A law which restricted welcome. Two stark statistics to begin with. The global death toll from covid 19 has passed half a million. The number of infections has passed 10 million. And im afraid were told this is only the start. Heres the latest from the who. Reality is this is not even close to being over. Although many countries have made some progress, globally, the pandemic is actually speeding up. Heres another way to illustrate the severity of the pandemic. This reuters Analysis Shows us that injune more than 4,700 people died every 2a hours from covid 19 linked illness. Thats one death every 18 seconds, or nearly 200 deaths every hour. America remains the worst affected, by far. It has the most deaths, the most infections. 125,000, and 2. 5 million respectively. This graph tells us that the new infection rate are being fuelled by outbreaks in the west and the south of the us. Two states, South Carolina and nevada, saw their highest daily infection date over the weekend. And becaus
And the dail has agreed to nominate Deputy Micheal martin for appointment by the president to be taoiseach. Ireland swears in its new prime minister, micheal martin, as the countrys two largest parties, bitter rivals for a century, form a coalition for the first time. Florida and texas reintroduce restrictions as new cases of coronavirus across some southern and western states reach a record high. Coming up at 8 30pm, as the fallout continues from the death of george floyd in the united states, we hear how sporting stars are contributing to the debate in black lives matter a sporting perspective. Hello, and welcome to bbc news. A 25 year old man has been charged with three counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder following last saturdays knife attack in a park in reading. James furlong, Joe Ritchie Bennett and david wails were killed as they sat with friends in forbury gardens. Several other people were injured. Suspect Khairi Saadallah is due to appear at Westminster Magi
The population have been exposed to the virus or had the virus. That, of course, raises questions about the risk of a second spite and the disease coming back. Testing, testing, testing is the answer. He will be pleased to note that this country is now testing twice as many had of population as any other european country. The former chief scientific adviser has said that tens of thousands of lives could have been saved if the government had acted differently. If we had had the same death rate as south korea, a country whose population and income is not very different to ours, we would have had a few hundred deaths, not the many tens of thousands that we have had. Is todays announcement, which is about appeasing right wingers on the backbenches, this government gambling with peoples lives . understand why the honourable gentleman makes the point that he does. I think he is wrong, and i welcome, by contrast, the more constructive approach we have heard from the labour front bench. Optimi
100 days. Another potential won on a rough day, his Supreme Court pick him up neil gorsuch, we will tell you how they did as the dems decide how they will filibuster this nomination. The story you did not hear much about, the president met today with the leader of iraq and promised him that u. S. Support in the fight against isis well accelerate. What does he mean by that . We will talk about that, as well. But we begin with at wild hearing on capitol hill as the fbi, for the first time, confirmed an Ongoing Investigation into alleged russian meddling in the 2016 campaign. It denies any wiretapping happened at trump tower and takes on the on substantiated allegations russian collusion potentially with the Trump Campaign. House Intelligence Committee member congressman peter king was there today. He was part of the questioning of the fbi director. He will join us in just a moment. Plus, former house Intelligence Committee Pete Hoekstra and marie harper will be here to respond on their t
Away with Sexual Harassment. For decades charlie rose covered the headlines. Now he is one. In a lengthy and frankly unsettling report the Washington Post detailed the accusations against him. Eight women, three on the record, five anonymous either worked for rose or aspired to. They described interactions that included nudity, groping and lewd phone calls. The fallout to that report was swift. All three networks tied to rose, bloomberg, pbs and cbs immediately suspended him. Today pbs and cbs made it final. There is absolutely nothing more important in this or any organization than insuring a safe, professional work place. Pbs also parted ways with rose as we just said but it might not be over with yet. The writers of the Washington Post report say more women are coming forward. Another prominent media figure waking up to find himself embroiled. The allegations reported include lewd phone calls, groping and rose Walking Around naked in front of women. There is no excuse for this alleg