Highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began. At a different type of exam season hala for 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in the academic calendar. We begin this news in hong kong where the prodemocracy movement has suffered a huge setback yet another prominent activist is facing time in prison and media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jimmy lie is the latest to be taken into Police Custody hell be held until a court case in april next year hes accused of fraud it comes just a day after 3 other leaders were sentenced joshua was this child ivan lamb 1310 and 7 months in jail respectively the Hong Kong Government says that all those activists broke the law protesters say that trumped up charges to silence critics of Mainland China to view the pollen reports now from hong kong. This is a very significant move here thats being seen against hong kongs prodemocracy movement jimmy la is in jail at the moment he on wednesday night reported to pol
Abuse but the army says theyre making it up. Thank you for joining us we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to pull vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic have been more than 64000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there are the Health Minister says the actual number of deaths is probably much higher iran introduced tougher restrictions to counter a 3rd wave of infections which included closing nonessential businesses russia has reported more than 28000 new infections. On thursday the highest spike yet the 2nd largest city St Petersburg has announced restrictions around the new Year Holidays indonesia meanwhile is seeing a record daily rise in cases reporting more than 8300 on thursday and several
About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for rangar refugees who are being moved to an island that aids groups say is dangerous. And an urgent crisis in syria as the cold of winter puts millions of people at risk. But we begin with the coronavirus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the worlds the picture is getting the worse the cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic there have been more than 64000000. 00 confirmed cases of the virus and nearly one and a half 1000000 people have died at the u. N. General assembly is holding a special session on the pandemic in his Opening Statements actually general and. Tariffs and for size governments must be united in their response for the 1st time since 145. 00 entire world is confronted by a Common Senate got a list of nationality at nicd or face the world Us Organization provides factual information and scientific guidance that should have been the basis for a quote o
Movement. To begin with the Coronavirus Crisis and the global death toll has now passed one and a half 1000000 with a 3rd of them in just the last 2 months many countries are reporting soaring infection rates and deaths as governments struggle to contain a new wave of cases in the worst affected country the United States 2804 deaths were recorded on wednesday america is close to passing 14000000 cases in total italy has hit a new record with 993 deaths in one day thats higher than the peak of fatalities in the 1st wave in the middle east infections of suppost 1000000 in iran the country has reported almost 50000 deaths as governments race to approve vaccines the United Nations and Global Health officials have warned against. Fast tracking the process this after the u. K. Or through eyes use of the pfizer biotech vaccine on wednesday and as fears of vaccine misinformation grow social media giants facebook and instagram say theyll start removing posts with false claims United States cont
In Santa Clara County tonight is the last late night at the random lounge the popular bar and restaurant in san jose has been serving cocktails recently outside until 2 in the morning. Owner tony griffis calls this new curfew counterproductive. If the real culprit here is private gatherings that maybe instead of targeting bars. We target costco safeways and liquor stores. And see if we can cut alcohol sales, there. For now the curfew will be in effect until at least december 21st in all of the counties in that most restrictive purple tier as of tonight. All of the bay area counties are in purple except for murray in san mateo and San Francisco and that could soon change in San Francisco has covid19 cases and hospitalizations. Continue to soar kron fours dan kerman explains what could change in the citys soon as this sunday. San francisco is losing its battle against covid19. Her current case place us on a trajectory to be in the purple tier, potentially as early as sunday. During an on