we will ask french economist thomas piketty. his book has been described as a manifesto for political change. the president trump invokes the defense production act which barred local governments from closing the packing plants around the country. you help do with businesses with liability issues as workers come back in states that have opened up? pres. trump: we just worked with the meat processors and if you think about it, a form of delivery. we have tremendous product. we have ample supply. but there was a bottleneck caused by this whole pandemic. amy: beef, pork, and poultry processing plants are linked to areas with the highest rates of the coronavirus transmission in the u.s. we will get response from leading global health law expert lawrence gostin. and we will get his response to trump repeatedly atattacking the world health organization during this pandemic. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and -- according report, i''m amy goodman. the worldwide death toll from pandemi

tot: thomas piketty, great get some time with you.k soon, from the paris school of chair and associate political economist and author. definitely, these are the times when you pick up those books to really dive into the economic history and the theory, and it is definitely something a lot of people will grow from. coming up, we will speak with another economist, the chicago booth school economics professor and former fed governor, as well, that is 11:30 a.m. u.k. time. another interview you don't want to miss. this is bloomberg. ♪ matt: welcome back to the european open. we're almost an hour into the trading day. we are seeing solid green arrows in london, the ftse up .9% right now, 55 points to 6014. we see gains on the dax and the in as well as the ftse mib italy gaining two thirds of 1%. a ton of companies out with earnings, airbus basically pre-warned over the weekend, but up despite saying it is the gravest crisis ever, it has grown 8.7 billion. barclays trading surged, as well as loan provisions. up can see the stock moving five

all right, thomas piketty, it is good to talk to you from thank you.talk to you from paris, thank you. british airways has said it may not restart its services at gatwick airport once travel restrictions are eased, in a memo seen by the bbc. in a letter sent to airport staff, the airline said up to a quarter of its pilots could lose theirjobs because of the pandemic. a separate letter, sent to pilots, said the few services still running from london heathrow could be suspended due to a collapse in customer demand. let's get more from our transport correspondent, tom burridge, who's at heathrow airport now. the problem for british airways is that heathrow is its hub, what is it, about a fifth of its planes fly out of gatwick? it is surplus to requirements at this particular moment. well, people are raising questions about gatwick airport tonight. it is a bitter blow for them and even the suggestion ba could walk away from the second largest airport in britain. but it raises questions also about heathrow, where we are now. most to be a's business at gatwi