Protests against lebanons government 2 ministers have now quit over tuesdays blast the number of confirmed kovac 19 cases in the United States reaches 5000000 with numbers still rising in almost 20 states and the afghan president agrees to release 400 taliban prisoners paving the way for peace talks. And downtown hamas now have all the sport red bulls marked for stop and wins at silverstone no break in mercy this is winning start to the f one season. We begin in baton rouge where police have launched a crackdown on protests that erupted as president Alexander Lukashenko looks set to win another election victory the Election Commission says the results so far have him ahead with 81 percent of the vote well this is despite voting being extended in some places because many people are still trying to cause that ballot the main opposition candidate on the ticket off sky ahead aust has supporters to vote as late as possible to minimize the opportunity for electoral fraud Election Officials a
Why new moves by levon on central bank could through futile. Thanks for joining us we begin in the United States where the Vice President mike pence has led the 1st Coronavirus Task force briefing in almost 2 months as america records an all time high of new virus infections around 40000 new cases were confirmed across the u. S. On thursday but mike pence echoed president Donald Trumps message that the number of cases have been increasing because of accelerated testing he says 16 states are seeing a resurgence in cases across the south and southwest. In much of the country where were seeing a jobs expanding and Economic Activity expanding but our focus today is very much on on the advent of rising series of new cases across the american south. And. But where our 1st mission was to save lives once we came out of the 45. 00 days to slow the spread of what our task force has been focused on over the course of the past 2 months is to partner with states to save lives and safely reopen lets
Loyal to the tripoli governments make advances. So the pressure is mounting on u. S. Governors to ease looked on rules with protests encouraged by President Trump held in multiple states for the 3rd day in a row hundreds of conservative americans ignored advice on social distancing to join rallies demanding an end to the lockdown donald trump says some states will begin easing restrictions in the coming days. Texas and vermont will allow certain businesses to open on monday while still requiring appropriate social distancing precautions and i can tell you the governor of texas greg abbott a knows what hes doing hes a great governor knows exactly what hes doing. Montana will begin lifting restrictions on friday ohio north dakota a night of have advised nonessential businesses to prepare for a phased opening starting may 1st throughout this crisis my administration has taken unprecedented actions to reduce Economic Relief to our citizens some states have already start of easing shutdown
Health ministry is fired after a series of remarks contradict the president and are as dumb playing are. Hungry and exhausted hundreds of revenge or are rescued but rather starve to death on a regime change. So that President Donald Trump has outlined guidelines to reopen the u. S. Economy ravaged by the coronavirus and job losses swelled towards levels of the Great Depression of the 930. 00 s. And the death toll climbs above 30 3000. 00 but hes leaving it up to state governments to decide when to lift restrictions backing down from earlier claims that lifting lockdowns across the country would be his sole decision we took the greatest economy. In the history of the world and we closed it in order to win this war and were in the process of winning it now our approach outlines 3 phases in restoring our Economic Life we are not opening all at once but one careful step at a time and some states will be able to open up sooner than others some states are not in the kind of trouble that othe
Economy would reopen but perhaps listening to the guidance of his Top Public Health officials dr Deborah Burkes as well as dr tony there that in fact he has really ceded to them the understanding that it will need to be a regional approach and that the state governors are the ones that will really have the ultimate decision on when this occurs and i think one of the other big headlines out of this briefing is the fact that some of this could occur as early as tomorrow meaning that there are some states that have already gave it in as they call it in terms of the 1st set of criteria or phase one that would allow some of the population that is under 65. 00 that does not have preexisting Health Conditions to get out into the workplace potentially as long as social distancing guidelines are still met in terms of keeping far apart not congregating in large groups meeting still under 10 people and also that there is extreme hygiene practices that are taking place in terms of hand washing and