To think about, rent. The nhs in england will suspended non urgent operations for three months from next month to make 30,000 more beds available for coronavirus patients. The Foreign Office tells britons they shouldnt travel abroad now unless absolutely necessary. Schools and nurseries remain open, the prime minster said he was keeping it under continous review. And at 11 30pm, well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers deputy poltical editor of the telegraph, anna mikhailova, and political commentator and former director of communications for the labour party, lance price. Stay with us for that. The chancellor has announced a multi billion pound support package to help businesses through the coronavirus crisis. Rishi sunak said the country is in an economic emergency and now is the time to be bold. He vowed that the government would do whatever it takes to support the economy with many businesses reeling from the effects of this weeks coronavirus restrictions. H
Airports could be shut and people arrested on Public Health grounds under emergency laws to tackle coronavirus. A moving tribute to the man thought to be the youngest in the uk to die from the disease. Craig ruston was 45 and had been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease. There will be no euro 2020 this summer. The tournament has been postponed because of coronavirus. It was decided at an emergency meeting held by uefa. Instead itll take place next summer. Good morning. For england and wales today we are looking at a cloudy day with a few gradual breaks and patchy rain. Scotland and Northern Ireland after a frosty start you will have sunshine and a few showers in the north west where it will also be raining. More details in 15 minutes. Its wednesday 18th march. Our top story. The government is being urged to do more to support families and workers affected by the coronavirus outbreak, after announcing billions of pounds of help for companies. The chancellor, rishi sunak, made more than
Back the last time we hit the high was 2. 75. Americas unemployed back then 6. 7 million, now 13. 2 million. The size of the feds Balance Sheet back then less than a trillion, now it is over 3 trillion. We will be talking about all these things, how we are similar and dissimilar to last time we hit those highs. Down at the nyse. Lets talk about the 10 stocks hitting the 52week highs. It is great news, lots of champagne. Nicole really is exciting for all the people who saw the dow at 6500. Some cases alltime highs. Today is a record intraday high, a record closing high. A day that goes down in history. David it wasnt all roses for everybody, jcpenney down bigtimebigtime, other stocks, t generally speaking we are across the board making history today. The nasdaq could actually end up moving a lot closer. This is a recordbreaking day. October 9, 2007 was the last day we came close to this record. Back then 14,164. Right now as you can see we are well above that. Of course, couple of years
Individual whos talking about shutting down the government. Im well aware of the deadline. So are my colleagues. They cant lead their caucus to a deal. Anything that is remotely associated with me, they feel obliged to oppose. In an interview that aired this morning, president obama talked about everything from syria to congress, the constitution and his assessment of our economy. Five years after the financial crisis. The president sat down with Abcs George Stephanopoulos on friday before the breakthrough u. S. russian deal on syrias chemical weapons. Of course, the president had some interesting things to say about his counterpart in moscow. I dont think that mr. Putin has the same values that we do. And i think obviously by protecting mr. Assad, he has a different attitude about the assad regime. But what ive also said to him directly is that we both have an interest in preventing chaos. We both have an interest in preventing terrorism. The situation in syria right now is untenable.
Night that went until about 10 00 after that lengthy hearing with the former ambassador to ukraine, Maria Yovanovitch. They started a little late. And thats why the deposition went so late last night. Now, the witness today, mark sandy, he started to raise some questions about why they were holding up the aid to ukraine. You know, and people are going back and recalibrating that hearing yesterday with Maria Yovanovitch. Republicans are struggling somewhat to kind of curate their own narrative. It went haywire after the president sent that tweet blasting Maria Yovanovitch yesterday morning. I asked a question about that to stefanik, a republican from new york. Who is a member of the Intelligence Committee. Once the president sent his tweet, didnt that completely undercut anything you were trying to do in the hearing today . Chad, we are not here to talk about tweets. We are here to talk about Impeachable Offenses. Chad, let me answer yourese heat tweets. They are about impeachment of th