Basic commodities such as fuel and and that has resulted in shortages at petrol stations and bakeries its also led to an inflation of more than 200 percent making many families many of them who live below the poverty line struggle to get 3 meals a day in the United Nations World Food Program is warning of catastrophic levels of hunger in parts of the. Mali unless aid groups of. Violence and insecurity in central whole region of west africa has pushed millions into acute hunger the number of internally displaced people has risen to nearly 1600000. And arrange already fragile situation. Exacerbating natural disasters to be raging. Theres risks that this region faced former d soviet humanitarian crisis in the years to come if we. Continue to build our response. And Development Assistance the International Red cross says a stable ceasefire is needed in the dawn of hot about so it can help civilians the head of the agency says so far its only been able to provide limited aid there all repor
Means more deaths from it means more. Deaths and it means more economic pain later because the virus comes down slower than it goes up but there are questions over whether this goes far enough with the opposition and many scientists instead advocating a short sharp nationwide lockdown not just regional restrictions here in london the new measures will in fact 3000 pounds and 7000 restaurants decision will be reviewed every 2 weeks but most of these businesses have already made their orders for the months ahead and this stopping and starting to cripple many in europe find theyre in a similar situation france has declared a Public Health state of emergency and impose an 8 pm curfew in paris and 8 other cities hospital admissions are at their highest level since june. The curve has nearly taking a vertical shape and thats why we knew we needed to act because this reality would have an impact on hospitals 10 days later the very strong impact on intensive care unit. Infection rates also ris
From there to here and then they pulled up and they gathered along this main avenue behind me is Government House thats the Prime Ministers Office is so they pulled up here thousands gathered in the Late Afternoon through the evening but then several 100 stayed overnight at 4 am about 3 hours ago this emergency decree was issued protest leaders on makes of stage on this avenue just next to me they told the protesters to leave peacefully and they did so but we do know that still dozens of protesters were arrested 3 of the main high profile protest leaders were arrested themselves but you know again when we look now it was very interesting you know weve been here for about a 90 minutes and we 1st came up there are still street sweepers the avenue was blocked off street sweepers cleaning up from all those people here overnight now the avenues open and its almost as normal rush hour here on thursday morning so right now we know dozens of protesters have been arrested and 3 high profile pro
Supreme court has faced questions on health care and abortion from a panel of senators Amy Kearney Barrett is appearing for the 2nd of 4 days of confirmation hearings in washington d. C. She said the president had not sort of views on any case challenging the result of next months election democrats who criticize the unusual speed of the hearings with time running out before the poll would you commit to reach you shall put them in a dispute the rises our quarterly president ial election. Senator leahy i want to begin by making 2 very important points and they have to do with the a. C. S. And with any election dispute that may or may not arise. I have had no conversation with the president or any of his staff on how i might rule in that case it would be a gross violation of Judicial Independence for me to make any such commitment or for me to be asked about that case and how i would rule and i also think it would be a complete violation of the end of the judiciary for anyone to put a ju
13 people and then i asked the people there would be do you think this cease fire is something good and most of them said we dont believe that they will be a cease fire over the sea from their point of view pointing the finger idea minion saying that you know they they are following the news and they have heard at the statements coming out from the ministry of defense here back to say that they had been several violations from jeremy inside according to the ministry of defense the armenians trying to get back into food and your brain which i choose a region southwest of nagornokarabakh south east rather of nagornokarabakh that as urys claim basically under their control now and now were hearing also some news of the sit still also to ministry of defense of some shelling going on furder north in the region of back so certainly people are following that they say that they have been the victims of an attack that happened during a supposed cease fire that was a 1st ceasefire that was also