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By the u. S. Military going to discuss all that and more coming up all right its time to move through news i q. Its a move no one seen in decades on monday oil prices plunged into the negatives prompting President Trump to make this announcement were looking to put as much as 75000000000 barrels into the reserves themselves that would top it out it would be 1st time in a long time its been good for the rate brace. Now adding that much oil is a major task but where do you store it meantime Oil Prices Continue their downward spiral today for more on all of this lets bring in our fronsac shes been following the story fair and this is the 1st time in history right that that oil has dropped below 0 right middle and you know. Really a domino effect all from the coronavirus now people have these stay at home order so people are there driving last no ones flying anywhere so you have all this extra oil not being used and theres only so much oil the world can store and were already bumping up against the limits of Storage Capacity and thats why were continuing to see the price to continue to sink now as for storing that much oil the department of energy is currently trying to lease some 77000000. 00 barrels of Available Space in the Strategic Petroleum reserve created after the 1973 oil embargo now cheap oil leads to cheaper prices at the pump which is a big win for customers but data shows gas is down 50 percent right now compared to this time last year but again the demand is at an all time low as one oil industry analyst explains this is a no win situation you will be going through is going through a very very challenging because what will prices. Less investment and. Second only connectivity and fewer jobs at least for a time. I know analysts say that the direct impact is going to be purely in terms of the job loss that they forecast with Companies Either going through their bankruptcies because they cant sustain these low prices or because they are going to have to cut down production because they wont have be able to sell the oil at that low price and for a lot of these Oil Producers cant shut these wells down fast enough opec in the g 20 production their cuts are happening what in may so now you have saudi arabia and opec talking about moving that date up now they are and actually another big oil producer here russia actually they saw the same effects too with the ruble dropping in value overnight but russian president Vladimir Putin his office says that this is the should not be looked at from an apocalyptic angle he says now putin says that there is no plan as of this moment to set up another call with President Trump to look over the Oil Market Situation but it could be arranged quickly one analyst points out to fix the situation the biggest producers russia and saudi arabia they would reduce the amount of oil that theyre offering to clients across the world listen here. Should. Gradually create some kind of i would curse your own. One. Good montreux farm programs comes from. Months. 6 months from now Us Oil Companies like chevron so that they will reduce their output but marshall a commodities trader was quoted in the wall street journal saying this quote this will be a huge wake up call for a complacent Oil Company Chiefs if they do nothing and sit there like rabbits waiting to be hit by a car theyll be hit i wouldnt be surprised to see more layoffs its got serious now so again some analysts project this wont get cleared up for another 6 months milla but some actually project this will go all the way into 2021 meantime President Donald Trump just or the Energy Secretary and treasury secretary to come up with a plan to get funding to the u. S. Oil and gas industry as crude Oil Continues to sink in price manilla when is all of this going to and. Thank you for filing that report things. Right while many countries have taken a hit because of code 19 india has had a mixed bag of experiences some of criticized the lock down measure imposed on the countrys population of some 1300000000 just a few weeks ago forcing migrant laborers to travel back home on foot india has been reporting low numbers though which some say has to do with factors ranging from the climate to relatively little testing testing happening but on monday a record high number of new cases were reported now one indian state looks like the mirror opposite of the rest of the country and that is the southwestern state of kerala where the slogan break the chain has helped mobilize the population to flatten the curb so joining us to discuss this important topic is historian and author v. J. Thank you for being with us so carolina doesnt have nearly as many new cases per day compared to other Indian States you wrote that it has much to. Do with if left wing government and Civil Society organizations mobilizing the masses of volunteers to help make Hand Sanitizer and face coverings cleaning public facilities etc does it look like the motor government may be willing to take a page from careless example here. Well nice to be with you the 1st thing to see if they care there is a speed of 35000000. 17000000 almost 17000000 women or the half 1000000 of them a member who look what we do. Its an extraordinary state because people organize into trade unions remains organizations walker do all kinds and when the worst news came from who or what was believed to be some kind of virus i mean this. Needs to be reined in to actually you know shes a star and were not a friend. And Hearst Einstein is evidence. Related to all of the groups who act you know very swift speed going to direction probably group started in direction and it stinks lets be sure. And senator id certainly make ross who write do you think im going to national. Action and mainstream what im going to go when this really happened. You know the number of action. Number of people who died very low and on the day that Narendra Modi announced a partial curfew the carolina government announced a 270000000. 