Produce. At a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in the academic calendar. In the past 24 hours more than 2700 americans have died from covert 19 thats the highest daily death toll in the country west affected by the virus since april further to bass for the 1st time hospital admissions across the u. S. Topped 100000 in just 24 hours and 200000 new cases were reported thats another record now the head of the u. S. Centers for Disease Control has warned that by february a further 200000 people could die from the virus. So were in that range potentially now. To see if seen 100 to 2000 to 2500 nasa day. From this farm so yeah the mortality concerns are real. And i do think unfortunately before we see february we could be close to the floor and 50000 americans have died from this virus in the u. K. The pfizer bio and tech coated 19 vaccine will be administered to high risk groups within days its the 1st country to approve a va
Highest daily covert 19 death toll since the pandemic began. And well have a report from athens on the measures that some museums are taking to stay afloat during the pandemic. Police in hong kong of detained media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jimmy lai the outspoken government critic has been charged with defaulting government owned businesses will remain in custody until a court case in april earlier this year lie was among 10 people arrested on suspicion of violating beijings National Security lol. The japanese government says that it has grave concerns about the jailing of 3 hong kong activists. Child ivan lamb well found guilty of Unlawful Assembly on tuesday they received 1310 and 7 month jail respectively. Is fluent in japanese well known in japan says that its conveyed its concerns to china several times lets go live to hong kong all of this that lets start with jimmy lie whats he alleged to have done. This is a very significant move here thats being seen against hong kongs
Program. The paris has been engulfed in renewed unrest over a controversial security bill Police Used Tear Gas as the situation spiraled out of control theres been huge anger over plans to protect Police Officers powers and surveillance with more from the french capital here is shot it with. Small weve had huge tension the same in paris in the last hour where we have seen a number of what i would describe this action grabs by the police its obviously much more organized not youll have members over the skew gee force is going to the crowd and rapping you know that they think of causing trouble perhaps likely to lose trouble you saw one man dragged from the crowd by the offices that followed tensions were such a moving story that this is a very sad she is ready to in fact at one point. To gases being used directing from aeroshell springs x. The protests we saw many people trying to get away from that and suffering the impacts of sea gas. Well i just want to give you a sense of how big th
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Lockdown measures that will last until the middle of january chancellor Angela Merkel says theyre necessary to reduce the surge in cases that more stores in schools will be closed and social contacts are limited the u. K. Specs of negotiation isnt brussels as a deadline looms to agree a trading deal british Prime Minister barak and the European Commission president have on the line and have been speaking by phone and were expecting a statement. Paul brennan has all the latest for us from brussels. It does appear that were coming to the final decision on this whether it will be a decision for a deal i dont think so what was really at stake here was the 2 leaders getting together and decided whether there was enough glimmer of hope enough Common Ground for them to agree to continue talking or whether the differences were simply too great to place you call it off and finally admit defeat and agree that no deal is the most likely or is the only outcome hundreds of students in nigeria offer