A new economic package to help businesses and farmers. And newborn babies are among dozens killed in 2 separate attacks in afghanistan the taliban denies any involvement. To me a person spokesman is the latest senior russian official to construct the coronavirus as the number of infections surges to the 2nd largest world why. Should it be postal voting only for the us president ial election in november a political battle intensifies after dozens of covert 19 cases linked to a primary held last month. I did a member of the u. S. Coronavirus task force is calling on states not to rush to ease restrictions Dr Anthony Fauci has warned of serious consequences including needless death is among the experts testifying before senators theyre reviewing the trumpet ministrations handling of the pandemic and discussing plans to lift lockdowns but he said that ignoring guidelines could trigger an outbreak that states may be unable to control. Well lets go live to our White House Correspondent Kimbe
Be in ministrations forthcoming Strategic Plan that is now required under the package that was just passed and signed into law will that Strategic Plan on testing include specific numeric targets for Testing Capacity supply chain capacity and projection of shortages. Thank you for that question and statement senator murray yes we are as ive stated we continue to have a work in progress as we build the Testing Capacity we have established the targets with the state of over 12000000 tests over the next 4 weeks we think those targets are going to be good in may and june but as dr foushee said we really have to be evidence based we expect those targets to go up as we progress simply oping as communities go through phase one and then into phase 2 and certainly those numbers will need to go up significantly again in the fall when we potentially have influenza circulating with with co that so yes there will be targets the targets will need to change based on the evidence that we see but we ar
A quarter of all coronavirus debts states and cities in brazil move toward strict lockdowns against the will of president gyra bills tomorrow. Classes resume in france but many parents are one read about sending their children back to school. And then all the stories were covering at 34. 00 are dead in afghanistan including 2 newborn babies and their mothers off the attackers target a Maternity Hospital and a funeral. Welcome to the program a leading member of the u. S. Coronavirus task forces Want Congress of serious consequences if states rushed to ease restrictions despite the u. S. Death toll approaching 82000 the focus has shifted to lifting the lockdown and restarting the economy but in tests of in testifying to senators top Infectious Disease expert and she said that opening up too soon could result in a new wave of outbreaks well elsewhere in russia an investigation is underway after a fire blamed on a faulty ventilator that killed at least 4 coronavirus patients there. In fron
Republic of congo for oil fields anger against u. N. Peacekeepers accused of failing to provide protection and a grim task for flood survivors in kenya digging to find the remains of missing loved ones. I am. Thank you very much for joining us u. S. President donald trump assigned to bills into law that back hong kongs for Democracy Movement american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses and on kong special trade status will be reviewed every year the territorys leaders say it will damage relations with the u. S. While china has expressed extreme regret on the move saying it will respond with firm count and measures will get more reaction from beijing with Andrew Thomas very shortly for a sabbatical hane in washington d. C. Patty president toms team had voiced reservations about these bills why did he sign them. Because he had no choice congress forced his hand this vote was near unanimous there was just one voting no
Its president signed 2 bills into law that back hong kong prodemocracy movement american sanctions can now be imposed on chinese and hong kong officials deemed responsible for human rights abuses and hong kongs special trade status will be reviewed every year the territorys leaders say itll damage relations with the u. S. While chinas expressed extreme mcgrath over the moves saying it will respond with foreign countermeasures particle has been following developments from washington. The president aware that he was sort of forced into this not wanting to see china react sending out a fairly unusual statement saying that he signed these bills out of respect for president g. China and the people of hong kong they also put in their announcement that he had signed these 2 bills that he believes some provisions interfere with the president s Constitutional Authority and they would be treating the bill it with that if it were in mind what exactly does that mean they didnt spell out what provi