A needy in the neck and the death of an unarmed handcuffed suspect at the hands of police in minneapolis has now turned into a National Protest movement in different u. S. Cities demonstrators are taking to the streets and in some cases these protests have turned violent we begin in Minneapolis Police where and 7 straight hours have been clashing for more than 2 days now with opportunistic looters taking advantage of the situation late last night memphis angry residents there took to the streets to demand justice and to ask for investigations not just in George Floyds case but for many in their own city civil rights activists say memphis has a spree of Police Incidents that remain unresolved and in los angeles angry demonstrators took to bypasses in some cases attacking Police Vehicles as they approached leaving several people injured. If there is a kernel of hope or at least a difference in how past cases of police abuse have been handled compared to this case its the time. This of th
Outbreak of the corona virus in the United States because it was somehow cooked up in a lab u. S. National intelligence authorities and this is important have rejected the conspiracy but many inside the white house including the president have still played it up sans real evidence critics charge what the white house is doing is deflating or deflecting attention away from the fact that the u. S. Is response to covert 19 fares well poorly compared to that of most developed countries including south korea and now even italy but the u. S. Dealings with china are not confined to a war of words between washington and beijing see theres also this last week the United States sent b. 52 bombers into the South China Sea as a show of force in the region and then over the weekend 2 more u. S. Navy ships were sent to patrol the South China Sea the u. S. And the u. S. And s. Cesar chavez are both being assigned to patrol the area off the coast of malaysia where the u. S. Accuses china would stealing
Out what caused this explosion all right its time for your newsnight you. Are at the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold tracking this global outbreak here the worldwide numbers now topping 4700000 cases with 316000 reported deaths then taking a closer look at the countries with the most confirmed cases the u. S. Still leading the way followed then by russia and the u. K. And brazil trailing closely behind right here in the u. S. There are now some 1400000 cases of infections and about 89000 deaths and when virus stricken new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is mapping out a plan to reopen the state and now hes tapping private investors to become part of the States Coronavirus response this move starring a lot of criticism all this as president meets with restaurant heads to discuss. What to expect in the coming weeks as Trinity Chavez has the report from new york. Today officials slang the groundwork for what lies ahead dozens of states across the country reopening businesses parks and
A packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with an escalation in tensions between the United States and china the Trump Administration on friday announced new measures to block shipments of semiconductors from chip makers to while away technologies in announcing the move the u. S. Commerce Department Said they would be changing the export rule to strategically target while ways acquisition of semiconductors that are the direct product of certain u. S. Software and technology adding the announcement cuts off while weighs efforts to undermine u. S. Export controls under the amendment to the rule Foreign Companies that keep that use chip making equipment originating in the us will be required to obtain a license before providing the chips to walk away or any of their affiliates earlier this week the us president and donald trump extended an executive order originally signed in may of 2019 which stopped u. S. Companies from using Telecom Equipment made by companies
Different incidents that have been taking place here in the persian gulf over the last several weeks how volatile this this region right here has become of late its almost like think of it this way its like this area here is like a line of demarcation between 2 countries that hate each others guts they despise each other right so heres saudi arabia on this side of the firs in golf right saudi arabia which needs United States protection here in the gulf which it offers which also needs United States protection here in yemen where its fighting a war right now let me show you the adversaries the other side right here is a wrong as you can see right there which supports the actions in yemen that are at war with saudi arabia and also what can we say about iran well they want dominion of this area of the persian gulf and are trying. You establish it with its navy so both iran and saudi arabia right you have iran and saudi arabia fighting for gemini in this region they both want to say were t