Actually absolutely destroy the outgoing un special rapporteur of course Operations Leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the continued persecution of Rohingya Muslims im joining the with sporting doubts around the take here lympics is japans Prime Minister says it will be impossible to host the games next year unless the current virus pandemic is contained. Its still early days in the pandemic triggered world wide recession but we now have a better sense of how hard key sectors of the economy are being impacted the Worlds Largest economy the United States has wiped out a decade of growth shrinking by 4. 8 percent in the 1st quarter according to figures released a short time ago one of its largest manufacturers boeing as reported losses of at least 600000000. 00 while european rival says that it lost more than half a 1000000000. 00 in the 1st quarter to europes largest economy will have the worst year since the end of the 2nd world war germany contracted by to. Percent in the 1st quarter but it
Latest target is the World Health Organization his criticism mounts over his response to the pandemic. Ethiopia declares a state of emergency warning of grave illegal measures against anybody who undermines the fight against. A bleak prognosis for African Americans and a plea to learn the lessons from current are. So then the uns a chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report explicitly blaming the Syrian Government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and looked at 3 attacks in 2017 in the northern syrian town of the men in Hama Province it says there are reasonable grounds to believe Government Forces used bombs containing sarin that hit heavily can jet. Its civilian areas including a hospital the report goes on to say that Bashar Al Assads heavy use of chemical weapons has been a crucial part of his regimes military strategy lets cross straightaway to our diplomats at the james base who joins us from the U
Dont fare much better. Of the 20 companies which spend the most on lobbying in washington according to figures by opensecrets. Org, only google is on the list, spending 50 million on influence in washington much the nation a association of realtors spends twice that. And kind of pretty sure that Julie Samuels is a lobbyist though. Her organization, engine, prefers to say it supports the growth of technology, entrepreneurship through economic research, policy analysis is and an advocacy. Let me introduce John Schwartz of usa today, mick hall efram of fortune. Are you or are you not a lobbyist . For starters there is a Legal Definition of lobbyist and i am not one. Okay. Register as a lobbyist. You have to say i am a lobbyist. Correct. We will get to why an undocumented lobbyist . Well, i work in at vo cassie. I work in at vo cassie. We will get to the difference in a second. When one registers as lobbyist, what does that mean that youre not . What is the difference that my understanding
Two sides to the argument. And he almost preparing and bracing the country for the possibility that they may advise him against reopening parts of the economy and he may decide to do so anyway. But, of course, i think its too soon to know, because we have to see what happens several weeks from now when we get closer to that may 1 deadline. But the president characterized this as the biggest decision he is going to make as president. And, chuck, he is not wrong about that, because, of course. No, he is not wrong. Against the backdrop of his reelection campaign. And stephanie, i think there real is an ideological disagreement here. I do think you have a lot of what identical small c conservatives, not in a partisan way, but more of, well, this is the price of doing business, or this is the price, that there is a philosophical debate that is
real that the president is on the receiving end from. We dont know where his ideology falls on those things all the time. But there is a real constit