Staking out its claims on every continent with its sprawling belt and Road Initiative impacting how most every country does business officials in beijing a setting the Global Standards in tech they drawing up their own treaties and deals and theyve got the upper hand with an immense amount of financial firepower but chinas also highly secretive bad restrictive the question is is china more of a partner old rival. President xi jinping has promised time and again to open his mammoth economy to the world to lead an International Investment and allow for a level Playing Field german executives ive spoken to say its going in the other direction they say chinese officials clamping down on foreign firms more than ever china and the European Union have been hammering out a comprehensive agreement on investment for 7 years now but after multiple rounds of negotiations theyve basically got no way. The skyscrapers a friend high have all been built in the past 30 years. Almost all the big German C
To open up the. European countries have begun imposing new restrictions on public and private life as they struggle to cope with steep rises in corona virus infections with europes highest coronavirus death toll the u. K. Has unveiled a new 3 tier lockdown system closing pubs gyms and betting shops in englands highest risk areas while northern irelands Regional Government has just imposed europes harshest 2nd wave restrictions the Czech Republic as opposed to state of emergency new restrictions came into effect today closing all schools bars restaurants and clubs and the netherlands is also closing Restaurants Hotels and cafes in a return to a partial lockdown. It was what the Hospitality Industry was dreading most a return to lockdown from midnight restaurants bars and cafes in the netherlands must shut their doors for at least 2 weeks math will now be mandatory in indoor public spaces the government saying it was left with little choice in the face of spiraling infection rates. Thats
President donald trump made a rare appearance in the White House Briefing room to downplay the threat of coronavirus the risk to the American People remains very low trump the klein told point to socalled corona virus czar as some lawmakers in the u. S. Have urged instead naming Vice President mike pence as the point person to lead the u. S. Response to the growing outbreak were doing really well and mike is going to be in georgia and mike will report back to me Top Public Health officials are warning americans to prepare for more corona virus infections in the United States the degree of risk has the potential to change quickly and we can expect to see more cases in the United States the trajectory of what were looking at over the weeks and months ahead is very uncertain but even with those warnings trump continued to contradict the message of Career Health professionals with his all i dont think its inevitable probably will it possibly will it could be at a very small level or could
Of parliament for terror on city out of the list the 1500 candidates that were being approved by the Guardian Council and then once they pick their 30 m. P. s they cast their ballots here at these 2 boxes this is a process that is. Cross the country at over 55000. 00 polling stations now its something youve got the iranian Supreme Leader and the president have urged people to do millions of people being urged to stay indoors to south korea becomes the country with the highest number of corona virus infections outside of China Health Authorities say one person has died and there are 204 cases nationwide around half of them reported on friday alone most of those victims are linked to a religious group in the Southern City of daegu in the capital seoul basque gatherings and rallies have been banned rob mcbride is indigo and says her fear of the virus has spread to other cities. The way it has suddenly spiked in the past a couple of days it has Health Officials here putting into place vari
Pundit meek potential absolutely it has and we vary it from our assessment not yet Irans Health Ministry has pledged to be transparent about the outbreak but it has been heavily criticized by one m. P. In qualm who says the number of dead could actually be as high as 50 i said vague has more now from tehran. Theres been an extraordinary exchange in clash a war of words between a member of Parliament Ahmed a meter above the hes a member of parliament for the city of qom the epicenter of this virus here in iran and the Health Ministry now he said he puts the number of dead from the virus at 50 now he acknowledges not with the maybe from the krona virus but he says that the governments performance on the issue has been 0 he says that nurses dont have the correct uniforms on are scared of treating patients he says that the government isnt really concerned and the virus has been present in iran for 3 weeks but their names meant was delayed by the government he also said that he knows of 2 c