A change to our advertised programme, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Leaders around the world have the language of war, to capture the scale of the threat posed by coronavirus. But are they deploying the right weaponry notjust to protect public health, but to prevent a worldwide economic depression. My guest is laurence boone, chief economist at the Global Economic forum in the oecd. Will we get the dramatic co ordinated emergency intervention required to stave off Economic Disaster . Laurence boone in paris, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you, thanks for the invitation. It is a pleasure to have you on the show, your own president , president macron talks about a war. Has country in the world being engaged in a war against coronavirus. Do you see that actions are matching the words when it comes to trying to say that the World Economy . There are actually three fronts on which we have two fight this battle. Health, financial and social. With healt
Its about 4 30am and youre up to date with the headlines. Now on bbc news, its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Leaders around the world have adopted the language of war to capture the scale of the threat posed by coronavirus. But are they deploying the right weaponry . Notjust to protect public health, but to prevent a worldwide economic depression. My guest is laurence boone, chief economist at the Global Economic forum, the oecd. Will we get the dramatic, co ordinated emergency intervention needed to stave off Economic Disaster . Laurence boone in paris, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thanks for the invitation. Well, its a pleasure to have you on the show. Of course, youre in paris. Your own president , president macron, talks about a war. Has country in the world being engaged in a war against coronavirus. Do you see that actions are matching the words when it comes to trying to say that the World Economy . There are actually three fronts on wh
Healthcare staff to give thanks for their tireless work as they try to save lives. Hello and welcome to bbc news. There are now more confirmed cases of covid 19 in the United States than in any other country in the world. According to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins university, the us now hasjust over 83,00 cases, overtaking both china, and italy. The news comes as the total number of confirmed cases around the world has now passed half a million. In terms of lives lost, countries in europe continue to be worst affected, with more than 700 deaths in italy in the last 2a hours, bringing the total to more than 8,200. There was a jump in deaths in spain too. And as the us economy goes into lockdown, the number of americans filing for unemployment has surged to a record high nearly 3. 3 Million People applied for Unemployment Benefits last week. Lets stay with the total number of us cases though a short while ago, President Trump was asked about the numbers. Its a tribute to the amou
Hello and welcome to bbc world news. There are now more confirmed cases of covid 19 in the United States than in any other country in the world. According to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins university, the us now hasjust over 82,400 cases, overtaking both china, with around 81,700 cases, and italy, with nearly 80,600. The news comes as the total number of confirmed cases around the world has now passed 500,000. In terms of lives lost, countries in europe continue to be worst affected, with more than 700 deaths in italy in the last 2a hours, bringing the total to more than 8,200. There was a jump in deaths in spain, too. And, as the us economy goes into lockdown, the number of americans filing for unemployment has surged to a record high. Nearly 3. 3 Million People applied for Unemployment Benefits last week. Lets stay with the total number of us cases, though. A short while ago, President Trump was asked about the numbers. Its a tribute to the amount of testing that we are doing.
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