both of whom had visited a number of commonwealth countries in recent yea rs number of commonwealth countriesrrivals we are expecting to be the duke and duchess of sussex. i just want to bring in anna whitlock a royal historian and head of history at royal holloway university of london. how do you think history willjudge a moment where royals step down in such a public way like this?|j a moment where royals step down in such a public way like this? i think only time will tell. it is of course important to remember this is now to bea important to remember this is now to be a one year transition that will be a one year transition that will be reviewed in 12 months' time. i think the queen has tried as far as possible to leave the door open to harry and meghan to return to the royal family, so yes this is a public stepping down... royal family, so yes this is a public stepping down. . ij royal family, so yes this is a public stepping down... ijust royal family, so yes this is a public stepping down... i just want to bring the shot in because this is them arriving. it is all smiles. looking at th

it will make a huge difference in this fight to everyone here in the commonwealth. at the same time, we understand just how much we've been asking of all of you. we've asked to stay home to not go to work, to not go to school, to skip weddings, skip funerals, skip going to the houses of worship for many people that are critical to their spiritual development. we've asked you to miss out on important precious time spent with family traineds. we know we are asking a lot. i want to conclude the same way i started. by pointing out how important it is how purposeful it is that we all take seriously these issues associated with distance. it is in many respects our single biggest weapon in battling covid-19. on behalf of lieutenant governor and myself and rest of us working on this issue everyday i want to say thank you. i want to say thank you to the nurses and doctors and front line medical workers and first responders for all that they do. i want to say thank you to our national guard for getting out there every single day and providing support to our men and women in p

in time are pretty clear on the guides that we set out there for the people who are part of the commonwealth. and obviously again it's impossible to ensure that everybody complies with all this. if you're working in massachusetts that means you're doing something which is essential to getting attentive guidance and advice that's coming from us and probably from the people you work with inward for about what we expect people to do when you're not at work. [inaudible question] >> they are going to get a flyer and a note when they show up and get off the plane that encourages them to spend two weeks in self quarantine, yeah. [inaudible question] >> keep in mind that were already doing the work of tracings and tracking people when they are deemed positive. that information goes to the department of public health, it goes to local departments of public health and there's a lot of outreach to the person who has been deemed positive with respect to the been contact with and who they've been in touch with. i fully expect now that we've wrapped up our testing activity that we will significantly wrap

how many of you are members of the commonwealth club. if you're not a member, this is a great time to join. there are all kinds of terrific programs, there is buildings like with a great roof deck and a gentleman named billyat the back of the room . he will be happy to answer any questions you have about joining the club so see himon your way out . these take a moment and turn off all your cell phones. any devices that might make noise and while you're doing that tell you about upcoming problems of the commonwealth club . on october 31 halloween, fair will be with us. on november 12, there's not a comment in that area just so you all know. november 12 rich lowery will be our guest. november 12 in the eveningin silicon valley legendary 49er jerry rice will be with us . and on november 15, actress mary lou henner who many of you may remember from taxi talk about why she has a unique condition thatallows her to remember everything in her life . very interesting program. the commonwealth club asbury travel programs and we encourage you to as

we saw that in the queen‘s message to the commonwealth today, and i think thatis the commonwealth todaymong the areas that they have stressed they will continue to be involved in, so the commonwealth youth, gender, equality, empowerment, service — these are all things that i‘m sure, given their profile, they will be able to contribute to, whether they are based in north america and travelling around. as we said a moment ago, i think it will be poignant, because it is a big step to end formal duties. thank you very much. now it‘s time for a look at the weather. some good spells of sunshine around but clouding over from the west. rain in northern ireland and also western areas. it will continue to edge east as we head through the afternoon. best of the dry and bright conditions that further east. it will cloud over. wind strengthening, particularly for irish sea coast. some of the rain will be relentless, particularly for parts of mid wales which is why the met office has issued an amber warning. travel disruption and flooding is likely. the rain keeps coming. the main band sweeps east as

