Things. We dare to ask. This is boom bust the one business show you cant afford to miss. In washington coming up oil prices dropped more than 2 percent on wednesday the 1st time in 5 sessions well explain what this means for the future of the already and the Energy Sector plus the u. S. Should now be considering working with wall way to standard all this after is a long time or i get to talk. To you today so lets go and dive right in. Numbers for the Global Pandemic now show more than 3700000 people are infected with a chronic virus more than 260000 deaths have been recorded will be u. S. Has more than 1200000 cases and at least 43 states actually plan to open completely or partially reopen their economies by this weekend this while president appeared to reverse course when he tweeted earlier ones day that the White House Task force welcome to. New and definitely with its focus on safety and opening up our country again he also reiterated that earlier during a briefing well tensions be
Status of u. S. , u. K. Relations. This is about a half an hour. Thank you so much for joining us. If you havent already signed up to my weekly newsletter, its free and you can sign up at mrpolitico. Com, global. And its my pleasure to introduce the new British Ambassador to the United States, karen pierce. Welcome, ambassador. Thank you very much. Its such a pleasure to have you here. Weve got about 30 minutes of a chat now and well get to our questions as well during the conversation. If you havent sent them already, post them on twitter u. S. Ing askpolitico. Weve got great ones rolling in. And ambassador, i wont spend most time about policy, but were in such strange times i thought maybe we could ask questions about how your job is actually unfolding before we get into the meaty stuff. Maybe lets start with the border stuff first. Youve got experience in the u. N. And conflict zones. Thinking about to all of those eras, whats changed from when you start you had out in diplomacy . W
Rush outside. Ghosts of space just across from. The people walking on the beach but the support despite as you can see there are so many. Internationals world views h. Q. Here in moscow its kevin owen with here thanks for your company for the next 30 minutes to take you through the main stories of the last 7 days as reported by us and 1st tonight the latest covert 19 figures had so weak where the worlds reached another grim milestone the total number of infections now around the world is more than 4100000. 00 the virus has also claimed more than 281000 lives in terms of recovery over 1400000 people have managed to conquer the disease. The latest here in russia tonight the total number of infections is no climbed above 200000 with again a record amount of daily new cases logged today sunday its now the 5th most affected country and one of the highest rates of new infections in europe officials put the spike much of any way down to an increase in mass testing giving a fuller picture of t
Seems few have been ready to rush outside nonetheless. You know its because of thats very very sweet just the push for us to be putting up with the. Sport despite as you can see there are so many. Evening life from our to International News h. Q. Here in moscow its kevin along with you thanks for your company for the next 30 minutes and stick around to take you through the main stories of the last 7 days as reported by us 1st on the latest code 19 figures its been a week when the world reached another grim milestone the total number of infections is now more than 4100000 the virus has now claimed more than 282000 lives in terms of recoveries of 1400000 people have managed to conquer the disease. Here in russia the total number of infections is no climbed above 200000 with again a record amount of daily new cases logged today sunday its now the 5th most affected country and as one of the highest rates of new infections in europe officials put much of a spike down to an increase in mass
Up tonight more criticism from the Trump Administration aimed at the World Health Organization white house Officials Say the w. H. O. A well the coronavirus out of control. Over 100 countries are now backing an inquiry into how the organization handled the well talk with a doctor from the. Good to have you with us we now have a 1st cost projection for rescuing europes economy from the pandemic half a trillion. German chancellor Angela Merkel and french president. Have outlined a joint plan to speed europes economic recovery it will be a rescue fund to boost hard hit sectors of the economy and in a 1st chance or men. Work with her longstanding resistance to the e. U. Raising joint debt to Fund Recovery efforts heres more now from merkel and micron as they were detailing their proposal earlier today for the Franco German cooperation and Franco German friend. Leads us to setting a signal we know that we are 27 and when france and germany give a signal no i think the whole of europe is in