just at lancaster university joining us via skype to many are thank you. and let's go back to nadine baba now joining us from london we were just talking about the latest the announcement really made by downing street who were just speaking about boris johnson's medical condition when it comes to who is actually in charge right now that the prime minister can't you know can't do his job the way usually can what clarity if we had from downing street on that. well the currency has come if there is clarity from dominic rather himself after that day the press briefing in which he said that the that bars johnson was in good spirits and continued to receive regular updates on the situation later on dominic did give an interview in which he confirmed that he had been asked and deputise for the prime minister that was after it had become clear that the prime minister had been taken into account intensive care unit after reports that he needed oxygen now dominic rug the foreign secretary he stepped in to chair the cabinet meeting on monday morning in the last 10 da

and we are not going to make that mistake. >> we are joined live now from washington via skype.rew cuomo, being overly optimistic, yet another briefing today. not overlyutious, optimistic, yet another briefing today. there is optimism. >> yes, we are seeing a plateauing, but a plateauing with high rates. the death rate, on par with the last few days, but it is still an awful lot of people. we have seen from the models this would be the week where new york would reach its peak. governor cuomo clearly wants to not give people hope, but he wants to suggest there is a turn their, and -- a turn there, and if the social distancing ends too soon, there will be a spike. he will be extending regulations until the end of the month and increasing fines. we are to 16,470 hospitalized. the third day of growth in intensive care. where the model suggests this will be the peak in new york. the latest there from washington. thank you. the democratic republic of congo's government has shut down the capital and main commercial hub for 14 days. it is the center of the outbreak. impacted in the deci

or should say from madrid via skype so marta we heard the last few days about the easing restrictions in spain and now parliament wants to extend the lockdown put it all into perspective which direction of the going. well it looks like spain is moving in the right direction and the number of people infected has still increases in the past 24 hours which we reduced sort of the full 1000 new infections from cop in 1004 more than 400 new fatalities at 2 percent so not the big numbers that we were hearing 2 weeks ago so things are working out a little bit better today the spanish government is split posing 30 extension all the state of emergency lockdown until may 9th and it's a formality because he already has the support on the back the back of all of the political parties what most of the political parties and so these will pass along and the new extension will begin on sunday and this extension comes with new measures as you mentioned children below 14 will be able to go out for a walk with an adult for at least 11 mile or one kilometer away from their homes and at least for one hour

zoom and skype meetings going with your constituents? guest: they are going well. it has been interesting for me. i think of myself as somewhat tech savvy. we have been using social media haveome time, but i broadened that vocabulary. a lot of the platforms we have used over the last couple weeks, skype, zoom, facebook live, facetime, even when i did with a senator from north dakota, we did an event on shindig. .t has been very interesting the ability to stay connected is very important when you are in public life. since we cannot do that person to person, we are trying to do that through technology. thank god we have the connectivity that can make that happen. host: what is shindig? guest: it's another one of those platforms that is able to throw a bunch of people up on the screen and handoff from one person to another when they ask questions. we had several hundred people on that particular event. host: do you think this is going to change the country? has it? guest: i do not think there is any question, some of what we are experiencing is temporary, but there ar

well joining us via skype from doha is akbar khan he's senior director of asset management at our eye on investment act passed so a huge historic cut in oil production but prices aren't likely to hit $50.00 a barrel this year what does this mean then for budgets and for spending when it clearly negative the break even. break even the budget break even prices for the gulf countries range from the low mid fifty's up to probably $8090.00 even more than a $100.00 for some of the states so if oil currently at 30 dollars and potentially likely to far lower what this means is that either they run extraordinarily large deficits or they cut spending most likely to be a combination of both where they do cut spending and they take loans or issue sovereign bonds to to finance the budget deficit and and paul what does this mean then for saudi arabia in particular i mean the crown prince mohammed bin solomon he has some very ambitious plans to diversify the economy doesn't he. he does he does and he's not alone in the region all the regions are trying all the countries in the region are trying to d

