In spain, concern is growing the Health Care System will not be able to cope. And in italy, the epicenter of the pandemic, a near total lockdown is not slowing the spread of the virus. Brent im brent goff, to our viewers in the u. S. And around the world, welcome. The week is ending with more and more shutdowns around the globe. The British Government has announced it is ordering all pubs, restaurants and gymnasiums to close, in an effort to fight the coronavirus outbreak. Prime industry Boris Johnson says venues should close as soon as possible and not reopen until further notice. He says it is essential to slowing the spread of the virus. The closures include nightclubs, cinemas, theaters, effectively pulling the plug on public life in the u. K. For the foreseeable future. Lets listen to what Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today. We need to push down further on that curve of transmission between us. So following an agreement between all the formation of formationsns of the unitede
New warnings from the w. H. O. Britains Prime Minister has ordered restaurants bars and passes to close a movie he describes as upsetting but essential. The coronavirus demick has hit another grim milestone with global deaths passing 11000 initially more than 600 people lost their lives in just the past 24 hours in spain the army is out on the streets the number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Has reached 900000 the borders between the u. S. With mexico and canada and now closed to all nonessential travel i can a from washington d. C. Has our 1st report. The trumpet ministration continues to wreck to top preventative measures in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic the latest action aimed at cutting traffic across the countrys northern and southern borders President Trump was at pains to emphasize this was done in consultation with the governments of canada and mexico the nations Top Health Care officials are extremely concerned about the Great Public Health consequences of mass uncon
Amanda from california. Testing for the virus as it we land and get bombarded should, how thats making a bad situation worse as the virus good facetime clears that up. With messages from our families. Lets get to the news. Spreads silently. Trump announced this, you cant shutdown of schools, offices, come back, and the end of the going dark. Social gatherings is accelerating as they try to meet late night show suspended, the the demand for coronavirus curtain closed on broadway, testing. March madness canceled. Tom costello joins us and the nearly all professional sports three things were watching on hold and now major theme today on this issue. Tom, good morning. Reporter good morning, world and all that good stuff. Reporter in fact, the parks shutting their doors. President s 30day ban only how americans coasttocoast targets European Countries from 36 countries but fears fueling savannah americans to get back quickly. Thats top, up front right now the move condemned by europes leader
Im Wendy Gillette in for annemarie green. President trump is in florida for the holidays, but thats not stopping him from ramping up new attacks on House Speaker nancy pelosi. He lashed out at her again yesterday for withholding the housepassed articles of impeachment from the senate. Chip reid is traveling with the president. Merry christmas, fantastic job. Reporter President Trump sent Christmas Greetings to Service Members stationed around the globe, then took questions from the press. He bitterly criticized House Speaker nancy pelosi for leading the charge on impeachment. Shes doing a tremendous disservice to the country. Shes not doing a good job. Reporter pelosi has refused to send the articles of impeachment to the senate until shes convinced the senate trial will be fair. The president said thats not up to her, its up to Senate Republican leader mitch mcconnell. He has the right to do whatever he wants. Hes the head of the senate. Reporter the president was also asked about nor
Indeed we just happened over the last. Period of about 10 years but it is specially since 2014 is of the crisis in ukraine i think is crystallized russian doubts about the extent to which a partnership with the west is possible and what we saw after 2014 is that there you can take the russians by surprise you can never panic them and they will always adjust very rapidly and very effectively to changes in policy by the west and to aggressive moves by the west so what has happened is that the russians firstly adjusted their Energy Policy and they werent going to let ukraine continue to sit on top of their transit pipelines and try to block all control russian gas exports to europe so the russians full steam ahead with all these other part lines north street to turk stream which are birds now rapidly coming to an. End the end there being they have been theyve been built and theyve been successfully built and attempts to stop them have not succeeded it and of course they have successfully