Impact of the coronavirus and. French Police Unions voiced their anger against the government over the lack of protective equipment for offices and threaten to stop and forcing the nation wide lockdown. So much for joining us here with your global news updates this is r. T. International. Well 1st lets get the latest on the scale of the covert 900 pandemic more than half a 1000000 cases have now been registered world wide with 24000 lives lost so far 124000 people have recovered from the virus the United States now has the largest number of confirmed infections outstripping china. A growing number of countries have in force the nih the partial or full lockdown to control the spread of the Novel Coronavirus an estimated 3000000000 people almost half of the worlds population now under various forms of restriction. You know i think the United States has enough to deal with with the ongoing epidemic but the state departments turning its focus to venezuela or for gay multimillion dollar bou
Welcome to the program our top story the u. S. Federal reserve us cut Interest Rates back to near 0 in an effort to boost the american and Global Economy during the course of this and demick President Donald Trump congratulated the central bank during an announcement at the white house it lowered the fed rate. From what it was which was 121425 and its been lowered down to 020. 24 or point 24 so its 02. 2 for. A big difference its a. Quite a bit of a point. Lets go live to mike hanna now hes in washington and this is really the most drastic step taken by the u. S. Federal reserve since the financial crisis of 2008 i guess it gives you a sense of the shock the coronavirus pandemic is about to cause or is already causing in d. D. s senate also follows weeks if not months of urging by President Trump for the fed to drop its rates virtually on a daily basis the president has been insisting that the fed is airing by not dropping its rates so certainly this now is a major step in terms of cre
Opposition leader benny gantz to form the next government to end the year when its bills down. So that its only has reported a 25 percent increase in coronavirus deaths says the countrys largest single day up to 368. 00 people died on sunday putting the total past 1800. 00 that is nearly a week after a nationwide lockdown was declared on 60000000 people restricting travel and banning public gatherings italy is the worst affected country outside china so lets get straight to it its been to judea alag now whos a journalist she joins us on skype from proved in central italy julie welcome to the program im sure everybody there is just waiting and praying for the number of cases to drop but far from it we had this 25 percent uptick in deaths. Yeah that is exact we have been asked 1800 deaths today and weve reached 25000 known. People tested positive to corona virus so the situation is quite dire at the moment so tell us about the Health Service the how stretched is it how hospitals can pret
And locked and loaded russia says its newest weapon is operational a missile that can travel 27. 00 times the speed of sound. And im lee harvey with all of your sports as the miami heat rediscover their championship form but can they keep the fire burning into the 2nd half of the season. So were starting with a developing story out of somalia where huge bomb blast has killed and injured dozens of people an ambulance official has said 76 people have been killed but many more casualties are feared the car bomb blast in the capital mogadishu was near a security checkpoint it happened during morning rush hour some reports say as many as 90 people may have died and that includes engineers from turkey how to meet also following developments from neighbor. Kenya not know. What more you have at this point. We told the number of people dead for now ranges between 30 and 90 but Officials Say course that number could rise because it was such a big explosion some of the people who have been killed
Character of colonel than i thought this was very interesting certainly wasnt unexpected it was very interesting for this reason they didnt really question anything colonel that man said after all what colonel inman said is what what you said he was in that july 10th meeting he heard the same quid pro quo the same comments by some and if you want this meeting ukrainians and we have an agreement about this you got to an ounce youre going to do these investigations are the same quid pro quo that you did so why are these smearing him. Mr holmes you testified just as venom and said kernel of him and said that he warns alinsky about getting involved in u. S. Politics you dont question that they didnt take issue with that so why smear this purple heart recipient just like this mayor of a vast array of audit its just gratuitous i dont question the facts its just gratuitous the attack on you mr holmes that you were indiscreet and mention this conversation to others well i think youre quite rig