Hello everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up.

I talked to the former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. He helped navigate a global exit from the Great Recession.

Now he's calling for a global task force to beat the pandemic.

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When we talk about another flu pandemic happening it's not a matter of if but when.

The Netflix series that predicted this very catastrophe before anyone had even heard of

COVID-19 featuring veteran virus

hunter Dr Dennis Carroll who joins me plus. Before there was the great jazz musician Winton Marsalis there was his father the late

legendary Ellis Marsalis a conversation with Walter Isiksen about grief, legacy and love. Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Christiana Manpur working from home in London.

As coronavirus deaths continue to rise, worries about the life and death impact

of a shuttered global economy also grow by the day.

President Trump has resorted to his old political playbook saying that he'll temporarily

stop all immigration into the United States in an effort to protect American jobs.

More than 20 million have been lost amid this pandemic and that is just in the US.

Around the world, tens of millions are facing job losses and severe economic

contractions are on the horizon. Thankfully, deaths are now at a slower rate in

these countries that were hit hard at the start. But what happens when the virus reaches the

developing world? The World Food Program warns the number of people suffering

acute hunger could almost double to more than $265 million because of the impact of the virus.

Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is renewing his call for a coordinated global effort against the pandemic and its aftershocks.

Having been at the center of the international move to tackle the 2008 financial crisis, he's

best place to offer a battle plan now.

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