Hello to everyone from geneva, and that uh o headquarters. Welcome who headquarters. Welcome to this regular covid19 briefing. There were more than 400 journalists watching us on zoom, as well, with a number of questions waiting for our guests today and today we have a special guest. That is the managing director of the International Monetary fund. She will join this briefing to about the Economic Impact of the covid19 pandemic and the response of the International Monetary fund for journalists who are online and wish to ask questions, please click rays hand. We will start. Thank you. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening. We are delighted to be joined by the managing director of the International Monetary fund. Welcome, my sister. She will say more in a few minutes about the Economic Impact of the pandemic and what the imf is doing to support countries and the global economy. More than one million confirmed have beenovid19 reported to who, including more than 50,000 deaths, b
There are a number of questions waiting for our guest. Guest, thepecial managing director of the International Monetary fund. She will join this briefing to talk about the pandemic and the response of the International Monetary fund. Questions,ist to ask please raise your hand. Tetra whoart with dr. Joined by others. Afternoon, andg, good evening. By theined today managing director of the National Monetary fund. Welcome. She will say more in 18 minutes ofut the economy making part this and what the imf is doing to support countries and the global economy. More than one million cases have includingeported, 50,000 deaths. But we know this is much more than a Health Crisis and we are all aware of the profound social and economic consequences of the pandemic. It is taking a heavy toll on the income of individuals and families and the economies of nations. In the shortterm countries, we can ease the burden on their populations to ensure people have food and other life essentials. For some c
Although it brightens up their will be showers around, regularly across eastern areas. Traders is another band of rain moving. As one could bring localised flooding with snow melts combined with every rain gcioss melts combined with every rain across southern scotland. The weather has been very wet over recent days. That could tip us over into having some flooding issues. The weather front weakens as it reaches eastern england. Last weekend we set a new transatlantic record for subsonic flights with ba flight 112 record for subsonic flights with ba flight 112 taking five hours to cfoss flight 112 taking five hours to cross the atlantic. It was an incredible record, but it is under threat friday and saturday because we are going to get an incredibly strong jet stream moving across the atlantic. The peak winds in this piece, up to 275 mph. That will not only propel planes very quickly gcioss only propel planes very quickly across the atlantic, it will gouge ata across the atlantic, it w
This helicopter pulled out as well. Brooke. Everyones mind went to miracle on the hudson. I hope the pilot is okay. Thanks for the hustle to you and your crew. Appreciate it. We continue on. Top of the hour, youre watching cnn, im brooke baldwin. We have more breaking news at the white house. The white House Counsel has flatly rejected the House Judicial Committee request for documents in a sweeping investigation of possible obstruction of justice and abuses of power. The house judiciary chairman jerry nadler responding this way. This is the white house claiming that the president is a king. This is the white house saying that the Justice Department said they cant hold the president accountable because you cant indict a president and now theyre saying neither can congress so the president is totally unaccountable and above the law and no president or no person in the United States is amove the law. This is preposterous. Cnn political director David Chalian is with me. We hear the chair
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