Pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. This is bbc world new america. From new york city, im laura trevelyan. The u. S. Marks another grim milestone, 70,000 people have diedn the coronavirus outbreak as the white house downplays projections of worchester,. Clearing the air. Hocoronavirus reduced indias pollution problem and why there are worries about the smog returning. Plus, how a pandemic. Ie during hollywood is struggling in the age of social distancing. You have your camera operator who has a dolly grip. For them to be six feet apart. S impossible laura for all of inu wat around the globe, welcome to world news america. 70,000 people have died of coronavirus in the u. S. , a staggering death toll that leaves many families grieving. More than 40 states are moving towards reopening their economies and the white house is talking about winding down the corovirus Task Force Area the human cost, says te
7 00 a. M. In gaza, this is our continuing breaking News Coverage of the war be israel on americas late news, fox news at night. Trace and this is now a live look in gaza city, the sun has just risen a few minutes ago. And over the past few days when you look at this picture on the righthand side of the screen, this is about the time that isreali forces would unleash a barrage of air strikes. They did that be the very Early Morning hours and right now in gaza city, it appears to be somewhat quiet. But there are some 300,000 isreali troops now on the border with gaza waiting for word to begin. What appears to be a major ground assault. The death toll is also rising with each side losing upwards of a thousand people, 22 americans are confirmed dead and 17 remain unaccounted for. As the Biden Administration scrambles to rescue u. S. Citizens held hostage by hamas. We begin with the Senior Foreign Affairs correspondent greg palkot, live in ashkelon, israel. We entered day six of this israe
Themselves. The mood remains festive hours after castros brother, raul, cubas current president made that announcement. Listen in. Listen in. [speaking spanish] alcides raul castro said his brothers remains will be cremated today. Nine days of National Mourning are under way right now. Tampa, as many strong ties to cuba. We will have more on the local reaction a little bit later on requesting good day tampa bay. First foxs brett bahr takes a look back on his life. Reporter the man born as Fidel Alejandro castro ruiz came to power leaving a ragtag band of bearded rebels to overthrow a dictator. He ended up becoming one himself. He stood defiantly against ten u. S. President s. Influence and power called castro a hero. But for the u. S. , he was the alltooclose face of the bitter cold war. And while the world could never completely dismiss castro politically, over time to some critics, he seemed more like a caricature with his wiry beard, faded fatigues and sixinch cigars. The most signi
One Clinical Trial with promising results. At least 18 people have been killed in an explosion targeting a Government Office in northwest pakistan and police is say a suicide bomber hit a center issuing id cards and 30 people have been wounded in the attack. Lets go straight now to kamal who is in islamabad and what more can you tell us about the blast and indeed this attack . Reporter first of all, the Deputy Inspector general of police that they say are speaking to the reporters said that the suicide bomber was riding a motorcycle. He tried to enter the gate of the National Database Registration Authority where many people were cueing up for their National Identity cards. The attacker was stopped at which point he set the device off and not clear if it was close to the motor bikes or wearing a vest that contained the explosives, however there were deadly consequences, many killed and many said to be in serious condition and dozens are wounded in this particular attack and moved to th
Surprise appearance. So people across egypt are voting for a new president. The former army chief, si si who is the strong vote to win cast his vote and they are being heavily guarded and it is taking place amid tight security. Al jazeera is ban from reporting from egypt and we are crossing over because they are monitoring developments for us on social media to tell us what is going on on the first day of voting. They are cueing up to vote and we will look at that and the Campaign Social Media is where we will start and his twitter page which has actually been quite quiet and the last was a couple days ago and 1. 8 or 1. 9 followers ansi abdelfattah elsissi has less and putting out things like this and my arabic says to every egyptian man and woman who cares about the county today raise the flag in the country and playing on the favoritism which goes this way and the hash tag says basically raise your countrys flag and putting them in markets and things and have an active team with abd