UK weighs new lockdown, ECB measures bond buying program, Trump on Chinese tech
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 21 September 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Rishi Sunak is set to extend the Treasury’s UK-wide programme of business support loans ahead of what’s expected to be a challenging winter for Covid-19, the European Central Bank has launched a sweeping review of its main pandemic crisis-fighting tool, and Donald Trump has said that the new Oracle-ByteDance partnership will finance a “patriotic” education fund. Plus, the FT’s US energy editor Derek Brower will explain whether the poisoning of Russian activist Alexei Navalny will affect the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
Sunak to extend business support loans as Covid-19 spread worsens ft.com/content/dfdff1fd-503a-4231-812f-40be4cc4c2b7?
ECB to review flagship bond-buying tool in fighting Covid crisis
https://www.ft.com/content/8ff55eff-ed3a-49db-b26a-2f49fa7822d4
Doubts surround ‘education fund’ at heart of US TikTok deal
https://www.ft.com/content/4a9bb9aa-45e3-43b2-9759-3313751ffc8b
EU gas groups exposed as pipeline politics threaten Nord Stream 2
https://www.ft.com/content/2c713b40-ae7f-47a7-b050-e91ca0879c8f
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:01.8 | Today is Monday, September 21st. |
| 0:04.2 | This is your FT news briefing. |
| 0:08.5 | The UK is preparing for a tough autumn in winter |
| 0:11.1 | when it comes to COVID-19. The European Central Bank will |
| 0:14.6 | review its main pandemic crisis fighting tool and the Trump administration |
| 0:18.2 | signs off on the deal to get Tik-Toc in the US. Plus what does a poisoned Russian activist have to do with the future of a European gas pipeline? |
| 0:27.0 | More than you might think. I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:33.0 | Like a lot of places around the world. |
| 0:40.0 | Like a lot of places around the world, the UK is bracing itself for a second wave of coronavirus |
| 0:44.5 | cases this winter. |
| 0:46.6 | Government scientists released a report last week. |
| 0:49.2 | It estimated new COVID-19 infections were growing by between 2% and 7% each day across the United Kingdom. |
| 0:56.8 | The F.T's political editor, George Parker, is with me now to explain what the UK government |
| 1:00.6 | is planning in response. |
| 1:02.4 | George, what's going on? |
| 1:04.0 | The scientific advice going into 10 Downing Street now |
| 1:07.0 | is what one official said to me is extremely pessimistic. |
| 1:10.0 | And as a consequence, we're now having a sort of attempt to turn on a sixpence really and the government now is preparing for a whole load of quite onerous restrictions on the way we live our lives. |
| 1:20.0 | Not quite as the same as the ones back in March when the lockdown was introduced but nevertheless |
| 1:24.3 | the government is looking now to much more intensive local lockdowns and is considering the possibility |
| 1:30.4 | of new national restrictions as well. And as a result of that, the economic |
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