Virus and its new security bill against hong kong job cuts for renault the french car maker plans to lay off nearly 15000. 00 people as it deals with the crisis made worse by coronavirus fears of a few Food Shortages plagues of locusts or crops in parts of india and pakistan. Crowds of protesters are out in cities across the u. S. Calling for justice over the death of a black and during an arrest in the city of minneapolis a policeman has been charged in the murder of george floyd but that is not well the anger so many outlets is just gone past 11 oclock and a curfew came into place just a few hours ago protesters are showing no signs of abiding by the curfew ignoring threats of jail time or fine the mayor of minneapolis ordered a curfew after 3 days of protests which have seen buildings burned and looted artists are continuing in. The night at the white house or scuffles have broken out between demonstrators and police the groups been there for several hours and earlier the white hous
A partly stadium and inspiration were also held around the new york supreme court. Go back to minneapolis now where Al Jazeera John hendren is joining us live all this started because the death of george floyd so john tell us what more about this more about whats happening with that National Guard coming in apparently. Well we havent seen the National Guard where i am but we have seen Police Moving in and we think there are state police that may be what people are talking about weve noticed them so if you look just past the fire that was set on the crane here which exploded not long ago police have moved forward they have moved up the block theyve used tear gas there was some complaint from someone i talked to that she had been hit by a rubber coated bullet i did not see that but been even if you look down in the distance you can see that there is a business that is completely engulfed in flames at the electrical wires went off recently and even further to the left of that is a kmart s
The United States is facing a growing backlash over its threat you probably hold the funding to the w. H. O. And thats after President Donald Trump said the organizations missteps have come i found extreme cost and i think theyve done a. Very sad job in the last period of time and again the United States pays them 450000000. 00 a year china pays them 38000000000. 00 a year and theyre a puppet of china theyre china centric to put it nicer but theyre a puppet of china. Well russia has become the latest global power to condemn trump threats Deputy Foreign minister has been quoted as saying it is against the breaking the w. H. O. For another members political purposes. Or accuse the United States of attempting to avoid responsibility for the handling of his own outbreak of the transfer marks were meant to criticize chinas response efforts made the u. S. Tries to use china as an issue to shirk responsibility and bargain over its International Obligations to the w. H. O. This is a miscalcula
In africa sudan rejects ethiopias francis stop filling the reservoir with water and parts of a Chinese Rocket crashed to earth in the most significant uncontrolled descent a space debris in decades. We begin in the us where President Donald Trump has criticized his top Infectious Disease experts warning against reopening the economy too quickly it follows wednesdays testimony by the leading cove in 1000 Task Force Member dr anthony found that rushing to open up could have serious consequences including need less deaths the us is by far the worst hit country by the pandemic with more than 83000 deaths and more than 1300000 infections stomach as again states to lift coronavirus restrictions when it is. Just know when its obviously of a surprise but as its actually because you know. Its just to me its not an acceptable the. Lets bring in mike hanna in washington force President Trump mike saying that hes surprised by dr fox his remarks i guess the distance between the president and his to
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