Records its highest number of deaths in a day prompting an appeal to follow social distancing measures a unique look at how artists are reaching out to absent audiences to ring around the virus outbreak. U. S. President donald trump says americans should prepare for the toughest week yet in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic he says theyll be deaths in the coming days as the number of infections exceeded 310000 as of saturday nearly 8500 people have now died trump is deploying the military to new york where the outbreak is at its worst were going to be airing a tremendous amount of military. To help supplement the states thousands of soldiers out thousands of medical workers professionals nurses doctors and itll be a large number itll be will be telling them over the next version where theyre going theyre going into war theyre going into a battle where the u. K. Saw a Record Number of deaths with 708 people dying of the virus in one day as warmer spring weather arrives the gove
new york s attorney general summoned donald trump to quiz him about his tax affairs. he pleaded the fifth then repeated the words same answer to every question she put. the former president who could be president again hadn t kept schtum when the fbi had raided his florida home. to discuss the week s events in the studio are. eunice goes, portuguese academic and writer, who teaches comparative government. janet daley, born in the united states, a 60s progressive who by the 1980s was a conservative, now writing a weekly column in the sunday telegraph. thomas kielinger has been a foreign correspondent for german media, including in washington dc during the carter and reagan presidencies. he s written biographies of churchill and of both queens elizabeth. lovely to have you all in the studio with us today. let me start with you eunice, on the question of energy for the how busy of the summer has it been for the government and continental europe and trying to address the e
wildfire in the southwest. europe s heatwave leaves one of its major working rivers the rhine in germany too low for big trade ships. the riverbed of the mighty rina, look at it. we should be underwater here and yet the water levels have dropped so significantly that it is simply dried up. lawyers for donald trump. echoed with the referred the research of mr john s compound. as you can imagine, we are only getting this information right now and to reemphasise, this is a slightly unusual thing, the un ceiling of a warrant in the middle of an investigation. we are doing as we see the lines we will give them to you. when the lines we are seeing says that it involves alleged violations or potential violations of the espionage act and thatis violations of the espionage act and that is according to one reading of the warrant. the warrant also authorised the collection of a clemency document in search of the troubled florida home and there have been plenty, plenty of background
reports suggest a man opened fire during a family dispute. at 10pm, tina deheley will be here with a full round up of the day s news. but before that, a bracing dose of hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. a year on from the re imposition of taliban rule, afghanistan is facing a humanitarian calamity. half the population is facing serious food insecurity, more than 1 million children are at risk from acute malnutrition. as for the taliban, well, they seem focused on snuffing out opposition and imposing strict controls on women and girls. my guest is former first vice president of afghanistan, now a seniorfigure in the national resistance front, amrullah saleh. is internal resistance viable when afghans are starving? amrullah saleh, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. it is a year, mr saleh, since the taliban swept into kabul and toppled the government of which you were a part. would you acknowledge that this past year has been a year of failure from your point of vi
President donald trump has defended his America First message to the worlds elite addressing the World Economic forum and also declared the u. S. Open for business and said u. S. Coolth would help the rest of the world are diplomatic at the same space as more. As the band played a President Trump stood somewhat could leave aside the man who founded the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab his vision for almost half a century open world trade is not at all with the president s America First policy taking the role of salesman in chief trump declared no america for us does not mean america alone when the United States grows so does the world american prosperity has created countless. All around that low. Trump who was recently as this week has been accused of protectionism after slapping terrorists on imports of solar panels and washing machines criticized other nations for their trading practices we cannot have free and open trade if some countries exploit the system at the expense of other