well joining us via skype from brussels is francesco puppet they are he's a senior resident fellow at the brueghel institute he was the director general for market operations at the european central bank francesco great to have you on the program look there seems to be money for e.u. states to fight the pandemic to keep economies afloat but not so-called corona bonds just talk us through that briefly when i think that indeed as you say there is money for countries said to deal with the with the co-leader $90.00 and this is of course are welcome and unlike the situation in emerging economies where the problem is much more receivers however it's also true that there are some countries say germany that are in much more comfortable situation than other countries make it very and that because it's an get situation and over it's lack of growth of a very very large. had to deal with the crisis in more precarious more precarious condition so yes over all of this equation is ok but is not that this same all across the euro area and francesco we know that france is in favor of countries sharing

i can't go on skype. i had a doctor call me and say go on skype. i go on skype, it doesn't work. can somebody do something to get us high-speed internet and cell phone service? my government representative says i don't limit a rule area. ral area. he is nuts. host: marie? guest: at least in the near term, if you have a phone, you can call your doctor. it is in the same if you have a video conference but you can speak to them. this is one of the regulatory barriers the trump administration cleared out of the way for medicare patients, making it clear you can call your doctor and your doctor can get paid for treating you over the phone. ifger-term, a lot of people you have a cell phone for iphone, that is one possibility. but one of the questions that will come out of this pandemic when you look back at lessons learned is -- do we have the systems in place to make sure that people can get care? you mentioned you are in a rural area, and that is one area that medicare cleared out of the way and they said they will pay a doctor for you to talk to them from the comfort of your home gu

he joins us via skype from london good to have you with us jimi so this crisis is shown it's just been a lot of talk about the dollar ending it's still the world's current reserve currency of choice right absolutely yes listen the dollars not only remains to if this was a game of the dollar is on the line from has been on the guy i'm friend for extremely long time it dominates all of the serving under and this is being something that isn't been in play for close to a century now since water times and we are still 2530 years away from anybody being able to say that they could challenge that dollar yes some currencies of made progress but the dollar store funded if you work globally for so many different reasons and we. just look at the dollar performance over the past week we had the dollar strengthened by close to 5 percent on a weekly basis that's it strongest performance since 2000 and currency such as the british pound as a result but don't let domination plunge the love was nothing seen a $55.00 is gold recently had its worst year since the late 1980 s. and even the australian doll

skype ma says so some encouraging signs from the latest figures that have come out. yes came . reflect a slow down trend we have reduced 212130759 factions and 6000 new positives in the last 24 hours 12400 death toll and 674 fatalities we have to say that both figures the new positives and the number of fatalities are the lowest numbers in the past 10 days so these reflects the slowdown trend we are seeing and we might be reaching the peak of the curve the prime minister a bit of sound it was mentioning yesterday the maximum number of people infected he also announced these to extension of the 15 days more of the lockdown space lockdown of state of emergency until april 24th. even as these encouraging signs a pair of ears say the pressure on the health system is still great we'd spoken yesterday about some ventilators that had apparently been held up on the tarmac in turkey what's the latest there. well we have we have to say that yesterday is all in all the media spanish media was reporting that the spain had to chase a cargo of 150 ventilators to china and what the

you can speak to them on the phone, skype, you can skype.—— ivalue. great grandchildren our people a value. -- i value. the doctors are risking their lives, you know? they're doing over us, aren't they? and we're very lucky. keep safe. follow what the government says and stay in your own home. in fact, it is largely commonsense.” stay in your own home. in fact, it is largely commonsense. i love you very much, stay home and stay safe. bye— bye! very much, stay home and stay safe. bye-bye! that's it for now. you can a lwa ys bye-bye! that's it for now. you can always keep up—to—date on the bbc news website will follow me on twitter. thanks for watching. —— or follow me on twitter. hello there. it has been the sunniest april on record and for much of the month it's been exceptionally dry. but things changed a bit on tuesday for many of us. you can see the way in which rain pushed its way northwards, certainly across england and wales, there were some showers for scotland and for northern ireland. now, that first area of rain is clearing away, y

you can speak to them on the phone, skype, you can skype. value. the doctors are risking their lives, you know? they're doing all for us, aren't they? and we're very lucky. keep safe. follow what the government says and stay in your own home. in fact, it is largely common—sense. i love you very much. stay home and stay safe. be cheerful! bye! that's it for now. you can always keep up—to—date on the bbc news website or follow me on twitter — i'm @vicderbyshire. thanks for watching. hello. it wasn't so much a case of april showers on wednesday, this was the scene for a time across birmingham, but give it a wee bit of time and eventually that rain cleared away and out came the sun. the reason for it all? well, we had not one but two weather fronts to contend with. and thursday again is a real mishmash of weather, low pressure very much the dominant feature, the isobars squeezing together on its southern flank. so, it isn't going to be a particularly cold start to the day given all the breeze and the cloud as well, but for some it may be a wet o

