Welcome to the program our top story the u. S. Federal reserve us cut Interest Rates back to near 0 in an effort to boost the american and Global Economy during the course of this and demick President Donald Trump congratulated the central bank during an announcement at the white house it lowered the fed rate. From what it was which was 121425 and its been lowered down to 020. 24 or point 24 so its 02. 2 for. A big difference its a. Quite a bit of a point. Lets go live to mike hanna now hes in washington and this is really the most drastic step taken by the u. S. Federal reserve since the financial crisis of 2008 i guess it gives you a sense of the shock the coronavirus pandemic is about to cause or is already causing in d. D. s senate also follows weeks if not months of urging by President Trump for the fed to drop its rates virtually on a daily basis the president has been insisting that the fed is airing by not dropping its rates so certainly this now is a major step in terms of cre
World but still fewer than the nearly 800 italian dead announced on saturday should the Prime Minister koizumi is calling it the countrys toughest crisis since world war 2 all nonessential businesses are being shut for the time being russia is dispatching called a planes of military medical aid to italy germany is banning gatherings in public of more than 2 people and chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine off the contact with an infected doctor. Spain the state of emergency is being extended till april 11th after the governments announced nearly 400 new coronavirus deaths and the pandemic appears to be taking a particularly high toll on health workers. As you can often appear but another figure that is what our ng ows and the one that is affecting the most people involved in the Crisis Response is the number of Health Care Professionals affected. These are 3475 and it represents 10 percent of all cases that greece with more than 600 firm cases is to impose a curfew on monday in the
A 2nd wave of corona virus infections does not take all. And we report from india where a lockdown made this a large the size and some to. Follow for the 1st time in days in these daily death toll from coronavirus has fallen but still more than 650 people died there in the past 24 hours Prime Minister just up a continent says the pandemic which has claimed the lives of nearly 5 and a half 1000 people in italy is the countrys toughest crisis since world war 2 and spain will now extend its data from urgency for a further 15 days 10 percent of all cases there have been Health Workers germany is banning public gatherings of more than 2 people and the chancellor Angela Merkel will be isolated after being in contact with an infected doctor while in colombia at least 23 were killed in a prison riot caused by coronavirus panic visitors have been banned from colombias prisons in an effort to stop the spread well its been another busy day with developments across the globe for which allan spigot
Indias Opposition Congress party stages protests against a controversial new citizenship law and bloody near putin travels aboard the controversial 1st ever direct rail link between russia and crimea. Hello thank you for joining us 5 people have been sentenced to death sentenced to death in saudi arabia for the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi but the Human Rights Group Amnesty International has branded the trial a whitewash and the Washington Post said it was a sham the identities of those convicted werent revealed at the closed door trial in riyadh the criminal court cleared former royal aide sowed need was widely suspected of being a ringleader and that mohamed al be who was the saudi consul general in istanbul where of course ashaji was murdered former deputy intelligence chief ahmed al a syria was also released due to insufficient evidence 3 other people go to jail terms totaling 24 years i should use murder sparked International Condemnation the kingdom denied links to th
Premises and it was established to him that it was impossible to have the victim may he rest in peace transported to a safe place to continue with negotiations consultations were made with a leading negotiator and it was agreed with the perpetrators to kill the victim inside the consulate. Well he just shot me is the executive director of the arab center of washington he was a friend of Jamal Khashoggi he says the result no closer to real justice its definitely a classic whitewash its an attempt to close this case to close this file and without achieving justice for the time and his family and his friend. Basically we havent learned one thing new from this investigation and this procedure. That we didnt know before still the people who gave the order that this people who disposed of the body the location of this dismembered body of. All these questions remain unanswered besides i feel this is not even the end of the story i think this is the 1st step. Another attempt which will follow