Billy learning a lot about Scottish History len says what a great show alex i was so disappointed that the march in our boat was cancelled to us you really cheered me up and now with us the author of pandemic century dr mark holick sperm to his view of the coming few really this is what he had to say that there is something old about the spars the way it seems to be a very subtle virus a very wily parrs if you think about a good strategy for a virus to spread while worldwide is actually not to make many people sick right in darwinian terms a virus will succeed if it gets stronger controls the best way it can do that is the spread of the radar by not causing overt illness so thats what its doing and today he joins me from west london dr holly. History im interested in particular in the sure the Economic Impact of the pandemic through history do we have something to teach us about the likely economic consequences of this medical and human disaster. Well yes and so if you look to you know
Down plus well take another look at the global spread of the coronavirus and action taken by governments around the world and the markets are in the red again and being dragged down by poor big performance we have expert analysis on hand to go over the details with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And a huge agreement has been reached between the Trump Administration and u. S. Airlines for a bailout package in the billions included in the 2 trillion dollars stimulus package signed on march 27th was about 25000000000 dollars for the Airline Industry but until now the Treasury Department and the airlines had not come to an agreement on exactly how or under what conditions the airlines would receive that money now the greenman which came together late tuesday includes warrants that could lead to the federal government owning equity stakes in the companies and requirements that 30 percent of the assistance would have to be paid back now according to treasury secretary kerry steve
Will, at times, have to stand up to presient trump, president putin, president xi of china, so it was surely not expecting too much that he spent half an hour standing up to me. A british woman has made a full recovery after suffering a cardiac arrest which lasted six hours. It feels really incredible that i survived it and im just really lucky to be here and to be able to get on with my life. And nine year old mikey poulli went completely blind at the age of seven because of a rare eye condition. Hes now been earmarked as a future football star and is here, with his dad, after he won a pride of sport award. Hello, welcome to the programme. Were live until 11 00 this morning. Some breaking news to bring you straightaway, Jeremy Corbyn is giving a press conference he has just claimed that he has got hold of confidential documents which he claims show that there will be customs checks between Northern Ireland and britain if borisjohnsons brexit deal goes through. We are hoping to speak t
Russias arctic north and far east are being ravaged by huge wildfires, with up to four million hectares ablaze and vast areas engulfed by smoke. The Prime Minister, dmitri medvedev, has ordered police to investigate whether the fires were started deliberately to hide evidence of illegal logging. Russian militaryjets are providing back up to firefighters battling the blazes, which have been burning in some cases for weeks. Fires are common at this time of year, but record breaking summer temperatures and strong winds have made this year particularly bad. Our moscow correspondent Steve Rosenberg has travelled to the remote irkutsk region of siberia and he sent this report. For weeks now, siberia has been smouldering. Vast swathes of forest shrouded in smoke and many ravaged by fire. Wildfires are common here, but not on this scale. In siberia, an area the size of belgium is burning. The kremlin has sent in the army, military planes doing what they can to extinguish the blaze. The fires a
five or ten years being really characterised by a lot of churn and push towards more statism. we remain quite sceptical of the ability to turn the economic fortunes. there have been good signs in the past, a few days that they are a bit more rational, realistic, setting the gross targeted 5% but the end of the day, the composition of the committee is reallyjust where xi jinping is, that shows that politics will be there for a little while longer so we take the news with a grain of salt. i longer so we take the news with a grain of salt- longer so we take the news with a grain of salt. i wonder some of the events matching grain of salt. i wonder some of the events matching away grain of salt. i wonder some of the events matching away from - grain of salt. i wonder some of the i events matching away from mainland china do weigh on the willingness of international companies to continue investing in increased investments investing in increased investments in china. we have t