The economy, pretty much at a dead stop until may, maybe longer. The market is looking to the other side of the virus problem and surely welcomes more financial help. However, stocks are ending the worst month since 2008 and the dow will open lower this morning, off maybe 140 points. Similar story for the s p and for the nasdaq. A down opening bell today. The price of oil, well, that remains at depression levels. This morning we are in the low 20 per barrel and the average price of gasoline, you got to look at this, the National Average gas price has dropped below 2 a gallon. 1. 99, thats your number this morning. The price is dropping about two cents a day but so what . Demand has cratered, the roads are empty, and few people are taking advantage of dirtcheap gas. Now, this caused a stir yesterday. The u. S. Navy hospital ship arrived in new york and was greeted by crowds of onlookers. They were breaking social distancing rules. Those people who were holed up in their apartments and h
China requires a decrease in new cases of coronavirus. Five and a half years after a malaysian airliner was shot down over the ukraine, for men 4 men on trial in a dutch court. Suspects are on the run and russia. Hello. Welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. This is our top story. European and asain markets markets asian continue to tumble over fears of the coronavirus, stocks in the asiapacific tumbling. The ftse down by 6 . The dax down by 6. 5 . Followreet looking to when it opens in a few hours time. , as oil prices dropped by more than a third. Arerter oil prices experiencing their steepest drop since the gulf war in 1991, the plunge the result of an unexpected enough that by saudi arabia on a steep discount on oil to his customers in europe, asia, and the u. S. Stocks in asia fell as a result of the coronavirus, as in australia. Another have been announcements about the russians and the saudis in relation to oil. We are seeing a steep drop in the oil price in recent weeks. Our F
You know changing conditions across the middle east lots of dry by the loss of hot sunshine little bit of cloud just spilling out of turkey just making its way towards georgia over the next day or so so you could see some wet weather the really show up too much on monday but come choose day that sherry right just not to us for i can set eastern side of the black sea getting close to 30 celsius once again in beirut some lovely sunshine here getting close to the mid fortys in baghdad so the hot sunshine does continue in the hot sunshine stretches way down across the Arabian Peninsula some weak patterns of cloud just pushing through here you might just catch a sports of rain on lease but i think any rain will be few and far between as just a spot or 2 certainly a possibility so lossy settle and largely sunny as we go through the coming days weve got dry weather and sunshine stretching across a good part of Southern Africa possibilities some showers just into the far south just across the
The finger at other countries needs to take a look at its own role in creating this instability in this region ronnie said that the United States is supplying arms to saudi arabia and the emirates he Left Coalition that is waging this war in yemen he urged all parties that the way to resolve this conflict and have some kind of stability in this region is suits were dialogue their remains have said over and over again that theyre willing to mediate between all the parties involved to bring some kind of an end to this conflict iranian president Hassan Rouhani has also said in the past that these kinds of accusations only further ties between tehran and washington do not help to create any kind of dialogue between the 2 countries that is something the u. S. President donald trump of said was interested in having a meeting with the iranian president at the United Nations later this month but given the current climate and the accusations that have been coming at the iranian officials it is
Are using agriculture to protect their land from illegal israeli settlements. And rebuilding the bahamas the cleanup operation resumes in the islands battered by a Tropical Storm and hurrican. How it will cause impressive weather now making its way across spain weve still got a little area of clouds circulating away here but the heaviest showers they are pushing in land a little further north but some westward so we will see some weather coming in here over the next few days but that may well the system is now easing out theyll be a few showers across northern parts of spain maybe even into Northern Areas support cubical to the right here its been particularly dry over the past few weeks to try me mom across central and eastern parts of the mediterranean much of based in europe not faring too badly but he pushed further north and it is certainly on the blustery side quite a cane wind blowing through open office and snow way over the the mountains there in the way some of that western w