Pacific and mountain, 202 7488001. We have a line for medical professionals, we would love to hear from you. Its 202 7488002. We are also on twitter and facebook. We are taking your text messages. That number is 202 7488003. Tell us your first name and where you are texting from. We begin as we always do with a look at the sobering numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. More than 1. 2 million confirmed cases. The number ofs. Cases are approaching 330,000. 65,000 deaths around the country. Around the world, i should say. The u. S. Is leading the world in cases of coronavirus. That from Johns Hopkins university, which has been keeping track of this since the beginning in january. The president says a lot of death is coming. It will be the toughest week in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and he said this on saturday. He said this as the total number of coronavirus cases rose to over 300,000, with the number of deaths host at the Daily Briefing yesterday, deborah birx, o
After katrina, after disasters, when we are focused on the population, there need to be partnerships that exist between the Public Sector and the private sector to make sure that i continuity of care can sustain, so our partnership, our organization it designed to keep coordination and healthcare that old flowing after a disaster, can happen between the government and the private parallel sector. Portcrisis. What are the parallels from back in 2014, 2015 . Guest yes, i think one of the most important lessons from the Ebola Outbreak was the role of partnerships. A big part of the responsibility that our team had was to make sure that the u. S. State department was working with the who and working with the u. S. Agency on the coronation that needed to happen across government, with businesses, to make sure that the west african outbreak could be contained, and that whatever we could do to make sure that the logistics were able to flow could sustain, and i think that is a big part of what
Podcast. Given the political times that we are in and given the height and stocks of amazon, google, facebook and others, but you normally have a pretty broad scope of your coverage the job for the Financial Times by mandate was to figure out where the worlds biggest business and economic stories that cover them in opinion form which is a rather large mandate. I saw amazing numbers in terms of how well they took conditions to the Technology Sector since the great financial crisis and one of the numbers that really stuck out was the Global Institute figure looking at how 80 of corporate wealth was held at 10 of firm into those are the firms that were purchased in personal data and intellectual property so if you were holding the majority of the wealth they were the ones i profiled in the book there is some overlap with facebook and google making Digital Advertising they look at apple and mostly shined advertising. Its a great question. What they do have in common is the Network Effect a
And police as the Yellow Vest Movement marks its First Anniversary. And a shock defeat for Roger Federer at the atp finals in london, losing in straight sets to Stefanos Tsitsipas. Hello, and welcome to bbc news. Prince andrew has told the bbc he categorically denies having sexual relations with Virginia Roberts, who says she was forced to have sex with him when she was 17 years old. In an interview with Bbcs Newsnight hes answered questions for the first time about his links with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The duke of york said a sense of honour led him to continue his assocation with the disgraced financier. Our royal correspondent Nick Witchell reports. In the state rooms at Buckingham Palace, a Senior Member of the British Royal family, Prince Andrew, second son of the queen, is preparing to be interrogated about allegations of sleazy behaviour and gross misjudgment. Your royal highness, weve come to Buckingham Palace in highly unusual circumstances. At issue, whic
About allegations of sleazy behaviour and gross misjudgement. Your royal highness, weve come to Buckingham Palace in highly unusual circumstances. At issue, which of these two people is telling the truth . Andrew or Virginia Roberts, 17 years old when this photograph was taken . Groomed, she says, to provide sexual favours to powerful men. Even the photo is contentious. Andrew says he has no memory of it. Tramp, a nightclub in central london. Virginia roberts says she was there with andrew one night in march 2001. She says they later had sex. Andrew says he was with his family. And he told the bbcs emily maitlis, theres a medical reason why ms robertss allegation cannot be true. She was very specific about that night. She described dancing with you. No. And you profusely sweating, and that she went on to have. Theres a slight problem with the sweating, because i. I have a peculiar medical condition which is that i dont sweat or that i didnt sweat at the time. Is it possible that you me