free for all commonwealth veterans she shared her thoughts on the story. they have so sour cream country they have for falcon country i mean what has been the lot of these he's done 2 tours he's. streets and under nafta a terrorist attack take a taxi stand not entitled to any benefits or anything like that why have we charges such a ridiculous amount of money for them to remain in the u.k. popped it up done everything that's done we lived life to children and that it was come to regencies and i was a bit worried that it's like i said oh ok we need to start making sure that money aside and the face just kept going up and up every year every day when they go on their facebook my husband and said but it's a subclass occur to me having to explain it's much too young if anything happened to him jenny's army career i think that they need to re-evaluate the course. there have been significant irregularities and democratic primary voting including closed or relocated polling stations and extremely long lines that's according to the league of united latin american

sweep cicely's prison is after the state strict response to the spread of the coronavirus and commonwealth for the u.k. army 3 years what they call the grave injustice of facing deportation from britain to costly and complicated immigration. that afternoon just gone for clock here in moscow you with r.t. international now off the wall street suffered its 1st automatic holton trading in more than 2 decades with stocks falling nearly 8 percent will markets do seem to be slowly recovering today and so is the price of oil which also went into freefall yesterday after a price war was triggered by saudi arabia. and in the u.s. the dow plunged more than 2000 points the worst one day point drop ever prompted by oil price war that stunned markets around the world we had a huge market event yesterday as a lot of investors repriced out all the shock and crash we start in markets and the 2000 point swing on the dow since the same for what happens today business news now starting with the crude oil markets as they try to bounce back from their worst day since 100921 when all the prices plunged 30 perce

army veterans from the commonwealth an international association of states forming part of the british empire have criticised what they call the grave injustice that they could be deported and pays from the ruling conservative party and calling on the government to help former service members with the complex and costly procedures to stay in the country. it's hard to imagine people more entitle to live in our islands than those who are forced to defend them we need to look hard at these cases and ensure we support those who should have been able to stay all alone this does seem wrong i hope the home office will rectify this quickly and save these former british soldiers from the trauma of court proceedings and further delay on the home office rules commonwealth utterance you have at least 4 years and k. armed forces can apply for indefinitely to remain also known as settlement however many can't afford the procedures which can cost thousands of pounds and those who don't apply could be forced to leave britain a veteran told us that their treatment by the government is appalling. we sho

and commonwealth veterans who fought for the u.k. army for years what they call the grave injustice of facing deportation from britain due to costly and complicated immigration. other 100 joining us this is r.t. international. suffered its 1st automatic hold in trading in more than 2 decades after stocks fell nearly 8 percent shares were spooked by the biggest collapse in the oil price in the ninety's before rebounding slightly as saudi arabia stepped up its price war. and in the u.s. the dow plunged more than 2000 points the worst one day point drop ever prompted by oil price war that stunned markets around the world we have a huge market event yesterday as a lot of investors repriced all the shock the crash restart markets and the 2000 point swing on the dow it's the same for what happens today business news now starting with the crude oil markets as they try to bounce back from their worst day since 1991 or prices plunged 30 percent on what's been dubbed black monday in the biggest single day force since the 1st iraq war it was sp

free for all commonwealth veterans she shared her reaction to the story. they have so somehow queen and country they have fought for our queen country i mean my husband a lot of nice he's done 2 tours he's wall street's done do not after a terrorist attack don't take taxis they're not entitled to any benefits or anything like that why we charge is such a ridiculous amount of money for them to remain in the u.k. after death done everything that's done we lived life how to children and then it was come to redundancies and i was a big dad so i said oh ok we need to start making sure we put money aside and the face just kept going up and up every year every day when they go up their risk my husband and said but it's a subclass of her and me having to explain to my 2 young children if anything happened to him jenny's army career i think that they need to re-evaluate the costs . now there has been a significant irregularities in democratic primary voting including close to relocated polling stations and also extremely long as according to the league of united la

army better in through the commonwealth have one stayed on. decision about what they call a grave injustice we'll hear from some of them after this short break. seems wrong. to see. the answer. and in. the trail. find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. but if we talk about trouble he's gonna demystified this whole political space if you weren't clear before like these folks are no better than us so you know i you know you can reach out to friends say you know take responsibility maybe run for office at the end of the day you know i don't see how we've we've allowed a system where these people get away with you know misrepresenting us why not step up and do it yourself. welcome back u.k. army veterans from the commonwealth and international association of states formally part of the british empire have criticised what they call the grave injustice that they could be deported m.p.'s from the ruling conservative party are now calling on the government to help former service members with the complex and costly procedures

