The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing soluts ns for americglected needs. And by cons ibutions to this ation from ewers like you. Thank you. Bbc world ne america. The European Union opens its borders, but it is a mishmash of restrictions and a everyone is equally welcome. With the whole world this country, another africanamerican man has been killed by u. S. Police, leadi to new protests. His wife says she cannot bear to watch the video. This is gointo be a long time before i heal. It will be a long time befeae the family. The conservative cou says it is illegal to fire someone based on their sexuality. Their mission was smaller in scale, but no less heroic. How small group rescued allied troops from normandy before the amous dunkirk evacuatio elme to world news america. The lockdown of europe to prevent the further spread of covid19 was brutal in many countries. It was mucstricter than here in america. The reopening of the continent is proving to be
Exercising were ordered home. In front schools bars and restaurants are closed gatherings of more than 100 people are banned and people are being urged to work from home public transport is still running but more measures are on their way as of them at this stage in urban areas we will maintain public transport to allow french people to commute for strictly necessary purposes and regarding Long Distance travel by train between major cities by bus or by plane this will be gradually reduced. In the u. K. The governments been accused of not acting quickly enough to contain the spread as people stocked up over the weekend almost emptying supermarkets in some areas hundreds of scientists queried the governments strategy the Health Minister now says water time style measures are coming hes asking british manufacturers to make more ventilators soon everyone over the age of 70 will be asked to self isolate for up to 4 months and this week should see new measures including a ban on large gather
Fugitives into the hole with all the sports which all over the world continues to be called off all played behind closed doors including this football match at brazils american or stadium once famous for holding muti 200000 fans in the World Cup Final. Welcome to the news our governments around the world have stepped up restrictions on the movements of their citizens to reduce the spread of the coronavirus the number of deaths recorded in italy has risen 25 percent in the past day to just over 800 overall its only has the highest number of cases outside of china that almost 25000 spade became the 2nd european country to impose a nationwide lockdown its confirmed 2000 new cases and the number of reported deaths as doubles and then in the middle east. Iran has announced 113 people died in the past 24 hours the number of confirmed cases is nearing 14000 in the United States increased screening measures for people returning from europe of course chaos at airports the u. S. Has imposed a ba
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
Opposition leader benny gantz to form the next government to end the year when its bills down. So that its only has reported a 25 percent increase in coronavirus deaths says the countrys largest single day up to 368. 00 people died on sunday putting the total past 1800. 00 that is nearly a week after a nationwide lockdown was declared on 60000000 people restricting travel and banning public gatherings italy is the worst affected country outside china so lets get straight to it its been to judea alag now whos a journalist she joins us on skype from proved in central italy julie welcome to the program im sure everybody there is just waiting and praying for the number of cases to drop but far from it we had this 25 percent uptick in deaths. Yeah that is exact we have been asked 1800 deaths today and weve reached 25000 known. People tested positive to corona virus so the situation is quite dire at the moment so tell us about the Health Service the how stretched is it how hospitals can pret