Global come to the program our top story european leaders are meeting to discuss the spread of a cry in a virus but concerns over the outbreak forced the emergency summit to be held by teleconference at the reverential meeting need as pledge to do everything they could to protect the blocks economy from the chrono Virus Outbreak an Investment Fund of up to 28000000000. 00 has been established to support Health Care Jobs and small businesses. First and foremost we must act at the macroeconomic level and to be very clear from my part to we will use all the tools at our disposal to make sure that the european economy weathers this storm. Or cases of the crime of virus have been reported in all 27 even Member States with very much a forefront of the crisis and choose they was the 1st day on the major nationwide restrictions there but 168 deaths were still reported in the past day now taking the toll to 631 overall reports European Union leaders are grappling with the fact that one of their
With a taliban leader more attacks on the afghan army prompted a u. S. Air strike against the. Low will mark them to the program our top story this hour Turkeys Parliament has descended into chaos amid rising tensions over the countrys military policy in syria a fight broke out involving dozens of politicians off to one opposition member accuse the president of disrespecting turkish soldiers whove died in syria. On was also labeled irresponsible for sending troops into the conflict without air cover turkey has sent thousands of soldiers into syria to try to halt a government offensive in province or the brawl in the parliament followed the deaths of 2 turkish soldiers during an attack in Turkish Forces also suffered heavy losses last week when 34 soldiers were killed in as strikes 59 have now died in Northern Syria one is due to meet his russian counterpart in moscow on thursday to discuss a cease fire. Or. None of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their
South korea, president moon calling the current Economic Situation as an emergency. The rhetoric is not positive even as what we see the beginning of a stabilization for some of these virus cases coming out of china. Certainly, the attention is on what regional economies are going to be able to do to support Economic Growth. Lets take a look at what we are seeing on the markets. A milestone for Chinese Markets in recruiting some of those losses since the Lunar New Year break, but we have seen very little positive price action since then. Absolutely. A little bit of a tempering of the positive tone we had seen. After we made up the post Lunar New Year losses, it is notable that you look at stocks on the mainland and they are trading lower, but off by just 0. 1 , so trying to hold in, trying to higherd continue to move with the cautiously optimistic town. Off slightly to the downside. Where we do see losses leading the way, that is in hong kong and japan. Both the hang seng and the andei
The democratic president ial race it gives his backing to joe biden. Hello welcome to the program our top story italy is closing old schools universities and cinemas until march 15th in the battle to contain its corona Virus Outbreak the death toll there is jumped to 107 now this is the largest number of confirmed deaths outside of china Public Events have also been canceled across parts of europe asia and the middle east also the International Monetary fund has issued a warning that the outbreak is likely to slow Global Economic growth this year joan hull begins our coverage. Contagion is spreading quickly across europe and the world and that means anxiety as much as the covered 900. 00 virus itself staff at the worlds most Famous Museum the louvre in paris shut it down for 3 days this week demanding better protection against the virus tourists went to news to there isnt a place in the world thats not going to get to you and you cant just shut down the world you can though shut down p
[roll call] you have a quorum. Item 3 announcement of prohibition of soundproducing devises. The ringing of use of cellphones and pagers and sound producing electric devices are prohibited and the chair may over the removal from the room of any person responsibility for one going off in the middle of the meeting. The minutes of february 18th, 2020 regular meeting. No members have turned in a public speaker card. Public comment is closed. We have the minutes ill entertain a motion. Move. Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed. Consider those approved. Clerk communications. Mr. Chair i have none for you today. Item 6, introduction of new or Unfinished Business by Board Members. Any new or Unfinished Business youd like to address . Very good. Clerk directors report. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. It is my pleasure to turn the mic over to director of transit, Julie Kirshbaum foray wards for her amazing crews who do the actual hard work of serving our public. I think th