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and joins me live via skype from western france or natasha france doing the opposite of what some other european countries are doing. yes the french are present a man omar karami gave a speech to the nation as a televised address his 4th since he 1st announced that france would go into lockdown one month ago to morrow mike ross said in this speech that there was a lot of hope perhaps a light at the end of the tunnel because in the last few days here in france admissions to hospitals and intensive care units have reduced a slightly as have the number of deaths however eman michael said you know we are nowhere near out of this crisis yet you have a country where more than 14000 people have died and continue to do so of course each day he said that is why he has ordered that france remain in lockdown until may the 11th so another month 2 months in total when we get to mid may that will of course be very difficult for many people who are perhaps living in very difficult circumstances in very small spaces or on their own but a man or macro has called on the nation with this rather rallying s

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we spoke by skype. so before we get to what exactly public health is doing right now, i want to get to the funding or really better to say lack of funding for public health. is that a political thing? is that a under republicans or under democrats? public health is funded or not funded? brian: it's very bipartisan. everyone cuts public health. and so when you, when you look at public health, we spend $13 per person on average for public health. we spend $11,000 per person on medical care. and at this moment, and while, while ventilators and hospital staff are critical, it didn't need to get here. if we had just invested in public health, we could have avoided some of this, a challenge that we're having with covid 19. but public health works kind of in a circle. something bad happens. we pour a lot of money into public health and then things don't really happen for a while. and so then we cut it and then we get to where we are now, where something bad happens again. we have to stop that cycle. you have t

mary sources joins us on skype from. in switzerland welcome to the program so this meeting and video conference meeting is where has been under way what kind of prospects do you think there have been there are for some kind of understand who has some good noises well this is a good noise is it me instead. o. plus making good on. excuse me good and well just 10000000 barrels and in caps now the question will be is that conditional on the g. 20 ministers a good thing to morrow because it's. going forward. oh i know that. they question is also 10000000 barrels a day in iraq because. the demand destruction has been more than 20000000 barrels a day and we're running out of space to store our crude oil so 10000000000 barrels and 10000000000 barrels a day is going to be enough. to rejoining see exactly that question it is not because we are running out of the i assess the international energy agency says demolish struction so far has been 20000000 barrels a day i think it's probably been one towards a $3035000000.00 barrels a d

lost so even climate activists these school strikers protesting like right having to do that over skype it's a lot less in the public domain it's a lot less on people's minds because rightly there are other more pressing issues to deal with. now the corona virus outbreak is actually changing the way we think about a whole range of things including how we treat nature intensifying us come in for particular criticism many of many new viruses have spread from animals to humans some say that in that in growing vast quantities of a single crop in monocultures all stripping the rain forest of it's what humanity is laying the groundwork for operates like this one is that true as you are people just using the current crisis to further their agendas or as they indeed a direct connection between say the rain forest and the corn of ours. there's a direct her connection between human activity encroaching on ecosystems and the effects on pandemics whether that was the case with this particular current a virus is too early to know there's some suggestion of the virus spread initially from bats throug

joins me now live from london via skype the son of the him 1st of all what do we know about the prime minister's condition. well what we know for sure is what we've been told by dominic robb the foreign secretary has simply confirms that boris johnson just a few hours ago was moved into intensive care and thomas's hospital or south by the river thames. and that there is a ventilator there in case he needs it but that he hasn't been using it and that in fact beyond that there's been no specific comment on speculation which came out of the sudden. decline in bars johnson's health if you like on monday now at that daily press briefing chaired by dominic robb one national reporter from a british broadcaster actually asked a direct question to the chief medical officer for invalids chris witty and chris witty really didn't want to give a direct reply now the question was does the prime minister have pneumonia and the reason he had asked that question is because on friday the prime minister put out a video in which he urged people to stay at home but that was the day he was supposed to come

