Time to do something drastic. A National Lock down. We spoke with Business Owners in san jose about this idea. Tonight as california becomes the second state after texas to surpass 1 million cases of covid. A staggering proposal from joe bidens Coronavirus Task force. Lock down the entire country for up to six weeks. With the government paying people and businesses for the money theyll lose. If theyre coming up with package to help support the Small Business during the type of lock down, it depends on what level. If we make the employees whole and pay bills. Not making money wont bother me. If i can participate in squashing the virus. Hes been the owner of the restaurant for 15 years. He says he wants to be part of the solution. Despite the incredible damage the pandemic already has done to his business. Financially, were down significantly. Five years ago in downtown san jose. Shelly opened the painted lady salon. Covid put pressure on her if many ways. Not just as a Business Owner bu
League champions Manchester City and given a 2 year ban. Now chinas foreign minister has his house at some countries for overreacting and causing panic over the corona Virus Outbreak said that containing the virus remains a huge challenge for china but insists it is under control now the death toll has risen to over 1500 with 143 reported on friday but figures just released by Health Officials show the number of new infections hall from the previous day and almost all of those infected are in china a province where the outbreak began orders have now gone out for all people arriving in the capital to quarantine themselves for 14 days or to face punishment while our correspondent adrian brown is live for us in Hong Kong Adrian with these fresh numbers that were getting from beijing is it too early for optimism. I think these figures are you know a crumb of positive news as you rightly point out there were 143 deaths recorded on friday thats up 27 on the previous day but significantly the
About a Controversial Court case. Coming up in sports. African football play for one of the major time away from home soil as the caps super cup kicks off in qatar. Is stepping up its war on the corona virus as the number of deaths rises to nearly 4000 nearly 1400 president xi jinping is vowing to boost virus prevention measures and to fix problems exposed by the crisis in. The National Health commission is very concerned about this with issue technical guidelines for the prevention and control of corona virus infections within medical institutions and weve given a special notice on virus control for key areas and the fever departments of the hospitals through these 2. Commits we have imposed special requirements on hearts in the personal protection of medical workers hundreds more military medics have started work in hospitals in will hand the epicenter of the epidemic but theres growing concern about the availability of medical supplies as the number of infections rises or most all o
English premier league holders month to cities say they will appeal after being banned from the Champions League for 2 seasons for breaching new wafers financial rules. Story this hour the u. S. Is saying its reached a reduction of violence agreement with the taliban which could lead to the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan a Senior Administration official told reporters the week long pact is very specific covers all Afghan Forces and if successful could lead to a more permanent deal it follows a protracted negotiations in doha that and the meeting between the u. S. Secretary of state might pay 0 and the afghan president carney at the Munich Security Conference where al jazeera is jonah hall is also in munich and explains what more we know about the meant. We dont have a formal announcement date or indeed a time when this 7 day period would come into effect we understand the details are very specific it is to apply nationwide across afghanistan to. Roadside bombs suicide b
From European Competitions for 2 years. Now its a deal that lasts only a week to u. S. Officials say if its success it could lead to the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan the taliban and american negotiators have agreed to a proposal for a reduction of violence in the country the announcement is the result of ongoing peace talks in qatar a senior u. S. Official says if this deal holds it could be followed by a more Permanent Peace accord while she had her tansey joins us now live from washington d. C. She had this sounds like a breakthrough of sorts is it talk us through how this might work. Well this is what weve been told through a very broad brush strokes officially the unofficial briefings from u. S. And taliban taliban sources the 7 day period of calm this reduction of violence will stretch across the country all sides Afghan Forces Government Forces taliban and u. S. Forces will observe this and u. S. Sources say it will be very specific as regards tell about activities inclu