A try you. Just have. A very warm welcome from all of us here in moscow this is r. T. International with minichiello and lets begin with the latest update on the global covert 19 situation the pandemic is still raging with 2700000 cases now confirmed and the number of fatal ots has surpassed 192000 but over 757000 people have recovered. Well korda virus isnt the only thing that spreading during this pandemic conspiracy theories about the origins of covert 19 have swung to the internet as arties caleb maupin looks at why they gaining so much traction. The coronavirus can demick is opening up weird new horizons for online conspiracy theorists the virus was bioengineered in a lab by scientists to be used as a weapon or a form of population control this is a theory the form of politician Bronwyn Bishop has also suggested it is to get rid of nonproductive chinese in the Chinese Community in the words of george that is who should be eliminated. So they dont have to be but its getting beyond
To watch closely as the succession happens, david . Yeah. Its not unexpected carl it was done in unexpected fashion given so many things that are different right now at t was having its annual meeting and doing it remotely, virtually, and mr. Stephenson announced it during the course of the annual meeting, that as you said, he will be stepping down at the end of june to be replaced by mr. Stankey as ceo mr. Stephenson will remain on as chairman of the company until january of next year stankey will become a member of the board of directors taking the role of ceo. He is president and coo he got that promotion back a number of months but questions in terms of whether he would get the top job and whether the board of directors would support him for that mr. Stephenson made it clear that he was going to leave the company as its leader most likely this year and obviously choosing to move forward with that, despite the Current Crisis his 13 years at the helm of the company, of course, have b
Answers and a white father and son are arrested over the killing of arboretum who was shot to death while out running in georgia. Thanks for joining us we begin in the u. S. Where new figures released on friday show unemployment has surged in april the largest rise in close to 90 years tens of millions of jobs have been wiped out across the country as the coronavirus lockdown crippled the economy unemployment skyrocketed to 14. 7 percent it was 4. 4 percent in march and april 20 and a half 1000000 jobs were lost the worst result since the Great Depression which began in 1929 its far exceeds the 2008 global recession when 8700000 jobs were wiped out our White House Correspondent kelly how kits has the numbers were expected but not welcome. The u. S. President reacting to them in just the last half hour speaking to reporters talking about these numbers and once again time trying to project optimism calling the shutdown that resulted in the loss of these jobs as a sensually being artifici
Fight the virus. This as deaths in the u. S. Surge past 50,000. The numbers are Getting Better in spain and italy but seem to be getting worse in places like russia and germany. The World Health Organization also forming an International Alliance to ensure that vaccines and treatments are distributed fairly. We are just ahead of a big week in earnings. I want to bring in taylor riggs. Sammys buoying the markets. What were you watching . Taylor exact reversal of yesterday. Outperformance within the tech sector but we are still lower for the week. We are waiting a bunch of being earnings coming next week. We got some chipmakers reporting this week. I will also talk about crude. Monday and tuesday, you had crude go below zero for the first time ever. Some of the losses we saw on monday and tuesday, even though the Energy Market rebounded, not enough to offset the big losses in crude. Contract still on pace for their worst week ever. You are starting to see some of that pessimism. Pandemic
Bradford on the power and influence on the European Union. Its a subject of her book the brussels effect. Good evening, everyone. Thank you so much for being with us. I am David Schizer one of the codirectors of the Richmond Center and i i also served of Columbia Law School from 20,422,014 which i mentor for a very particular reason, i was the dean when professor anu bradford joined our faculty and its one of my brightest moments to persuade her to do that. Im on a stick kickoff a fascinating discussion about the influence of europe on the global marketplace. Last year, the wall street journal called the decline w of europe as a remote consequential shift of the last hundred years. There is some truth in that t since world war ii, the military influence in europe declined and also true that europes Economic Growth has not compared favorably with that of the United States or with china or india. And of course efforts to maintain an Economic Union so europe has been more complicated late