A complete end to the lockdown. Risk of infection. On the right. Good morning to you thanks for joining us of course this is r. T. International. Well lets begin as is usual now with a quick update on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections that is now above 4200000 287000 lives have been lost and more the 1500000 people have recovered. So lets start in russia where the nonworking periods brought in to fight the rapid spread of covert 19 has officially come to an end the news was announced by Vladimir Putin during a video address but that doesnt mean an immediate return to life as normal the number of new cases reported in russia this morning stands at 10899 more than 43000 people have recovered in total however 2116 have died as more on this now from our correspondent. Just take us through what was announced what exactly is this going to mean for people in the various parts of the country. While in recent days of course weve seen how many european nations
Store. I bet i bet you cannot guess which one of these 2 protests are brand name in chief the want to know me President Donald Trump himself indorsed well if you guessed the largest rent strike in nearly a century well thank you for playing but you can go home the son of a landlord is never ever ever ever ever going to get behind a rent strike no no no President Trump took to twitter to throw his support to the armed lemming hordes protesting in front of the state capitals across the land tweeting the governor of michigan should give a little in and put out the fire these are these are very good people but they are angry they want their lives back again safely see them talk to them make deals with this from the man who an unarmed n. F. L. Players simply took a need during the magical anthem to protest the killing of their Black Brothers and sisters by Police Officers. Proudly exclaimed the following. Would you love to see one of these n. F. L. Owners when somebody disrespects our flag
Shutdowns until at least may 15th we have a great lineup today. In just a few moments, well speak with Patrick Harker about what will take to get the economy back on its feet and later, Alexis Ohanian will join us hell talk about his investment in a company thats help iing Small Businesses navigate the loan process, which is one of the issues lets focus in on the stories we are watching in this final hour of trade wilfred of course covering the bank earnings. Morgan stanley the latest. Meg has new details on testing but well begin with breaking news out of washington where President Trump is expected to meet this hour Via Teleconference with governors. What are we expecting here that conerer sags is about to get underway where President Trump is going to share with the nations governors what the white house and its medical team have arrived at as far as the guidelines for reopening the economy. The Daily White House briefing is going to take place at 6 00 p. M. And what President Trump
Rescue, is it really going to do very much about the problem . Futures pricing in the fed rate cuts at three for the rest of the year but of course this as more governments are taking action and coming to the rescue with fiscal measures. Speaking nowr abe saying japan will take bold measures if needed. He is also saying he will soon announce policies tackling school closures. Schools are in hong kong and now japan will follow suit from march 2. Let us get a quick check of the markets. Equity markets are giving into the rest of the global selloff. The cfx 300 is often the low of the day. But still down by more than 1 . The hong kong hang seng also testing the of trend that had been in place since august. Japanese equities bearing the brunt of the selling. In a correction position. Off by more than 3 just today. As np futures are rebounding just a bit. Up about 0. 5 after the worst day since 2011 and a decline of more than 4 . I want to take a look at some of the risk propositions. Repre
The big market mover is gold, and this is a classic flight to safety. Its getting closer to 1600 an ounce. Thats a sevenyear high. 1577, up 25 bucks as of now. Price of oil, 63 a barrel. Can you imagine where the price would be if the general had been killed a few years ago, before america became Energy Independent . Got it. Here are the late news developments. The iranians threaten retaliation. Hundreds of thousands marched through tehran for the generals funeral. The iranians say they will no longer comply with Nuclear Enrichment limits contained in the nuke deal from which mr. Trump was already withdrawn. No backing down from President Trump. Oh, no. After the iraqis demanded the withdrawal of american troops, the president threatened to send them a bill for the bases we had built for them and he threatened to respond to any iranian attack by going after cultural sites. This has been hard line trump. In washington, Speaker Pelosi will organize a vote this week to restrict the presid