Hello that was Headline News 247 this is our international. Break welcome to the program u. S. Stock market suffered its worst trading day since 1907 with share prices tumbling by 13 percent on monday the coronavirus pandemic is causing turmoil on Financial Markets worldwide despite drastic action from Central Banks to limit the damage discussed whats driving the selloff with our senior correspondent. Well theres only one way this is going and it is going down look at yourself in a matter of weeks the Dow Jones Industrial average this is this is an average of many major corporations so an index of their stocks the average it is plunged to levels that we saw that the world was out in 2070 so over the course of a few weeks weve raced all economic progress made over the last 3 years and this is still early days yet i mean the pandemic in the United States it is predicted to get much much worse essentially what were seeing is the equivalent of a run on banks so if a bunch of people right o
Lawmakers. Rescue deal of to save me as the pandemic pushes markets. The worst since the. Financial crisis. The stories from the past 7 days on the run up to the moment of well this is the weekly an international a little welcome. Well there is just one inescapable issue dominating everyones thoughts right now the corona virus has claimed over 13000 lives world wide with the number of confirmed cases at more than 308000 asli reached a grim milestone this week surpassing china the country to have suffered the most fatalities currently more than 4800. Almost 800. 00 succumb to the disease at least now shutting down all production of nonessential goods. Well the European Union sealed itself off to travelers from outside europe this week as part of wide ranging efforts to stop the spread of covert 90. 2 limits to support of the various google we agreed to we enforce external borders by a close coordinates temporary wish to action of essential travel to the e. U. Or 30 days. Of front of the
Lawmakers push for a cross party rescue deal to try to save the economy as the pandemic leaves markets dealing with their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis america now has the 3rd highest number of recorded coronavirus place. Ive ever been afternoon. International h. Q. New center for the next hour with a recap of the news as reported by us to your the last 7 days a so the story big story came in here on this morning from croatia and Southeast Europe where a 5. 00 magnitude earthquake and then 2 aftershocks struck just north of the capital a 15 year old found in the rubble of a building is said to be critically ill in hospital several others are reported to have been injured in zagreb the streets. Seem to be littered with debris and with significant damage done to several buildings there the quake was the strongest in the region in the past 140 years among the damage the top of one of the spires of the citys iconic cathedral collapsed there are also Power Outages and problems
Known as the jasmine revolution. Well t today june is in the middle of a democratic selection of a new president people have not y yet seen perhaps the reward stay hopeful but there is a clear belief that unity is on the right track for a Better Future for all. We take a look back at the life and times of dictator ben ali in tunisia. For r more than twtwty years h he was an only presesent but untntouchable lea. Until the jasmine revolution of january two thousand eleven. Zine Al Abidine Ben ali was almost inescapable in tunisia. Hes rise began in the military. After training in france been on the rose to the rank of general in the tunisian army. He founded and ran to his his military Security Force for ten years before turning to politics. Finally reached the highest echelons of power w with breaknececk s speed in nineteen eighty six he became interior minister. Just onene youre wrog he moved on up the ladder to become Prime Minister benjamin tracing the frail pleased in florida. Littl
Today, donald trump seemed to some folks to be talking about Frederick Douglas as if he was a contemporary, somehow still alive and with us. But those were just distractions by comparisons today the Trump Presidency became a lot more real for a lot of people when his National Security advisor came into the Briefing Room and put iran on notice. And then walked out. We dont know what that means. More on that in a moment. That is some high stakes language to use. And its in response to their recent behavior including, but not limited to, the test launch of that unarmed missile. Perhaps the most president ial thing this new president has done in the job, he flew today with his daughter to the air base in dover, delaware, to witness the transfer of remains of a navy seal killed in yemen days ago. And to meet with members of the family. Back at the white house, after that, the president gave a brief and rather dark assessment of violence around the world before presiding over the swearing in