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Business Matters: Joe Biden wants agreement to help unemployed

Joe Biden wants agreement to help unemployed

05/12/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Business Matters, Joe Biden wants agreement to help unemployed

Joe Biden wants a bipartisan agreement in Congress to help the unemployed.

Joe Biden is calling for an urgent bipartisan agreement in Congress to help people who've lost their jobs because of the pandemic.

US President-elect, Joe Biden, is calling for an urgent bipartisan agreement in Congress to help people who've lost their jobs because of the pandemic. The government of Denmark has pledged to give up its North Sea oil production by the year 2050 in order to meet its commitments under the Paris Agreement on Climate Change; we hear more from Steven Mufson at the Washington Post.  Efforts in the US by the Trump administration to restrict the use of the H-1B professional visa were blocked this week by a court in California; the BBC's Mike Johnson reports. Warner Brothers has said all its films in 2021 will be streamed in the US as soon as they're released. So can the multiplex survive? We hear from Karen Krizanovich is a UK-based film critic and film industry expert. And we're joined throughout the programme by Will Murray, a reporter for Australia's Nine News. (Picture of Joe Biden by Alex Wong for Getty Images)

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