From the white house, Lauren Simonetti on markets and. Lauren with, dow down 1000 points we start with you. Lauren good news t was off the lows of the session. This is ugly. What a way to start off the new month and new quarter. The dow down 973 points. Broad selloff. President said it would be tough new weeks. Number of Coronavirus Infections in the utz top 200,000. If investors were spooked they got more spooked. Boeing, American Express by the way leading the losses on the dow today. Setting the tone this morning was the private employment number. You know what . It is an old number. It only counted half of march before the lockdowns in states throughout the country. That was a negative number. It sets us up for what well see tomorrow morning, Unemployment Benefits. Those numbers, Goldman Sachs is saying we could see 5. 5 Million People file for first time Unemployment Benefits tomorrow. Five 1 2 million on top of 3. 3 million we saw the week before. So that is an ugly part of the s
It is about half past four in the morning. You are up to date with the headlines. Now on bbc news Hardtalks Stephen Sackur talks to valerie jarrett, who was Senior Advisor to president obama from 2009 2017. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. It is one of the great puzzles of american politics how voters could make history by putting barack obama in the white house, twice, and then elect donald trump as his successor. How much responsibility should team obama take for the course american politics has taken since they left centre stage . My my guest today is valeriejarrett, close friend and advisor to barack and Michelle Obama, from the early daysin and Michelle Obama, from the early days in chicago all the way through the white house years. How will historians view the obama legacy . Valerie jarrett, valeriejarrett, welcome to hardtalk. Well, thank you, im delighted to be here. Thank you for having me. Its a pleasure. I would like to take you right back to 1991. You then matt, you
Is a certain strengthening of the position, fresh experienced units, so we are completely ready in this regard, and what i want to note is that on the part of ukraine the attempt to land an Assault Force to seize the bridgehead literally did not stop not for a day, from the moment of leaving kherson, because what we saw under the antonov bridge and what we saw in populated areas, the settlement of the cossack camp, this is , in principle. One might say, some kind of local success, which was promptly occupied, small landing groups are constantly trying to break through, on the socalled islands that remained after the explosion of the kokhovsky guest there are constant clashes, the enemy is constantly trying, numbering from five to eight people, to land troops, but all this is safe is being stopped by our guys, and in principle everything is quite smooth, quite stable, the guys do not lose their fighting spirit, one might say, they are waiting for the enemy and are ready to meet him at a
Ladies anladies and gentlemen mikes what pimco ceo the Potomac Institute for policy studies, and is my privilege to welcome you all here today to a seminar on combating biological terrorism. Im proud to report that for now almost exactly 20 years the Potomac Institute has been involved in the study of this issue. Unfortunately, the issue of bioterrorism has only grown worse over time. Its more threatening. It is probably more eminent, and certainly the tools we have for dealing with it are, as inadequate today as they were 20 years ago. Almost, also like 20 years ago, more and more the political people in the world are distracted by so many other threats from nuclear north korea, tehran, the ships run into each other in the pacific to Political Division in this country another, economic disruption around the world that the threats posed by tear are seen more and more as lone wolf driving cars through open spaces in europe and in the United States and other places. And many seem to forg
Distracted by so many of the threats from Nuclear North Korea to iran, shipping and together in the pacific to political divisions and this country and others, economic disruption around the world that the threats posed by terror are seeing more and more as lone wolf driving cars through open spaces in europe and in the United States and other places. And many seem to forget that the potential of even a lone wolf getting his hands on something very frightening in the biological realm is still quite possible and, in fact, some would say likely and certain sometime in our future. So as we address all of the many things that are frightening as an terrorizing us, and we must deal with around the world, we want through the the Potomac Institute, take a moment and see if we cant refocus on the issue of biological terrorism. We are releasing today a couple new works by the Potomac Institute that summarize an awful lot of the activities that have gone on here at the institute on biological ter