Life well planned. The eeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. In new york city. I am Laura Trevelyan in new york city. This is bbc world news america. Covid hospitalizations are reaching a new high. [chanting] anchor prodemocracy lawmakers resign in protest after four members resign in china after being unpatriotic. Plus, meeting santa in the age of social distancing. How st. Nick and his helpers are making sure that christmas does not get canceled. Laura welcome to bbc world news america. Until them vaccine hits the market, we face with a u. S. President elect because a dark winter, trying to contain the virus. The red dots on this map show more than 50 million cases of coronavirus recorded worldwide. Here and the u. S. , more than 10 million americans have been infected. In a troubling record, more than 60,000 people are in the hospital figh
Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. In new york city. I am Laura Trevelyan in new york city. This is bbc world news america. Covid hospitalizations are reaching a new high. [chanting] anchor prodemocracy lawmakers resign in protest after four members resign in china after being unpatriotic. Plus, meeting santa in the age of social distancing. How st. Nick and his helpers are making sure that christmas does not get canceled. Laura welcome to bbc world news america. Until them vaccine hits the market, we face with a u. S. President elect because a dark winter, trying to contain the virus. The red dots on this map show more than 50 million cases of coronavirus recorded worldwide. Here and the u. S. , more than 10 million americans have been infected. In a troubling record, more than 60,000 people are in the hospital fi
Borisjohnson will set out plans to accelerate £5 billion worth of Infrastructure Projects in britain, to try to soften the Economic Impact of the pandemic. An independent report finds major failings by inexperienced probation staff led to the release of a serial rapist in the uk. And treating coronavirus in afghanistan. Health care workers complain about a lack of essential supplies and hospital beds. This. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. The uks first full local lockdown has been announced in leicester, with stricter measures imposed in the city because of a steep rise in the number of coronavirus cases. More than 300,000 people and some also living in the surrounding area, will be affected. The Health Secretary, matt hancock, said leicester had accounted for 10 of all covid 19 cases across england in the past week. The extra measures include the closure of schools fo
While only purely for a very serious crimes or for other purposes your torah he you and other rapporteurs or find this left and you use the phrase modern day racial terror lynchings we were going through the heads of un special rapporteur on your colleagues as human rights acts worth when you write words like that what do you think the United States is going to do when it hears that your calling the United States of place of modern day racial terror lynching. Well you see were not trying to hunt any headlines here were just trying to reflect in our statements what we see and what we are serving and we are really where are the opinion that the u. S. Authorities how no sense of reality about how loudly yes we do have a Structural Design a grocer you us and wed. You have structural and systemic problems of Police Violence and you do have structural d and systemic insurance and we did find out all really in the period of recession or and i think that referring back to that period is not tr
Hundreds of writing guard rescued but the others starve to death on a refugee boat. Welcome to the program the British Government has announced it will extend its partial lockdown to curb the spread of covert 19 by at least 3 weeks foreign secretary dominic rob says social distancing measures must continue in order to keep the number of cases from rising the advice from sages that relaxing any of the measures currently in place would risk damage to both Public Health and our economy patrick and chris will be able to go into further details on all of this shortly but based on this advice which we very carefully considered the government has decided that the current measures must remain in place for at least the next 3 weeks. Our correspondent is live for us in london while the lockdown continues in the public well well just have to live with the new reality a little bit longer. Yeah the high streets like the one you see behind me this is a certain high street here on the southern outski