fromr guest joins us skype.es, the french president, emmanuel macron, gave a speech he firsttion -- announced france would go into lockdown one month ago. emmanuel macron said in his speech there was a lot of help, perhaps a light at the end of the tunnel, because in the last few days in france, admissions hospitals and intensive care reducedve redo stte -- slightly. however, emmanuel macron said we are nowhere near out of this crisis yet. do you have a country where more than 14,000 people have died and continue to do so each day. hasaid that is why he ordered that france remain in sokdown until may 11, another month. that's two months in total when we get to mid-may. that will of course be very difficult for many people who are perhaps living in very difficult circumstances, in small spaces, and on their own, but emmanuel macron has called on the nation with his rallying speech to show solidarity, to make a little bit more effort for a bit longer because, he says, without it, we risk seeing the coronavirus spr

is also vice president of the institute of civil protection and emergency management he joins us on skype from florence really good to have you on the program what sort of emergency management or emergency planning will be going on in the u.k. now with parsed johnson in intensive care what kind of conversations will be being had at the upper echelons of government. well am essentially emergency planning is something that we do initially to produce a permanent emergency plan but we carry on during jury in the emergency in order to attempt the plan to circumstances and to ensure that we have plans for specific circumstances has not arrived now most of that will be done by experts in emergency planning epidemiology the diseases sanded everything else that is relevant the politicians need to take the advice and way out they were tentative send make decisions about how to deploy resources on the basis of that and that is something that they will be doing. on the places of advice there obviously will take account of how things change day by day and that is a process that will be going on very i

scott samlin was going to answer the skype call for the interview in the emergency room department.e other doctors attending to the patients in need. what you are about to hear may be one of the most sobering and surreal accounts you have heard from the front lines so far. >> this is the most scared i've ever been being an e.r. doctor. it's not just because of me. it's because i have a wife and a 2-year-old and 1-year-old at home. i don't want to expose them. people say it's our job. it's not our job, it's our duty. this is what we signed up for. >> reporter: that's dr. scott samlin. he's an emergency room doctor at mount sinai hospital on the west side of chicago. >> i deal with gunshots every day and trauma and crazy stuff. this is the only thing that scares me. >> reporter: how many patients do you see on a daily basis that are suspected of being covid positive? >> over 70, 60 to 70% every day. >> reporter: we keep hearing that young people are not as affected by this. has that been your experience? >> you can tell that to a 27-year-old intubated last week who had no medical prob

multiplies nothing in communicating with your family and friends you communicate with my parents on skype every day we drink tea together and show them what is happening outside our window you look around and find all the positive things you can take out of the situation at the end of the day talk to your children talk to your grandchildren talk to your family take things apart what you promise yourself to do a long time ago you're doing the right thing so try to enjoy a. good advice but is how the stories are shaping up the solid wherever you're tuning in to us from across the globe we hope you're not too inconvenienced by crowbars restrictions we do appreciate you choosing us for your news update. to cease. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see of m. m afshin rattansi and we're going underground amid the continuing coronavirus pandemic as the un's call for a global cease fire to fight the virus appears to go unheard on the battlefields of libya yemen and syria coming up in the show

crisis one which does not kill their business dominic cain al-jazeera berlin well joining us now via skypefrom edinburgh is. chair of international banking or and finance at the university of edinburgh and emilio's has written extensively on financial regulation i mean it's great to have you on the program let me start by asking you is the banking sector prepared for this pandemic do you think no nobody's the banking sector is in a much months but this shape that was in. it was in 2008 but nothing like these and of course the biggest problem is this the exposure sold off balance by corporates law from corporates to corporates and even one of the defaults as you understand. the same corporation will be fought on its bank loans and then the stress on the banking sector will be imported in directly and that's the biggest the biggest said to me yes there is that corporate default on their short term loans to other corporates this is a form of shuttle banking activity that was not regulated forced 2008 and has created serious fragile vulnerabilities to the global financial system the other side

see this year for sure is climate summit being canceled or postponed or i mean potentially held over skype and video. but a lot less effective as a clear answer we can see governments have much bigger priorities to deal with namely reducing the spread of the virus and on top of that we also have the issue of the kind of momentum behind change being lost so even climate activists the school strikers protesting lycra to invoke having to do that over skype it's a lot less in the public domain it's a lot less on people's minds because frankly there are other more pressing issues to deal with. now the corona virus outbreak is actually changing the way we think about a whole range of things including how we treat nature intensifying has come in for particular criticism many of many new viruses have spread from animals to humans some say that in that in growing vast quantities of a single crop in monocultures all stripping the rain forest off it's what humanity is laying the groundwork for outbreaks like this one is that true as if our people just using the current crisis to further their agenda

