A hit. India announces a 23000000000. 00 Stimulus Program that includes cash handouts and free food for the poor. Surprise twist in the Israeli Knesset so Opposition Leader benny gantz nominates himself to serve the speaker. And im peter same with you sport italian officials believe a Champions League football match could be partly responsible for the spread of coronavirus in one of its hottest hit cities well hear from. On what people are calling games 0. So then the number of corona virus infections around the world is approaching half a 1000000 cases in italy and the United States are expected to surpass china where the pandemic started. The virus continues to ravage europe spain well its struggling to cope another 650 people have died in the past 24 hours bringing the told to more than 4000 European Commission head is calling for a unified response against the outbreak saying its just too much for any one country to handle across the United States nearly 70000. 00 people have been
30 in the u. S. In the second quarter. It is looking to be pretty dire right now. The nikkei seems to be the outlier given that they were closed on friday. Haslinda taking a look at where we are right now. We talk about how we are down 3 , the selloff making chinese stocks pretty cheap. At least 20 low the 10 year average. Sti down about 70 . Singapore allies, that stock is slumping after canceling 90 of capacity. Year to date, down about 33 . Crude currently down about 1 on in termsof a 23 slide of crude prices just last week. 1500, way off from what we were expecting late last year, inching toward 1800. Yvonne lets get more context with our Bloomberg Markets coag or, david ingles coanchor, david ingles. He is at home. What stood out to you . Boj firsthad the expanding more than it was originally planning. New zealand with the big announcement this morning that they are also planning to undertake some sort of qe as well. Australia has also widened the scope of its bond buying operatio
A hit. Wanted for Drug Trafficking in the u. S. Charges venezuelas president with what it calls narco terrorism and offers a reward for his arrest. A surprise twist in Israels Parliament Opposition Leader benny gantz is elected speaker signaling a unity deal Benjamin Netanyahu. So then another spike in the number of new coronavirus cases in italy has taken the global total to more than half a 1000000 more than 6000 infections and 662 deaths have been reported in italy in the past 24 hours and this means 80000 people have the virus just 1000 behind chinas total another e. U. Country struggling to cope is spain 650 people have died bringing the toll that to morrow. Than 4000. 00 across the United States nearly 70000. 00 people have been infected and the death toll now exceeds 1000. 00 the senate has approved a 2 trillion dollars package to support the economy as a number of unemployment claims sause to a record 3200000. 00 and india has unveiled a 23000000000. 00 stimulus package to prov
And in one u. S. Territory join us at 7 00 tonight on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. , march 3, 2020. I hereby appoint the honorable john a. Yarmuth to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore please be seated. Pursuant to thed orer of the house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now remember recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour detpwhafmente chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority w
Longtimlongtime no see. I am thrilled to be moderating just about the most distinguished panel anyone could assemble foreignpolicy to my extreme right, max boot, i should say he used to be to my extreme right. [laughter] only on this stage in my twoyear extreme right. Not so much anymore. He is known to all of you as a prolific writer of columns for the Washington Post in the commentator on cnn, distinguished author of biographies and books on the military, i have a personal note to add, max was my first of the wall street journal and he was the best boss i have ever had and who was a good model for me on a personal basis for that reason for many years. You will notice he will get all the easy questions today. [laughter] jim fallows, well known to all of you as a distinguished writer for the atlantic, previous incarnation he was president carters chief speechwriter for a couple of years before winning a National Book award for his book on national defense, his career has taken him all