Daily covert 19 death toll since the pandemic began. At a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackled the most important day in their academic calendar. Police in hong kong have detained media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jimmy lai the outspoken government critic has been charged with defrauding government owned businesses he remain in custody until a court case in april earlier this year lai was among 10 people arrested on suspicion of violating beijings National Security law and the japanese government says that it has grave concerns about the jailing of 3 hong kong activists joshua wong this child and ivan lamb were found guilty of Unlawful Assembly on tuesday they received 1310 and 7 month jail terms respectively agnes cho is fluent in japanese and well known in japan says that its conveyed its concerns to china several times lets go live to Hong Kong Aljazeera to vehicle pollen is that lets start with jimmy lai whats alleged. This is quite an a
Ive told me a lot of well its good to have you with us covered 19 on the road to recovery thats the focus of a special session of the u. N. General assembly almost 100. 00 World Leaders are taking part in the 2 day summit coincides with the release of a u. N. Study that shows that more than 1000000000 people could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 due to the long term effects of the corona virus now the german chancellor Angela Merkel addressed the assembly via video link and she stressed the need for Global Cooperation to ensure equal access to vaccines around the world through 200. 00 need we must never forget the pandemic can only be truly beaten in the long 10 when everyone in the world has fat access to effective vaccines. Oh the coming the pandemic in the long term also means doing everything we can to a much stronger with regards to future challenges and crises to this and we need to close the International Cooperation above all with strong the International Organizations the
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Hello and welcome to nhk newsline. Im Yoshi Ogasawara in tokyo. We start this hour in new york where the United Nations is canceling all inperson General Assembly Committee Meetings scheduled for tuesday. It comes after five people of a mission of a member state tested positive for the coronavirus. Its not immediately clear which member state is involved but the u. N. Said it is conducting contact tracing. The cancelations likely mean the Committee Vote on a japansponsored resolution to abolish Nuclear Weapons will be postponed. Most u. N. Staff that operate out of the new york headquarters have been working remotely since march. But more people have been returning to the office since july. Meanwhile, a top official at the World Health Organization is expressing concern about the latest surge of infections sweeping across europe. We are seeing very, very high positivity rates and an increasing lack of capacity to do any effective form of contact tracing. The two countries with the high
Today low to mid 60s. 61 to 66. Some upper 50s at the coast. Kumasi, reggie. Mike, thank you. Happening today, president elect joe biden talking about his plans for health care. Hes already at work tackling the coronavirus pandemic. Meanwhile President Trump and his team defiant claiming that the election was stolen but providing no evidence to back that up. Abc News Reporter alex presha live in washington. Goodern moi morning, reggie kumasi. No evidence right now to back up those claims of Election Fraud. Meanwhi meanwhile, we know president elect joe biden is set to address health care. Supreme court looking at the Affordable Care act today. But on the coronavirus front, some good news. Drugmaker pfizer announcing that its vaccine has a 90 or more than 90 effectiveness rate in some lateround clinical trials. As the u. S. Passes 10 million covid cases president elect joe biden is welcoming pfizers vaccine breakthrough but warning more work is still to be done. The challenge before us