Within the business community, there is a growing chorus of voices who are realizing that theyre operating on a very unfair playing field. President biden is also reportedly considering hiring an Antitrust Tsar to look into monopolies in tech. Other senior democrats have even called for Companies Like google and facebook to be split up. Big tech has had a bumper year, but Withjoe Biden as president , theyre likely to face more and more scrutiny. Should so much power and wealth be concentrated in the hands ofjust a few companies on the west coast of america . James clayton, bbc news. A reminder of our main story this evening the news that captain sir tom moore has died at the age of 100. Hed been treated for pneumonia and had tested positive for coronavirus. Sir tom raised tens of millions of pounds for Nhs Charities by walking in his garden before his 100th birthday. In a moment, well have the news where you are, but well leave you tonight with some memories of a remarkable man. When y
A country out of its economic spiral. And put Us Birthday Party has been postponed will suffer the South Koreans will have to wait until next month to celebrate. The sport paris man is set to be crowned champions in france is the Domestic League season is cancelled. Just 1500 hours g. M. T. Will start this news in the United States where the economic numbers just keep getting worse the u. S. Labor department has released yet another bleak unemployment report more than 3800000 americans filed for benefits in just the past week taking the total number of jobless to more than 30000000. 00 over the last 6 weeks the Unemployment Rate hold it around 3 and a half percent between december and february but in my. Watch it jumps to a 2 and a half year high of 4. 4 percent thats roughly more than 7000000 people the state governments now begin to restart their economies the easing lockdown measures all the hoff of the 50 states including florida or partially reopened by the end of this week as the
The coronavirus pandemic continues to take the world by storm worldwide cases are now topping 3900000 with 272000 reported deaths here in the United States alone over 1200000 cases and over 76000 deaths are taking a closer look at the Nation New York continues to be the epicenter of this outbreak as strict rules remain in place at the state level it seems that new York Police Department patrols are getting a little violent meanwhile new york is also dealing with dozens of kids falling ill from mysterious illnesses related to covert 19 for more on all this we turn now to our tease trinity charges. For new york citys social distancing patrols taking a turn for the worst. Disturbing video shows a violent clash between a. Parrott social distancing violators and police in brooklyn was grabbed and this cell phone video capturing the moment an officer waves a taser and repeatedly strikes a bystander during a social distancing bust you know the Police Watched and sick using officers of using s
W. H. O. Warns governments around the world against abandoning knock down restrictions to early. Libyas internationally recognized government really takes control of 3 secedes from more than likely to hostile. The number of new infections in the us is not growing as fast as before thats according to President Donald Trump and his top disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci more than 23000 americans have died of the virus so far with those 8577000 reported infections trump has been defending his strategy to contain the virus even as places like new york city of running out of swabs for testing and urging doctors to only test patients who are gravely ill. Americas continuing to make critical progress in our war against the virus over the weekend the number of daily new infections remained flat nationwide flat hospitalizations a slowing in hotspots like new York New Jersey michigan and louisiana this is clear evidence their aggressive strategy to combat the virus is working and that americans are
Turning that into an open air coronavirus lalab. They are trying to figurure out how coronavirus spreads and how it can be contained. Afghghanistan is stepping up efforts to contain covid19 but it faces extra challenges from people who are returning home from iran. Up, the coronavirus bring some good news for pets around the world. With millions of owners stuck at home amid the pandemic, millions of our fourlegged friends are getting some quality quarantine time. Many shelters are seeing a surge and adoptions amid lonely lockdowns. I am brent goff. Welcome. We begin on april 1 in a new month with new worries about the coronavirus pandemic. Governments around the world are scrambling to find ways to stop the virus. That includes restrictions on peoples movements. Italy is in its fourth week of nationwide lockdown. While this appears to be helping in the fight against coronavirus, it is also hitting the countrys economy hard. People are losing their jobs and their earnings and fears are