Comes under severe strain. These cops who. Just come and physically and verbally abuse me for my race. A very warm welcome to the program from all of us here. In moscow thanks for joining us this hour. Now 1st lets start with the latest figures on the coronavirus the number of confirmed cases has now toppled 230000 worldwide but the death toll at more than 9000 and another development the World Health Organization says it has started testing a new vaccine. The death toll in italy has now surpassed that of china topping more than 3400 the country has also recorded its highest number of infections detected in a single day for the most 4 and a half 1000 new cases the Prime Minister says the nationwide lockdown may need to be extended beyond able the 3rd while the army is also now been called into the northern town of berger mo to help move the backlog of coffins video posted on social media shows trucks preparing to transport bodies the military moved in after the City Cemetery became ove
On every 19th. On february 19. Take a look at the banking sector, take a look at the mining sector, take a look at what is happening with the oil sector. These sectors are down by circa 30 since those highs were hit. Brent crude bouncing back today, up by nearly 8 , after saudi makes it very clear they intend to pump a lot of oil during the month of april. This Oil Price War is not going to go away in a hurry. The german 10 year yield, we are selling off today. We are 10 basis points higher. In italy, 12 basis points lower. The spread tightening up a little bit, but nevertheless, italy has been on offer for the last couple of days. Maybe some fiscal action helping the story out a little bit. Nevertheless, we have a big call between eu leaders. We will have to wait and see. Vonnie we will get all of that later today, but for todays market action, what we are looking at right now, we are joined by nancy davis, Quadratic Capital Management cio. Also joining us, our market live editor this
Or id welcome everybody broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this of course is R T International im sean thomas and glad to have you with us. Iran has admitted to accidentally downing a ukrainian passenger plane killing all 176 people on board the countrys Aerospace Commander has said the armed forces accept full responsibility for wednesdays tragedy he went on to explain that the boeing 737. 00 was mistaken for a cruise missile. You know were not heard that the flight to this showdown. With terrible incident. He went on to explain that an air Defense System operator had faulty. Communications equipment and had just 10 seconds to make a decision the general said his units had requested a no fly zone before the incident but that request was actually denied for on specified reasons as part of the investigation the black boxes of the crash the boeing 737. 00 will be deciphered in ukraine with french experts assisting in the Technical Work tehrans admission that it unintenti
Broadcasting live in moscow this international. Iran has admitted to accidentally downing a ukrainian passenger plane killing all 176 people on board the countrys Aerospace Commander has said the armed forces accept full responsibility for wednesdays tragedy he explained that the boeing 737 was mistaken for a cruise missile. Well its you know a bit like you were not heard of the little white additional down i wish there was that says i never would want to but without a suitable incident a college he went on to explain that an air Defense System operator had faulty communications and had just 10 seconds to make a decision the general said his units had requested a no fly zone before the incident but the request was denied for unspecified reasons as part of the investigation the black boxes of the crash a boeing 737. 00 will be deciphered in ukraine with french experts assisting in the Technical Work tehrans admission that it unintentionally shot down the airliner came after repeated den
General mike compare struggled to explain the alleged threat posed by Major General slow money during a press conference earlier. Reports. Things got quite easy at the press conference where we saw mike pompei o the u. S. Secretary of state speaking alongside steve minutia in the secretary of treasury and this comes just a week after the killing of irans top general qassam solomonic and as the press asked questions that got particularly tense mike pompei o seemed a little bit uncomfortable trying to answer the questions of journalists who just dont seem to buy his claim that the killing of solomonic was necessary to protect american lives lets take a listen to some of what went on if you have a specific information about the internet and didnt have anything to do with our embassies. We had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats from included attacks on the u. S. Embassies what is your definition of that in that. This was going to happen in american lives