Claims in the Central Banks role during the pandemic. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome to brookings , this mornings brookings presentation. My name is john allen, i am the president of the institution and it is my great pleasure to welcome to this virtual stage our honored guest, Federal Reserve chair, jay powell. At this moment of unprecedented challenge, not only to our Public Health system and our health in general, there is an enormous challenge to our economy and chair powell and his colleagues moved forcefully and quickly in responding to this crisis. Solutions,creative keeping credit flowing to houses and businesses and prepare the economy so they can recover when this virus so it can recover when this virus recedes. And it surely will, ladies and gentlemen. Your work, sir, and that of your colleagues, is far from over, but we are in good hands under your leadership. Indeed, leaders are tested in times of crisis and this crisis tests our leadership in no uncertain
Welcome, everyone, to the governments daily briefing. Im joined by the chief of the nhs and the chief medical officer. Id like to update you all on the facts of this bright of covid19 and the steps we are taking in the battle against the coronavirus. 113,077 people have now been tested for the virus. 14,543 have tested positive, an increase in the last day. The best analysis now is that the rate of infection has been doubling every three to four days. And of those who have contracted the virus, 759 have sadly died. Our thoughts and prayers of the families of those who have passed away. These figures are a powerful reminder of the need for all of us to act. We need to slow the spread of the virus and strengthen the all. Ability to protect as strict us all. Strict social distancing measures have been put in place so if your people should need hospital treatment at any one time. The measures we put in place follow scientific and medical advice, and are designed to reduce the rate of infec
Now carry cargo to the International Space station and of course you have elon musk and jeff bezos with blue origin and elon musk with space x building rockets. Must is maybe more of the celebrity type. Jeff bezos is more of the just working away. Hes got three rockets assigned, the first one is the armstrong which is the suborbital, the second is the glenn that we put people in orbit and the third is armstrong which will be something to carry interplanetary to the moon or elsewhere. This is very exciting. How many of you guys know Robert Bigelow . He is right up here in las vegas, North Las Vegas and i think it was 2001, he invited a group of about 15 or 20 space geeks, me included by the way to las vegas and he said he made 1 billion in his hotels and he said i want spend half of that putting up private space stations and i want to make sure that i dont run afoul of regulators and so forth who screwed things up. So we had to three days talking about how to do that what he came up wit
Hello and welcome to the program on Martine Dennis from syria to afghanistan and somalia whatever this conflict and instability is often children who suffer the most one out of every six children in the world is living in walls and thats according to a new report by the charity save the children it says those who are lucky enough to survive an attack are often left with debilitating lifelong injuries if that werent enough some aid workers in war zones have been accused of abusing the very same people that meant to protect we have a lot to get to with our guests first so nice. Discussion. Destroys lives it traumatizes communities. And in many of the worlds conflict zones children are suffering the most. This is. A suburb of the syrian capital damascus last week. Its space for lentulus bombardment after years of starve and surrender tactics. The Human Rights Group save the children believes youngsters in war zones are now more at risk than at any time in the past twenty years. According
Those stories coming up in the news hour in about twenty five minutes time do join me then after inside story which starts now. The brutal fox a for a boy is rescued a baby gasp for air is shes pulled out of rubble both of them in syria but its a scene replicated in many parts of the world we are asking why are more children than ever being killed or injured in war what can be done about it this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program on Martine Dennis from syria to afghanistan and somalia whatever this conflict and instability is often children who suffer the most one out of every six children in the world is living in walls and thats according to a new report by the charity save the children it says those who are lucky enough to survive an attack are often left with debilitating lifelong injuries if that werent enough some aid workers in laws ends of being accused of abusing the very same people that meant to protect we have a lot to get to with our guests first say nice. D