Meeting, many of us have been talking together but we cannot get done what needs to be done, only you and the administration can critically given attention of the saudis and flooding the markets adding insult to injury at a time when our economy is suffering anyway because of the coronavirus. So this meeting could not be more timely. I agree with whats being said about the importance of Affordable Energy to our standard of living and really we change the world as a result of the production of Domestic Energy here in improve the quality of life for a lot of people. Thank you very much. Youve done a great job. John, i agree, we were talking the other day that weve all done well and weve also kept energy very affordable, very, very affordable and a lot of it, we never had any problems, we will keep it that way. Do i see dan back there, i was lucky and i thought that look like dan. I want to thank you for convening this meeting. The Trump Administration working with the congress in the u.
Money and spirits. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments in britain and globally. The uk has recorded its highest number of deaths linked to the coronavirus in a single day. 260 people have died in the past 2a hours bringing the total to more than 1,000. In the us, President Trump has been considering putting some of the worst hit areas under quarantine to slow the spread of coronavirus. New york state has recorded more than 53,000 confirmed cases and nearly 900 deaths. But donald trump has now tweeted that a quarantine will not be necessary. In italy, nearly 900 people with the virus have died in the past 2a hours bringing the total there to more than 10,000. Hospitals in the north of the country are in desperate need of protective equipment for health workers, as well as more staff. Well have more on all of that in a moment, but first heres Dominic Hughes on the uks response. The logistics of setting up a
Measures fail to emerge. On the monetary side, the bank of england, becomes the latest to cut rates treasury yields hovering around 80 basis points. Full Team Coverage of todays market plunge. Mike san tolly is with us and meg on the latest on the coronavirus. But well begin with breaking news out of washington major Bank Executives meet with the president today. Well get to wolf at the white house. Reporter the president and the Vice President and the treasury secretary currently hosting in the white house behind me the leaders of the major Financial Institutions of this country in attendance we have the leaders of jpmorgan, bank of america, citigroup, goldman sachs, wells fargo, black stone making it the type of gathering we havent seen since the peak of the financial crisis. Theyre all inside, as we speak. What will be on the agenda well, two main things. Number one, liquidity and the functioning of markets number two, lending to businesses that are most affected by the coronavirus.
The investigators discovered that quote the us military has shown it can investigate civilian harm but significant in inconsistent season when and how investigations are conducted has contributed to shortcomings including a failure to investigate incidents when a close look is warranted and missed opportunities to learn from incidents and make future corrections this includes the fact that according to journalist nick turse the Standard Practice is troubling because while u. S. Investigators regularly interview military witnesses they almost totally ignore civilians victims survivors Family Members and bystanders because you know hey well how would i would civilians know anything about civilian casualties in a war zone. I mean its almost my friends its almost like they would rather pretend that civilian casualties dont exist when the u. S. Pulls the trigger which is impossible if you are truly watching the hawks. On a city street. Or so you would see. Joyce. Grays. Systemic deception.
Blew up your brother exactly and i think that thats you know but more of the long range view because youre also thinking about the individuals who are left behind so its the families that are still surviving who have lost their children the families who are still surviving who have lost people who had absolutely nothing to do with the conflict they were in and it again it raises the ire of those individuals but now you have generations that are upset with you because youve been literally taking out whole families and in many cases nothing was ever done about in these people arent even acknowledged exactly i mean a little like this in 2017 New York New York times magazine investigation of nearly 150 u. S. Led Coalition Airstrikes targeting isis in just iraq just iraq they found that one in 5 of the Coalition Strikes resulted in civilian deaths that was a rate that was 30 times more than what was acknowledged by the coalition now thats a big discrepancy and i understand why this report w