A 2 trillion dollar deal with the white house. Claims responsibility for an attack on a sikh center in the Afghan Capital at least 25 people are dead. And im peter senator the sport as a limp it boss is trying to reorganize to 2020 i. O. C. President thomas but describes it as a beautiful jigsaw puzzle and does not rule out holding the games in the spring rather than the summer. So then spain has had its worst day yet of the corona virus pandemic with more than 700 new dest fatalities have now surpassed china in the past 24 hours the number of deaths has surged to almost 3500 and nearly 48000 have been infected only italy has seen a greater loss of life in russia the pandemic has forced president. Vladimir putin to perspire a referendum that would have extended his time in office putin is calling on everybody to stay at home and has pledged economic assistance to those in need well go there when you put them you know thanks to the measures already taken we can stop this virus becoming
Feel another media are a powerful way not only of communicating Important Health messages but of studying one of the most powerful medicines hope i thank you thank you got to take us now and that is the World Health Organization chief adopted ted ross. Calling on all countries who have introduced socalled lockdown measures to use this time to attack the virus to find every suspected case he said and the concern that some Health Care Systems may collapse particularly in poor countries lets cross to our diplomatic editor james bays whos also been listening in he joins us from the United Nations in new york and james worry of course is that when restrictions are eventually lifted the virus might come back says essential that these restrictions stem place. Yes passing on a message i think to leaders around the world dont open things up too early because you might get a 2nd wave i do somewhat wonder whether that message is in part directed to where i am the u. N. Headquarters of course is i
A scaled up response to the outbreak people are ordered to stay home and a constitutional referendum is delayed. And their concerns of the u. S. Could become the next major front in the coronavirus pandemic a growing with more news on the number of cases the governor of new york said they had been a leap of 5000 cases in just the past day or the states alone are recording more than 30000 in total the virus has claimed more lives there than in any other part of the country elsewhere spain now has the worlds 2nd highest number of deaths after more than 700 in the past 24 hours to the total to nearly 3 and a half 1000 thats half the total of italy but there was a glimmer of hope there as the hard hit number the region reported its smallest number of new deaths in 6. Days when in russia president putin has ordered the ministry to run drills testing troop readiness to deal with an outbreak as one of a number of emergency measures is implemented in the past couple of days while National Mome
Police turn to heavy handed measures. And russias president scales up the response to the outbreak people are ordered to stay at home and a constitutional referendum is delayed. Concerns that the u. S. Could become the next major front in the coronavirus pandemic a growing with more news on the number of cases the governor of new york said they had been a leap of 5000 cases in just the past day with the state alone now recording more than 30000 in total the virus has claimed more lives there than in any other part of the country elsewhere spain now has the worlds 2nd highest number of deaths after 700. 00 in the past 24 hours to a total today 3 and a half 1000 thats half the total of italy there was a glimmer of hope there as the hard hit nobody region reported its smallest number of new deaths in 6 days. When in russia president putin has ordered the military to run drills testing troop readiness to deal with an outbreak is one of a number of emergency measures is implemented in the p
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