Its the seventh consecutive day with more than 200 infections. Across the country, the total number of infections has topped 40,000. The Prime Minister said in a meeting that the situationon ha been seesawing for the past several days. Abe shinzo said the number o of seriously ill patients is hovering at around 80 nationally. The government plans to convene an expert panel in the coming days to come up with further antivirus measures. It comes as the clock ticks down to the Summer Vacation period that starts next week. Normally, thats the time when many people return to their hometowns, but this time, tokyos governor is calling on residents to stay home as much as possible. Nhk world spoke to one of the experts on the Central Governments coronavirus subcommittee about the recent developments. Reporter as president of the Japanese Association for infectiousus diseases, t Tateda Kazuhiro has been on the frontline since the outbreak began. He says japan is in the middle of a second wave,
With that declaration Neil Armstrong becoming the first human to step foot on the moon the year 1969. There were a number of events today commemorating the major milestone across the country. Feel keating has more from the Kennedy Space center. Reporter it has been a weeklong celebration leading up to this landmark day. July 20 the 50th anniversary of the triumphant apollo 11 moon landing. The day watched around the world. As the impossible fantasy became reality. The greatest human achievement in history skyrocketed astronauts Neil Armstrong Michael Collins and buzz aldrin into instant heroes. July 16, 1969 the three astronauts were strapped into their capsule the eagle on top of a massive rocket. The astronauts propelled into orbit and just over 11 minutes from floridas the space center. Four days later july 20 armstrong and aldrin took their momentous first steps. Becoming the first humans to ever set foot on the lunar surface. The men spent just about 2 1 2 hours walking on the moo
Woman and will be gms first female ceo ever. I like the fact that she did a lot of what al mulally did, shes rationalizing production, thats important when you have gm, a lot of brands, make a lot of different cars. One of the thing great about the Great American manufacturing companies, they rapidly realized you have to make the same thing in europe, same thing in asia, same thing in the United States, nobodys that good to have that many fractured brands. She was the one quoted as saying gm, no more crappy cars. Thats a good mantra. Right. Certainly ackermans tenure has been a successful one. Yeah. When she takes over, not clear at this point. At least i havent heard it in the various news reports. I dont know if its immediate or is it timed to coincide with the governments announcement yesterday . I imagine so. This is the beginning of what could be a big dividend cycle. Gm has done so many right things. They have such momentum around the globe, in china, in the United States, europe
This is bbc news. Im mike embley with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Supporters of the jailed russian activist Alexei Navalny have been arrested after he urged people to protest against president putins government the fbi vets all 25,000 National Guard troops on duty in washington for wednesdays inauguration, looking for possible right wing extremists. The covid pandemic leaves some uk hospitals at breaking point. We have a special report from london where staff are stretched to the limit. I wasnt convinced we were going to have a second wave at all, and the huge numbers that havejust, absolutely
all, and the huge numbers that have just, absolutely slammed us, itsjust. I never thought it would be possible. And risking temperatures of up to minus 70 to scale the worlds second highest mountain the nepalese mountaineers tell the bbc about their historic ascent. Hello and welcome. More than 70 protesters have been detained in russia as they demanded the re
We must have a working economy, and we want to get it back very, very quickly. And thats whats going to happen. I believe it will boom. Sandra all of this as china raises wuhans covid19 death told by 50 among growing questions over its handling of the outbreak. We have Fox Team Coverage for you on this friday morning. Gillian turner standing outside the Chinese Embassy in washington but we begin with john roberts live from the north lawn this morning. Good morning to you, white house officials and dr. Anthony fauci said this is not going to be like flipping a light switch, this is going to be a rolling opening to get to these guidelines and they are going to be very specific state by state and county by county and city by city. First of all, these areas have to achieve what is called gating criteria, 14 day downward trend in infections and make sure they have adequate testing and place. They get through that gate way, they can then begin to enter phase one when people can go back to wo