Next week at the same time. It s 9 and this is David miles with one of my favorites putting the week s events through the mangle of satire it s news quiz extra in a moment then the title sort of explains it all what to do if you re not like everybody else in which the stand up comedian Andrew Lawrence takes a lighthearted look at conventional living and the pressures to conform in 45 minutes he ll probe the difficulties of human interaction and communication. Now those who expound and expand on recent events have been extended It s our weekly satirical review of the week s news chaired by nice Kumar with 50 percent extra Gratus that s why we called Radio 4 extra. I m a host of The News Quiz and extra husband. Sorry for the sounds not great on this I m having to record it from outside Downing Street or just being kicked out of the press briefing because apparently hosting The News Quiz doesn t count as being a journalist and the number of finger sandwiches I took was unacceptable Needl
Charles Dillard as my has more the mainland the death toll has now risen by 97 to just over 924 hours from midnight Sunday with as the 3000 new cases reported this is up 15 percent from Saturday and breaks a string of daily declines a government spokesman has said those declines showed containment measures were successful Meanwhile the operator of a cruise ship quarantine in Yokohama near Tokyo says an additional $66.00 cases were found aboard this is in addition to 70 reported I m Charles the World Health Organization reports progress is being made in combating the Ebola epidemic in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo the latest number of reported cases stands at over $3400.00 with a mortality rate of about 66 percent research line reports for be away from Geneva the global fixation on the evolution of the novel coronavirus has not the d r c z ball epidemic got of the media spotlight however health officials working in the shadows have been making steady progress in slowing the
Killed more than the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or SARS outbreak of 2003 this after 89 more deaths in mainland China on Saturday brought the global death toll to more than 80774 people were killed by SARS it was the deadliest day yet for the corona virus which originated in the central Chinese city of wool hon and has continued to spread rapidly there have been more than 37000 cases of the virus globally mostly in China foreign nationals arriving in the United Kingdom from China who are being quarantined before they can resume their normal lives the always Tommy McNeil has more Britain s final evacuation flight from the Chinese city of Ohio on the epicenter of a corona virus outbreak landed at a Royal Air Force base in central England on Sunday the British government said in a statement that the plane had more than 200 people on board including non British nationals the passengers also included staff who facilitated the flight as well as medics will be housed at a conference ce
This gives v.o.a. News I m David Berg the Us Senate has voted to acquit President Donald Trump in his impeachment trial Chief Justice John Roberts announced the verdicts the Senate having tried Donald Trump president of the United States upon 2 articles of impeachment exhibited against him by the House of Representatives and 2 thirds of the senators present not having found him guilty of the charges contained therein it is their forte ordered and it judged that the said Donald Trump being and he is here by acquitted of the charges in said articles the vote on the 1st count of the impeachment abuse of power fellow along party lines 52 to 48 former presidential candidate and Utah Republican Mitt Romney voted with the Democrats to convict trump the 2nd vote obstruction of Congress fellow along party lines but Romney voted with the Republicans for a final total of $53.00 to $47.00 Trump is only the 3rd president in u.s. History to be impeached no president has ever been removed from offic
This is v.o.a. News I m Jim Burchill a new hospital is open in China. Cope with the virus outbreak that has sickened more than 700000 people and killed at least 361 in China alone the World Health Organization says it expects the number of cases to grow as test results from thousands of pending cases come in Meanwhile the pandemic is having an economic impact on China s benchmark stock index Reuters Michelle Hennessy has more China s stock market suffered its worst drop any fine views on Monday is the virus hit mainland exchanges for the 1st time since the Lunar New Year holiday fears over the new coronavirus So investors selling the yuan and dumping commodities with around $400000000000.00 u.s. Dollars wiped from the Shanghai Composite Index the benchmark close nearly 8 percent lower the biggest one day drop since 2015 the ticker over around the Shanghai Stock Exchange which would have shown a plunge was shot off on Monday investors are bracing for volatility as the spread of the new