A leading Health Experts slams the governments pandemic response. Also the u. S. President unveils his plan for reviving the Worlds Largest economy but there are doubts about whether it will work. And the rush to make masks in kenya as the World Health Organization warns 300000 people could die across africa. Welcome to aljazeera because in china where the credit virus pandemic has stopped decades of Economic Growth the countrys g. D. P. Is in the 1st 3 months of this year that shrank for the 1st time since records began the news comes as the government revised the death toll in the city of new hardware the pandemic began officials now say 50 percent more people died there the previously reported from the Capital Beijing has katrina you. The coronavirus pandemic has Strained Health systems around the world and now its caused the growth of the worlds 2nd largest economy to falter for the 1st time in decades for the 1st quarter of 2020 chinas g. D. P. Contracted by 6. 8 percent that woul
Second official logos were revealed, replacing the ones alleged to have been copied. Now theres a probe by french prosecutors into the question of a 2 million payment. Translator i dont believe there were any illegitimate payments. Translator i was involved in the bid myself, but im not aware of the entire bid process. Translator we will hear from the tokyo government and the Japanese Olympic Committee to understand whats going on. Reporter the prosecutors are looking into bribery of money laundering. They suspect the money was transferred from a Japanese Bank to a Singaporean Firm in two installments, one before the international Olympic Committee chose tokyo. And the second after. The company was located inside a governmentrun condominium. But according to public records, it was shut down in july 2014. The firm is linked to the family of nowdisgraced lamin diak. Who was an ioc member when tokyo won the bid. The head of the global governing body for track and field. He was arrested on
Revealed, replacing the ones alleged to have been copied. Now theres a probe by french prosecutors into the question of a 2 million payment. Translator i dont believe there were any illegitimate payments. Translator i was involved in the bid myself, but im not aware of the entire bid process. Translator we will hear from the tokyo government and the Japanese Olympic Committee to understand whats going on. Reporter the prosecutors are looking into bribery of money laundering. They suspect the money was transferred from a Japanese Bank to a Singaporean Firm in two installments, one before the international Olympic Committee chose tokyo. And the second after. The company was located inside a governmentrun condominium. But according to public records, it was shut down in july 2014. The firm is linked to the family of nowdisgraced lamin diak. Who was an ioc member when tokyo won the bid. The head of the global governing body for track and field. He was arrested on suspicion of receiving mon
Im brian sullivan. It does remain an uneasy market. Investors a wee bit nervous ahead of next weeks fed meeting. Next wednesday is when we get the rate decision. The dow a little change, slightly higher today. Not bad. Oil, though, sliding again, inventories once again a concern. All the major oil stocks are lower today. Melissa . Im melissa lee. Heres whats happening at this hour. Heather brash will appear before the House Oversight committee next week to discuss the price of the epipen auto injector. It expects to complete the takeover of monsanto by the end of next year and roughly 6 Million People from florida to georgia are under a Flash Flood Watch as Tropical Storm julia moves up the east coast. Welcome to power lunch. Im michelle carusocabrera. Dangerous, risky, bubble, some of the biggest names in the financial world weighing in at yesterdays delivering alpha conference saying storm clouds on the horizon for global markets. Storm may already be here. You can look at the enviro
Bollywood. How french movies are trying to grab a slice of the mumbi Film Festival. Welcome to the program. Turkish air force jets have attacked kurdistan fighters near the border. The pkk say the actions violate a peace deal, but turkey says it launched the air strikes in retaliation of an attack by the pkk fighters. The pkk wants more autonomy for the kurdish minority in turkey. But a ceasefire was reached and the pkk withdrew its fighters to the kurdistan region in iraq. Bernard what more do we know about these air strikes on pkk positions on the border . Well in the last hour or so, the pkk issued a statement confirming it was on the receiving end of those air strikes. The pkk says that no one was killed in those attacks. Now the Turkish Military has also confirmed that it launched those air strikes. The pkk says that its acting leader has said that the campaign, the piece process with turkey is effectively over, the pkk has actively said that, because, a, turkey has built up his m