clean the stadium he's just so good at getting those hard to reach places treasury secretary stephen newton the leader of the program and robot annoyed by human existence responded to the confusion over who and what qualifies as a small business certain people on the p.p.p. may have not been clear in understanding the certification so we will give people the benefit of the doubt we're going to put enough a q. out to explain the certification finally and f.a.q. what are the questions like number one do you want to identify as a small business do you say like shake shack have about $6000.00 employees are a publicly traded franchise and with a $15000000.00 net profit and pay your c.e.o. $3800000.00 a year then no you're not a small business you might have low self-esteem but if you're a big business you really are and believe in yourself after some serious backlash the l.a. lakers and shake shack pledge to return the money to the government so to 14 other publicly traded companies of which some have c.e.o. pay higher than their multi-million dollar relief packages now what's in the government'

want to cover and i want to talk about something else erick because last week treasury secretary stephen newton actually selection suggested things that the government could do to help the oil industry including buying fuel for the country in advance although if stores are completely full well that's going to really work out but he also said that the government was open to taking an equity stake in energy companies adding that there were a lot more options as well but what do you make of this prospect of the u.s. government taking stake in the u.s. . oil companies. that horrifies me i don't think the government does anything particularly well i would refer them to the better at doing well in gas company analysis and they are at things like delivering the mail. it's a bad use of. taxpayers' money and ultimately. colin to size ation of the oil industry that would occur as a consequence of large pieces of government ownership would do more damage to the industry i believe tyrus it's done let the markets work take the pain in the near future and the cure for low prices is in fact low prices. i woul

in there and they knew that it would lead to this and that's what people need to focus on here stephen newton was completely predictable but what we had in this legislation written by democrats written by republicans written in part by minucci himself is that it was designed this way they made it to where the banks can do so so really the it comes down to starve people but make sure that that overcharge at the bank is paid for that's how ugly this is there's another another ugly part to it and i love this part 1st of all let me throw out the palosi issue got to do that. yesterday palosi is that. by 5 she's asked the question did you know that you have democrats 567 democrats that are saying please don't hold up the business loan the small business loan issue and and now what's happened is she's put herself in a position to where so now she's the focus the democrats are the focus of the bad guy give me a got about a minute tell me tell me that part of the story well what's happening at this moment is that yeah democrats are trying to get some concessions from the republican side these are extr

with this ongoing pandemic earlier as well just to mention we heard from the finance secretary stephen newton who made a point about the small business loans that have just gone out in the new tranche of congress and pandemic packages saying introducing interesting lee enough a safeguard to it and this follows many calls from congress that the funds aren't being policed securely that there will be a review of any money paid over to. $1000000.00 so this is going to be welcomed by many in congress who have seen the payment of these loans in terms of the n.t. pandemic relief fund being in many ways a very badly maintained but this they hope will regain some kind of control my kind i thank you very much indeed. that's it for the moment for us to stay with us. after their world for ramadan songs is up next more news for you in around half an hour on the news hour at $21.00 to join me then fast enough. the. garden of not only. one of them up on the equator other than maine yemen saudi. there are. most of it over me that i wouldn't gain at though if you know any. in new albany and i'm. a moderate he

will also hear from the nhs england national medical director professor stephen powis, and expecting to hearfrom doctor john newton of health improvement at public health england. another briefing from the government clearly expected to talk a lot about this issue of testing. we have had borisjohnson yesterday in his self filmed a video talking about massively wanting to increase testing, it's something the government are under a significant amount of pressure on. i think this issue speaks to many things, it goes back to what the government strategy has been from the beginning, why it wasn't testing prioritised right at the start, they have talked about a bottleneck in the global supply chains for the kit associated with testing to see whether you are infectious, why didn't the government, for example, get ahead of the bottleneck right from the start? it also speaks to what's going on now, 10,000 odd tests being carried out a day, the priority for now is to test nhs staff who are self isolating because they all family numbers have symptoms. if they can test those staff, many of those people who are self isolating