In central beirut as the political power struggle and economic crisis worse. Thanks for joining us protesters are pouring into americas capital as the city gears up for its largest demonstration yet against racism and Police Brutality take a look at the live scene in washington d. C. Right now 12 days off to a george floyd a black man was killed while pinned down by a white Police Officer his dress has triggered waves of anger and protest right across the nation with a message block lives matter of gaining renewed support around the world meanwhile floyds family has held a Memorial Service for him in North Carolina thats where he was born. I think for. Everybody been talking about everything in there these family is a can love and they love everybody a man. And im not the one the prince but ive come to tell you today that god. Its gods son. That you out there. What. Is on our south. Carolina. I dont like this c. E. O. And i want to tell you some way to bring about you know back in the
Special rapporteur for man mark pulls out the nations leader aung sun so much. Of the continued persecution of Rohingya Muslims. The Economic Impact of the coronavirus pandemic continues to reveal itself in the last few hours the Worlds Largest economy the us reported a 1st quarter g. D. P. Loss of nearly 5 percent thats worst thats the worst result since the 2008 financial crisis airplane make a boeing suffered a 640000000. 00 loss in the 1st quarter an abcess was also reported a loss of half a 1000000000. 00 we have 2 correspondents covering these developments john hendren is standing by for us in chicago to tell us more about the flaws of the Aviation Industry but 1st lets go to a white house forest correspondent kimberly hellcats. Kimberly these quarter one g. D. P. Figures today suggest that the slowdown was beginning before the lockdown began. Yeah you know theres no question that there is a suggestion of that but well there were stay at home or is going into effect at the tail e
Are doing here and why we are doing it, this is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that historical current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan and the purpose of the program its not to advocate for any particular policies, but to provide Historical Context helping inform policymakers as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing possible. I also want to thank regional weekly in the back of the room, which is the assistant director that helped organize this. I want to thank the office of gerry connolly, and also alert you to the fact that you all have index cards on your chairs. This is for questions. As the presenters are speaking, feel free to jot down questions. We will collect them. The second half will be devoted to q a. We will collect the questions and go from there. Thank you all for coming. David . Good morning. Thank you for coming. I have been Teaching I
So i welcome you this morning, thank you all for coming, my name is dane kennedy. Im the director of the National History center. Which is sponsoring this briefing. It is on the geo politics of middle east oil, Historical Perspectives on the current crisis. I want to just briefly explain what we are doing here and why were doing it. This is part of an ongoing series sponsored by the center that brings Historical Perspectives to current issues. The center itself is strictly nonpartisan. The purpose of the program is not to advocate for any particular policies, but in fact to provide sort of Historical Context to help inform policy makers and the public as they deal with difficult issues. I want to thank or acknowledge the Financial Support of the mellon foundation, which makes this briefing series possible. I want to thank rachel wheatly in the back of the room who is our assistant director and has helped to organize this. I want to thank the office of jerry connelly. Which has booked t
And the app developed in kenya thats now being used worldwide to help close the gap. And im christine want to welcome to the program oil prices have risen off to the old Major Oil Producing Countries agreed to slash output the production cost opaque joined russia and others and if it should be the oil price and an Energy Market ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic Global Oil Supplies will be cut by 10 percent. Its being called the biggest Oil Production cut ever opec plus which brings together the oil cartel with other producers like russia said it would cut world output by 10 percent. In the next 2 months opec and opec plus countries will reduce production by 10000000. 00 barrels for the 6 months after that they will cut production by 8000000. 00 Barrels Per Day and for the subsequent 16 months 6000000 barrels will be cut per day. Oil prices it down into freefall on worries about the fires and a price war between saudi arabia and russia but low prices also threaten the u. S. Shale oil