Of new cases had been flat or decreasing since a peak in early august, but the number has begun creeping up. The panel noted increases in hokkaido, tohoku and northern kanto regions as well as parts of okinawa. They say its a result of infection clusters and people visiting or leaving tokyo and the surrounding prefectures where there is no drop in infection rates. But the number of hospitalizations remains flat nationwide and the number of patients in serious condition is reportedly decling. The experts say provincial entertainment districts and expat communities could become super spreader sis teand they are calling for more Health Notices and tests in those areas, and they warn japan could see the kinds of explosive spread of infections in europe unless infections are dealt with. In australia authorities in the state of victoria have lifted coronavirus restrictions in and around the city of melbourne for the first time in about four months. Three, two, one. Whoo the city has been und
Top prize for human rights on early efforts against the president ial election while usually regarded as rigged. And the pollution blamed for poisoning iraqi waterways leaving fishermen broke and hungry. And im fond of hummus and i have all the sports european champions by munich kick off their Champions League title defense in emphatic fashion the democrat press next for nil at home. But we begin in nigeria where the president is holding an Emergency Security meeting as parts of lagos burned smoke billowing from a prison after earlier reports of gunshots that have been almost 2 weeks of protests which initially began against Police Brutality Amnesty International says at least 12 protesters were killed in lagos on tuesday night when i go live to ahmed idris whos covering this from for us ahmed lets talk about that meeting 1st of all that the president is holding do we know any more about what theyre going to be discussing. I think its more like a reviewing this situation nationwide pr
Starting with corona virus really focusing on europe where governments across the continent and the u. K. Are finding they have no choice in some cases but to impose more restrictions in france to get a handle on the situation the Prime Minister has Just Announced curfews that will extend further than before including into overseas french territories now this is from france info a french rolling news channel showing. The curfews will affect about 70 percent of the countrys population all across france over a 1000000 confirmed cases weve got spain as well with the Health Ministers warning of more drastic measures spain reached the 1000000. 00 mark on wednesday and the government is accused of mishandling the crisis however it did survive a no confidence vote in Parliament Germany is also seeing a rise in infections with the daily count rising about 10000 for the 1st time which is well above the numbers seen during the initial wave in march though it has to be said testing has increased
This is boom bust so one business show you cant afford to miss for in washington coming up tensions are on the rise between russia and the European Union is sanctions have been imposed over the poisoning of electing a volley straight ahead we bring you up to speed on how the escalation could affect business between the 2 and amid the ongoing trade war between the worlds 2 largest economies china u. S. Imports have exploded leading up to the 2020 president ial election later i want to bring in 2 experts on International Trade on what the trade gap means in these critical times with a packed show today so lets dive right in. And we lead the program with the European Union stating wednesday that it will impose economic sanctions against russia after russian Opposition Leader alexei no bawly a corruption investigator and longtime opponent of russian president Vladimir Putin was reportedly poisoned with a nerve agent now according to German Authorities know bawly is in germany. And is now r
Competition and illegitimate sanctions but also by creating instability on our borders. And joining us now to discuss this boom bust cohosted investigative journalist bents one whos been following the story now but i want to start with what we know about the poisoning of alexina bali. Yeah we actually dont know a whole lot about it according to reuters there is some information he was traveling apparently between siberia and moscow in august he became violently ill he was an air flight into germany where doctors began to treat him and they say that he was poisoned with some kind of a nerve agent and so the details of exactly how he was poisoned are not known at this time and the fact that russia and specifically certain members of the russian government have been accused by the french of the germans as being responsible for this is a little bit strange because we dont have any details surrounding that having said that it was enough as you just said for the e. U. To say that theyre goin