At all for this hour news wise but if youre looking for more head on over to our website r. T. Dot com for countless articles and interviews thanks for tuning in. I mention are times you were going underground as amid an International Coronavirus crisis the u. K. Government unveils a budget just weeks after pm Boris Johnson fired his own finance minister coming up on the show is it too late to pump money into Health Infrastructure devastated by the tory austerity that followed the 2008 western economic crash or is britains new liberal epidemic of inequality killing off the poorest too quickly we speak to economist guy standing who is set to advise the Jeremy Corbyn government if we did 1 december general election and we ask the author of why nations fail british economist James Robinson if the u. K. Chancellor should today be looking to communist china for tips on reviving britains economy plus we ask a former u. K. Home Office Minister why a pandemic hasnt yet been declared in britain
Shadow chancellor John Mcdonald will measure this budget with joining me now from geneva in switzerland is someone who has advised a shadow chancellor standing cofounder of the basic Income Earth Network guy thanks so much for coming back on so after years of tory austerity the un called it callous policies driven by a political desire for social reengineering how well prepared is the chancellor to offer policies in response to Something Like coronavirus well to be frank i think its almost irresponsible to be having a budget today the chancellor is a young man whos never had a senior government position before and hes been in the job for weeks to prepare a complex budget and an extremely sensitive moment in our modern history when weve not only got the pandemic rushing towards us but the World Economy is at the very very fragile state. Bad mistakes at national and International Level could lead us into a big recession i want to get to those macro level top topics in a 2nd but im not su
Plummet as donald trump suspends most travel from europe for the next 30 days. The dow becomes the first u. S. Index to enter a bear market. The who declares the coronavirus a pandemic. Treasuries and the yen surge. The pressure rises on the ecb to make a move today after emergency cuts from the fed and the bank of england. What does she have left in the toolbox . An hour away from the european open and we are looking at substantial drops. Dax futures down more than 6 . Down ae got ftse futures little less, 5 . 5. 25 . Ures down u. S. Futures even after the big drop yesterday are posting three or 4 drops, it is set to be a risk off open. Anna a very risk off open, the route continues. Rout continues. Some weakness coming through, dark red boxes. Markets this is slipping them around daily. We see money going into the yen, stronger by 0. 8 against the dollar. You can see bond markets, a lot , yields coming down once more as markets were what president by was and was not saying. Mark on e
A budget bust up in brussels an emergency summit seize the blocks leaders failed to agree on a post from the bring in live comment on. Why they just had a 6 pm early saturday evening here in moscow that through the afternoon more in london there were autopsies about come from well welcome from me kevin now in from the r. T. International World News Center here so that lets focus on whats happening in the u. K. The softer new wiki leaks founder Julian Assange is set to begin his u. S. Extradition hearing in a london court this coming monday but ahead of the trial is supporters of the south indian rallying in london calling for the whistle blows released media chooses their own reports back for us. In the center. With protesters who are opposing the possible. Addition of Julian Assange to the us we watch from australia house is australian of course to Parliament Square and you can see behind me theres a lot of talks going on anson entertainment in support of putin now this is of course t
A lot of power was clear on these nothing of course that i have a politics out and i have to decide where that want to lead she Going Forward will be clear in these months is up enough to play the man beside. Deputy labor leadership candidate Richard Bergen there joining me now is someone who refuses to be silent of a jury of songe pink floyd cofounder roger waters roger thanks for coming in the studio at last this line of the finely exactly youve been campaigning for julia songe eloquently there you talked about there by Richard Bergen you know that the british Guardian Newspaper or maybe channel 4 news if you watch that you could be forgiven for thinking you and Richard Bergen and others are basically convening for brush an agent whos committed sex crimes i mean everything that hes said now is true and. How theyre even having these sex titian. Trial for Julian Assange is weird because its goes completely contrary as we know to u. K. Law so our law the law of this country the law that