Will be burned down the movements. Are not met. Broadcasting live director our studios in moscow this is our 2 international sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. Ari the u. S. Has seen a record it daily increase in 1000 cases reaching 40000 new infections on thursday those figures were revealed by Johns Hopkins university now the previous high was back in april with more than 36000. 00 cases the u. S. Still holds the record for the most of global infections with almost 2 and a half 1000000 cases and this a latest surge has forced several states including texas and florida to suspend plans to reopen despite that president claims his country is coping well with the pandemic. We have the greatest Testing Program in the world weve developed it over a period of time and were up to almost 30000000. 00 tests that means we can have more cases if we do want to test or if we didnt test we wouldnt have cases but we have cases because we test deaths are down we have one of the lowest mo
2. 3 billion trillion dollar stimulus package that is providing relief to Small Businesses. One of the biggest of that is 386 billion set aside to help Small Businesses with loans, checks, money that can be outright grants, Edward Lawrence has been following that because a lot of banks are handling the transactions, bank of america was up and running on this. He has the latest on all of th that. Reporter very interesting, Community Banks have led the charge on the spanking figure going forward, at 830 this morning, Steven Mnuchin has been on top of this to make sure. Look at the latest numbers, as of 1130, there was 2330 banks loans that have been given out for a total of 889 million that is direct stimulus into the u. S. Economy for the Small Businesses to keep people on pay checks and to give people pay checks and keep their lights on and pay the rent. On the jobs numbers, we expected was going to be bad but the number was really a surprise. Look at this a 4. 4 unemployment over all
A controversial citizenship law leaves thousands homeless in india. We began in syria where a cease fire procured by russia and turkey a northwest it live province has come into effect the breakthrough was reached after 6 hours of negotiations between russias president Vladimir Putin and turkeys leader retch a typo on this happened in moscow a bid to back opposing sides in the syrian conflict so they have agreed to establish a 12 kilometer wide security corridor or along it lives in 4 highway which connects the government stronghold of lets talk you know with serious financial aleppo theyve also agreed on a joint patrol along that motorway that will happen later this month the Syrian Government offensive and it limits push nearly a 1000000 civilians toward turkeys border its not clear how or when theyll be able to return to their homes so it wasnt brings us up to date on the talks in moscow. It was clear from the start that this was going to be a tough meeting the partnership between p
By 0. 1 . In the last 24 hours, the president of the United States is heading to israel. Tom per is no other story today. There is no other story today. He is basically traveling to a war zone. Jonathan he wants to present prevent the conflict from enveloping the whole region but how to develop a plan to get aid into gaza. Lisa thats one of the key components with the talks with tony blinken. I find it interesting that President Biden will be going to israel and going to jordan right after, entering the zone with Security Issues and Strategic Issues and have the u. S. Will influence this. Tom im reading on the turkish war in world war i and its amazing the parallels to right now. We are out front on diplomacy. Someone asked the secretary of state where hes been and he said he can remember. They have parallels to 1914 as they try to avoid war. The daily mail in london today talks about the tunnel structure of hamas, 40 feet underground and maybe as many as 300 tunnels. Thats the reality
Crudes the january brent prices. Will we see another cut . Days, in the next two donald trump will speak to the assembl ons General Assembly. And we have janet yellen, fed chair speaking. Jonathan we are focusing on the annual u. N. Assembly where President Trump will make his first and biggest address to leaders around the world. President trump has already condemned the u. N. For its bureaucracy and management. President trump in recent years, the United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement. While the United Nations on a regular budget has increased by 140 , and its staff has more than doubled since 2000, we are not seeing results in line with this investment. Jonathan im pleased to welcome a special guest, tony blair, former Prime Minister serving as leader of the labour party until 2007. Great to have you with us on the program. Tony thank you. Specific you have a knowledge of the workings of the u. N. Security council. How best to nav