Also, counterterrorism analyst washington Thomas Anderson talks about the evolving threats facing the u. S. Since the september 11 terrorist attacks. Washington journal is next. Host it is the washington journal for september 11. Todays show will focus on the 19th anniversary of the 9 11 attacks. You can see planned events at the pentagon which you are watching at ground zero in new york. On cspan, cspan2 and cspan3. You can check the website for specific channel and time information. Follow along on the radio app. We will take your calls on this remembrance day. Here is how you can call us. The eastern00 for and central time zones. 202 7488001 for the mountain and pacific times. If you want to text us, do so at 202 7488003. Post on our cspan feed. On this day, several papers across the United States devoted. Heir editorial page here is the tribute out of johnstown, pennsylvania. On the 19th anniversary, our nation is distracted by politics. We are obligated to pause on this september
Outbreak of covid19 has led to an unprecedented Public Health crisis and a dire economic crisis. We have lost over 110,000 people to the disease, and 40 million remain unemployed. Back in february as the band that it was worse, we knew we needed to take action to help our Small Businesses survive the economic downturn. We started working with the sba and governors around the country to leverage the sba disaster resources available. Can you please mute . Anyone should be muted. Everyone should be muted. As the virus continues to spread, or state and local governments began imposing stayathome orders and business closures. We quickly realized Congress Needed to do more to meet the full scope of the problem, and that is when we started working on what ultimately became the cares act. To help Small Businesses and eligible nonprofits, congress created a new Paycheck Protection Program, expanded eligibility to the program and provided payment and interest relief for current sba borrowers. I
A deal with the taliban. And the tokyo lympics heading for a postponement to canada and now says it will not to send athletes to this team is games. Now a lockdown of indias major cities has begun and one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital known by chennai and kolkata are among them companies that also in place nationwide and International Flights have now been banned for a week japans Prime Minister shinzo abbay now says the Tokyo Olympic games may also need to be postponed thats after weeks of insisting the major sporting event would go ahead as planned in july and dozens of cuban doctors have arrived initially to help the Taliban Health workers it is one of the countries thats been hardest hit more than 5000 p. Have died there well shortly well get the latest from london with nadine bob and Lawrence Leigh who are also update us on whats happening in europe but fast lets go to Elizabeth Piron and in
Crisis. Class violence and guinea ahead of a controversial referendum that could extend the president s term in office. And wont be dissembled schools its beginning to look more likely the Olympic Games will be postponed as countries announce they wont be same big teams a bit of will definitely its also cool not to take place. Now hundreds more people have died in spain and thousands more have been infected as europe struggles to contain the corona Virus Outbreak more than 460. 00 people have died there in the last 24 hour as pushing the death toll to nearly 2200 a state of emergency has been extended and foreign as a band from entry Singapore Airlines has grounded nearly its entire fleet it follows decisions by emirates and takesh airlines to hold nearly all passenger flights many major travel hubs are closing down hong kong is now banning all tourists from entering including those from Mainland China india is looking down major cities to slow the spread of the virus curfews are in pl
2000 but its really recalled another day with fewer deaths. The bun demick used accelerating. The World Health Organization walls a pandemic is getting worse but says theres still hope for its spread can become. Class pressure mounts on japan to cancel the 20 twentieths lympics because of the only going health crisis. But 1st the u. K. Has become the latest country to order the Restricted Movement of its citizens in a bid to slow the spread of the virus residents will be required to stay at home for 3 weeks there are a few exceptions though and they are for work for exercise and for shopping for groceries and all nonessential businesses will shout the new measures come in the World Health Organization says the spread of the pandemic is accelerating the w. H. O. Chief says it took 67 days before the world reached 100000 confirmed cases then it took 11 days to confirm 200000 cases around the world as a pandemic spread bot. The w. H. O. T. Says it has just taken 4 days for the number of k