Best month on record in may, but brent and wti move lower in early trade. Amid talk, opec and allies will bring forward to the meeting this thursday. The uk government defending its decision to ease lockdown restrictions as more shops and primary schools reopen today, while the track and Trace Program is due to begin. A very warm welcome to street signs, everybody. Lets get into the top story of the morning. Protests around the u. S. Over the death of george floyd continue as increasingly volatile tensions between demonstrators and police leave many state capitals engulfed in violence. The issue has sparked a Global Movement as residents in london and berlin took to the streets in a show of solidarity. Well go live to minneapolis with our nbc news colleague jay gray to see the scenes on the ground later in this show. So, do stay tuned for that in the meantime, let me bring you fresh data coming out of europe this morning we have final may manufacturing pmis this is for the eurozone as
For or is it actually true. Well it certainly is true looking at the number of species were driving into extinction though. The lesson of this season may be that unlike risk opic viruses can do at least as good of a job in the other direction when you look at humans the challenge is that theres this terribly confusing paradox which is we are indeed the most dangerous species on earth we are in news ripley violent species we have remarkable ray of ways of making their miserable damaging all of them. Yet at the same time were also the most cooperated species on earth where the most altruism where the most compassionate and for me this is science has what is the most challenging thing to make sense of is the biology of how we can be. All full when some settings and so wonderful in others and often its the same behaviors its very dependent on context so thats exactly what were going to talk about today to try to actually deconstruct what you just sat with your colleague from charges france
The Global Economy im joined now by u. S. And lee in new york she is author of well chinas economy collapse and what the u. S. Can learn from china and in ankara we prostitute. Learned he is a professor of econometrics as well as the president of the foundation for International Economic research and. Roles in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it once youre going to annan in new york as i said in my introduction and it appears that the pandemic is receding and globally although individual countries still have some most serious issues but now is coming in the next phase of this crisis and figuring out the damage that has been incurred and how to move forward and you know in preparing for this program there are all wild estimations out there. You know b l the you all of that. There seems to be no consensus though there seems to be it seems to be politically driven depending on how much you won one letter of the 3 here what is your thinking here becaus
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Coronavirus lockdowns. To make it. To save. The u. N. Is warning that killings by a militia in northeastern democratic republic of congo could amount to war crimes. On top level spalls in australia is back the countrys National Rugby League Competition has resumed after a 2 month suspension. Protests have rocked the u. S. City of minneapolis for the 2nd straight night after the death of a black man in Police Custody multiple fires have been reported in several businesses have been looted large crowds have also been out on the streets in los angeles demanding justice for george floyd victoria getting reports. Anger turned to violence in minneapolis on wednesday night what started out as a protest against the death of an unarmed black man in Police Custody culminated of firefighters battling to contain multiple blazes across the city shops were looted as thieves took advantage of the chaos. The violence and deliberate damage to property by some has to some extent shifted attention away f