violence with cicely's prisons after the state's strict response to the spread of the coronavirus and commonwealth that grimsley for u.k. army for years slam what they call the grave injustice facing deportation britain due to costly and complicated immigration room. good afternoon 2 o'clock here in moscow you watching r.t. international wall street has suffered its 1st automatic cuts in trading in more than 2 decades after stocks fell nearly 8 percent shares were spooked by the biggest collapse in the all price since the ninety's before rebinding slightly to saudi arabia stepped up its price war. and in the u.s. the dow plunged more than 2000 points the worst one day point drop ever prompted by oil price war that stunned markets around the world we had a huge market event yesterday is there a lot of investors repriced all the shots the crash we start in markets and there are 2000 point swing on the dow it's the same for what happens today business news now starting with the crude oil markets as they try to bounce back from their worst day since 100921 or prices to 30 percent or more has been dubb

duchess are closing out a busy weekend with a service at westminster abbey in london, marking commonwealth day alongside the queen and starting next month they're officially out of a job and out of the family. mark philips is outside westminster abbey. mark, what have the royal couple been up to? >> reporter: good morning. it is something of a farewell tour for meghan and harry the past few days and they seem to have decided if you're going out, go out in style. this was the way it was supposed to be. the dashing couple all dressed up in royal red. the future of the monarchy in safe and popular hands. they were in london's royal albert hall for a concert but they seemed to be the stars of the show. the singing of the anthem, god save the queen, was a statement too. they may have decided the

he thinks the commonwealth made a mistake. >> this is an overreach of the prosecution.nd from day one, until this day i sit here, i don't think a crime was committed. >> reporter: massachusetts has no law against encouraging suicide. >> right. and so it's troubling that they would bring a manslaughter. >> reporter: that was the basis of his whole argument, prosecutors misinterpreting massachusetts' law. to him this was clearly a suicide. that's why he wanted a judge, not a jury to hear the case. >> i thought the judge would apply the correct law on the facts and that conrad roy was just so suicidal that michelle carter did not cause his death. >> reporter: and that's how he began his opening statement. >> michelle carter was not present. michelle carter had been texting with him. she did not physically see this individual for over one year. >> reporter: and to bolster his case, michelle's lawyer introduced a set of text messages that the prosecution had not mentioned, ones where she tried repeatedly to help conrad. >> have you thought about getting professional help? li

free for all commonwealth veterans she shared her reaction with us. they have so sad about me in country they have fought for our queen country i mean what has been the lonely he's done 2 tours he's all streets oh and under nafta a terrorist attack don't take taxis they're not entitled to any benefits or anything like that why we charge is such a ridiculous amount of money for them to remain in the u.k. after death dump everything that's done we lived life to children and then it was come to redundancies and i was a big worry then so i said oh ok we need to start making sure that money aside and the face just kept going up and up every year every day when they go what they risk my husband and send back the stuff that's occurred to me having to explain to my 2 young children if anything happened to him genuinely career i think that they need to reevaluate the costs. and you u.k. streaming services warning label and old episodes of the b.b.c. classic show dr who parks is move follows complaints that references to asian people in an episode from 1977 wer

in the commonwealth games and 1 million people...to realise it was coming?” thing. did you think we needed to realise it was coming? i think when people see what's underneath that, we're going to be delighted today and to have this as early as this in the lead up to games is phenomenal. it's never been done as early before and this will give the whole area a fantastic buzz going into the games. it's in the shape of the birmingham bee for the commonwealth, we hear, sorry... spoilers there! you say this is early, 870 days until the games, but birmingham has had a shorter time than other cities because durban pulled out and birmingham were given the games, are we on course? we are, these games will be phenomenal and what has been done with birmingham and the west midlands working together to get where they are now is really extra special. as far as we at the federation are concerned, everyone should be commended for the work they're doing. the passion is here, they're doing. the passion is here, they really want to make sure this is goi

