Tougher restrictions are rolled out the Prime Minister warns that normal is still months away. And remembering the past but looking to the future molly marks 60 years of independence from france. For 1st time in history leaders from around the world are meeting virtually for the annual u. N. General assembly that is of course because of the coronavirus and on choose day the fight against covert 19 it dominated speeches from Global Leaders most of them called for united fights and for the United Nations to repurpose itself in response to a world permanently changed by the pandemic but its also exposed a rising tensions between the u. S. And china donald trump accused beijing of spreading what he called the china virus and chinas leaders paying said attempts to politicize the pandemic should be rejected so lets bring in our diplomatic editor james phrases of course at the United Nations and of course weve heard today james covered 1000 becoming really the latest crisis to divide World Le
Months plus. Feet. Still breaking barriers the u. S. Congress on as Ruth Bader Ginsburg the 1st woman to lie in state at the capitol. Were going to start with developments from egypt where protesters are defying a crackdown on dissent to demand the resignation of president of the fatah elsisi the deteriorating economy one corruption angers many People Security forces made dozens of arrests when they raided homes on friday morning security remains tight in major cities some protests are being staged in rural areas farmy is assistant professor of Political Science at Long Island University and a member of the egyptian rule of Law Association she explains why this movement has come as a surprise to egypts leadership and to observers. Well this is it really interesting moment in egypts modern history if you recall just around this time last year this. Figure in exile mohammed ali had emerged and was starting to narron to gyptian people what was really happening inside of egypts political e
Mollys interim president and promises to hand over power within 18 months plus. He. Was. Still breaking barriers the u. S. Congress on as Ruth Bader Ginsburg the 1st woman to lie in state in the capitol. And he simply disappeared including a big win for the l. A. Lakers in the n. B. A. Playoffs bron james and his teammates beat the Denver Nuggets to move just one game away from the finals. Were going to begin this hour with developments from egypt where protesters are defying a crackdown on dissent to demand the resignation of president. Most of the process of being held in smaller cities like giza and departure from past demonstrations has been rising over the worsening economy and rampant corruption in the city of media protesters tore down posters belonging to the president Security Forces made dozens of arrests when they raided homes on friday morning more detentions have taken place during demonstrations on the streets of demi at well our correspondent has reported extensively fro
The viability of multilateralism has been thus put to the test. In this regard we highly value the extraordinary and significant roles undertaken by the United Nations and its secretary general mr antonio good terrors of this harnessing old means and measures to address this pandemic through accelerating action to provide universal access to vaccines and i ignore stick and therapeutic tools. With top priority given to the most vulnerable groups namely women children and the elderly all. Countries and societies that suffer from Armed Conflict induced humanitarian and refugee crises. I have always been a preoccupation for this long standing organization as the secretary general cold for silencing the guns in a global cease fire on march 23rd 2020. He announced it as an approach in 80 to address the root causes of conflict and to allow for tireless efforts to defeat the malady of war and to close ranks in our global fight against this pandemic while focusing on recovery in all its phases
Meanwhile the infection rate continues to climb here in the u. K. Tougher restrictions are rolled out the Prime Minister warns that normal is still months away and remembering the past but looking to the future molly marks 60 years of independence from france. For the 1st time in history wildly does have been meeting virtually for the annual u. N. General Assembly Last of course because of the coronavirus and on tuesday the fight against covert 1000 dominated the speeches most called for a united fight and for the u. N. To repurpose itself in response to a while changed by the pandemic but its also exposed more tension between washington and beijing on the same day the u. S. Death toll from the virus passed 200000 donald trump once again pointed the finger of blame at china our diplomatic editor james bass as more like all the other World Leaders speaking at the u. S. President trump speech was prerecorded once his words though were as controversial as ever. We have waged a fierce batt