you re looking for that to return just as much as the football taking place on the pitch itself karen mcguire thank you so much for joining us to share that insight thank you. let's have a look now at the latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the john hopkins university says that the global death toll has topped 300000 there are more than 4400000 confirmed cases worldwide south sudan has registered its 1st death toll from the coronavirus slovenia has called an official end to its pandemic becoming the 1st european country to do so and after a 2 month shut down restaurants cafes and bars are reopening in australia's most populous state new south wales a typhoon has slammed into the eastern philippines as authorities struggle to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people but many of the emergency shelters are overcrowded with no means of social distancing and without proper safety gear against the coronavirus typhoon from truong has been expected to sweep across densely populated areas before exiting in the north on sunday. for. typhoon from is packing powerful sustained winds of up to

of these shutdowns and frankly jumpstarting professional sports to discuss that we're joined by karen mcguire author of the price of football understanding the football club finance coming to us from liverpool and artie american sports correspondent spawn chris and steve christakis here in washington d.c. now steve i'm actually going start with you. we are hearing a lot of talk about contingencies to restart sports in the u.s. what are you hearing at this moment well bret 1st of all as we were just talking about off camera nascar released a statement saying they were trying to start up on may 17th in south carolina that's yet to be determined you have to see is a big win that saying they want to start may 9th would you have said to 49 and 40 but the major ones let's start with the n.b.a. for example they're trying to be one of the 1st major sports in the u.s. to start up and they will have to do 1st of all a 25 day program whenever that would begin with a 14 day quarantine and an 11 day training camp to get back into shape obviously for the players now you heard rumors today the latest was th