Lift its lockdown restrictions despite the high number of cases there. So there are some worrying signs coming out of europe where the economy has suffered its biggest quarterly hit on record it shrunk by 3. 8 percent so far this year the euro zones sharpest drop since records began in 1905 yet another indicator of the widespread economic devastation caused by the coronavirus lockdowns around the world i was off to germany of course europes strongest economy announced its g. D. P. Is likely to shrink by more than 6 percent this year dominic kane in berlin looking at this one. Looking for some for some good news or maybe a bit of a turn around but this is going to be in a bad way for a while. Yes used the audio problem slightly coming to my end kemal but yes a tale of economic woe is unfolding at a european level but also at the german level says you were saying that the German Economy is definitely going to shrink by perhaps more than 6 percent but thats for the year for the current co
A live update from beirut. Libyan war logs Khalifa Haftar announces a ceasefire during ramadan soon after launching another attack on. The with the sports man is set to be crowned champions in france as the Domestic League season is cancelled. With numbers just released out of the us that show the continuing trend of widespread job losses more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits over the past week well that takes the total number of jobless from 26000000. 00 last week to more than 30000000. 00 now the Unemployment Rate hovered around 3. 5 percent between december and february but in march it jumped to a 2. And a half year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly more than 7000000. 00 people a state governments now begin to restart their economies their easing lockdown measures more than half of the 50 states including florida or partially reopen by the end of the week as the john hopkins dashboard shows at least 1000000 people in the u. S. Have contracted the virus nearly 61000 have di
Fight against the pandemic one of the worst hit countries in asia reports no new local cases. And the u. S. City of miami starts to lift its lockdown restrictions despite a high number of cases. Im going to go with sports is italy its football season looks set to be scrapped players are about to start training again but the country sports minister wants to follow france and the netherlands and focus on next season instead. Its 10 g. M. T. And we start in europe where the economy has suffered its biggest quarterly hit on record shrinking by 3. 8 percent so far this year thats the eurozone sharpest drop since records began in 1995 so yet another indicator of the widespread economic devastation caused by the coronavirus lockdowns around the world all that comes after germany which is europes strongest economy announced its g. D. P. Is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year because straight to don. It came it joins us live from len so dominic we were expecting of course the ec
The council who have tuned in not only to today but for your strong support to the council in the past and especially in this critical time. A special welcome to everyone joining the council for the first time. Our main topic today is about the leadership challenges facing people around the globe with covid19. Both currently and in the future. We are absolutely thrilled to have with us today dr. David navarro to talk about these matters. The doctor was the special unveiled envoy for the u. N. He was also the special coordinator for the u. N. For the avian flu, the bird flew, pandemic, epidemic. He is currently special envoy for the World Health Organization for this covid19 response. History inng Infectious Diseases and Public Health. David, thank you. We are thrilled you could be with us today. Its great to be with you all. Delighted to be part of this webinar. Thank you. Lets start with giving us an update. Before we get into leadership issues, give us an update on where we are in th
Committee will come to order. The appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, education and related agencies will come to order. Before my opening statement, i want to recognize melinda bikini, we had a chance to meet and talk about her cancer fight and the success shes made there when we were out in nih a few days ago, and we are glad youre here and i was just told that the youngest of your six children just got their drivers license so good luck with that. Good luck with all of that and we were glad to have a chance to meet with her, glad to have dr. Collins and the other Institute Directors here today. The budget, of course, proposes cuts that i think that you can rest assured the committee will find unacceptable. The 7. 5 billion cut from nih would according to analysts, this funding would cost nearly 90,000 jobs nationwide, result in 15. 3 billion of lost economic activity. In my home state of missouri that equates to a loss of nearly 1,700 jobs and 292 millio