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laila khan. clay young. [applause] >> on capitol hill, social distancing guideline remain in place as congress begins the week. the senate is back at 3:00 p.m. to consider a judicial nominee for a district in arizona. there will be four nominees including republican leader to be a commissioner on the federal election commission. for now the senate has no plans to take up the $3 trillion coronavirus relief package passed by the house last week. the house of representatives has no votes scheduled this week. a short produring forma session, there will be a swearing in of two duly elected republican members. the house plans to resume legislative work on may 27, starting with a reauthorization of fisa. the house on c-span and the senate on c-span two. >> with the federal government at work in d.c. and throughout the country use the congressional directory for contact information for representatives, governors, and government agencies. order your copy online. at c-span.org. ♪

pine ridge investments md laila. -- major trading partners escalate. we have the latest.loomberg. ♪ haidi: beijing has followed impose on its threat to tariffs on australian barley imports 80% for the next five years. tensions have been escalating. more details on what the fallout is particularly in the context of what we are seeing with the who. let's get you up-to-date with some of the latest business flash headlines in this hour. softbank vision fund lost over $18 billion last fiscal year, bringing down the value of investments including wework and uber. masayoshi son's conglomerate put an operating loss of $13 billion. the vision fund has been dragged down by uber's disappointing ipo work's implosion. hertz has named a new ceo in efforts to order off bankruptcy. work's implosion. the american car rental operation set it will follow immediately the resignation of the current ceo. hertz has until friday to restructure lease payments if it is to continue with the growing concern. china has followed through on these threats of barley tariffs. 80% for the next five years i

okay, so one of our favorites, sandra bullock, and a rare appearance by her sweet daughter laila.ullock has really wanted to do something. they both appeared on the red table talk on friday's episode and they wanted to personally thank a nurse manager who works at a hospital in their community. her name is april buencamino. let me make sure i say her name right. april buencamino. just take a look at this. watch. >> say, hi, ladies. >> hi, ladies. >> hey. >> is there something you want to say to april? >> thank you, april, for doing everything for the -- everything for everyone. >> i think we all want to say that to our medical professionals right now. thank you for doing everything for everybody. sandra went on to say that her daughter laila is a superhero who will go on to save the world one day but she got all her kids involved in donating 6,000 n95 masks to april's hospital and so we want to applaud sandra bullock and fam for doing all that. >>> more celebrations just in time for mother's day. disney's family singalong volume ii after the massive success of volume i. there are

our political correspondent laila nathoo is in westminster for us this morning, laila, what concernsrunners through some of those concerns that have been raised. we are concerns that have been raised. we a re less concerns that have been raised. we are less than a fortnight away from the planned reopening of some years of primary schools in england and already we are seeing a growing number of councils being opposed to those plans, saying it's not going to happen, some because they are reposed entirely on principle because of safety concerns, saying it's not safe yet to do so but others also saying they need more time to prepare. most primary schools are under the authority of the local councils, although some academy chains have said they are going to reopen. the unions have been raising the concerns around the risk to teachers and pupils of going back at this stage. there are concerns there isn't enough cleaning regimes in place and they've not had enough time to prepare. there are calls for teachers to have protective equipment and for the testing and tracking and tracing regime t

laila: absolutely. we think china is definitely a head of the united states. they are 45 days ahead of us and there's a lot more opportunities opening up. apple opened their stores. nike is opening. shanghai -- china shanghai, disney, opening slowly. it is ahead of the united states and the world and there's a lot of opportunities there. you talk about some of those names like disney that are starting to see a reopening even at its resorts in the u.s., slowly but surely, the return to normal, so is that really an indication that we should start looking at the value opportunities within these big travel and leisure names that do have the solid balance sheets that may take a year or two to recover? laila: absolutely, especially disney. they are really learning a lesson to open up. they are learning that in china. it is a great model to reopening ,lorida and potentially france and certainly, here in california. .t is a great model for them they have always been able to really learn quickly and adapt quickly. is whatve that happened here as well. they have 54 mill

lina attalah was arrested outside the notorious tora prison where she was interviewing laila soueif, a prominent human rights activist and mother of the jailed pro-democracy activist alaa abd el-fattah. abd d el-fattatah has spent 35 s on hununger strike demanding family visits and access to his lawyerer amid the cororonavirus pandememic. in clilimate news, atmosphpheric carbon d dioxide levels have reached their highest lelevel in human history and continue to climb despite a modest decrease in carbon emissions due to the pandemic. with huge swaths of the world's economy on lockdown, global emissions are expected to decline this year by a record 8%. but climate scientists say that's not nearly enough to flatten the so-called "keeling curve" of carbon dioxide levels, now at about 415 parts per million. 2020 is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded, beating out 2016. french police have arrested a man long accuseded of helping to finance the 1994 rwandan genocide in whwhich 800,000 peoe wewere killed. 84-year-r-old felicien kabuga ws arrested in a a raid near parisn saturdayay.