Aljazeera. How will africa deal with corona virus the pandemic is slowly reaching the continent for Public Health care infrastructure and an inability to enforce law whats the impact going to be this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter dobby now its taken the coronavirus longer to reach africa than other parts of the world but experts are warning of a possible large scale outbreak on the worlds poorest continent of 1200000000 people and if europe or the u. S. Were struggling to contain the pandemic the potential consequences across that continent are possibly devastating if not catastrophic one example mali has 56 ventilators for a population of 17000000. 00 africa is still reporting low numbers of cases compared to europe and china but that could change and change fast coronaviruses reached almost every nation on the continent and as you see there the infection rate and the death rate well they are both increasing for most of the african countries the question n
In the house of representatives, a lot going on today. If you want to find out more about the activity, go to our website at cspan. Org. We now take you to the house. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] rage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers room, washington, d. C. , july 17, 2019. I hereby appoint the honorable Henry Cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the ouse of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders fo
Speaker. As chairwoman of the committee on science, space, and technology, its an honor to stand before you today to celebrate the 50th anniversary of apollo 11. The morning of july 16, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and buzz aldrin lifted ff from nasas cape kennedy. That day, millions watched in 11 s nasa launched Apollo Saturn 9 rocket to accomplish the goals set by president kennedy less than 10 years earlier, to land the man on the moon before the end of the decade. As president kennedy said in his speech at Rice University in september, 1962, we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. There is no better explanation that captures the american spirit. We choose to take joint leaps. We choose to know the unknown. We choose to lead into the future. On july 20, 1960, just four days after the launch, the world listened and watched as the first steps were taken on the moon. Again, hundreds of millions of
Ten points. The nasdaq off by 22. Crude oil prices were up sharply overnight, topping 40 a barrel. First time weve seen that in quite a while. That came after the announcement yesterday of a surprise job in u. S. Inventories. However, wti has turned around since then. Looks like we flipped that contract, too. If you were looking at 40 overnight, were now looking at the may contract. Thats a decline of 7 cents to 37. 69. It will be interesting to see how this new contract plays out. We did see a huge gain in crude oil prices yesterday. The other big mover this morning, currency. The dollar hitting a 17 hch month low against the yen. This came after the minutes from the last months fed meeting suggested that the central bank is unlikely to raise Interest Rates before june. There were a lot in these minutes, but most people are looking at the doves comments after what we heard from janet yellen just last week. Brian . Some corporate stories to talk to you about this morning. Just go right
Captioning performed by vitac the first crew was expedition one and were up to 44. Weve got two americans and three russians and japanese astronaut up there. It truly is an international crew. Sometimes theres a canadian, a german, italian, its always swapping out there. And right here scott kelly and mikhail are doing a one year mission, spending a year up in space. Its 342 days. Its not quite a year but im going to give them the benefit of the doubt. Its a year mission there. Scott is has an identical twin brother mark kelly married to gabriell gabrielle dif fordse doing a twin study. And the iss is currently funded by nasa through 2024. After that time, were not sure whats going to happen. But nasas commitment runs out in 2024. Ive got to believe the russians arent going to want to give this up either. They dont like to throw space stations away. If nasa abandons it, i could see them jumping in there and saying well take it, well run it and maybe do something commercially with it. S