Harder to provide treatment to people with serious symptoms. This is the right time to issue a red alert. Its a declaration of an emergency in medical care. Our First Priority will be protecting life the governor says the occupancy of the prefectures hospital beds set aside for serious cases is expected to soon reach 70 . On top of the call for people to stay home, officials plan to extend their requests for bars and restaurants to close early until december 15th. Officials here in tokyo reported 533 new cases on thursday. To date, the number of people who have tested positive in tokyo has exceeded 42,000. 54 are currently in serious condition. Tokyos hospitals have 150 beds for serious cases. The metropolitan government is asking them to increase that to 200. Officials say they want to prevent the spike in severe covid19 cases from affecting treatment for other diseases. Theyre also asking medical institutions to allocate more beds to coronavirus cases that are not serious. Authoritie
Jobs there is every day. U. S. President orders u. S. Troops to come home from afghanistan. The move is drawing fire from americas nato allies including germany. Plus, two fatal crashes kept it grounded for two years. After months of scrutiny, the boeing 737 max has been cleared to fly again. Im brent goff. To our viewers in pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome shade we begin with politics and the pandemic. Lawmakers in berlin have voted to give the German Government new powers allowing it to introduce restrictions to tackle the coronavirus. The german president signed the bill into law this evening. It takes effect tomorrow. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets today to protest as politicians debated the legislation. Water cannon and pepper spray deployed by paris by police to disperse demonstrators. Thousands gather near the German Parliament building. Many in the crowd not Wearing Masks or maintaining social distancing. They were protesting against corona
Age for artists who have fled political persecution in their own countries and settled in berlin. What drove them to leave . What challenges did they face in their new home . What attracted them to the german capital . People in berlin are demonstrating for every bello reuss, theater director. At smiths a charge, who is one of the cold organizers of the protest. Hes glad that he can express his opinion freely in germany. And that we can send a signal from abroad in the berlin is not indifferent to what is happening in the marines to the situation in our homeland and citizens are doing. Were simply saying were helping you are supporting you and in their mass protests have been taking place in belo roost for months with the demonstrators calling for an end to the countrys authoritarian regime. Police have clamped down on them heavily even if they are no longer there. Go in other bella ruffians in berlin, feel part of the wider protest. Force our hand. We dont want that. We just knew thin
Washington coming up the markets are roaring following a breaking development in the race for a coven 1000 vaccine straight ahead well bring you up to speed on the latest from pfizer and where we stand in the face of the Global Pandemic plus the e. U. Is moving forward with 4000000000. 00 in tariffs on u. S. Products due to illegal subsidies provided to boeing later well go over the details and how a change in the white house may affect the trade relationship between the 2 sides with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the Programming Program with promising news on the copen 1000. 00 vaccine front as early data from fires or shows there vaccine candidate was more than 90 percent effective but does this mean the end of the pandemic is in sight well our t. V. Correspondent Trinity Chavez has been following the story and filed this report. Say a coven 1000 x. Team has been developed and maybe more than 90 percent effective german Biopharmaceutical Company pfizer and man
1200000. 00 people worldwide including almost a quarter 1000000 in the United States alone with cases rising in nearly every state right now there are many groups seen record number. We have now. So this is a very serious situation. Worse. According to Johns Hopkins university 43 states reported at least 10 percent more new coven 19 cases on monday compared to last week while the average of daily number of new cases soared 34 percent over the past week while testing has only increased just over 7 percent during that same time period cases and hospitalizations are setting new records all around the country just as the holidays and winter approach dr megan rainey an emergency room doctor at Brown University says we are heading into the very worst of the pandemic right now the degree of spread out. This infection and its toll on our country is going to be to a large extent determined by what happens in the next 2 months while the global number of coven 1000 cases top 15000000 what the us