Plus the Champions League group stage gets underway on tuesday evening and put to sleep the leaders like city post turkish champion sebastian shakier the german side will be keen to make home advantage count against the club from istanbul. Im sorry kelly walked into the program at the number of confirmed corona virus cases worldwide has passed 40000000 with well over 1000000 deaths the u. S. Brazil and india are reporting the highest numbers europe also facing a surge in cope with 19 infections with record daily highs in many countries heres a look at how the situation has evolved here on march 1st this year Health Departments across europe registered for hug. And one new cases testing of course was limited so actual numbers could have been much higher but you can see a clear trend of rising infections here in the spring peaking at the end of april early may by then most of europe was in lockdown and you can see the impact of that with new infections dropping to a low point in made jul
Harsh measures experienced earlier in the year. Theyre going to have you know its like the 1st time its catastrophic we would just have to try and survive weve had some state aid and that something its better than nothing but well see. But belgian Officials Say the measures are absolutely necessary the countrys Health Minister says the Health System could soon be overwhelmed by infections and warned of a coming through nami of cases many doctors share his concerns. The sky is more or less blue but we can see a huge wave is about to arrive its inevitable authorities hope the drastic set of measures will have a quick impact they say theyll review the results in 2 weeks time. And for more lets bring in our very own they are mattis who is joining us from brussels they are why has belgium been hit so hard. Well sarah a big issue here is of course the book mortality rate the 3rd highest in the world but to explain that you need to understand the broad criteria that belgium uses to get to the
And for more lets bring in our very own they are mattis who is joining us from brussels they are why has belgium been hit so hard. Well sarah a big issue here is of course the book mortality rate the 3rd highest in the world but to explain that you need to understand the broad criteria that belgium uses to get to these numbers and the reason is that only 50 percent of the cases are actually confirmed caray corona cases the other ones of possible cases that have not been confirmed whether coronavirus test and the reason is that in the 1st wave of the pandemic here in belgium the country was so hard hits that they wanted an easy way to to count deaths and that is why they installed the system that now makes the numbers of the death rate look really bad on the other hand youre right of course numbers here i stream the high with belgium having a small population extremely high numbers 2 possible explanations one is that the tracking system has been rather weak its not been running smoothly
The continent by introducing new restrictions will take a closer look at new restrictions here in germany plus touch and go into outer space in a matter of hours a nasa spacecraft will attempt to snatch samples of walk from an asteroid well get the details of this Daring Mission a cosmic catch me if you can. Im off to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and to all of you around the world welcome we begin with the u. S. Government and google the government today filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against the Search Engine giant and it alleges that the tech company has been abusing its dominance as an online Search Engine to fend. Rivals google controls about 90 percent of global web searches the company has long denied claims of unfair competition the lawsuit also alleges that google uses billions of dollars to pay phone manufacturers to ensure it is the default Search Engine on browsers its the governments the u. S. Governments most significant act to protect competition since
And defiance. Curfews and closures. Europe tries to slow the second wave of coronavirus that is threatening the continent by introducing new restrictions. We will take a closer look at restrictions here in germany. Plus, touch and go in outer space. A nasa spacecraft will attempt to get samples of rock from an asteroid. Im brent goff. To our viewers, welcome. We begin with the u. S. Government and google. The government today filed a landmark antitrust lawsuit against the Search Engine giant. It claims it has been using it dominance as a Search Engine to fend off rivals. Google controls about 90 of global web searches. It has long denied claims of unfair competition. The lawsuit claims that google uses billions of dollars to pay telephone manufacturers cell phone manufacturers to make sure it is the default browser. For more now, we are joined by our washington correspondent. What is google being accused of . The allegation is that google is unlawfully maintaining a monopoly and it is