A nazi war criminal a 93 year old is sentenced in germany for his part in killing thousands of people. And on a mission to mars china sends its 1st unmanned spacecraft to explore the red planet. 5 west african heads of state are meeting in mali to try to resolve its deepening political crisis 6 weeks of mass protests have demanded the resignation of president. At least 14 people have been killed in recent days the m 5 movement of all position activists leads the protests accusing president kaisa of corruption mishandling the economy and failing to improve security they rejected a unity government proposal on the Regional Organization ecowas. Instability in mali has helped to rebel groups linked to al qaida and iso gain strength using mali as a launching pad for attacks in neighboring nations nicholas hike has been following the story from dakar senegal and hes joining us from there live nic was this delegation why are there so many senior figures making it up. Well you know this is so
A massive recovery package. The show must go on a tough year ahead for hollywood production number a pandemic could mean higher costs some longer waits for movies and t. V. Shows. The United States is still struggling to contain the worlds biggest corona Virus Outbreak infections are surging in many parts of the country including florida and california theyve been 3700000. 00 cases nationwide and more than 140000 dead but President Trump has been downplaying the epidemic falls to claiming in an interview that the u. S. Has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world and fisher reports from northern virginia. What they described as embers has become a blaze the u. S. Navy seeing around 70000 new cases of cold meat at the the president s own Health Experts expressing concern my. It has become a political issue now here we are not only with 70000 new cases almost every day but from my perspective also quite concerning the number of hospitalizations which is very close to being as high
President has challenged on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Talks go late into the night in brussels as e. U. Leaders remain divided over how to implement a massive covert 19 recovery package. And the show must go on but it will be a tough year for hollywood as it tries to produce television and films during a pandemic. Hong kong is tightening coronavirus linked restrictions after recording its highest one day increase in cases since the pandemic began the territories leader kerry lamb announced the measures after more than 100. 00 ear infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says theres no sign that its coming under control lets go live now to hong kong i was there as adrian brown is there adrian until now on kongs low infection rate made it the envy of the world whats gone wrong. Its interesting isnt it adrian if we were talking about india or the United States recording more than 100. 00 new infections in one day that would be seen as
Arabias king so mom is admitted to hospital 84 year old one arc is having medical checkups. And china is accused of gross human rights abuses over the mistreatment of its move the minority. The race is all defined vaccine for covert 19 and the pressure is mounting for governments to be able to provide those treatments to deal securing 90000000 doses of 2 potential vaccines thanks to the biotech vaccine had one from the French Company thats also signed a deal for a 1000000 doses of an antibody treatment from astra zeneca lets get more now from paul brennan who is an oxford paul 1st off to sell us more about these vexing deals that the u. K. Is signed the government is obviously believing theyre very promising. Suddenly promising to put all your eggs in one basket says its probably unwise at this point in time and with that in mind thats why the government has decided to invest and sort of preorder effectively from 2 of the big vaccine producers who are chasing the coronavirus theyve ord
Infections spike in the philippines millions of people return to lock down medical workers say more must be done. Rockets fired as an airport in eastern afghanistan a day after i saw claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on a high security prison. And the long wait for financial help talks resume in the u. S. On a rescue package for millions of unemployed americans. And it was the race to find a Coronavirus Vaccine continues the World Health Organization has warned there may never be a socalled Silver Bullet to end the pandemic is urging governments to enforce basic prevention measures rigorously intruding mosques and social distancing as a way out of the crisis all the 18000000 covered 19 infections have been reported worldwide the true number is thought to be much higher of those confirmed more than 680000 people are known to have died from the disease according to the u. N. Health less than 10 percent of those whove had the virus have developed antibodies that means theyre at r