Friday coming off the exhaustion of all of that central bank news, the analysis of the markets, the big tech earnings. I would focus on this may day, on the persistent theme, the dawning awareness about a seriousness a pandemic continues to be. One lighter note, there is a beach war in america. The governor of california is shutting down the beaches while alabama and texas are talking about opening the beaches. That is the distraction in a very difficult virus statistics. Howcine it is interesting in the u. S. It differs from state to state. With the bloomberg first word news in new york city is Viviana Hurtado. Viviana we begin with u. S. Federal reserve expanding the scope of its main Street Lending program. Now businesses with up to 15,000 employees will be eligible, so will those with up to 5 billion in revenue. The central bank is expanding its paycheck protection facility. This after the initial round of funding was spent in under two weeks. European central bank looking to ease
Same demonstration attack that iran carried out, it reminded of the events of several years ago, the attacks on american bases in iraq, when the iranians warned in advance after the death of suleimani that they would attack, hide, carried out an attack, well, we responded, it is clear here the scale is larger, even i would say unprecedented, but in terms of political and strategic. It looked just like that, it looked so beautiful in that way, but trump says that if i were the president , iran would not have done this, would not have attacked would be israel, and in principle we have already heard some such similar things from trump, uh, this is just another one, and i would do it differently, and it would be better for me, is there really any meaning and weight. There are more of these words, well, it reminds us of ukrainian politics as well, that if zelensky had not been elected here, under poroshenko it would have been like this or otherwise, there without any criticism or positive t
And the First Lady Melania Trump receives an apology and damages from the daily mail over allegations about her work as a model. A meeting is underway in moscow between russian president Vladimir Putin and us Secretary Of State Rex Tillerson just hours after President Putin claimed relations between the two countries was at its lowest ebb since the end of the cold war. Earlier Rex Tillerson held talks with his russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov. Rex tillerson wants russia to withdraw support for president assad following the chemical attack ona assad following the chemical attack on a rebel town which killed more than 80 people. Our correspondence is travelling with Rex Tillerson and sent this report. This is not the kind of meeting that once seemed to be on the card. Long gone talk of a grand resetting of relations with russia, producing is encouraged by donald trump was replaced by tensions over the Chemical Weapons attack in syria and russian anger over the military response from ame
Plus. Finally wellings of fifa, after another dawn raid, and more arrests of Fifa Executive Committee members. Turkeys foreign minister has stopped short of apologizing for the downs of a russian jet last week. Put he did offer his condolences for the death of a pilot in the incident, as he held talks with the foreign minister in belgrade. Hours earlier, russian president warned turkeys leaders that they will live to regret shooting down the jet. In the state of the nation address, they suggested that allay had decided to punish by depriving it of wisdom and judgement. He also hinted at further sanctions in addition to restrictions on travel in food imports. Al jazeera roy challenges report from moscow. Was a chance to diffuse tensions face to face meeting between the two countries Foreign Ministers on the sidelines of the security conference in belgrade. But they say it was unrealistic to solve problems with russia in just one meeting. These meetings are important, both sides to not w
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