Largest coronavirus lockdown has extended for a further 2 weeks but indias government is easing some restrictions. To u. S. Democratic president ial hopeful joe biden denies allegations of Sexual Assault by a former senate colleague. And in sports the English Premier League is stepping up plans for a return to action the league is mad to discuss what needs to be done for games to take a call in june. It is just off the 1500 hours g. M. T. The dramatic drop in oil prices over the past few weeks has been one of the main economic fallout of the Global Pandemic and agreement decided among the worlds Top Producers to cut output has now come into effect and it appears that the deal came to be only after President Donald Trump reportedly pressured saudi arabia threatening to withdraw u. S. Military support for riyadh now to syria sullivan java reports. Oil and water do not mix but politics in oil bond very well there is no official transcript of the conversation between the u. S. President an
Revive its. Compound this bird is closed during ramadan cause of coronavirus restrictions. And in sports the English Premier League is stepping up plans for a return to action the league is meeting to discuss what needs to be done for games to take on. Now an agreement among the worlds Top Oil Producers to cut out for that has come into effect it follows a collapse in global prices spurred by a slump in demand because of the pandemic but the deal to cut out for it came with a lot of infighting between major or producers you might remember they met in vienna early march to work out how to keep prices. Stable but failed to reach an agreement in that meeting opec recommended taking 1500000. 00 Barrels Per Day off the market if russia agreed to cut production too well russia refused. Top producer saudi arabia retaliated by announcing a production increase instead a price war lasted nearly a month and prices dropped below 20. 00 a barrel and moscow and riyadh resolved their differences and
Palestinian territories in the west bank. We begin in brazil where theres a political backlash to president jaya both scenarios handling of the Coronavirus Crisis the Health Minister has handed in his resignation of the less than a month in the job nelson teach follows his predecessor who had publicly criticized both the narrow decision to allow the reopening of gyms and beauty parlors brazil is a center of latin americas corona Virus Outbreak with close 215000 deaths it registered a record 15305 new cases on friday thats the highest in a day a lot took the total number of infections to over 218000 but the president is pushing state governors to ease lock downs and reopen the economy where john holdren is monitoring developments across latin america and joins us live now from mexico city john so this is the 2nd Health Minister to resign during the pandemic what more do we know about his reasons for stepping down. When say public why he had stepped down but its believed that he was agai
Government is easing some restrictions. Under pressure workers rights come to the fore this may day was delivering agents working during the pandemic complain about a lack of protective gear. Canada is banning assault style weapons after the countrys deadliest mass shooting 2 weeks ago 22 people were killed in nova scotia when a man dressed as a policeman went on a shooting spree the ban comes into immediate effect but there will be a 2 year amnesty for people to dispose of weapons they already own the government also plans to introduce a gun Buyback Program. These weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time. There is no use and no place for such weapons in canada 5000. 00 out of their estonia lack is for a study of tell us more about this ban well of course he didnt as you said it comes in the wake of the countrys worst mass shooting ever still not absolutely clear that the gunman there who was killed a
Unquestionably appreciated many in the field are starting to wonder if our poll politicians thanks im sure leaving will amount to nothing more than the just words and pageantry much in the same way that those politicians treat our military veterans all parade and no real help or substance new york position Elizabeth May recently pointed out a very sobering problem for healthcare workers writing for the intercept that she observed Public Health public expressions of support for help professionals are meaningful but they are also insufficient to drown out the deafening silence from capitol hill in response to mounting cries for relief measures cheap among them educational Debt Forgiveness you see because we here in the u. S. Do not consider their good work as vital to the infrastructure of our country unlike they do and say the United Kingdom and other nations around the world quite frankly it costs an arm and a leg to become a doctor or nurse here in the United States of america and sha