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free for all commonwealth veterans she shut her thoughts with us on the story. they have so that our country they have fought for our country i mean what has been the lonely he's done 2 tours he's. done do not get a terrorist attack. they're not entitled to any benefits or anything. why would we charge is such a ridiculous amount of money for them to remain in the u.k. popped it up done everything that's done we lived life to children and it was come to redundancies and i was a bit worried that so i said oh ok we need to start making sure that money aside and going up and up every day will go on the risk of my husband and. me having to explain to my 2 young children if anything happened in journalism career i think that they need to re-evaluate the course. a new u.k. streaming service has slapped a warning label on old episodes of the b.b.c. classic dr boxes move follows complaints that references to asian people and an episode from 1977 are racist the episode in question titled the talents of when china has a white actor made up to play an east asian character

these are the people that are part of the commonwealth and again it's impossible to ensure that everybody complies with all of this. if you're working in massachusetts that means you're doing something that's essential and you are getting advice coming from us and probably the people you work with and work for about what we expected have people do at work. they are going to get a flyer when they show up that encourages them to spend two weeks in self quarantine. [inaudible] keep in mind we are already doing the work of tracing and tracking people when they are deemed -- that information goes to the department of public health goes to the local department of public health and there's a lot of outreach with respect to who they've been in contact with and in touch with. i fully expect now that we have ramped up our testing activity that we are going to significantly ramp up our tracing and tracking activity as well. .. self containing. we will talk a little bit about the stuff we have been doing with trucking. >> governor is giving us a great preview. as you know, anyone who test positive, t

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a fighter very familiar with a podium and a commonwealth champion from 2018.s hoping to make the first games of his career. it is amazing, i have in doing it since i was ten but been going down to sheffield for the past 4—5 years, working towards this year, the next few months, we have been gifted the qualifiers in london. few months, we have been gifted the qualifiers in londonlj qualifiers in london. i think four yea rs qualifiers in london. i think four years ago you sparred with some of the guys that were preparing for rio asa the guys that were preparing for rio as a 19—year—old, was that the moment that the touchpaper was [it for you? when he got the olympic bug? when i first got there i was gutted, i wanted to be a part of it but as it went on and we went to watch the boxing, i got a feel for the atmosphere. how significant is the atmosphere. how significant is the experience you are able to get at not only the world championships where you have won medals, the european championship, but winning that gold in the commonwealth. to go is one thing, but to

ruth: good evening and welcome to today's meeting of the commonwealth club, the place where you're in the know. i'm dr. ruth shapiro, founder and chief executive of the center for asian philanthropy and society and d member of the commonwealth club's board of governors and your moderator for tonight. now it's my great pleasure to introduce today's distinguished speaker, dr. muhammad yunus, winner of the 2006 nobel peace prize, founder of grgrameen bank, and author of the new bobook, "a world of thre zeroes: the new economics of zero poverty, zero unemployment, and zero net carbon." please welcome dr. muhammad yunus. muhammad: thank you. thank you. thank you.

they have been at the commonwealth service at westminster abbey. the duke and duchess of sussex, for now at least. their new roles will be reviewed in a year's time but for now this is the last time we will see them carrying out any kind of formal engagement. it was interesting this final engagement put them at the heart of the royal family alongside the queen, the prince of wales and the duke and duchess of cambridge. it was a very formal ceremony, full of all the traditional royal elements, that they are now going to be leaving behind. during the actual service, the address was given by the boxer anthonyjoshua, the address was given by the boxer anthony joshua, he described anthonyjoshua, he described himself asa anthonyjoshua, he described himself as a child of the commonwealth and said he was both a proud britain and a proud nigerian. these days we hear so much about division and difference that some might be tempted to see that as a bad thing. on the contrary, it's a beautiful thing. a thing to be celebrated and cherished and a great source of

historians, shows the largest concentration of indians in the commonwealth of virginia. myself lived to witness his separation of my family as they were forced out of the commonwealth of virginia to get a high school education. three of my family members went to oklahoma. in college right there. i served on the board for years. my family members had to leave the commonwealth of virginia to get a high school education in the 40's and 1950's. several family members of mine are forced to go to michigan to complete high school. another piece of the whole is this racial integrity act. also caused a serious disruption in virginia among serious communities. indicated --bly in a or white. what it did was it just ripped the hearts out of people and you cannot even document on not even your records. birth certificates, marriage license. you cannot document you are a native american in this state. that, my uncles and grandparents and great uncles on the draft certificate, the draft certificate, they were documented as indians. when they went to join the service, the service said no

