President Trump halts WHO funding

Available for over a year

President Trump has announced he's instructing his administration to halt funding to the World Health Organization over its handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Jen Kates, Senior Vice President and Director of Global Health at the Kaiser Family Foundation, says the choice is unfortunate. Also in the programme, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced another two-week extension to lockdown following rising coronavirus cases, as the journalist, Mehmal Sarfraz reports from within the country. The US has agreed a roughly $25bn rescue package for 10 of the country's biggest airlines as travel plunges due to the coronavirus, we'll hear from Alison Sider of the Wall Street Journal. And the BBC's Samira Hussain has spoken with the Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund about their latest gloomy economic forecast. All through the show, we'll be joined by David Kuo, co-founder of the Smart Investor website in Singapore, and writer and financial campaigner Alexis Goldstein in Washington D.C. (Picture: President Trump on March 14th, 2020. Picture credit: Getty.)