Please knew your microphone. Mute your microphone. [indiscernible] we have previously provided guidance as to how this would [indiscernible] [indiscernible] cspan. Org [indiscernible] [indiscernible] thank you. I want to welcome mr. Menendez and his wife. I appreciate you taking on this post. Tonk you for taking the time talk to me last week and take the best thank you for taking the time this morning. This is the first hearing the committee has held since march the 10th. Since then, millions of americans have filed for unemployment. Nearly one point 5 million have contracted covid19 and nearly 90,000 have perished from the disease. Is work in the u. S. Senate that much more critical and we respond as we respond to this pandemic and return to the economy. Second the highestranking office and the department of energy and the department has been playing a role in helping the nation fight coronavirus. The department of energy is a scientific powerhouse. Its National Laboratories are some
Crown the world from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with all this mornings top stories. We begin in china, where the government signals a cash injection is on the way to ensure a strong start in 2020. At a meeting in china, the premier said the resiliency is continuing. The chinese economy is resilient. The Chinese Market is huge. We are determined to open up further. We will reach a winwin relationship with other countries, especially with our neighbors. Alix joining me on the phone is sharon chen, the beijing bureau chief. What have we learned from his speech . Give us a backup of the bilateral meeting. Sharon it basically signaled there are going to be product cuts with the amount of cash the banks have to keep as a reserve. Lending to the private sector is a huge part of the economy that china needs to shore up. It accounts for nine out of 10 jobs every year, and it comes after china already promised wideranging set of initiatives that will boost the n
The future of World Heritage sites is being discussed in azerbaijan at the annual meeting of the uns cultural and Scientific Agency and a 3rd of the 166. 00 sites are considered to be under threat and they include sunderbans mangrove forests in bangladesh its facing several dangers both natural and manmade as victoria gayton be explains. A complex network of waterways mudflats and islands makes this into bands unique one of the Worlds Largest mangrove forests forms a natural wall protecting both bangladesh and neighboring india as well as nearly 4000000 people that live near the coast. The defects of Climate Change and industrialization a becoming increasingly visible like millions of fish men and women salim how it relies on the scene demands for his livelihood but fears that could end soon much of bangladesh is less than 5 metres above sea level and Global Warming is causing sea levels to rise further the mangroves face various threats such as pollution and changing levels of salinit
Suspects the iranian ship was trying to deliver on oil to syria in breach of e. U. Sanctions paul brennan reports tanka in the shadow of the rock with police boats in attendance the Oil Tanker Grace want to see may be calm but the ship is at the center now of an International Diplomatic storm spain has revealed that the United States had been monitoring the ships journey past that intelligence to gibraltar government this action the rose from information giving the gibraltar government reasonable grounds to believe that the vessel the grace one was acting in breach of European Union sanctions against syria in fact we have reason to believe that the grace one was carrying its shipments of crude oil to the ban the us refinery in syria. That refinery is the property of an entity that is subject to European Union sanctions against syria the grey sworn is believed to have loaded with iranian oil off the coast of the gulf the ship made it this far as gibraltar a british overseas territory at
Getting too expensive. Well, weve got a money manager who thinks theres still room to run. Hell make his case, coming up. And disney still one of the big dow winners this year so far. We will be live at the companys socalled d23 expo to look at how the force behind the Star Wars Franchise could affect that stock. Jane wells, who else but jane wells, is on site for us. Our own princess lea. And its the company the New York Post said provided something close to legal Insider Trading. The ceo of media radar, and you may remember his name, will tell us how his ad tracking software is now helping hedge funds. Im very excited to talk to him. I may have interviewed him back in the day. Would that we had the footage. Its a story, those of you who have been watching the market for a number of years will remember it. Its a great story. First, lets start with Jackie Deangelis at the nymex with these gasoline prices spiking in parse of the midwest despite this slide in crude oil. Weve been talking