Geneva in switzerland is someone who has advised a shadow chancellor who has a guy standing cofounder of the basic Income Earth Network guy thanks so much for coming back on so after years of tory austerity the un called it callous policies driven by a political desire for social reengineering how well prepared is the chancellor to offer policies in response to Something Like coronavirus well to be frank i think its almost irresponsible to be having a budget today the chancellor is a young man whos never had a senior government position before and hes been in the job for weeks to prepare a complex budget and an extremely sensitive moment in our modern history when weve not only got the pandemic rushing towards us but the World Economy is at the very very fragile state where bad mistakes at. National and International Level could lead us into a big recession i want to get to those macro level top topics in a 2nd but im not sure in geneva or if youve been following it but obviously Boris
On the streets in south africa as the country enters a 3 week lockdown. And in other news venezuelas president is indicted on charges of narco terrorism by the u. S. But 1st the United States is now more confirmed coronavirus cases than any other country in the world with more than 83509 makes it more than china and italy and this comes as new figures reveal the shock being course of the economy with a record 3300000 people filing for unemployment last week in europe the number of new deaths is surged in spain and it continues to climb in italy leaders have given the blocks finance ministers 2 weeks to work out an economic response where the rising number of deaths comes as the u. N. Secretary general warns that humanity is losing the war against the virus and he pleaded for a global coordinated response during an emergency Virtual Summit of g. 20 leaders and in south africa theres a 3 week lockdown certainly just begun a couple of hours ago soldiers are now patrolling the streets wher
A new calls for unity as the death toll across europe continues to rise. China bars almost all foreigners from entering the country to slow the number of cases coming from abroad. Plus a dangerous combination of Health Workers in indonesia treating coronavirus patients without proper protective gear. There are now more confirmed cases of corona virus in the United States than anywhere else in the world yet President Trump says he remains committed to getting people back to work as soon as possible thats as a record 3300000 registered as unemployed last week rob reynolds begins our coverage. The number of confirmed cases of coded 19 in the u. S. Now tops 83000 more than have been recorded in china or italy more than 1100 people here have died from the corona virus with no vaccine and no proven drug treatment the countrys top medical experts say social restrictions are the only way to curb the rate of infection whenever you put the clamps down and shut things down you do it for 2 reasons
Offer policies in response to Something Like coronavirus well to be frank i think its almost irresponsible to be having a budget today the chancellor is a young man whos never had a senior government position before d and hes been in the job for weeks to prepare a complex budget and an extremely sensitive moment in our modern history when weve not only got the pandemic rushing towards us but the World Economy is at the very very fragile state where bad mistakes at national and International Level could lead us into a big recession i want to get to those macro level top topics in a 2nd but im not sure in geneva or if youve been following it but obviously Boris Johnson fired his defacto finance minister a few weeks ago and they say its dominic. Cummings who is the real chancellor of the country so we can take maybe something from Dominic Cummings his blog he said he would support even if it is income tax to boost growth what you make of that in the indeed happens of the budget today well
At all for this hour news wise but if youre looking for more head on over to our website r. T. Dot com for countless articles and interviews thanks for tuning in. I mention are times you were going underground as amid an International Coronavirus crisis the u. K. Government unveils a budget just weeks after pm Boris Johnson fired his own finance minister coming up on the show is it too late to pump money into Health Infrastructure devastated by the tory austerity that followed the 2008 western economic crash or is britains new liberal epidemic of inequality killing off the poorest too quickly we speak to economist guy standing who is set to advise the Jeremy Corbyn government if we did 1 december general election and we ask the author of why nations fail british economist James Robinson if the u. K. Chancellor should today be looking to communist china for tips on reviving britains economy plus we ask a former u. K. Home Office Minister why a pandemic hasnt yet been declared in britain