A crisis measures to keep its economy going as it combats the coronavirus pandemic now in a few moments well hear from a European Commission president was not funded line and the executive Vice President s father some pro skates and margaret have a stay here they are due to speak in brussels in a few moments and with the disease spreading throughout the e. U. Theyre expected to offer funds to prop up Vulnerable Industries will also allow countries to break deficit spending rules as they battle the virus and that is something that italy the worst hit country has already said it will do the European Union will also offer cheap loans to Companies Hit by the outbreak as customers stay away. Right we have our team of correspondents on the story with us here in studio we have had offers from d. W. Business our Political Correspondent nina and also standing by for us in brussels our correspondent there and recruit good to have you all of us with all with us and theyre going to start with you
Dead from the wildfires on the Hawaiian Island of maui. It is Hawaiian Island of maui. It is the deadliest us fire in more than a century. The deadliest us fire in more than a century. That the deadliest us fire in more than a century. That number, though, is expected to significant rise in the coming days as authorities continue the painstaking task of identifying the bodies. Search teams with the bodies. Search teams with sniffer dogs have been sifting through the remains of the historic resort town of lahaina. As of last night, just 3 of the search area had been covered. And Robert Kennedy jr, whose father and uncle were assassinated because of their political views, says his Family History hasnt discouraged him from attempting to run for the white house. His uncle, president john f kennedy, was assassinated in 1963, as was his father, robert, while running for the democratic president ial nomination in 1968. Robert kennedy jr is hoping to challenge joe biden to be the democratic ca
Speaking former defence speaking with former defence minister and minister sir Gerald Howarth and gb portillo gb news own Michael Portillo about the threat from china, whats going on with ukraine and russia all of the of russia and all of the rest of it. So jam packed show. It. So its a jam packed show. Do move , lets go through do not move, lets go through the papers first of and the papers first of all, and take through headlines. Take you through the headlines. As you can imagine, immigration is a key theme. So sunday is a key theme. So the sunday telegraph splashes ministers want for asylum want more barges for Asylum Seekers, would you believe after whats gone on with bibby stockholm. 7 sunday times stockholm . Sunday times goes with actually this is one exception and is because exception and this is because the a level grades are coming out week. A tougher a level out this week. A tougher a level grading vital to halt university dropouts surge. The observer. Dropouts surge. The o
Time period that you are looking at. Its the same era. I want to come back to this because it is the parallel between that and this that are interesting but first off in my case rural indiana. Guest im fro guest im from lakeland indiana, which i wrote about in a book that came out last year and i wrote a book about how the new deal affected people in this little farm village. So, anyway we are not talking about that book. We are talking about this one. Host i am curious how would you say growing up in indiana has influenced your opinion . Guest growing up in a small town, you have a lot of contact with other human beings. You know their secrets. Its a great deal as a journalist because it makes you see things in terms of real people rather than statistics, and i thought it was a great w way. I thought it was a great way to start out to become a journali journalist. Host the midwest is an interesting place. You learn the value of community and independence and selfsufficiency and that i
If theres any good news here, its that its actually been downgraded to a category 2, but thats not to be taken lightly. We can still get winds of up to 110 Miles Per Hour. Oh wow reporter Hurricane Matthew slammed into the east coast bringing high winds and heavy rain. The storm transformed streets into rivers. How you guys doing over there . Reporter some places could 6 rain. Coastal communities in georgia and the carolinas bracing for the brunt of the storm. Storm force winds effecting the state of georgia and will continue to do so for were told about the next 24 hours. Its getting worse, so were looking at major storm surges. Were looking at major winds. Reporter heres another look at the wind were dealing with here. Im actually standing out in flying debris, and i feel a little better out here because we had some glass actually fall on us closer next to the building that were seeking shelter in. Now 75 percent of the town because of the dangerous conditions have gotten out, but th