A unified Global Response u. S. President elect joe biden says he will make masks mandatory during his 1st 100 days in office hospitalizations and deaths have reached record highs in the wild west affected country in the 1st day im going to say im going to ask the public for 100 days to mask this 100 days a mask now for over 100 years and i think well see a significant reduction in recurrent everything that occurs with vaccinations and masking to drive down the numbers considerable considerably. More than a 1000000 people in iran have now had corona virus nearly 50000 have died but the Health Minister says the actual number is probably much higher but the government is considering easing restrictions in several areas iran is the worst affected country in the middle east aid workers say at least 1600 Rohingya Refugees are being forced to move to a Remote Island off the coast of bangladesh the u. N. Warns its prone to storms and flooding nearly 1000000 rohingya have been living in squali
Ministers of q 8 and carter say there has been some progress made towards resolving the gulf dispute cotta has been under an illegal land sea and air blockade by saudi arabia bahrain the u. A. E. And egypt since june 2070 we have achieved certain progress at certain points of dime more than a year ago and then things has slowed down and right now there are some more moments that we hope that just will but and thought of this crisis because we see and we believe actually that got a few nitty is very important for the security of the region for the stability of that region and for for the sake of our people this need this crisis needs to end. The International Watchdog says iran is installing new more advanced equipment to enrich uranium the i. A. E. A. Says centrifuges are being added to the underground plant at natanz on the nuclear deal any less efficient machines can be used irans leaders recently passed a law or allowing for more enrichment and limiting watchdog inspections the uns
Or centers for Disease Control saying that the next 3 months could be among the worst or most difficult in u. S. Public Health History what americans are bracing for is the fact that its known that there will likely be an uptick in infections as well as deaths given the fact that Many Americans did not listen to the Public Health officials warnings over the thanksgiving holiday and as a result traveled and so the seeds of an increased outbreak have been planted all across the United States italy has recorded its highest daily death toll from corona virus with 993 fatalities in the last 24 hours and iran has become the 1st country in the middle east to report more than 1000000 infections the virus is reported to have killed almost 50000 people across iran but the Health Minister says the actual number of deaths is probably much higher. Meanwhile facebook and instagram have announced they will start removing posts with false claims about corona virus vaccines the u. S. And e. U. Have als
Is a catastrophe civil war proxy war coronavirus islam is tara from syria that alone the drowning of those seeking asylum only this week and now compounded by bitter political strife in tripolis u. N. Backed government joining me now via skype from rome is acting special representative and head of the United Nations support mission in libya 70 Turco Williams 70 were going to going underground before i ask anything about the political situation obviously people are going to want to know how coronavirus its obviously impacting hard on britain when the highest per capita or death rate how is it affecting libya which is obviously the subject of civil strife and a proxy war well the coronavirus situation in libya is quite so worrying you know we we believe that it is stired clean out of control in the country the number of confirmed cases is close to or at 25000 today which over Something Like a lab and 1000 cases are active and there are nearly 400 deaths that have been recorded houser hun
A nato war that devastated africas richest per capita nation what hope is there for a country facing political turmoil civil war and now a Global Pandemic we are the acting special representative and head of the u. N. Support mission in libya and we investigate the pain to the burden the new film that explores the naked brutality faced by children in war thats causing apparently mass walkouts and film festivals from venice to toronto with one of its lead star of the killing fields julian sands told us of all coming up in todays going underground but 1st after Mondays Special episode with columbia universitys professor Jeffrey Sachs of the uns Sustainable Development Network Solution going on the ground got a rebuttal from Geoffrey Wilson author of the book Jeffrey Sachs the strange case of dr shock and mr aid in the interview professor sachs denied a quote i referred to in which he allegedly described himself as a free market idealogue Jackie Wilson told us sex did say that and hes in