Russian supply . Uest they are the big player they supply in europe and there are small quantities that should be going east to china and that is actually something under discussion this week, and then next month Vladimir Putin will go to china. They are one of the major gas suppliers. Years, youvecent all probably heard about the natural gas boom in the u. S. In the u. S. Is now producing as much gas as russia. That is true, but it is also pretty much all for domestic consumption. The u. S. May start exporting gas to other markets in a few years time, other than mexico and some transfers to canada, a few out of alaska, it is not a big exporter at this point. Share of russias natural gas exports by destination, this is for 2012. Guest germany is the big single buyer. The smaller European Countries are quite vulnerable as well. Dependentem are 100 on russian gas. You look at the case of the baltic states, belarus. Ukraine depends on it. And the further west you get, the u. K. , spain, f
It is Martin Luther king holiday happy holiday, everyone. Lets find out what the forecast is looking like if you have any plans outside. A lot of people have today off. We are looking forward to another warm day around the bay area. We could tie some records. It will not be like last week. Were waking up to clear skies as we look from the roof camera. A cold start for sox of us. Were below freezing and 39 degrees now in oakland and 40s along the midpeninsula. Into the afternoon it will be like i mentioned another warm day. Midtoupper 60s and 70s will trickle in. And oakland 70. 67. Livermore with a high of 69. Clear skies. And overall. We are looking at very mild weather. The forecast shows that temperatures will start to take a tumble as we push into the middle of the week. Well hold on to try whether and sunshine even heading into next weekend. Thats a look at the forecast. Traffic around the area doing all right. Some easy conditions. No shocks or surprises your typical lane closure
The headlines. In the United States another 6. 6 million workers have filed for unemployment in the past week, bringing the number of claims up week, bringing the number of claims up to 17,000,003 weeks. New figures show up to 60,000 americans could die with foreign coronavirus, down scaling earlier estimates that here in the uk another massive rise in the number of reported deaths with the Prime Minister Boris Johnson who has been receiving treatment for coronavirus moved out of hospital intensive care. A spokesperson has said his recovery was at an early stage. And street traders in south america say they are unable to obey government orders to stay indoors because doing so would leave them unable to feed theirfamilies. While would leave them unable to feed their families. While official vendor is in chile are closing their doors, unofficial sellers are still trying to make a living and you can get more news on oui trying to make a living and you can get more news on our website. Now
Urges people to comply. We cannot allow ourselves to become complacent against this virus and end these measures prematurely. Downing street says the Prime Minister continues to be in very good spirits in hospital after leaving intensive care his father urges him to rest. New york starts to bury some of its dead in mass graves with nearly 160,000 people infected with coronavirus across the state. Here, there are concerns that postal workers arent being fully protected from covid i9. I will be back with you at a 3pm continuing coronavirus coverage. Now on bbc news, Stephen Sackur talks to the secretary general of nato to hear how the Coronavirus Crisis is affecting european security. Welcome to hardtalk. Im Stephen Sackur. The coronavirus pandemic is a multi layered Global Crisis. It starts with public health, of course, but it reaches deep into the World Economy and the Global Security system, too. Could fears of covid i9 be used for malign purposes . Will this crisis undermine or enha
Now im bbc news, hard talk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The coronavirus pandemic is a multi layered Global Crisis. It starts with public health, of course, but it reaches deep into the World Economy and the Global Security system, too. Could fears of covid 19 be used for malign purposes . Will this crisis undermine or enhance multilateral institutions . Well, my guest today is the secretary general of nato, jens stoltenberg. Has nato risen to the coronavirus challenge . Jens stoltenberg, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you so much for having me. Let me ask you this how is the Coronavirus Crisis, the pandemic across the world, affecting natos ability to carry out its mission . The reality is that nato is carrying out its mission as we did before the crisis. Of course, we have made some adjustments. We have to also take take into our organisation the consequences of the Coronavirus Crisis but fundamentally, we continue to provide the terrorism defence, we maintain our operational