Right in. And we leave the program with the International Monetary funds announcement that the Global Economic downturn due to the corona virus pandemic will be worse than initial estimates. So compared to the april and Economic Outlook we are projecting a depot downtown in 2020 and a snow to company in 2021 to growth to 2020 is projected at minus 4 point one percent which is 1 point one percent is points below our april focused now this reflects the fact that in the 1st tough economic outcomes came in somewhat worse than we had anticipated and because there is no medical see you should we are expecting social distancing to persist for more for a long time into the 2nd half. And downgrading the growth forecasts for 2021 the i. M. F. Expects a growth rate of 5. 4 percent instead of earlier estimates of 5. 8 percent the fund is predicting an 8 percent contraction in the United States. Gates in 2020 while the eurozone economy will decline by 10. 2 percent brazil will take a 9 point one pe
Years the words the expression assad must go has been the us mantra our official policy has been to push for regime change as well as the removal of president Bashar Al Assad why well because hes been accused of using chemical weapons by the only independent arbiters in the syrian war a group thats called the White Helmets. But heres the problem with that bit closer look as revealed that the White Helmets are really not so independent they may be arbiters but theyre not independent and to the accusations of chemical weapons usage. That too did not really hold up to scrutiny in fact look at that video right there you see that it said to purport victims being treated from a chemical attack guess what a b. B. C. Producer on the scene later came forward after the 28 team video was shot to reveal that this is fake that scene is staged to make it look like a hospital scene after a chemical attack that apparently never really happened. See the problem all along for the United States is credib
World im watching the i robot. Boy a Mission Member of the political wiles wrote fire this week in this kind of like weird footnote to everything going over like you know google ads and conservatives being censored on major on google and all these social media platforms its fascinating to see all this plays out but really to me its just kind of 2 sides being really loud over a problem that but its not really that much of a problem no i absolutely agree i think that you know an argument of censorship specifically with some of these large tech giant platforms youre seeing members of both sides of the aisle be extremely frustrated in trying to get their message across from what you said earlier theres a little bit of upset around just how much people are able to say in these Comment Sections but we also know that the Comment Section is where stability goes to die the Comment Section of anything so the expectation that youre probably going to see something negative is always pretty high an
Into the north bay, and here is Contra Costa County, right in the middle, and its moving nicely to the middle of the screen, which is the bay bridge. One issue, low clouds hovering around so you may find a patch or two of fog, just like right here coming off the 880 overcrossing and we opened one more cash lane but theyre not all open just yet. Back to you. Thank you, mike. 5 01 right now. It is a crucial week in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump and goes public in two days. Things are eheating up on capitol hill. Lawmakers are making final decisions who will testify after republicans submitted their wish list. Today in the bays tracie potts is live in washington watching who makes the cut. Tracie . Hi there, marcus and laura. Good morning. Good morning, everyone. These hearings start on wednesday, and democrats have already picked the people they want to testify this week, but republicans have some requests, their wish list went in this weekend. Now remember how this works. D
Those people destroying lives war crimes victims in the d. L. C. Speak out ahead of the sentencing of a rebel leader. The impeachment inquiry into donald trump is stepping up a gear televised hearings starting next week americas top diplomat in ukraine William Taylor will be one of the 1st to appear well taylor said in an earlier testimony it was is clear understanding the president had said hed withhold military aid to ukraine unless kiev investigates his political rival joe biden and his son that testimony matches what others have said i think you will see throughout the course of the testimony not only their testimony but many others the. Most important facts are largely not contested we are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed the whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as further Conspiracy The