But is accused of turning a blind eye to egypts human rights record. And lives torn apart by war poverty and the pandemic and the urgent appeal for funds to help millions of children in the middle east and africa. And im santa how much with the sport as europe holds its qualifying draw for the 2022 world cup in qatar details coming up this hour. Welcome to the news our hope of imminent Vaccination Programs is doing the thrill to reduce the devastating Global Impact of the coronavirus Record Numbers of people are being admitted into hospital in the us tough restrictions are also coming into force in different parts of the world on monday more than 33000000 people in Southern California in the San Joaquin Valley were hit with stay at home or does restaurants a close to in person dining in many other places like hair and nails salons museums and playgrounds have been completely shot in germany a chance and has hinted that harsher regulations will be required there she said existing measur
Ive told me a lot of well its good to have you with us covered 19 on the road to recovery thats the focus of a special session of the u. N. General assembly almost 100. 00 World Leaders are taking part in the 2 day summit coincides with the release of a u. N. Study that shows that more than 1000000000 people could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 due to the long term effects of the corona virus now the german chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the assembly via video link and she stressed the need for Global Cooperation to ensure equal access to vaccines around the world through 200. 00 need we must never forget the pandemic can only be truly beaten in the long 10 when everyone in the world has fat access to effective vaccines. Oh the coming the pandemic in the long term also means doing everything we can to a much stronger with regards to future challenges and crises to this and we need to close the International Cooperation above all with strong the International Organizations the
Historical precedent . 1918 is the one that comes to mind. And we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 than my good friend christopher nichols. He is a professor of history at oregon state. Hes also director there. Oregon state center for the humanities and founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He also studied at harvard, waysleyan and at the university of virginia. Chris is an expert on, i would say, earliest parts of the 20th century. Of course, is he expanding out. He and i, before we came on, were just chatting about new work we have coming out on ideologies on u. S. Foreign policy. That book itself, that term, that title, was a seminole book in the field in 1987. Im really glad someone has decided to go in and update it, shall we say. Theres no better person to do it than chris. Will he talk to us about the 1918 pandemic. I would encourage you, as you look at your zoom screen, on the bottom youll see a q a button. Please, hit that button and submit your questions
The 1918 flu pandemic altered American Life in ways that are familiar to those living through the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Conflicting information left people wary and fearful. College classes were held outside, sports were canceled, asks or challenged as unamerican, and fines imposed on those who refuse to wear them. Next, Christopher Mcknight nichols recounts how the country experienced the events of a century ago and the lessons we might learn. He directs the Oregon University center for humanities. Since the pandemic has begun, for our purposes, since we shut down in march, they thing that has been driving our analysis here as historians is what is the historical precedent . Obviously, 1918 is the one that comes to mind and we have nobody better to tell us about 1918 that my friend christopher nichols. Hes an associate professor of history at oregon state. Hes the director of the Oregon State Center for humanities and the founder of their citizenship and crisis initiative. He als
Because the s p 500 is down a little bit more than it had been , down poured 4 . Earlier it had been down. 1 . Perhaps a reason for caution overall to think maybe the difficulties around the nearterm may continue to move ahead. If we look at havens on the week, we have the yen climate against the dollar and bonds higher. Some reason for caution, but small moves. David one piece of news overnight. Late yesterday we heard Steven Mnuchin had sent a letter to his friend jay powell saying please give us back the money we gave you for the emergency Lending Programs. He probably did not like jay powell do not like that much. Did the markets like that . Abigail we have not seen much of reaction. Bonds are lower which means yields are higher. What is interesting is we do have a reaction for the financials. The financials typically would climb on yields going higher, but they are not. There i be uncertainty around this bat and what it means. The lifeblood of this rally coming out of the march lo