Hello to you. We begin in the uk, the country with the second highest number of recorded deaths from covid 19 in the world after the us. Prime minister Boris Johnson and his colleagues have sought to provide answers to some of the many questions asked about the plan to relax the lockdown in england. The government has now published a 50 page document. But scotland, wales and Northern Ireland have their own powers over restrictions and say its too soon to relax measures to the same extent. Laura kuenssberg reports. Was the day any different . On the wild yorkshire coast . On the quiet manchester commute . To a few more travellers on londons lines, all trying to work out what the slow train to a new normal looks like, with many questions tonight put direct to the Prime Minister. Yesterday, you left the nation with more questions than answers. Why have you been so vague with who can start back at work and which businesses can reopen this week . Its when you come to take small steps back t
In a question in a moment. But there was a span of time from january 24 through march 5 that i hope the American Public looks at. And it gets back to what is wrong with our Health Care System in general. Early testing from what im seeing was created by the fact that the cdc said that it was going to do its own test. The south korean test that gets cited so often was not going to be looked at. We had to do our own. I know the fda worked with the cdc. But the long and short of all of this is that for nearly a month this was in that bureaucratic swirl. The fda prevented private and Academic Development of tests for weeks. The cdc kdenied access to functioning tests as i cited in south korea. This created through all the red tape and bureaucracy to where we had to come up with a one sized fits all approach due to the uncertainty of the virus. And we are stuck with that now. I dont want to dwell on that necessarily because i think that those are mistakes that we made. Im tired of having it
Good to have you with us. Boris johnson has defended plans to relax the lockdown in england amid accusations that his governments proposals are confusing. In england, from tomorrow, people can go outdoors as often as they want and can meet with one person from another household in a public space, as long as social distancing is respected. With some workers being encouraged to return this week, the Prime Minister said he was not expecting a sudden big flood of people to go back. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports. Was the day any different . On the wild yorkshire coast . On the quiet manchester commute . To a few more travellers on londons lines, all trying to work out what the slow train to a new normal looks like, with many questions tonight put direct to the Prime Minister. Yesterday, you left the nation with more questions than answers. Why have you been so vague with who can start back at work and which businesses can reopen this week . Its when you come to take small st
Americans. It really did. We learned that as States Reopen and another study warns that we could see a surge in cases, especially in southern states, frankly something were already beginning to see in some this hour and today the president is just hours away from a trip to michigan. A state facing loud opposition to tight restrictions in place amid the pandemic. Also the state the president threatened to withhold funding from in a clash over mailin voting, a move to keep people safe. Were at the ford plant that the president will go to today. Lets begin this hour with our senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen for more on the medical headlines. Good to have you. Lets talk about pharmaceutical giant astrazeneca announcing an agreement to make at least 400 million doses of a potential vaccine. Is that right . Thats right. And astrazeneca is making the vaccine that has been developed by university of oxford in england. So we have various players here, theyre one of eight vaccines th
Openly gay player, he gets in the game. Good morning, everyone. Great to see you this morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. And im Christine Romans. Its monday, im sorry, february 24th. Its 5 00 a. M. In the east, and a lot to get to this morning. Well begin with breaking news from ukraine, where an arrest warrant has been issued for the countrys ousted Prime Minister, Viktor Yanukovych. Ukraines acting interior minister says hes wanted for the mass murder of peaceful citizens. This morning, his whereabouts are not known. It follows a weekend of political upheaval that saw yanukovych tossed out. A former rival freed from prison, and parliament appointing an acting president. Theres growing concern about possible intervention by russia. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is live in kiev. Bring us up to speed, nick. Reporter well, christine, the mass murder youre referring to is, of course, the shooting dead of dozens of protesters here, mostly by police down a few days ago just from where