U. K. Alone sports stadiums are turned into hospitals. And a cease fire comes into effect in yemen with the say it tax havent stopped. We begin this put it in there with live pictures from here in the u. K. Where people are coming out of their homes to clap for the countrys Health Service workers during the pandemic lets have a little listening. So this is become an event has happened over the last 3 weeks on a thursday evening people are paying tribute to all the workers in the n. H. S. Looking after kurt of ours patients and you saw there Dominic Robert who was standing in for the Prime Minister the moment. Now the number of worldwide grown in virus deaths is edging closer to the 100000 mark as lockdowns continue to threaten the Global Economy there are signs that any recovery in the u. S. Economy the Worlds Largest is going to be slow as Consumer Confidence collapses and unemployment skyrockets in europe leaders appear to be getting closer to agreeing a half trillion dollar economic
Downward but thats not the case when it comes to the economy of and of course thats a lagging indicator here 6600000 new jobless claims 17000000 over the past 4 weeks out of work and filing new jobless claims and an Unemployment Rate of 12 to 13 percent thats a level not seen since the Great Depression forecasters are saying they expect that to go up to at least 15 percent and 11 said that this is really essentially the Great Depression 2 here in the United States one sign of that is the trouble of the u. S. Airline industries the president did address that in that briefing today he said details will come out over the weekend over the u. S. Aid package for those airlines he said the Airline Industry has hit very hard as everyone knows and we are going to be in a position to do a lot to help them but of course no details on that until the weekend so were looking forward to see what the president has to say on that british Prime Minister baraks johnson is out of intensive care after impr
Youre just about up to date with the headlines. Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Ireland is bracing itself for the scariest of halloween nightmares. Prime minister borisjohnson has pledged to take the uk out of the eu on october the 31st come what may. That may very well mean a no deal brexit, with potentially damaging economic consequences for the uk, but also for eu nations, most particularly ireland. My guest is neale richmond, chair of the irish senates brexit committee. Can ireland prevent itself becoming the Collateral Damage in a brussels london showdown . Neale richmond in dublin, welcome to hardtalk. Thanks for having me on. Lets start with Boris Johnson, hardtalk. Thanks for having me on. Lets start with borisjohnson, new Prime Minister. He has changed the dynamic of the brexit process, because he says britain is leaving on october the 31st come what may. How has ireland adapted to this new borisjohnson how has ireland adapted to
Brussels. Whatever the result, theyll still want their voices heard when this is all over. Their voices might be heard loud and clear. Tom we just had results in from new castle it was a remain victory but only by the narrowest of margins. I think its fair to say thats not necessarily what we expected. Expectation is a difficult thing. We probably expected remain to do better . It seemed likely remain would win new castle. Its a city with dwight quite a young population. The university, quite a thriving economy in the northeast. Those factors we expected. There was a big turnout, over 67 . Up eight points on the general election in new castle. I think this will give the leave campaign a little hope even though remain won the votes there. I remember when Boris Johnson went for visit there he was mobbed at the station. People thought this sort of place would be labor, its got the machinery there. But also young. But actually perhaps these pockets. Tom we discussed this evening, paul, tha
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