00 relief package that included free food loans to families through the States Womens cooperative that you just mentioned 2 months of pension payments and even suspending a loan and you to. Payments among some some of the other incentives happening in kerala so what kind of lessons do you think the United States and perhaps even other countries can take away from the state of carola. Frankly i dont want to read around the bush here the government of canada is a communist government and their principle was the wellbeing of the people so whereas government. Jadis. Sensually millions of Migrant Worker goes wont you know you are believe we dont really have any dollars to were not anything on your behalf was the i didnt do it or didnt get a government the government of canada left me in government had a different. Principle be sure how do you have hope. Because regret it did very simple things you know things that shouldnt have been done by any. Government for instance in every single local selfgoverning in unison it created Community Kitchens so that people who didnt have a product and buying food would just come and become all the movement of those who were to be built homes i mean theres a sense of giving in these left wing governments that i really want to underwrite yeah its sounds like they really care about each other as neighbors and theyre the way people should be humanitarian angle of this and lastly. How do you how would you compare carolus experience to this pandemic versus the rest of the country where modi is government has issued you know very harsh lockdowns and has done you know what people would criticize a very limited measures in curbing the outbreak. You see its an order will be but understand that in india unlike china are one and a half 1000000000 people who almost are the population here we reached. This is very different from china where you are just merely there it is much higher so in india the government doesnt. Really create all of these leave it in and under what the government has done nothing and im very very what are you going to have i mean like situations in india well have all grads the situation is going to get worse because this government more the government is candace who are very simple things like the need to be able to eat a meal or 2 meals or i mean dream you but. You look at the general and see that government was all its the after going back tracing and were on whats. Right and fortunate we have to leave it right there. Thank you so much for sharing the insight on carola today. The unprecedented peace deal between the United States and the taliban brought about hope that it could bring an end to the longest war in u. S. History but continued fighting a delay in talks and then the latest accusations against the United States are raising questions about the success of this agreement are his Rachel Blevins is joining us from the newsroom with more details to this rachel whats going on well manila just weeks after the United States signed a historic peace deal with the taliban the group is now accusing washington of violating the terms on numerous occasions according to a document from the Talibans Political Office the u. S. Military violated the deal at least 50 times richer in march 9th and april 10th this includes 33. 00 drone strikes in 1000. 00 provinces 9 rocket attacks in 8 night raids the attacks killed at least 35. 00 fighters and 65. 00 civilians now the timeline of the attacks is both before and after the United Nations called for a global ceasefire in response to the spread of covert 19 the un secretary general called on all parties to pull back from hostilities silence the guns stop the artillery and the airstrikes but that was not the case in afghanistan following a weeklong reduction in violence at the end of february which was a lead up to the signing of the peace deal reports claim taliban fighters have since carried out more than 2000 and tacks and afghan and nato forces of carried out more than 400. 00 in response to claims a spokesperson for u. S. Forces in the country said the United States remains committed to deal with the taliban and in accordance with the written terms of the agreement they will continue to support and defend the Afghan Security forces while the u. S. Has held on to a clause in the deal that allowed them to continue what they deem as Counterterrorism Operations the taliban has claimed the attacks carried out were in rural areas not outlawed by the deal and it has a q q is the act in government of delaying a crucial prisoner swap. Up as one of the 1st major steps to implement the peace deal the taliban agreed to release 1000 prisoners and the Afghan Government agreed to release 5000 in multiple phases the taliban called for the release of its top commanders 1st saying they were needed to identify others however the Afghan Government said it would release the top commanders 1st but only if they went back to prison after helping to identify members when 100 taliban prisoners were released earlier this month the group argued it had no way to verify who they were or of their release was legitimate the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the threat it poses to prisoners and close quarters has increased the fear that the deal could fall through if there is a break out in prison and a significant number of taliban fighters die now that he still has also been thrown into chaos by rivaling leaders in the Afghan Government attempting to claim power in addition to threatening to cut more than 1000000000. 