that commonwealth is incumbent upon us to check in on the greatest generation. people that brought us into the world the most vibrant middle class and obviously have done so much for all of us. we have a unique obligation to do more for them. in that spirit to be able to do more we are not focusing on that one point of contact and hotline we need to drill down in a more sub- active way so we partnered with our 211 system. or two on one system is an incredible system in the state of california that connects people to real services in real time. if a loved one or neighbor, or stranger is in need, and they need something more than nice words and a check in, but need specific services, we partner with 211 to provide those services at the local level all throughout the state of california. >> just hearing governor gavin newsom on the state's response to coronavirus pandemic an outbreak. the governor announcing a new hotline 833-544-2374 for anyone to call that number to help older californians during this pandemic to get some help. >>> we are getting an update from s

$1.2 billion in the past week and according to insider's score, it was oracle, cit and equity commonwealth insiders stepped up and bought the most of their own stock. guy adami, is this something that you would look to a sell program could be automatic and do you look at corporate insider buying as a kind of a sign >> 100%. we talked about this weeks ago when we had a discussion about what are you looking for to see some semblance of normalcy and potentially a bottom and that's one of the things we mentioned, brian. all we have to do is go back to february 8, 2016, but i'm probably off by a couple of days it was that day, if you recall, the s&p bottomed out around 1810 and it was also on the day that jamie dimon announced he was buying back whatever amount of stock and he was trading 53 or so at the time i absolutely think that's an encouraging sign it's anecdotal, but not a bad thing, for sure. >> b.k., any of those names stick out to you if michael dell is sticking in and buying a bunch of his own stock it might say something >> it's interesting. i agree with guy and put this in the win

the commonwealth marking the farewell tour so to speak.to honor international women's day. the couple also making stops at the royal albert hall and the endeavor fund awards along the way. so this was the duke and duchess's last engagement before they officially step down and give up their hrh titles at the end of the month. >> i just want to say, in solidarity with our american princess, i too am wearing green to show support. >> look, i take the drama very seriously. as serious as anybody. i don't understand people that see this, analyzing interactions with in-laws, why would meghan want to leave this? sounds like a nightmare. >> yeah, not the most pleasant >>> breaking news in america this morning, virus emergency. president trump promising new moves to shore up the u.s. economy after the worst point drop in wall street history. tax cuts and other financial relief now on the table. >>> overnight the white house announcing whether the president has been tested for the virus after his close contact with a congressman now in quarantine. wh

they attended a commonwealth service at westminster abbey.od evening. well, after a promising start, the day deteriorated as the winds picked up and rain began to edge its way in. now, some of this rain's going to be quite heavy and persistent, particularly for parts of mid wales. the met office has issued an amber warning. over the hills we could see as much as 100 mm. flooding and travel disruption likely. you can see nicely the extent of this rain on the earlier radar image. some heavy pulses as well for north—west england and down towards south—west england too, spilling its way eastwards, and will gradually clear the main band during the early hours of the morning. but more rain to come for parts of mid wales, up into north—west england, and parts of south—west england too. over the moors, here we could see as much as 50 mm of rain. quite a bit of cloud around overnight, away from north—east england and scotland. it remains windy too, and as a result, a fairly mild start to tuesday morning. now, we still have low pressure in charge. a so

patients and also hospitals that they're getting care from. >> sreivasan: sara collins of the commonwealth fund, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: the federal stimulus package, which will provide relief checks to some families impacted by the pandemic, has reignited the idea of univeal basic income. e concept has been floated in academic and think-tank circles and even madit onto th democratic debate stage with candidate andrew yang. but when it comes to actually implementing u.b.i., well, for that, it's best to hear from the in stockton, cafornia, a pilot program called the stockton economic empowerment demonstration, or "seed," has distributed $500 a month to 125 city residents for more than a year. philanthropically-funded, the program will be completing s its run tly. i spoke with stockton mayor michael tubbs; seed director sukhi samra; and thprograars lead reers-- dr. stacia martin-west from the universy of tennessee college of social from the university ofro baker pennsylvania school of social policy and practice. this is part of our ongoing initiative, "ch

