Monday there have been 409. 00 new cases of the virus and 150. 00 new deaths that brings the total to 77150. 00 confirmed cases in china with the death toll of 2592 in terms of china in the majority of the new cases 398 were in the who by province and that includes all but one death its also important to know that many thousands of people have already recovered from the corona virus which again mostly places at risk the elderly and the very young as is common with these kinds of things among those countries though that we were just talking about italy is now looking to take more drastic steps after a 6 person has died there italian authorities on monday get this they shut down schools universities and museums across the countrys north they also banned public and private gatherings including soccer matches and cultural events in venice ended its annual carnival early and Catholic Church leaders announced the suspension of masses. And we have a total of 200. 00. And. We have 5. In these
Im Charles Payne in for stuart varney. Varney company starts right now. While cnbc is on break, we are open for business. Charles hundreds of americans back in the u. S. This morning after being evacuated from the coronavirus affected diamond princess cruise ship. Lauren, we know some have tested positive for the virus right now. Lauren yes. So the u. S. Chartered the two flights that arrived early this morning, one in california and one in texas. As they were going from that cruise ship docked in japan to the charter plane, 14 tested positive for the coronavirus. That essentially doubles the number of infections right here in the u. S. We had 15, now you have 14 coming in. They will be in quarantine. They were already in quarantine for about two weeks but they will be in quarantine at those two air force bases for another 14 days. Charles thank you very much. Mean meanwhile, macao says the casinos can reopen. Susan its a big deal especially for casino shares that trade in the u. S. ,
Hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered on Peter Lavelle it is a long held tradition on cross talk to take stock of the year that is about to pass we have a look at what moved us what changed us and what gave us concern for us 2019 the good the bad and the ugly. Crosstalk in the year that was im joined by my guest robert bridge hes an r. V. Website writer we also have Dimitri Bobbitt she is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in nicosia we cross alex crystal for oh hes a director and writer for the duran dot com originally crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate all right let me go 1st to alex. Nicosia you know alex so much happened this year it seems like the the time lines get shorter and shorter and the pace continues at a greater speed here but if im taking stock here it seems to me the disconnect between the liberal liberal media in the liberal elites with everybody el
Anyway right lets wish the industry pioneers well in wherever the volution takes them in the new year. In a prank that will produce the activists and Technology Expert says that one social media start regulating come and some views online freedom of speech is in danger. Its more difficult here the moment the facebook accepts that it is a publisher and it has a responsibility to moderate or block on full color tent or any sort of inaccurate content it runs or up against concerns about freedom of speech no where this is more obvious than in political comment faces a real no win situation it was twitter is done it bans political advertising then he gets attacked by both the left and the right for restricting freedom of speech if however as facebook itself has done it allows political advertising then he gets attacked by all sides for failing to crack down on misinformation and attempts to manipulate election and theres also the challenge of when you draw the line between what is political
China has done in space im newsed initiatives in the 1990s. And i read them in the 1990s but wasnt until a few years ago people started saying, this is new. No, its not. They have an Economic Strategy thatdates back to 1979. A military strategy that dates back to mid1990 and have been going on a consistent approach and the world will be different and many cases thats not good. And we have to deal with that. So that consistent strategy is hugely powerful in term of achieving the objectives they stated way back as long as 41 years ago. China is a powerful economy. Lets look at another powerful economy. I put that in big quotes. North korea. North korea is 115th most powerful economy in the world. 115 out of 192. One of the poorest countries in the world. But somehow over the last few years, north korea has developed a Ballistic Missile program that can then neighbores and the out and Nuclear Program that can then the neighbors and the United States, and theyve done that and change the en