National security advisers Henry Kissinger. In some ways, nixon is one of the most brilliant people to occupy the white house. He had incredible political gifts. But on the other hand hes one of the worst people to occupy the white house because he had a broad streak of para nnoia and course in the end ruined himself by bringing about his his own catastrophic downfall in the watergate scandal of 1972 to 1974. Were going to look at the good and bad side of the nixon presidency with National Security adviser kissinger. Im going to share the screen so we can look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is president nixon himself. He had been born back in 1913 in california and grew up in a lower middle class family. Went to the local college there with the college. He graduated and went to Duke University law school and this is in the worst years of great depression. The mid1930s. During the second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo
And streets turned into rivers buildings destroyed and power knocked out Hurricane Sandy is downgraded but more destruction may still be ahead. And im were hearty with all of the days sports news messy scores his 1st goals for barcelona since demanding to leave the club yet again. Coronavirus transmission rates across europe have become so concerning the World Health Organization is warning countries not to shorten their quarantine periods some are recommending as little as 7 days isolation in case of exposure but the w. H. O. Says it will not change its recommendation for a 14 day quarantine. Knowing the immense individual and sight the impact even a slight reduction in the length of gotten time can help and giving the figures i have just mentioned i go to the region to make saying due process with experts and explore see for adoption options well the u. N. Health agency is also warned against turning this pandemic into a political football consistent messaging following contradictory
On tuesday when he returns the crisis will be waiting for him. The World Health Organization says theres been a record one day rise in corona cases around the globe more than 300000 new cases were reported in the previous 24 hours joining us now from geneva is Margaret Harris from the World Health Organization margaret what has you particularly worried right now about the coronavirus. Well it could send parts of the ground but to create the very intense outbreaks were seeing in the americas a continue to happen in the United States and in south america countries like argentina brazil but also in india which has been recording record numbers of cases they off today and has a huge outbreak but 50 percent of the cases are still in the americas were also seeing rises in the Eastern Mediterranean region around north africa and in the gulf states but also of course europe is now saying a resurgence in cases in a number of countries and israel has become the 1st country to introduce a 2nd nat
Germany sees the economy shrinking at least 5 . This, as fears of a virus followup could last for years. We hit our we will hear from ceo bill winters this hour. Haidi lets look at trading when it comes to australia. Asia looking softer, potentially modest bump up after u. S. Stocks saw the first gain in three days of losses. In new zealand, trading is dataway, retail sales is a point we will be looking at later to give us an indication, not super forwardlooking, but at least how things stand in terms of the fed rate period, asia excluding japan looks like it has had a flat week so far. That is u. S. Future. Waitinghe bond market, for the ava bond purchase, the aussie yield curve steepening ahead of the government announcing option plans for the coming week. We could see a bump up in primary activity, looking at the threeyear yield to and the week below target after the central bank boosted liquidity and calmed down money markets. We are watching banking stocks after they cut fees, one
A jump in deaths inside china and infections of brined the globe the world struggles to contain coronavirus. Also military deals and commitments towards a trade agreement sounds u. S. President donald trump wraps up his visit to india. And Global Support continues to be impacted by the coronavirus outbreak with rugby 6 nations and now under threat and remembering a basketball legend kobe bryants a widow vanessa please the tributes to at a Memorial Service in los angeles. Hosni mubarak the egyptian president stood from paris during the arab spring uprisings has died aged 91 he passed away in a car on hospital where he had recently undergone surgery current president of the fatah sisi is among those offering tributes to mubarak well al jazeera is jamal was in cairo when mubarak fell well speak to him shortly and well hear from him or another of our correspondents who covered egypt extensively but 1st laura burton manley looks back on the later gyptian with his life and legacy. Hosni muba