Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Were going to begin this friday morning with President Trump and joe bidens separate town halls. The rivals offered different approaches to key issues including the coronavirus pandemic. The struggle to contain the outbreak comes as more than 63,000 new cases in the u. S. Were reported just yesterday. Thats according to Johns Hopkins university. Thats the most in one day since late july. And the sevenday average for new cases is spiking in at least 38 states. So Laura Podesta is in washington. Laura, what were some of the bigger takeaways from the town halls . Reporter good morning, annemarie. President trump is facing some criticism this morning for distorting a recent study. And falsely saying that 85 of americans who wear a mask end up catching the coronavirus. Biden, for his part, at his town hall, he was asked how he would have handled the pandemic differently he had been president. He said he would have pushed to have access
Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with an explosion of covid19 nationwide tonight as the country closes in on nearly eight million total cases of the virus. The number of new infections in the u. S. Hit nearly 60,000 on wednesday. That is a single day high not seen since the summer. And with the country now racing toward what experts call a third peak in cases, tonight, the c. D. C. Says it expects the virus will kill another 23,000 americans by the first week of november. As we come on the air, 37 states are now seeing infections growing, hospitalizations and deaths are rising, too. And with falling temperatures forcing people indoors, we are told the surge will only get worse. It is a sobering assessment just 19 days before the election as President Trump and joe biden face off tonight not on the debate stage together but in dueling town halls in separate cities. Theres a lot of new reporting to get to. We have our team of correspondents standin
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. In ireland, all of the talk earlier this year was of a political earthquake. The radical nationalist Party Sinn Fein won the most votes in irelands general election. They promised to smash the status quo. Well, so much for that. In fact, irelands two Old Established parties formed a grand coalition, and they are guiding the country through the covid i9 pandemic and brexit. My guest today is Mary Lou Mcdonald, the leader of sinn fein. Has her party missed its moment . Mary lou mcdonald in dublin, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. After the february election, when you and your party did remarkably well you won the most first preference votes in irelands general election you talked about a revolution at the ballot box. Well, five months on, whats happened to that revolution . Well, five months on, we are into really uncharted and unprecedented times, no more than yourselves, with a global pandemic, with the Public Health eme
Nullify the supreme courts verdict. The Yemeni Government backed by the Saudi Led Coalition and the hooty rebels have agreed to a large scale prisoner swap the un says its the 1st exchange of its size since the 5 year conflict began the timing and number of prisoners has not been specified with the u. N. Special envoy to yemen urging parties to move forward with the utmost sense of urgency the swap is part of a u. N. Mediated deal brokered in sweden in 2018 where the warring parties agreed to exchange some 15000 detainees. There some across it Party Candidates are campaigning in nevada for saturdays caucuses and theyre facing off for the right to win their partys candidate see to take on donald trump in the president ial election candidate and former Vice President joe biden has set his sights on one of the frontrunners Bernie Sanders the former v. P. Has criticized sunders gun control voting record are calling on the senator to condemn what he called vicious malicious and misandrist r
Control of most of the rebel held aleppo province and well look at the u. N. Effort to get more countries to help the millions of afghan refugees in pakistan. Hello everyone 2 flights evacuating u. S. Citizens who were stuck on a cruise ship with hundreds of coronavirus cases on board have now left japan those infected are staying behind the ship is being quarantined in the port of yokohama 355. 00 of the passengers tested positive for the virus among them 44. 00 u. S. Citizens as we say they will stay there and be treated in japanese hospitals meanwhile china has confirmed another 105. 00 deaths on sunday this brings the global total up to 1770. 00 around 2000 more people tested positive for the virus and other persons died outside of china this was a taxi driver in taiwan the 5th overseas fatality after an elderly chinese tourist in france became the 1st to die outside of asia so were going to talk to katrina you in beijing in a moment to get an update from there starting those retur