00 in Financial Aid as the coronavirus threatens to spread across the country secretary of state mike pompei a claim the Trump Administration is also considering a full pullout of troops if the deal is not secured while the top u. S. General in afghanistan has admitted that the war cannot be won through military fighting the latest claims of continued bombing by the u. S. Raised questions about just what washington is accomplishing as the longest war in u. S. History continues reporting in the newsroom Rachel Blevins r c. 3 coming up saudi arabia breaks its own record for executions were going to discuss that next with our guest and then later in the sports h. Q. Regina hamm takes us to cuba where 0 one triathlete is not letting 14 crush her a limping dream i doubt youll stay tuned. So what weve got to do is identify the threats that we have its crazy. Let it be an arms race is often very Dramatic Development only personally im going to resist i dont see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. This is a story about what happens auster a stray bullet kills a young girl in the street. What happens to her family and daughters in florida the mother daughter is buried in a cemetery it really messes with your head what happens to the community the public was screaming for a scapegoat the Police Needed a scapegoat so why not choose a 19 year old black kid with a criminal record who better to pen this than him and what happens in court be. Shocked shocked as far as i feel that we dont know shell just from. The end of this trial unfortunately due to the will still not know childress. The world is driven by a dream shaped by the person. Who dares thinks. We dare to ask. Amnesty international has just released a new report which shows saudi arabia was the world leader in executions be heading for 2019 but there are numerous iran came in 1st for the middest number overall for 2019 now the kingdom with 184. 00 including a mass beheading of over 30 plus men in a single event iran with 251. 00 for the same year now the report went on to say that china was the world leader in Capital Punishment convictions but the United States was the only country in the west to continue this form of punishment for more on the statistics we will go to former u. K. M. P. George galloway so george 1st can you address what the folks in the u. K. Think of the us being the only nation in the west to still carry out executions. It is quite extraordinary but as the United States executes a lot of people abroad i suppose it isnt all that surprising that with the prison population 25 percent of the worlds prison population even though i think youre 11 or 12 percent of the worlds population as a whole its not that big a surprise and when we see the Mass Shootings and lawlessness on the streets and so on its not that big a surprise people put the. Septuagint lism im glad to see executions in the us are far fewer than the used to be and many states in the us no longer execute people at all i myself wholly opposed to the Death Penalty in principle votes in the United States or iran or saudi arabia but the difference to pose is that britain and america are best friends with saudi arabia which is actually caught the heads of more people in the reign of this king and its not been a long reign yes done i saw some dark have just point of out for a moment george so lets examine americas Close Friends saudi arabia they continue to engage in these barbaric style executions en route math what do you make of their increase in executions in 21000 and do you think that Amnesty International counted your friend Jamal Khashoggi in those figures for the year before. Well a very good point indeed this regime in saudi arabia has cut the heads of 800 people in the short reign of the current king but it also caught my friend Jamal Khashoggi into little pieces not just being made but to cut them into little pieces but they havent suffered any qualms or reputational. With the people the governors the crown prince m. B. A. s who Everybody Knows gave the order to trump up Jamal Khashoggi has just been given permission to buy an English Premier League Football Team you console united so hes going to be swarming around in england taking the applause of the crowd whitewashing the terrible blood stain of his regime hes also still a bosom buddy the drummer but perhaps even closer as close as you could get without committing an offense with the president s son in law john cushion or he and the n. B. A. s the crown prince of saudi arabia literally could not be closer this despite the fact that because shoghi was a star columnist on the Washington Post newspaper and was. Resident of the United States begging the question just what you have to do. Designs for their government yeah george a lot of good points and amnesty says that china leads the way in Capital Punishment overall but they also say that the true figures are unverifiable so im a bit conflicted about the numbers there but their estimation is that china may execute thousands they say so why would they even bother to make a statement at all on those numbers if they admit themselves that they cannot confirm those figures. Well. Is a function or propaganda its particularly choosy when it comes to human rights abuses civil rights abuses in countries that are in the fathering line of the empire and of course john is right in the crosshairs. Im sure that china executes a lot of people are completely opposed that deplored it more than oppose it but the figure of the have plucked out of the is other completely invented or more likely the statistics given to it by chinese from which of course no proliferate from hong kong to the following gong to the. To the Muslim Community a question of. Socalled you go or a concert. Mobo is pulled out. All right looks like we lost george at that final answer there but that was George Galloway