A warning from one of the Top Health Officials in the u. S. After reporting the highest daily death toll since the coronavirus pandemic began also this hour and crisis in syria the cold of winter is putting millions of people at risk. To their schools to n. B. A. Players get back to training as the Houston Rockets trade on store point god Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards. Thank you very much for joining us we begin this news hour in hong kong where the proDemocracy Movement has suffered a huge setback another prominent activist is facing time in prison media tycoon and prodemocracy advocate jamie law is the latest to be taken into Police Custody hell be held until a court case in april next year jimmy law is accused of. Fraud and this comes just a day after 3 other leaders were sentenced Joshua Wong Agnes cha and ivan lamb will serve 1310 and 7 months in jail respectively the Hong Kong Government says all those activists broke the law protesters say that trumped up charges t
D. W. In exile in london she says hell continue to speak out against chinas crackdown of the territory. And 76 years ago i dont hitler survived an assassination attempt now germanys armed forces on our pounce upon shouting about the man who tried to kill hitler. Im sumi so much kind its great to have you with Us European Union leaders have taken a break after their tense summit over a proposed to 750000000000 euro coronavirus recovery package went into a 4th day members are split over how much money should be distributed as handouts or as loans that will have to be repaid and whether strings should be attached to enforce the rule of law and some countries hard hit Southern States including italy and spain want to see substantial aid payments but a group of self. The cleric frugal Northern European countries want loans and more checks on how the money is spent. Lets go to brussels our correspondent marina standing by for us hi marina there is still no deal take us through what happened
Commentatoentary the last 24 hos whether its acumen and dalio on one side you point is, no revelation 6 8. Why are we not believing in science . You have been pretty consistent on that. What happens today if the fda approved a drug . What happens if they do that do we then start thinking about, geez, how much pain it will be if we print all these dollars. How about if it is approved and we say, you know what, im really worried about boeing. I mentioned that because its front and center, but im looking at the fda and not at the fed, and i think a lot of people who came on this morning oh, damn, i lived in my car and was not doing so well its not all done in fair weather. I listened to a lot of really rich people, some crying yesterday, today, talking about the end of days, i think the American Worker is a little tougher and i think if we get the drug, we get approval, i think well all say, geez, maybe this thing isnt going to last forever and we can tide workers over, and we can help th
Biden speaking at a convention in chicago. And for the next few hours, we will take your calls in reaction to the Second Democratic president ial debate last night in miami. Washington journal is next. Vice it was former President Joe Biden who had a bullseye on his back last night as 10 more Democratic Candidates squared off at the second nbc news debate. This morning we will spend todays washington journal getting your reaction to the back and forth between the candidates and compare it to the first night. Republicans, 2027488001. Democrats, 2027488000. And independents, 2027488002. You can go to twitter at cspanwj or post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. We will get to your calls in a minute. First, john mcardle with us on more details of the debate. Host 2 before we get to the substance, here is some of the raw numbers and social media trends including this chart tracking the total number of words spoken by each candidate last night. Former vice President Joe Biden leading in
For Palestinian Prisoners. Unconfirmed reports in us media say israel has given hamas a week to agree to the current proposal or it will begin its long threatened offensive in rafah. But there has been Widespread International concern over the fate of the more than one million palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent, anna foster is injerusalem. I asked her about the increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yeah. Were at the same stage samantha where an israeli deal has been put on the table. It was described at the start of the week by the us secretary of state, antony blinken, as extraordinarily generous. And it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal, there had been some movement in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. Now, from israels point of view, of course, its priority at the moment is trying to ensure the release of all the remaining hostages that are being held in gaza. One of hamas s key priorities is to try and get s