The capital has been hardest hit as a second wave of the virus sweeps across the country. And making a difference the alternative nobel prize for human rights is announced. We will take a look at those honored for their activism. Im brent goff. Two viewers watching on pbs in the United States and to all of your around the world, welcome. We begin tonight with the question who speaks for europe . At a summit in brussels, eu leaders are trying to agree on an answer. Sanctions against belarus, a joint approach on turkey, and how to distribute coronavirus recovery funds those are some of the issues demanding attention and unity. Delegates are hoping the summit will help break a deadlock over sanctions against belarus. He has become the unlucky center of attention. The president of cyprus has caused a big sterling leap. Cyprus has long been the only european state opposing sanctions against belarus, and the eu requires a unanimous decision to post those measures. The eu risks losing credibi
Oure further pushing back the date when our city can open. If conditions do not improve, the city may close additional activities and businesses. Im at the live news december desk and monitoring the sentencing for john lee cow el, the man who stabbed to death the man at the bart station and family members saying you took our baby. John lee cowell was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The guilty found him guilty of premeditated murder ofth sister. She said shell never forgive him for stabbing her sister and watching her stand there and suffer and scream until she died. Life without parole, thats justice. Im thankful raab two hours in march. Cowel was absent for most of the trial after several outbursts in court. His defense claimed he was insane, the judge decided to issue a directed verdict ruling their client was sane at the time of the attack and would serve his sentence in a state prison. Cowel has the right to appeal this and he questioned the judge tow
Today address as number of important issues related to ovid19 testing. One issue we examined in this work, i hope we talk about today, is how we can make sure that we are best prepared for potential overlap of covid19 and influenza cases in the fall. Im looking forward to the conversation we are going to have today. I greatly appreciate all three of our witnesses and governors for taking time from their extremely busy schedules to be here. Made a lot of improvement over the last few months, our work is not done and as we continue to work on drafting more legislation responding to covid19 pandemic, it is especially important to hear state perspectives. I thank you. Yield back. Ms. Degette i thank the gentleman for yielding back. I would advise members in case you are unaware of this, there is a window on your screen that says one, two, three clock. This will count down from five minutes for each other statements or questioning. And then it will start going over. If thats not working for
President trump said that chinas handling of the coronavirus pandemic was meant to hurt his reelection chances. Not only that, look at what theyve started to doing to his hats President Trump yesterday held a meeting to discuss reopening the economy amid the coronavirus pandemic with Business Leaders including executives from waffle house, who, unfortunately, fielded most of the questions. Lets see. Its dry. So is it like a house made of theres no dry time waffles or is it a waffle shaped makes us wonder why we booked fifteensecond ad slots like a house dries instantly and keeps you protected because i think a lot of for fortyeighthours. Americans want to know. White house Senior Adviser and President Trumps son if law Jared Kushner said yesterday that he believes the country will be back to normal and, quote, really rocking again by june. Though im not sure id take this guys word on whats really rocking. He looks like hed try to start a mosh pit at an enya concert. Executives from the
A religious event linked to the spread of the virus. And brazils leader downplays the threat posed by the pandemic as calls for his removal continue to grow. U. S. President donald trump says he may soon be able to give away ventilators to other countries even though many state governors are pleading for more equipment to tackle coronavirus new yorks death toll has more than doubled in 72 hours to nearly 2000 and the nationwide tally is over 200000. Were building thousands we will fairly soon be at a point where we have far more than we can use even after we stockpile for some future catastrophe which we hope doesnt happen were going to be distributing them the extras around the world well go to d italy well go to france well go to spain which is and you know very hard here. Meanwhile the World Health Organization is warning about rapid escalation resulting in a 1000000 confirmed cases in the days ahead over the past 5 weeks we have witnessed a near exponential gross in the number of n