Those put out of work because of the virus and make direct cash payments. The deal was in the work on tuesday ands caused a celebration with the dow having its biggest oneday point gain in history. It appears investors have become a little more optimistic after stocks took a tremendous battery. On tuesday President Trump toogave the first indication of when he wants to see the pullback in the nationwide restrictions we are seeing. He told a town hall that he liked to have the country up by easter, april 12 but thats a much earlier timeline than many experts believe will be required to keep the virus under control. The first shockwaves we saw on thursday when they reported weekly unemployment claims that soared to over 3 million. The most since records have been capped and almost five times higher during the financial crisis. How much has the coronavirus already hurt the economy . How much more damage might be done . And more importantly how long can the country remain at a standstill b
International 1st then the e. U. Has closed its external borders for the next 30 days Germanys Angela Merkel announced the measure which is one of the most drastic so far in tackling the coronavirus. We have introduced entry restrictions basically an entry ban for citizens from non e. U. Countries it will last for 30 days in germany it applies immediately belgium is the latest country to join those declaring a nationwide quarantine spain italy and france are also in lockdown military trucks have been filmed on the streets of paris r. T. Shah to do basically looks at whether the era of Free Movement could be coming to an amicable. For years populists have been advocating tighter border controls within the European Union which you and the National Governments have criticised yet in 2020 that is exactly what were seeing happening it all started with italy and border controls being imposed from people trying to leave it to lead to go into austria but since then a host of other e. U. Countr
0 in the clock folks like the mayor putin new legislation paves the way for him to be president for life putin argues staying in power after his term ends will be good for russia but how convinced are his critics this is inside story. Hello again im james spays hes russias longest serving leader since the soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and if youre a russian under the age of 20 youve never known another leader Vladimir Putins critics fear hes preparing to be president for life the 67 year old has backed a constitutional amendment to reset his president ial term count to 0 allowing him to run in another 2 elections the lower house of parliament passed the legislation on tuesday russians would you to have their say in a constitutional referendum next month the amendments are the latest in a choreographed process that began in january well come back to what putin said then now the kremlin leader hasnt ruled out running for president beyond 2024. But then we should go for it you may conside
Really then yours we meet with global news makers and the stories that matter just 0. Zeroing the clock for glad im here putin new legislation paves the way for him to be president for life putin argues staying in power after his term ends will be good for russia but how convinced are his critics this is inside story. Hello again im james pays hes russias longest serving leader since the soviet dictator Joseph Stalin and if youre a russian under the age of 20 youve never known another leader Vladimir Putins critics fear hes preparing to be president for life the 67 year old has backed a constitutional amendment to reset his president ial term count to 0 allowing him to run in another 2 elections the lower house of parliament passed the legislation on tuesday russians would you to have their say in a constitutional referendum next month the amendments are the latest in a choreographed process that began in january well come back to what putin said then now the kremlin leader hasnt ruled
Sees its highest election turnout in 2 decades 1000 voters seek to break the countrys almost year long political deadlock and delivery government. Broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is r. T. International lunch on thomas certainly glad to have you with us at the democratic race to take on donald trump in the 2020 president ial election is picking up pace but ahead of socalled super tuesday its been far from that for 2 candidates clinton candidate has suspended her nomination and this comes soon after pete booted judge also bowed out. Well march 3rd super tuesday is the day in which 14 u. S. States and one u. S. Territory of American Samoa votes in their president ial primary and just ahead of that vote we have 2 major contenders suspending their campaigns dropping out of the race and at this point amy clothes shar and pete are no longer in the running they are not running for president now already weve had amy clovers shar endorse joe biden pete buddha shes expected to d