As we know it. Today hououse is meetingg under r exceptional and unprecedented circumstances. Adorned with a sea of n no sitting signs, the capacity of the chamber has been slashed from 650 to just 50. Hazard tape on the floor reminds those present to keep their distance. For the first time in their 700 year history, mps are being asked to do their jobs remotely. Easter recessm comes amid growing anger at the official response to covid119 with bliststering accounts off government in action in the early days of the outbreak. One key charge, a failure to foresee shortages of personal protective equipment for frontline workers. With Prime Minister Boris Johnson still recovering from thee virus, it fell to his healh minister to tell the british that the u. K. Is taking part in an eu procurement scheme. Although the European Commission says that isnt true. When we did receive an invitation in the department of health, as it came to the department of health, it was put up to me to be asked a
Not only was all welcome to convert some. Nobody has talked more about reforming the e. U. Than emanuel micro why should anyone listen when hes making such heavy weather of reforms in his own country. Well 1st youve been reforming from for more than 2 years with steady paff. The country is in chaos the cantar is not in care off there is no threat anymore are in real with all Public Transportation and there will be the most ambitious pension systems reform for decades with wish which will pass in the parliament in the next few weeks people have died in the instructions paris has reeked of tear gas for weeks on end youve had gigantic disruptions in transport so the worst transport disruption since the 1960 s. Are you talking about that office is the talk about paris you dont seem to come often to paris are i do i have my family in paris yes theyre with are from protests that suppression tradition birds are they hurt or 1700 people injured across the country 17 and a number of policemen i
Deal with the violence. And far from the bed of roses thousands of workers at sound farms and kenya lose their jobs. And people simply to school to european football focus is on a restart in july. Everybody needs to play their part in this National Effort and that means premier League Football is to put pressure grows on millionaire players in england to take a pay cuts as coronavirus leaves them also playing stuff out of food. Not the United States has suffered the worlds worst single day of the pandemic with close to 1200 deaths on thursday the total number of fatalities there has now passed 6000 the number of reported infections well why it is also now more than a 1000000 wartime powers are now being used in the us to. Gently needed equipment to hospitals President Donald Trump has invoked the defense production act ordering private companies to make masks ventilators and other medical equipment our White House Correspondent can be how it has more on these range of new measures anno
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The beginning of the conference. My name is seth i teach history at the university. And im here to proceed over this panel. Talking about the 1790s then and now thinking about the relationship between the particularly fragile moment in american political history which was the 1790s. And how we might think about what we can learn from that moment and how it connects or maybe it doesnt connect to whats happening in american political history at this moment. So the way this is going to work is ill introduce the four panelists. Each person will talk for five to seven minutes or so and develop a few lines of inquiry. Ill ask a few questions based upon what people have said. And folks will have a chance to have a conversation here. But then we want to leave the last at least 45 or 30 minutes for questions from the audience. So as we go on, please have in mind things that you want to say or things you want to ask about. All right. So i want to introduce folks from my left to my right. So firs