and we will be back with george again tomorrow ok moving along here and other news around the world raging flies in eastern congo killed at least 25 people 25 others were injured as 3000 homes were destroyed by floodwaters that caused the river system cresting near the city you viro now currently the red cross is trying to. Cover more victims there. Are and that is music being played on this Holocaust Remembrance Day on this somber day survivors attend ceremonies share stories and participate in marches but that unfortunately isnt happening this year due to the corona virus pandemic. And over to los angeles where family members of 4 passengers killed in the Helicopter Crash with n. B. A. Star kobe bryant have now joined kobes widow in filing a wrongful death lawsuit against the company that owned and operated the aircraft the suits were filed on sunday in Los Angeles Superior Court the lawsuits come 2 months after Vanessa Bryant sued Island Express Helicopters Incorporated for the death of her husband and 13 year old daughter giana. Now much of the world may still be on lockdown but there is one place that isnt wont that space in fact nasa and space x. Have announced may 27th will now be the day to resume astronaut launches from right here in the u. S. Together they plan to send 2 astronauts to the International Space station for the past 9 years the u. S. Space agency relied on russia to help launch astronauts into space and return them safely to earth. All right lets head over to regina ham at the sports h. Q. Regina olympic hopefuls are having to get creative with their training since most of them are stuck at home like you me i know we talked a great c. F. O. Hes kind of going to the gym and running so thats what they have to do because many athletes are trying to keep up their training regimens due to quarantine but one of the cuban athlete is making sure she doesnt let the current of ours get in the way of her olympic dreams. Is one of many athletes who are forced to find a new way to keep up with tough training routines for a 7 year old is a try athlete that took her roof put a kids training pool on and resistance bands and shes working out. She had a stationary bike after the pool to simulate the cycling portion of a track lead event im not became a triathlete at the age of 15 after starting out her career as a synchronized swimmer normally im not trained outside and in a gym with her coach but due to the coronavirus any country wide lockdown she has no access to a normal routine none the less the cuban is determined to represent her country at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. And it was a historic moment for one of the biggest marathons in the world when the 120. 00 for the running of the Boston Marathon was postponed into september however one runner wasnt going to wait around for that and decided he was going to finish the race as planned Patrick Mcatee was the only runner to hit the pavement in wellesley massachusetts on the road today of the marathon the premier spring event was postponed to the fall due to coronavirus concerns that make abby decide whos going to lace up a sneakers and take to the course anyway with a small bit of support from nearby driver theyre on their horns there to support him here in a modified Half Marathon course just 13 point one casual miles of course without the support of thousands of spectators that normally lie in the race the medical device Sales Manager finished on the actual finish line of Wilson Street in boston and while he was all smiles after crossing the line he said he had a lot of strong driving forces in deciding to run this years event i was thinking about obviously my loved ones the people i love in my life. The people who have supported me. You know i think. Im a pretty emotional guy so i know how to launch out with my mom on sunday and. My wife and i are expecting a baby in the next 3 weeks and. Scary time for a lot of people so the thing that keeps me no more and keeps my life sort of balance is running. And manila this is actually the 1st time ever the Boston Marathon to be cancelled they didnt even cancel during the Great Depression or both world wars wow so it took a coronavirus inspiring story absolutely inspiring as heartwarming to hearing him get choked up at the end and you know a lot of those runners will get their chance of september to feel the same exact way to him thank you so much for that and well have a lot more news coming up for you at 3 pm irans foreign minister meets with syrias president in damascus so what came out of those talks and for what were going to discuss that all that and more coming up at 3 pm so thats upright now im manila chan make sure you keep up with everything in question at all times by downloading our brand new app its free portable t. V. Ill see about here in about 30 minutes or. So i mean this is to put on the chain on the story could you look. Up at your. Desire to know. How much older. She still lives but. Lets show. You proof not just. To the east. Coronavirus Climate Change and concerns about reopening the United States too soon will cover all the angles on this are taking. The. Brunt of the politicking on larry king the program actor and begley jr will join us to talk about his Environmental Activism in the time of colbert 19 but 1st the virus has our shit in economic anxieties unemployment woes and need for federal Government Action to help people who are struggling chris lou joins us for the lead in congress ation on this edition of politicking hes a veteran of the Obama Administration he served as deputy secretary of labor in his in Arlington Virginia but of course the trumpet administration recently announced a plan to open up america again is that too soon well there they put out a series of guidelines that will leave us