Evacuations in australia Scientists Say 2020 is on course to be the hottest year ever. Thank you very much for joining us we begin with the continuing fallout from the corona virus pandemic more than 100000 people were admitted to hospital in the United States on sunday the highest number on record since the outbreak began the virus is now killing more than 2000 americans a day thats 2 people every single minute nearly 33000000 people in the state of california are under a stay at home orders aimed at slowing the spread of the virus in south korea meanwhile the president has deployed the military to help with expanded coronavirus testing and tracing more than 600 cases where reported on monday the 30th day in a row of triple digit increases and globally more than 67000000 people have now been infected and about 1500000 have died in the last week alone an average of more than 10000 people died every single day around the world well have more on the situation in the u. S. Very shortly bu
A Coronavirus Vaccine for political gains and calling for help anger in senegal over the governments response to devastating floods yes. Thank you very much for joining us india and china are both accusing the others soldiers of firing shots in a new confrontation along their disputed himalayan border china says indian troops crossed the line of control in the Western Region on monday and opened fire and its soldiers took what it called countermeasures but a short time ago indias military laid the blame with china accusing it of provocative measures to escalate tension both sides usually avoid firing a using firearms in the area will be live with elizabeth rainham in indias capital new delhi in just a moment but 1st a katrina you in beijing so katrina once again we have conflicting claims from both sides about whats happening at that border region what is beijing saying happened in the state this incident. Thats right fully well according to chinas military this is the 2nd time they sa
Covid vaccine trial has been put on hold after a patient suffered a serious reaction. Australian corporate earnings set for a tough recovery after their worst slump. Will be asking about the challenges ahead including tensions with china. Shery lets get a quick check of how markets are trading. We are seeing u. S. Futures again under pressure. Down 7 10 of 1 . This as we continue to hear more reservations coming from these vaccine makers. We heard from astrazeneca after the close. We already had some skepticism over what happened to those vaccine approvals. We also had the text selloff accelerating. We saw the s p 500 sinking to a four week low. Not to mention ongoing u. S. China tensions. Every sector on the s p 500, 11 of them were down, led by tack and energy. We had the nasdaq composite losing more than 4 during the regular session. Take a look at some of the biggest decliners. We have tesla sinking almost 20 . This after shares were not added to the s p 500. A had news that rival
Boris johnson sparked outrage. News out ofing south korea. We are getting the jobless rate falling to 3. 2 percent. The expectation was that the jobless rate would come in at 4. 2 percent so this is much better than expected. We are also talking about the sixth straight month of decline in jobless rates. That 270 4000ring jobs were removed in august from a year earlier. We know that south korea has seen its government really boost those job creation efforts not to mention we could have seen domestic demand being held by the Summer Holiday season and more jobs being available. The government pushing for a fourth extra budget. This is of course helping workers and businesses who lost income due to the latest restrictions and jobless rates. 3. 2 . In for august at watch out for what happens later in the following months given we have seen this flare up in virus cases towards the end of august, haiti. Haidi. Haidi pretty dire numbers coming out and we continue to watch what happens when it
Are in caracas thailand where a mass shooting here earlier in the year has raised concerns about this countrys gun culture and the growing number of weapons in civilian. Hundreds of military personnel are being deployed to the australian state of victoria to help enforce coronavirus isolation orders the state has introduced a number of measures to control its outbreak anyone found breaching the rules will be fined 3 and a half 1000. 00 melbourne has introduced a night curfew and nonessential businesses have been ordered to close because the gauge is monitoring developments from sydney. What is clear is that the victorian government wants everyone to speak dang it hard unless its absolutely necessary not to do so and it is doing everything in its power to make sure that the citizens of victoria and those in the city of melbourne where complete lockdown is under why not me a Daniel Andrews has said that these restrictions were absolutely needed because one big problem has been that many