some of the video calling apps, including zoom and skype, will let you start a call on your phone, butguest participant using just one account. so you can video chat over here and use your phone as a camera to stream the game board. now, this is the only game i've got in the flat to demonstrate with. it's a secret admirer board game where players have to work out who fancies them and call them on this phone. is it matt? hi, sorry... it's not me. oh, it's not matt! oh, no! bad luck, spencer! now, being in isolation doesn't necessarily have to put your dating life on hold. i'm trying a new app called filter off. it was originally designed as a way to beat catfishers, fake profiles, because instead ofjust swiping yes and no on people to try and find matches with people you think are hot, instead you're matched with a set number of people to do speed date video calls on an evening. so what you do is you tell the app when you're free — well, i'm not doing anything else tonight — and then you are matched with people. and my first chat will be with zach, founder of the app, and i don't even g

with more pleasant things communicate with your family and friends i communicate with my parents on skype every day we drink tea together and show them what is happening outside our window you look around and find all the positive things you can take out of this situation at the end of the day talk to your children talk to your grandchildren talk to your family take things apart do what you promised yourself to do a long time ago we're doing the right thing so try to enjoy it. yes stay positive take a step as it comes now before i go to kevin on your moscow international by the way this just let me update you on the breaking news is coming from russia got some new pictures to show you it's now known that one person has died in a gas boiler has exploded in an apartment building in the moscow region the blast cause part of the building as you can see that collapse up into the town of about $180.00. 100000 people around 90 kilometers east of the city of moscow a search is underway for people in the rubble emergency services say that the explosion they think is best they can make out of the m

joining us now via skype from oxford is andrew follow he's a senior fellow at the oxford martin school at the university of oxford good to have you with us so with health care systems now clearly lacking things like ventilators protective suits even staff has this crisis shown just how wrong past funding policy has been towards the health care systems yes we've known about the risks of this happening for a long time the world health organization added to its party watch list what it called disease acts a serious international epidemic caused by a pathogen currently unknown force human disease and common 1000 turns out to be that the disease acts spread by a virus we've known this for a long time we know that half of the 1400 or so one pathogens have their origins in animals we've had 100 in emerging infections the last century 345 have gone global 3 in what will in 20 and the next hiv aids we've known about this for a long long time the goal well community has been writing reports that it's a long long time. there was a report just a few years ago he said that all it would take to be p

we have to skype with the commander from land. only naval and medical personnel allowed onboard. he tells me the magnitude of this mission hit him when they sailed past lady liberty. >> it's unbelievable. it really hits home the impact of what we can do to help the citizens of new york. this is, this is absolutely huge. it meant so much to me. i've been in the service for 36 years, and this is the most significant and heartfelt welcome of anything that i've ever done in my life. >> reporter: the gravity of the crisis felt across the country as hospitals and state governments battle to get ventilators, one of the critical tools in the fight against the coronavirus. >> it's like being on ebay with 50 other states bidding on a ventilator. that's literally what we are doing. >> reporter: overnight, the governor asked by david about the timeline. and when this virus will peak in new york. >> you talk about the apex, the peak of this. i know you're relying on your own scientists behind the scenes, what do the numbers tell you about when new york city, new york state could see this apex

amidst a record high in numbers of those needing to go to food banks in britain i'm joined now via skype from bodrum in turkey by the united nations special rapporteur on the right to food don't feel well thanks so much a lot for coming on you've called covert 19 inequality on steroids our politicians here are telling us that the threat is equal why this mismatch how we gauge you treat it's not how we receive our conditions. for instance we talk about a very simple way socialist so possible social distancing places trying to i didn't . they're sitting in their very small rooms 25th of them are sleeping nearby mary is it possible it's not possible for the tocome our. guys that they have coming in really bad or emergency workers how possible they are equal like us that we are sitting in our car and made to keep our foot in the air taught so it inequality is extremely important in the situation well 10 years of a conservative and coalition government here according to n.h.s. figures show one in 10 of those over 60 in the u.k. is malnourished we have record child poverty here 4200000 living