and then there is a commonwealth celebration monday.ls on the 31st. joining us now is a vo"vanity fair" royal watcher. how are people reacting to this last hoorah? a lot of people saying they look very happy. >> i thought it was a marvelous red carpet appearance. the red carpet makeup. the pencil dress. the beautiful picture of them grinning in the rain taken by the award-winning photographer. and i should think that his coffers are filling up. it's a great picture. and they're here. already, it's gone slightly wrong because meghan markle attended the national theater yesterday. a surprise visit. and instant taneously stole the spotlight from -- cornwall so that completely wiped out her stepmother in law. she's -- there are things she doesn't quite get. but i think what happened, very interesting. that when she appeared on the red carpet going to the endeavor awards and looked sweet and happy. and they both looked adorable. and a lot of the good will that we had here in england for her and for them, all came flooding back because we lov

the queen is not daunted and specifically she is ata not daunted and specifically she is at a commonwealthtomorrow at west chester abbey when she deals representatives of all 54 commonwealth countries so it will be a bit of internationaljamboree. but my goodness me, the war did not defeat her, nothing defeats her, coronavirus, forget it. she will be fine provided she does not know any elderly man with any pre—existing health conditions. i shall park that one and move on. i think so, yes. let's move swiftly on. let's go to the independent. most britons want a new mansion tax in the budget and this is interesting because it is based on an independent survey. this is interesting because it is based on an independent surveylj have based on an independent survey.” have not been able to find out the details but it does not surprise me when you ask the entire british population whether the richer it should pay more tax for nice things that a large number of people will agree with it. a mansion tax in some form or another and also calling a mansion tax in itself presents things ina mansion tax in

and folks in the commonwealth of virginia have said they want joe commonwealth of virginia have saidthey've known him fora know who he is, they've known him for a long time and he is authentic. michael bloomberg is trying to take the storm by buying the election. trying to take the storm by buying the electionlj trying to take the storm by buying the election. i think it was compounded by the fact that all those ads, the person in the ads did not match the person in the debates. they we re person in the debates. they were running ads during the debates and you would see one version of mike bloomberg on one side of the screen, and on one side of the screen, and on one side of the screen, and on one side and other. you can't win an election from ads alone, you have to step out from behind the curtain. we have correspondence across the country this evening with some of the candidates and their headquarters. the bbc‘s sophie long is atjoe biden‘s headquarters in oakland. it is one result, it is very early on in the night. but winning virginia is a pretty big dealforjoe biden tonight. if

harry and meghan are attending the commonwealth service at westminster abbey — their last royal dutyhy. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell has this report which contains some flash photography. they've spent the last couple of days fulfilling what are being described as their final formal duties as members of the royalfamily. this was the royal albert hall on saturday night. a packed house for a festival of military music, and an audience which appreciated the royal presence. harry was there as captain general of the royal marines. that's just one of the honorary military positions from which he's having to step down. and it was a military theme on friday evening when harry attended the endeavour awards for wounded servicemen. he spoke about the concept of service. being able to serve queen and country is something that we're all rightly proud of, and it never leaves us. once served, always serving. harry looked at home, as did meghan when she visited a school in dagenham to speak about womens‘ rights. it's fair to say she went down a storm. the head boy, 16—year—old aker okoy

but once again, we want to thank you from the commonwealth club for ann and francesca and for the lunch and the fact that we all got together and had talking at our tables, and talking to each other. and bringing forward a lot of wonderful cooperative information. so thank you, thank you, thank you. and i will give these to donna. they have their names on them. and we'll plan again for next year. there certainly will be a next year. ann, thank you very much. i hope you like the cup. i found it by accident. >> president caen: well, first of all, i have to tell you about the cup. the cup is a herb king cup that i use every morning with my tea. my morning tea. and i think about you. and i'm certain that francesca would like to speak, too, but the two of us were so honored to be recognized by the commonwealth club. and we had a great time. in fact, i think we're a great horse and pony show [laughter]. in terms of talking about the public utilities commission. and also, you know, our life and what has happened. so again, thank you so much. we'll always remember this honor that you've bestowe

