The things is found guilty of corruption i mean diac is sentenced to 2 years in prison. Were going to begin in the u. S. What extruding weather is bringing flames and flooding to office at sides of the country strong winds of finding wildfires on the west coast well a major storm has inundated communities with heavy rain on the gulf coast Tropical Storm sandy made landfall as a category 2 hurricane on wednesday its been bringing in whats been described as catastrophic and life threatening flooding its the 2nd how to can to hit the area in less than 3 weeks its one of 5 active tropical cyclones from the Atlantic Ocean the only other time on record this is happened was in september 19th 71. 00 on the ah. This side of the u. S. A federally declared disaster is happening in all are gone its now the hot spot on the west coast unprecedented wildfire season hundreds of thousands of people have faced evacuation orders and some entire towns have been destroyed down a few moments were going to g
Of the council on foreign relations. Her fourth book is a revelation. Who acts next in this backandforth . Jonathan the administration has been dancing around the issue of the trade deal announced back in january. The president has stopped dancing around the issue. It means much less to me. He repeated that about three times in a News Conference yesterday, and i wonder how that message evolves in the coming weeks and months. Tom i thought it would be a lazy friday, and i was wrong. Let me give you two quick ideas. Of thew the donnybrook republicans in washington. That will be china as well. And we have statistics which speak to the summer of 2020. Honeywell is without question one of the best run companies in the world. They organic Revenue Growth was 18 . You dont need to know anything else. Jonathan we will get the earnings a little bit later in the program. Equity futures slightly negative. Gold very much in focus, approaching a record seemingly at one point this morning. Lisa it ha
Thanks for taking my question, you added a sentence into the statement about the course of the economy depends on the path of the virus is this do you feel this idea or view is not widely enough understood do you feel you had warned back in may that too early reopening or cautious reopening might harm the economy do you feel that message is not heard and some of these reopenings took place perhaps sooner than they should have i think we feel that it might be the most central fact or the most central driver of the economy is the virus were seeing that again. You saw that during the lockdown when we got cases way down you saw the economy reopening. You saw spending go up and hiring go up now that the cases have spiked again. Again, the early data, highfrequency data suggests that theres a slower pace of growth at least for now. We dont know how deep or how long that will be. Its such an important sentence, we just decided that it needed to be in our post meeting statement. Its so fundame
Good afternoon appreciate you joining us here on r. T. International hour lets start with the news that just came in in the last hour most major restrictions on life here in moscow brought into combat the coronavirus will be lifted as of tomorrow this announcement was made in just the last hour as i said by the citys. Lets go live to our correspondent Daniel Hawkins hes been covering the story for us itll be a moment i would imagine of relief for a lot of people the pressure does tell after a while just take us through whats going to happen and what. Absolutely i mean for what spin a couple of months what seems like a lifetime said 1000000 sarah moscow residents have been on the lockdown self isolation there been very strict rules and restrictions on where and when they can go with who what people can and cant to thats been regulated electronic process that which people have had in their phones for a number of weeks now the funtastic news coming out today from the moscow government fro
How is coronavirus affecting the Sports Industry all major events are being counseled all postponed as the pandemic takes its toll worldwide a multibillion dollar business is now at stake so can sport survive the break this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter told me it is a very very lucrative business and almost recession proof but sport is being dealt a financial blow by the coronavirus major events have been canceled or postponed for the 1st time in many years from the Tokyo Olympic games to football matches fields arenas and stadiums will be empty for a long time to come athletes organizations and thousands of people who work at the sporting venues all affected revenue from broadcasting deals sponsorship contracts and match tickets theyre all drawing up the Business Model for many sports is under threat and has to adapt to measures to counter covert 19 but some sporting events are going ahead the bundesliga season could resume in germany this month and the n