Drug, dick york, the therapy the drug, the ce, the therapy. Judy all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by with fidelity wealth management, a dedicated advisor can tailor advice and recommendations to your life. That is fidelity wealth management. Consumer cellular. Johnson johnson. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Bmsf. The william and flora hewlett foundation. Advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world. The chance zuckerberg the chanzuckerberg initiative. At czi. Org. And, with the ongoing suppor of these individuals and institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting in support from viewers like you. Judy the covid19 paemic in the u. S. Is generating both t despair and hoight. Total infections have soared over the 11 million mark nationwide, but there is also progress in the effort to stop the virus. William brangham begins our coverage. William a new we
More protection, the ecb tweaks policy. The economy ravaged by the coronavirus. Ftse futures point lower, and much of europe is closed but we will see trading in london. Apital is coming apollo aims to raise 20 billion and several new funds for opportunities in distress and private debt, this after boeing sold 25 billion worth of bonds in the largest offering of the year. Just under one hour away from trading in the equity markets that are open. London notably, and the ftse futures are down this morning. We also see s p futures, dow futures, and nasdaq teachers down. Nasdaq futures down. We know the u. S. Markets will be open as well today. Typically a european holiday. The u. S. Has detonated a different has designated a a different day for that purpose. The notable figure, the first one i see in the First Quarter, 802 Million Pounds versus 86 Million Pounds in the previous year. This is a number we are looking out for a lot of banks during this crisis. Newsrms of other notable from r
History and now Prime Minister just you know is promising more gun control legislation all right its time to boost your news i. Q. Over 1000 continues to live up to its name as a Global Pandemic as confirmed cases worldwide now topping 2000000 the latest count shows 2400000 cases with about 168000 deaths so far taking a closer look at this nation the u. S. Now reporting some 776000 confirmed cases with more than 40000. 00 reported deaths a total of 3800000. 00 people were tested here in the u. S. 600000 of those over in new york alone still the epicenter of this outbreak and where hundreds continue to die every day but today there is growing pressure to reopen some parts of that state parties trying to chavez has the report. 51 days after the 1st case of corona virus was reported in new york to date the state has nearly 250000 infections and more than 18000 people have died but today some good news the question for us is we are we past the apex we have had a number of days that have se
After more than 2 months only to face quarantine in beijing. The u. S. President has criticized the World Health Organization for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic donald trump says the agency is china centric and issued bad advice at the outset of the crisis his comments come after a leaked memo revealed the new details about warnings the trumpet ministration received on how bad the outbreak in the u. S. Could be meanwhile u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson is spending a 2nd night in intensive care as he battles kovac 19 foreign secretary dominic robb who was stepped in to lead the government says johnson is stable and has been given oxygen but crucially is not on a ventilator and thats as the u. K. And the state of new york in the u. S. Have recorded their highest number of deaths in a day the u. K. Is resident registered 786 thats while 731 people died in new york well lets start our coverage in the u. S. From mike hanna joins us live now a from washington. So mike we have th
Days later another one this time on a mosque in norway one person was injured the attacker also attempted to live stream the crime on facebook in a sinister twist the attacker not only prays to the christchurch killer as a saint but also depicted his fellow copycat attack as heroes amidst the space of copycat attacks and i asked inspired attack in sri lanka. Martin Luther King Jr said behaves begets hate instead of diminishing evil it nonce applies it and this may be the sobering reflection of 2090 the word terrorism actually still has no universal is deafening. That every country can agree on and say you cant stop a global scourge if you cant define that immunity so we have to start defining what each of these problems are what each of the intent is even in america some of the shootings that have happened the media has been totally silent about like el paso another in dayton ohio california it just went off the news after a couple days so we need to be defining what happened here and