Will give some opening remarks and an update on where we are in the state with regards to ealth. Well start this morning with a few Public Health data slides and then a little look t where were going. You have seen this before. It is updated. The gray are the cumulative cases that we have had in vermont. We are in the low 8507bs for cases. These 800s for cases. These are the new cases. It is coming into that more plateaued type of phase. This is called anepicurve. The new cases on a daytoday basis. We were pretty accustomed to an average of 3040 cases with occasional times where we peaked here in middle here. At 50 there. This is way back in early march. Started doing things like limits on mass gatherings, closing the restaurants and bars and eventually schools. And then in this time frame the actual stay home, Stay Safe Program began. Several weeks beyond that, we have come from a peak and generally below 10 cases over he last week on a daytoday basis and finally this is a graph of th
21. 5 Million People lost their jobs in april. Oil prices have also been higher last check of wti saw it just above 24. Thats a began of about 3 that link between oil and stock market futures has been strong too. It has been very, very strong it is interesting. It has been strong on the way up the question is was it strong on the way down it is interesting to think what has been driving what . It has been stuck here. It is up 11 the next morning it is 26 and then 23 again. At the end of the session, it seemed to go back. Weve been holding at 24 24, 25 that seems to be enough. These futures are up 250 points every morning. At the end of the day, weve given it back. We are up to 250 again are you kidding me, china, if we are being nice about trade, thats enough to send the markets up again we are back to that . At least it takes the threat off the table. If you start adding tariffs on, i wonder what happens. Earlier this week, all of this harsh rhetoric. We talked about it yesterday, wha
Lift its lockdown restrictions despite the high number of cases there. So there are some worrying signs coming out of europe where the economy has suffered its biggest quarterly hit on record it shrunk by 3. 8 percent so far this year the euro zones sharpest drop since records began in 1905 yet another indicator of the widespread economic devastation caused by the coronavirus lockdowns around the world i was off to germany of course europes strongest economy announced its g. D. P. Is likely to shrink by more than 6 percent this year dominic kane in berlin looking at this one. Looking for some for some good news or maybe a bit of a turn around but this is going to be in a bad way for a while. Yes used the audio problem slightly coming to my end kemal but yes a tale of economic woe is unfolding at a european level but also at the german level says you were saying that the German Economy is definitely going to shrink by perhaps more than 6 percent but thats for the year for the current co
Fight against the pandemic one of the worst hit countries in asia reports no new local cases. And the u. S. City of miami starts to lift its lockdown restrictions despite a high number of cases. Im going to go with sports is italy its football season looks set to be scrapped players are about to start training again but the country sports minister wants to follow france and the netherlands and focus on next season instead. Its 10 g. M. T. And we start in europe where the economy has suffered its biggest quarterly hit on record shrinking by 3. 8 percent so far this year thats the eurozone sharpest drop since records began in 1995 so yet another indicator of the widespread economic devastation caused by the coronavirus lockdowns around the world all that comes after germany which is europes strongest economy announced its g. D. P. Is on track to shrink by more than 6 percent this year because straight to don. It came it joins us live from len so dominic we were expecting of course the ec
Great lock down africa to sink into its 1st recession in 25 years come its Health Service take the strain of the pandemic and the story about sneak out but what does it mean for the economy plus europes current. Counting the cost and ill just say. Hello and welcome again to rewind im dead. Back in 2006 when we launched aljazeera english we set out to make the kind of documentaries other channels just wouldnt do and here on rewind were revisiting some of the best of them to find out how they came about and the story behind the story today were rewinding to 2008 a disturbing film about one of the most shocking atrocities of the vietnam war the massacre it was a major war crime and once it came to light the story sparked International Outrage adding to the growing pressure in america and around the world to bring an end to the war in vietnam in march 1968 Charlie Company a platoon of american infantry landed by helicopter on the edge of the village of me lie near the northern coast of Sou