Hello im terry Martin Thanks for joining us german chancellor Angela Merkel and french president. Are expected shortly to detail a joint plan to help europe recover from the coded 900 crisis it comes after both leaders addressed a birchwood meeting of the World Health Organizations governing body this years World Health Assembly is focused almost entirely on boosting Global Cooperation to fight the pandemic. And well be bringing you some live pictures hopefully in just a few moments from the joint press conference from the german and french leaders but 1st lets cross over to do w. Political correspondent Thomas Sparrow hes standing by for us at our parliamentary studios and hes here to break this down for a certain most likely expect from this unusual event you mentioned terry already one of the key elements those discussions on how to recover the economy in the European Union in particular and in the euro zone that is something that well probably hear in a few minutes from both corn a
In negatives, nothing changes there. The latest negative being this fight over control. The president or the governors. That is a distraction from the main event, getting back to work is now job one. Later on the program today, larry kudlow, the president s chief economic adviser, joins us. Hes on the task force. We will ask when, where and who gets back to work. Thats coming up. To the get back to work debate, it largely excludes democrat politicians, shown side by side Bernie Sanders has endorsed joe biden. But all they can agree on is contempt for the president and some bernie supporters are saying now they will not vote for joe biden. The democrats are split. What are they contributing to the get back to work debate . In my opinion, not much. The market, however, they appear to like the idea of opening up the economy. Investors looking to the other side. The dow this morning is going to be up about 400 at the opening bell. Thats a gain of, what, 1. 75 . A similar gain for the s p a
Here its a similar story in the u. S. , our high after going to the past 10 00, but within the s p, you still have the down names doing the best. Is the second best, it remains to be seen if there is any sort of substantial rally or just a rally within a bear market. You can see that reflected in other asset classes, 25 billion worth of supply coming online in just about two hours. Of the threeyear, it is doing continues to roll over today after yesterday. At the bestlding on performing within the s p as well. We will see as we head into the next few hours if we are able to hold on. Guy absolutely. The correlation between what were seeing around the market performance, people are certainly nervous about that relationship. U. K. , Boris Johnsons government is facing a serious challenge at the worst possible time in the virus outbreak. The Prime Minister hospitalized and the foreign minister under pressure to Solta Medical equipment shortages which are making headlines on a daily basis.
Meant to the societies that it is ravage and especially to britain its a crime i want to get to their world in a moment but over here the queen the Prime Minister the government theyre all praising the National Health service in fact. Every aspect of this is as he including the media is praising the National Health service what evidence no mention of privatisation in the media here not even that the new labor leader is top adviser used to work in private Health Care Law being what evidence do you have that privatisation is even an important context in which to understand britains response to coronavirus well of course they should praise it its its its beloved in britain and when it began in 1948 it was set up as a niren been made clear to give the british people and i quote freedom from fear isnt that ironic we now have a state of fear due to this virus and the National Health service was set up to give a few of the People Freedom from fear its not the the Health Services not the peopl
Lengths to the spread of the virus. The number of people who have died from the corona virus in the United States is now more than 5000 President Donald Trump is considering limiting domestic air and rail travel between hot spots but his resisting calls for a National Shutdown as infections passed 200000 the highest in the world during wednesdays briefing tom said he may soon be able to give away ventilators to other countries even though many state governors are appealing for more equipment to tackle the virus mike hanna is in washington he says the u. S. Will soon be in a position to help other nations fight the virus. A number of u. S. Governors have been pleading with the federal government for more medical supplies in particular ventilators a state like new york says it needs as many ventilators as possible to stockpile for when the apex of the epidemic hits which current projections show by the end of the month yet the president continues to insist that there are enough ventilato