Now on bbc news, its hardtalk. Welcomed two hardtalk, im stephen sackur. As the global effort to control covid 19 continues, so arguments about culpability for the spread of the virus intensify. And at the heart of the story, china where the outbreak began. Did the Chinese Government impose to impulse to cover up the truth but the world in danger . 0r where they responded to admiral determination . My responded to admiral determination . My guest today is chinas ambassador in london liu xiaoming. Is china the villain or the hero of this pandemic. Ambassador liu xiaoming, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you for to be with you again. We are delighted to have you again. We are delighted to have you on this programme at this difficult time. Let me ask you a simple question. Do you accept that covid 19 has its origins in china . It was first discovered in wuhan. But i cant say it originated from wuhan. I called into many information, many reports including bbc. It can be everywhere and anywhere.
22 million americans now out of looking at light snow. Rain and heavy rain through a job in just one month. The Governments Emergency Fund for Small Businesses already central parts of illinois. Weve got 24 Million People empty. The latest on Recovery Efforts affected by this system as it just ahead pushes to the east with winter wind advisories. Snow across great lakes into new on the front lines this the toughest time in Law Enforcement ive seen in 30 england today. It arrives rain late for the years. Midatlantic states. Police across the country patrolling near empty streets enforcing social distancing, tomorrow a rainsnow mix ends by early afternoon. What its really like. Our exclusive ride along in the morning rain and storms in the carolinas as this pushes away. Nations second largest city we are looking for snowfall amounts anywhere from 1 to 6 of those stories plus stars align snow in some spots when you wish upon a star these are the last snowfalls on beyonce, ariana grande, t
Sectorsre your main leading the rally today. We should mention this is unlimited volume as well. It is up 11 . In the case of the dow and s p lower than it was a day ago. Passover begins tonight. We might see limited trading. Friday is a public holiday. Monday there might be people off. Jay powell is speaking, and that might provide some catalyst for market pricing. Romaine joining us is christina from invesco. ,hen you look at these rallies it is an encouraging sign, but the market seems to be very focused on the virus data we are getting, the number of deaths and what is a decline in the number of new cases in certain regions. The market will start to focus on little less on the virus count, and focus more on the economic numbers, corporate profitability, the more traditional metrics, and is it going to matter knowing that we know it is going to be bad . Kristina that is the point you are making is right. It is going to be bad. The market is likely not to focus on it which is the rig
A little background on that. We need industrial mobilization to make adequate ventilators particularly in the very short run to help the people in new york detroit new orleans chicago Denver Seattle all around this country as this virus bears down the ventilators really are the most important thing for patients who become most seriously ill theyre literally the lifeline for people and ive personally been working with thema and ive been working with h. H. S. And over 10 Ventilator Companies making sure we can get what we need as quickly as possible and virtually every one of those companies has been cooperative patriotic moving in trump time which is to say as soon as possible sir but we did have a problem with g. M. And then tack on the one hand we had ford and g. M. Moving forward on a similar kind of project patriotically moving as fast as possible over the last several days we ran into road blocks with g. M. We cannot afford to lose a single day particularly over the next 30 to 60 d
Home in the east bay. Good evening and thank you so much for joining us tonight at 5 im Justine Waltman tonight we have learned that 6 residents have an east bay nursing facility have died from covid19 the gateway care and rehab center hayward well theyre at least 59 people have tested positive for the virus that breaks down to 24 staff and 35 residents of those residents 6 have died. There are more infections at another Alameda County facility, the east bay postacute center in Castro Valley says 17 staff and 9 residents have tested positive. But there are no deaths there at this point. Today governor gavin newsom gave more details on the states plan to bring in hundreds of millions of masks into california on a monthly basis. Our Capitol Bureau reporter Ashley Zavala explains how this will happen. California set to spend about one billion to open up a massive flow of personal protective equipment into the state the governor confirming 200 Million Masks most of which are and 95 zuill c