demand answers. caleb robin, r t. new york. facebook is undergoing something of a metamorphosis with a major rebranding, changing its corporate name to meta. it's part of a drive to broaden the company's brand recognition, to include other holdings, such as instagram and what's up. the internet's joined in to help the rebranding, although perhaps not in the way facebook may have intended a mountain of means rapidly erupted. and ridiculing the new name with facebook. sorry, mehta boss, mark zuckerberg, face front and center in many a doctored pic. zuckerberg though is optimistic. the company's new direction is the way to go. facebook is one of the most used technology products in the history of the world. it's an iconic social media brand. over time, i hope we are seen as a met averse company. and i want to anchor our work and our identity on what we're building towards facebook, changing his name to mets. it is so exciting. i've already forgotten that we just learned the new women. we've been sex topics on the platfor

also the host of npr's "full disclosure," robin farzad. josh, i asked you in the last hour whether the president would move to strict travel and you said you hadn't heard anything. sounds like he was listening. >> reporter: that's right, katy. the white house wanted to wait until the variant was designated of concern by the w.h.o. and that's now occurred. the white house is acting on the advice of the president's chief medical adviser dr. anthony fauci as well as the cdc in now putting into place these restrictions which will occur beginning on monday. in addition to south africa, there will be seven other countries that are subject to these new travel restrictions. i'll read them you to. it's botswana, zimbabwe, mows a.m. mozambique, and malawi, as scientists try to learn more about this covid-19 variant circulating in southern africa. now that it's been labeled a variant of concern, they feel comfortable taking this step. this policy will not apply to american citizens and lawful permanent residents, they will still be able to travel to

anett kontaveit beat barbora krejcikova in straight sets in their opening round—robin match at the wta finals in guadalajara. it was a dominant victory for the eighth seed, where she won 85% of points on herfirst serve, and denied the french open champion a single break point opportunity. the estonian is now on an 11—match win streak after claiming back to back titles at the kremlin cup and transylvania open. history has been made in women's skiing after the chinese freestyle skier eileen gu successfully landed the world's first female double cork mao in austria. this is what a double cork mao looks like. the 18—year—old, who was born in san francisco but represents china, was in disbelief as she celebrated after landing. gu is a big medal hope at beijing next year. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me, tulsen tollett, and the rest of the team, that's your sports news for now. our thanks to tulsen tollett and the team. spacex has launched four more astronauts on a flight to the international space station. the dragon capsule

paul: the real robin here politically for the administration real wages aft inflation rate. wages are going up and people are getting nice raises but a lot of it is wiped out by inflation. how big a problem is that? >> we've had this narrative throughout the entire wave of inflation going back to last year were a lot of democrats are saying some of the labor conditions right now are going to be positive for workers because a lot of businesses are shortstaffed, people hold out for raises getting raises on paper month over month and get we are seeing paychecks stretching nearly as far as they might have in ordinary circumstances, people really are noticing so it's already played out electorally, the elections we saw in virginia and new jersey with republicans over performing probably have a lot to do with people looking at their monthly expenses and realizing they are hurting in their bank accounts more than they used to and they know the reason is because the amount of spending we see from the biden administration going back this last year how emergency stimulus bills framed

on the set she was surrounded by women in decision making capacities and alleged she was groped by robin thick. she said look where we all were. we were in positions of power and authority. and yet we were still our hands were tied behind ours backs. that's important as well. within all of these industries there is a complexity. it's not just black-and-white. you have zero power or some. i think everyone in different positions feels pressures and might feel restrained in a lot of different areas. i love she found her voice now. i wish her strength. >> i wonder if she would make different choices? it's an interesting question. just ahead. columbia university could punish its employees for using the wrong pronouns even if they didn't mean to do it. that's next. >> ♪ ♪ some people have joint pain, plus have high blood pressure. they may not be able to take just anything for pain. that's why doctors recommend tylenol®. it won't raise blood pressure the way that advil® aleve® or motrin® sometimes can. for trusted relief, trust tylenol®. >> the white house back tracks after slamming p

an adjusting take on the supply chain issue, robin brooks argued in a tweet that delays are more in the u.s. than elsewhere. he says u.s. supply disruptions are about demand and not supply. i refer to this chart of delivery times in different locations and how far they deviate from the norm. the data shows u.s. delays are at a scale of japan's after fukushima in 2011. i'm bloomberg -- bloomberg users can read more about the stories in our newsletter supply lines. yvonne? yvonne: su, thank you. new research coming up from bloomberg shows the extremity of these supply crunches. it is one of the biggest logjams we are seeing and how this could be pushing prices higher. take a look at the supply indices in the u.s. or the e.u. these have basically shut up to two decade highs. whether it is a shortage of truck drivers to move things around to how you make that supply. this is just looking like this could get worse this year. david: in fact, already we have started talking about this -- shipping stuff around the world, sending stuff whether air, freig ht, on roads. the rates. we really crunch

