The coronavirus for. The 1st friday prayers it is the bulls hagia sophia after its controversial change of status from museum to mark. So that the top u. S. Health agency has issued guidelines calling for the full reopening of schools in september even as corona virus infections spike in large parts of the country the centers for Disease Control insists its safe for children to return to class and its unlikely that they will contract or transmit the virus they say state and local governments are under growing pressure from the white house to reopen schools the President Donald Trump threatening to withhold federal funds from districts that taint the White House Press secretary reiterated that call. It is our firm belief that the that our schools are essential places of business if you will that our teachers are essential personnel you all here are considered essential workers which is why you are coming into the Briefing Room every day during the pandemic are meatpackers where meat pac
Right now the focus is on states and cities that are holding back on reopening and phased reopening plans at this stage here. Looks like it is relatively contained but all of this in an environment where the number of cases has picked and the World Health Organization says the worse could be yet to come. Interesting development as well in england they were reordered to institute lockdown measures. That is follows on heels with other Foreign Countries bedevil ed openings not going necessarily to plan. Im not talk being about what is rapping in russia, india, spikes in cases in japan and the seoul, south korea area. The fear this seems to way on the markets eventually. Something that will slow certainly the reopenings and the economy and recovery that many hoped to see from that. Very tepid. No matter what happens today. Looking like a boffo month for all the major market afterrings, certainly a very strong quarter. The strong first half of the year, well get into all of that, first to c
During flooding and landslides there. And out of there again exclusive access to iranian backed hezbollah a group like used by the Iraqi Government attacking u. S. Forces. Now we begin with the increasing number of coded 1000 cases worldwide now saturday saw the biggest single day rise since this pandemic began with more than 212000 infections recorded globally the majority of them and latin america which now has more cases than europe brazil alone has more than 1500000 infections and its already had at least 64000 deaths are in israel officials have reauthorize the use of phone Surveillance Technology that was once deployed to prevent attacks thats after an easing of restrictions there led to a rise in cases. The lifting of lockdown measures in south africa has also caused a savage is announced a record or daily number of new infections counting more than 10000 theres also been a resurgent of cases in the astray in state of victoria in melbourne a 3000 residents in Public Housing buil
The bank of france governor who is also an ecb board member says the Central Banks emergency purchasing plan needs to be flexible to be effective suggesting further bond buying could be on the way. If we cant to guarantee the maximum efficiency, we shouldnt be bound some capital banks should be able to buy more and others to buy less the World Health Organization halts trials of hydroxychloroquine over safety certains as studies show it increases death and heart problems happy tuesday, everybody and welcome to street signs. Lets kick off with a top story involving the travel sector. The German Government plans to lift the travel warning by midjune confirmed by cnbc sources. The new measures will allow tourists throughout the union, United Kingdom and foreign noneu countries taking a look at travel and looers stocks. Massive rally. Those shares up. Tui up more than 30 bare in mind, you can markets were closed as the broader uk market rallied a little catch up there. Broadly speaking, a
And in fact karim make the long awaited return to the n. B. A. Is going 23 points from the Golden State Warriors and its 1st game since injury left him out of action for the one line. From asia to the middle east and europe coronavirus is forcing governments to further tighten their restrictions this friday and in some places it is raising tensions between countries going to take you through all those developments this news hour but we are going to start with the global picture covered 19 as the virus is officially known as being tracked by Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. Using figures from the World Health Organization this is what they say at the moment were looking at upwards of 98000. 00 succumbing out 4100000 total infections globally and you can see where the concert. Of course we know through europe the most of them are in areas around the middle east youve got that large dot there in iran but dont forget these smaller dots on the other side there were looking at iraq saud