but once again, we want to thank you from the commonwealth club for ann and francesca and for the lunch and the fact that we all got together and had talking at our tables, and talking to each other. and bringing forward a lot of wonderful cooperative information. so thank you, thank you, thank you. and i will give these to donna. they have their names on them. and we'll plan again for next year. there certainly will be a next year. ann, thank you very much. i hope you like the cup. i found it by accident. >> president caen: well, first of all, i have to tell you about the cup. the cup is a herb king cup that i use every morning with my tea. my morning tea. and i think about you. and i'm certain that francesca would like to speak, too, but the two of us were so honored to be recognized by the commonwealth club. and we had a great time. in fact, i think we're a great horse and pony show [laughter]. in terms of talking about the public utilities commission. and also, you know, our life and what has happened. so again, thank you so much. we'll always remember this honor that you've bestowe

prince harry and meghanjoined the queen and other senior royals at the commonwealth day service at westminsterbbey. that's all. stay with bbc news. more on our website — bbc.co.uk/news and the news app. now on bbc news, live to singapore for asia business report. asian markets are mixed in the morning after what's been dubbed black monday where us shares fell by their most since the global financial crisis. and 10,000 beehives destroyed in australia's bushfires. we will find out what this means for the future of the industry. hello, and welcome to tuesday's asia business report, i am sharanjit leyl business report, i am sharanjit leyl. let's look at markets in asia because some of them are open but it appears to be another choppy day of trade. we see the nikkei is down over 1% but crawling back from some of its steeper slides. we sought open 3%. we sought slide 5%, after dave incredibly volatile trading. we saw the us financial markets seeing their biggest one—day fall since the 2008 financial crisis. it's being dubbed black monday. the drops was so severe dubbed black monday. the drops was so

and a final appearance for harry and meghan, as working members of the royal family — at a commonwealtht westminster abbey. good evening and welcome to bbc news. as coronavirus continues to spread through the uk, the government's chief medical adviser says it is likely that within the next 10—14 days anyone with even a minor respiratory tract infection or a temperature will be required to self—isolate for a week. it's part of government plans to move from the containment phase to the delay phase of the outbreak. tonight a fifth person has died. there were 319 confirmed cases in the uk as of 9.00 this morning, a rise of 46 since the same time yesterday. almost 25,000 people have been tested. worldwide, just over 111,000 people are known to have been infected, of those more than half have already recovered. our health editor hugh pym has the latest. events are moving fast and this evening, the prime minister and senior officials explained the latest government thinking. there will be no rush into radical new measures. while it's absolutely critical in managing the spread of this virus tha

many counties in the commonwealth and other states have them. live andd go there to be provided with food. tom was over that for a time. he did a lot of things. he still farmed up until he died , but that's obviously hard, manual labor, with the foot, and ironically, the wound that would've killed any of us in in 1863 never gave him any problems. have problems from the amputation. the surgeons in richmond cleaned it up and made a better than it would've been, but that wound is a miracle. i spoke to people in maryland and they are scratching their heads, studying his case. explain how he possibly could have lived. their major concern once they whiche bleeding stopped, was not easy, they thought the mini ball had struck his spine and he was going to be paralyzed. i don't know how in the world the mini ball would travel right through the torso, hit something, and then come out the hit any vital organs. i think god had something in store for him that he didn't know about at that point in his life. thank you again very much. >> learn more about the p

the commonwealth of virginia saw more voters than ever before yesterday.bout 1.3 million votes were counted with 1% of the vote still out. nearly doubling the 780,000 votes cast back in 2016. even b surpass iing the 2008 primary between barack obama and hillary clinton, when underunder 1 million voted. the sanders campaign long argued that high voter turnout favors their candidate, but that was not the case in virginia last night. where biden won by 20 points. >> let's switch gears and bring in meteorologist bill karins with a check on your weather. we have been talking about the disaster in tennessee. any relief today for the folks down there? >> they don't have any bad weather coming down there. the pucktures are incredible. when you see most tornadoes, most of them are weak. we don't get a lot of these strong ones. when you see pictures like this when you don't know what you're looking at anymore. sometimes like the weak tornadoes will just take the roof off. when you get an ef-3 like these, you see this incredible damage with winds in access of 160 mil