And his new book is an exceptionally clear and broad overview of the state of American Economic life. The actual conditions we face, that trends over recent decades, how those related to some of the dark stories that we hear in our politics about the conditions americans have experienced and also what our prospects are. I think its fair to say he finds think so much better than the mood of our politics and the critics of the market economy would sometime suggest but that we do face risks and that maybe that mood and those critics are among the most important of those risks. Its a controversial thesis. I do say as a im resistant to being told everything is fine. But it is a very powerfully argued thesis and as you will see and hear tonight, a very thoroughly supported thesis in the book. Richard reeves, one of the spar social analysts and policy thinkers in washington, richard is a whitehead chair and senior fellow atn economic status of te brookings institution. Hes director of the bro
Other epidemic gender based violence and why the corona Virus Outbreak is making it worse. Hello authorities around the world are warning people to stay at home and abide by tough restrictions to movement as the coronavirus pandemic reaches a significant point the official global death toll has now passed 800000 with more than 1600000 cases confirmed but experts believe the number of deaths attributed to the virus is deceptively low the u. K. Has recorded europes highest ever number of hospital fatalities in a single day with 980 deaths in spain the government says its beginning to see results from its Strict Lockdown as its daily death rate comes down but it does remain europes most affected country after italy with the early. 16000 dying from this disease so despite the success being seen in some countries the World Health Organization has warned governments against prematurely rolling back restrictions and that containing the pandemic it says that while the rate of infection has bee
A huge financial stimulus package offered by the white. So get even youre watching r. T. International the number of confirmed cases of coronaviruses top 200000 worldwide with the death toll now more than 8000 as World Leaders scramble to contain the spread of the outbreak europe has become the epicenter and now has more confirmed cases than china while in the u. S. All 50 states there have now had recorded cases. When entire countries are now shutting their borders down russia has become the latest to deny entry to foreigners joining the likes of canada and the u. S. The e. U. Has also restricted access. 2 limits to support of the various bubel we agreed to enforce external borders both closed and coordinates temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e. U. Folk leave it or so to do this france meanwhile has put the entire country of 66000000 people on lockdown army trucks have been seen on the streets of paris while large numbers of Police Officers have been deployed to to e
Began and more than 12000 Health Workers have been infected also hospital Officials Say they not only need more test kits but also some training on how to use them. When this Government Crisis Committee comes out to say we have everything it is not true when they say we have 300000 test kids well thats all very nice to have 300000 kids but those kids must be tested by professionals who know how to do it if not why do you need them so we also have this problem when they say we have 300000 kids daily i can tell you that it is not true so much of her own now from madrid with more on those latest infection numbers. 14 percent of the total amount people have that have tested positive from coronaviruses spain 5000. 00 in total 12300. 00 are Health Care Workers the thought of growing up from coronavirus house has reached 7800. 2 up to date weve seen how the Health Care Workers have been struggling have been claiming because they are lacking the running out of protective measures they dont hav
Daily death toll of more than 830 people such a small increase on the previous day is seen as a glimmer of hope that the situation remains critical the choice. It is very likely that the outbreak is evolving properly thanks to everyones efforts having only 20 percent of our cases recovering and that is an encouraging statistic but it is true that the number of people going into intensive care units is doing creasing and there are many regions operating at Maximum Capacity and many other religions quickly getting closer to this limit yes yes autonomous. The u. K. Has recorded its 2nd successive day of more than 200 new deaths and the government has put the entire country on emergency footing unprecedented in peace time asked about the timescale for the current restrictions the answer came a could be many months so i think 3 weeks for review 2 or 3 months to see whether weve really squashed it and that about 3 to 6 months ideally and lots of uncertainty in that then to see which point we