Expected to be leak at best. We are joined by the imf mission chief later this summer. Shinzo abe widens the state of emergency to cover the country after critics said his initial plan offered too little, too late. Shery lets get you started with a quick check of the markets closing in the u. S. Markets finishing in the green after fluctuating all day. President trump mapping out a phased country reopening amid economic numbers. U. S. Futures higher by 2. 8 . President trump saying some states may be able to open before may 1. The dow jones up. 1 in the regular session. We had some big banks like Morgan Stanley showing the best performance in more than a decade. We saw a selloff in airlines stocks, United Airlines saying travel demand was essentially zero. We did get more than 5 million americans filing for unemployment benefits. The nasdaq managed to end higher by 1. 7 . Take a look at what oil is doing gaining ground at the moment after finishing under the 20 per barrel level also up
States easing over towards that western side of russia dry here as we go through saturday well quite a dry over towards the west of us 23 celsius in london 21 in paris so Something Like 2122 degrees dropping temperatures on recent days wet weather across a good part of france actually though the parts despite also seeing some disturbed weather some really live shot of the showers there just along the riviera on the other side of the mediterranean where lossy fine and dry lots of heat in place temperatures getting up into the mid to high twentys for many touching 36 and kyra. Welcome back a quick reminder the top stories here on aljazeera sanctions on north korea to be having a devastating effect with the economy declining for the 2nd year running south koreas central bank estimates the norths g. D. P. Fell by 4 point one percent and 2018 the worst drop since 1997. Does not disclose any figures on its economy. The u. N. Says as many as 150. 00 refugees and migrants may have drowned off
Time ever. We were just talking about 61,000. There it is at 68,000 for something that may or may not have value. We begin the hour with news on big tech, most of it not so good. Microsoft is still struggling to deal with a hack attack. U. S. Companies targeted by disinformation campaigns, a threatened ban on tiktok and a look at the troubles inside of google. First up is the microsoft hack. It happened in january but the ill effects are still affecting the company. Thats right. Microsoft updated the 8k this morning saying they are unable to stop the attack by an entity that is believed to be the Russian Foreign intelligence agency. Microsoft says the attacker which in cybersecurity circles is known by code names such as midnight blizzard and cozy bear has been using information stolen from corporate email systems to gain access to some of the companys source code repositories and internal systems. The company says that the russians have stolen secrets shared over email between custome
Next the hearing from the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist party, an alleged human rights abuses against the uyghur population. A mostly Muslim Minority in a country in the northwest. The testimony from human rights advocates and people detained in prison camps in the region. Its about three hours. And the select committee will come to order. At this beginning of ramadan, as muslims around the world commemorate Prophet Muhammad receiving the first revelations of the quran, we are here to say a horrifying truth. The uyghurs, many of whom matt practice the muslim faith, are being erased. Genocide is occurring. This time, at the hands of the Chinese Communist party. We are privileged to have with us many members of the weaker community. We are deeply grateful for your bravery. We know that it comes at a great cost. We prepare to hear firsthand testimony from the ccp concentration camp. I would like to turn to alicia we sell, whose father, auschwitz survivor and Nobel Laurea
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