Good afternoon everyone and welcome to the sign institute of policy and politics summer series sign of the time. Im amy, executive director and at the sign institute we are a laboratory for University Wide collaboration and incubator for policy innovation. It can mean the best and brightest of the public, private, academic and nonprofit sectors as well as journalism and its program is only possible by a generous gift from our alumni, jeff simon and his wife meera for todays topic is the path to recovery, what is the true state of the u. S. Economy and it cannot be more timely. We would like to take a moment to acknowledge our cosponsor for this event, the school of business at American University and to think the dean for his support and also thank the distinguished leaders joining us today from our board of trustees and alumni board members. It is my pleasure at this time to introduce the people who will be leading this incredible conversation. Sylvia Matthews Burwell is president of
A decided to 5 in the morning nearly everyone in the city of melbourne has to stay indoors also on the show poised to make space travel history to u. S. Astronauts on the 1st ever private mission into space they face the final and most important part of their test flight returning to earth with a rare splash down to. America evanston a welcome we began in the australian state of victoria where a state of disaster has been declared amid a surge in corona virus infections a range of new lockdown measures has also been imposed including a nighttime curfew for the city of melbourne this comes after previous lockdown measures failed to curb a spike in new covert cases. Their last moments of freedom before the curfew came into effect the new measures are the countrys strictest to date melbourne is already under a 6 week lockdown but the infection numbers are still rising victorias premier has now declared a state of disaster. We cannot longer have people visiting out as we can no longer have
Malis long political crisis revise their earlier proposal we look at if it will satisfy the opposition or not irans foreign minister calls for stronger ties with iraq on his 1st visit since the u. S. Killed a top iranian general earlier this year. Reviving hollywood how covert 19 will mean higher costs and longer production times in the movie making business. And in sport arsenal knockout the defending champions to reach the english f. A. Cup final arsenal beating Manchester City to nail to make it to the title decider for a record 21st time. So we begin with that a u. Meeting in brussels where even with a Global Pandemic and everything its brought there is still no consensus over how to deal with the economic fallout leaders now into their 3rd day of meetings to hammer out a budget and a coronavirus bailout package and just so you know the kind of numbers were dealing with this one that is the European Union budget and im president of 2. 00 trillion dollars and then within that youve
Into here if they want the daily routine. The battle to lose weight as obesity is found to worsen the effects of coronavirus. We begin in brussels where talks between era leaders on the blocks budget and a crowd of our especially last have gone into all the time the 27 Member States are meeting for a 3rd day to discuss of 857000000000. 00 package to help e. U. Countries cope with the pandemic but theyre divided over how much money can be given out by governments as grants or as loans german chancellor Angela Merkel says shes not sure if a solution will be found. To indian today we are entering the 3rd day of negotiations and it is certainly the decisive one the various issues the size of the fund the way it is managed and also the issues of the rule of law have now been well dealt with whether theyll be a solution i still cant say theres a lot of goodwill but there are also a lot of positions so i will join in working for it but there may also be no result today lets go live now to me
A revolutionary guard general by the u. S. As a criminal act. Thousands of people protest in the democratic republic of congo demanding the dissolution of parliament plus. About trying to find Different Things you can build into your day to day routine. The battle to lose weight as obesity is found to worsen the effects of coronavirus. Hummus and i have all the support. I ask peer and make up a man that starts as arsenal be told as Manchester City 2 until to book a spot in the f. A. Cup final. Going beginning this news hour in brussels where e. U. Leaders are meeting to hammer out their budgets and a coronavirus bailout. This is important and heres why thats the amount of money we are talking about were discussing the e. U. s proposed budget its worth around 2. 00 trillion u. S. Dollars that does include 857000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars to help countries recover from the Global Pandemic however the leaders cant agree on how the money should be handed out some one clones whilst others fav