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. >> that was robin gordon, south africa minister for public enterprises talking about the new covid variant. it is roiling markets now as people question how severe it is and how much it can evade natural immunity as well as from the pharmaceuticals. what we are looking at is read across the board, typical risk off trade. s&p futures down, off earlier close. the euro gaining touch versus the dollar after it hit the lowest in more than a year over the pre-thanksgiving holiday. i was going to say last week because that is what it feels like. 10-year yield coming in dramatically, 11 basis points, particularly on the front and as people rerate for rate hike. the tumble in crude values down 6.7%. the idea of potentially less travel as new travel bans get implement it. we are getting over in europe is the secretary for state for health and social care for the united kingdom coming out and saying the u.k. will change covid rules if required, but right now they are sticking with the pandemic plan, still talking about how much uncertainty there is around this new variant, also emphasizing va

change if you had a magic wand so when it comes to policy or thathe like to start with mehran and then robin and close with jeremy. >> it's a great question marietje and the thing i would focus on moving the locus of agency from being all about individual choice and thinking about what is collectively possible of what they mean by that is oftentimes the question around engaging with technology and what choices people have estimated the individual level. you have the opportunity to use a particular app or not use a nap or to reuse an app to you may have privacy settings on a particular application or in your web browser and what kind of information you are giving out but that places all at the onus the individual to have to try to protect things you care about in the bigger question here is can we actually have a system that helps individual? we don't just put people in cars and say drive safely and if you are worried about driving safely then don't drive. that gives people a choice because there's real value in diving. we. a whole set of infrastructure. they are things like lanes and traffic

novak djokovic recovered from a wobbly start to beat casper ruud 7—6, 6—2 in his opening round—robin match. the world number one is aiming for a record—equalling sixth title at the season—ending tournament, which he hasn't won since 2015. meanwhile, roger federer is unlikely to play in next year's australian open as he continues to recoverfrom injury. the 20—time grand slam champion, who is now a0, hasn't played since losing in the wimbledon quarterfinals injuly before undergoing more knee surgery. however, his coach, ivan ljubicic, says he was certain that federer was not thinking about retiring just yet. for more on that and other stories, the bbc sport website is the place to go. but that's all your sport for now. hello. well, tuesday promises to be a dry day across most of the uk. it's going to be cloudy and mild once again. and, in fact, not much change expected for the next few days. if anything, the temperatures could rise even further. so why is it so mild? well, on the satellite picture, you'll see this big weather front here. this is very much where the jet stream is.

i was inside the courtroom when this magistrate judge, judge robin mariweather said she would sane this arrest warrant. the question becomes, does steve bannon surrender or is he arrested. an arraignment date has not been set but his case was just assigned to a trump-appointed judge, judge carl nichols, who was appointed by donald trump in june 2019. so the question is, when does steve bannon possibly get arrested? when does he surrender? that still remains to be seen. but a federal grand jury handing down this two-count indictment this afternoon. this is a grand jury who at least heard from one witness as we saw today. our producer, hannah, has been staking this out for several weeks. today she noticed the activity. we came down to the courthouse. we saw an fbi agent going into the grand jury courtroom, presumably testifying, and then shortly thereafter, that's when two prosecutors from the u.s. attorney's office came out of the courtroom, walked two courtrooms down to the magistrate courtroom and that's where they handed down this indictment that was returned by the grand jury. the fo

individual stock options in particular have been taken up enthusiastically by the robin hood/reddit crowd who favor monthly expirations in things like the faang stocks. recently in electric vehicle names. they particularly favor call options. these are bets that would win when the underlying stocks rise. most include things like apple, tesla, lose ild, facebook, amazon right now these are the most active ones apple has seen a big increase in call volume, a favorite going into expiration this afternoon judging by the call volume and stock price, tesla's momentum is slowing a bit. open interest is smaller in puts, puts are bets the stock will decline alibaba stands out it is new on the list. there's a pile of puts that went in the money in the last couple of days as alibaba disappointed on earnings and has seen a 10% drop in price. kelly, it is quite remarkable to see this explosion in monthly options, particularly call options this year with the reddit/robinhood crowd >> what is the exact as we see more in options than stock themselves >> it is not quite right to say the options tail is wa

robin brooks argues that delays are centered in the united states more than elsewhere. he says u.s. supply disruptions are about demand, not supply. he points to this chart of delivery times in different locations and how far they divide than usual. the u.s. delays are at a scale of japan after fukushima in 2011 but little elsewhere. bloomberg terminal users can read more about the stories in our newsletter, supply line. shery: one of the biggest traffic jams threatening to derail global economic recovery. bloomberg economics has analyzed data showing the accent of the data -- damage, let's bring in our editor, ben. k■ pandemic, what are the underlying causes of these bottlenecks? >> you have two things going on. the world is still having difficulty making enough stuff because there were no factories in some corners of the world economy that have not been able to produce capacity because of virus outbreaks and workers having infection, and then you have strong demand that is particularly strong in countries like the u.s.. but on most everywhere, demand for goods is high because pe

our china correspondent robin brant reports from shanghai. for years, peng shuai has let her racket do the talking, and she's risen to the top, a star in a sport where there are not many chinese success stories. at 35, she is someone the ruling communist party leaders could be proud of. but an allegation about one of those senior party figures change that. in this social media posting earlier this month, peng named vice premier zhang gaoli, and she claims he forced her to have sex with him. china's state censors removed the posting within an hour. peng hasn't been seen in public or heard from since. if recent history is a guide, few people are allowed to publicly challenge senior authorities like zhang gaoli without paying some price, and i think it would be telling if she were able to leave the country, for example, and speak freely, where she wouldn't face those kinds of repercussions the government pose if she's still in the country. in the ensuing days, tennis stars old and new spoke out, worried about her. billiejean king and naomi osaka