Pulled famous october things for the 1st time in decades because of the quran it bothers. Me how would welcome we begin in lebanon where the coronavirus is compounding longstanding economic problems that lebanons currency has lost half its value in recent weeks sending process soaring and bringing new hardship to a country that has been grappling with months of financial turmoil protesters are now ignoring the lockdown restrictions to take to the streets and vent their anger. Scenes of popular anger have returned to the streets of beirut despite an ongoing lockdown and a curfew protesters have gathered outside the Lebanese Central Bank to demonstrate against the worsening economic conditions. We think that quote all of this is not the only pandemic was suffering from heat in lebanon 11 years theyve been they either have a choice to die from hunger or to die from but i know with the increase of the crisis and the beggar and the cause of the value of our current. People here tell us they
Conversation. The phone lines are open. The death toll is now at 143,000 around the world. Total confirmed cases, 2. 1 one million. Over 675,000 cases in the death toll is over 34,000. We want to introduce you to dr. Peter li from the university of houston. He is an expert on east asian politics and wet markets, which is one of the reasons we invited you one. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate the photos you sent us. You have been to the socalled wet markets, believed to be the source. What are they . They are a small section likee regular marketplace, the Seafood Market. It is a 5 of the business space. Live where you can find chickens on live ducks and they slaughter them for you. It is where you get warm meat. Traditionally, these are everywhere but in the last 40 years, they have been going down. Arisen,w wet market has which is water wet market. In china in the 1980s i never saw these. It is new. , the Seafood Market has a huge marketplace where you can but one corner is call
Of a job since mid march and Business Activity grinding to a halt around the world and finally, Energy Stocks are jumping on a rebound in oil prices by far the best performing on the s p 500, which is higher, wilfred, by about. 6 though off the highs of the day. Went briefly flat as well so improving for the last hour or so the dows up 0. 9 or 200 points. Coming up, well speak with former bp ceo, lord browne about the oil markets this week as crude sees another double digit move today plus Tiger Management president , Alex Robertson, will join us to talk about investing and how his company is helping to support new yorks front line workers. Zblncht mike is tracking the Market Action for us as always meg has the details on the possible setback for gileads coronavirus trials, which sent the market off its highs during the session as we mentioned along the hannah, from the ft, who cowrote the story that broke that news and kayla is covering the house vote on the next round o the stimulus,
From the site of the worlds worst Nuclear Explosion at an open. M god of as welcome to the program indias 3 week coronavirus lockdown is being extended until at least may 3rd its the biggest lockdown in the world measured by the number of people affected in a nationwide t. V. Address Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that although the cost to the economy had been high the lives of the people of india were more valuable. Holistic approach and not if india had not adopted a holistic integrated approach and had not taken quick timely decisions we cannot imagine what our situation would have been these plans not only it would be now lets go to delhi where our correspondent money or so daryn is standing by in an era listening to mr modi hes convinced his manage manage the crisis and the right way as all politicians think they do do people feel the same way well the logical thing in the country is of course in favor of the log down it is in feudal the extensional the lockdown as well because
Im phil gal welcome to the program Turkeys Parliament has passed a law allowing tens of thousands of prisoners to go free as the country tries to reduce overcrowding in jails and curb the spread of the coronavirus but opposition parties and other critics say the law excludes anyone critical of president irans government the temporary releases dont cover people jailed on terrorism charges including politicians and journalists who were arrested in the crackdown that followed the attempted coup in 2060. Its an awkward moment for a group photo members of air to ones party ignore appeals or physical distancing from the president of the Turkish Parliament perhaps not too surprising since they also ignored the oppositions criticism of a bill that commute sentences for about a 3rd of turkeys prisoners excluded from the bill are journalists aligned with the opposition or others critical of the government jailed on what are widely seen as flimsy terror charges. This is a sentence commutation tha