Warns of the dangers of misinformation as countries fight coronavirus and on World Press Day press freedom day insists the journalists are crucial to battling. So theyve officially recorded less than 3000. 00 coronavirus cases but afghan officials are worried about just how bad the rate may really be random tests on several 100 people in the capital kabul but its painting a disturbing picture it suggests that a 3rd of the city with a population of over 4000000. 00 could be infected russias numbers there on the rise its reported a 50 percent jump in the rate of infections over the past 3 days with more than 10600 new cases recorded on sunday but the government says the mortality rate has slowed just as spaniards are enjoying the outdoors the country is reporting a decline in coated 19 deaths with 164 fatalities the Health Ministry says infections have been the lowest in nearly 7 weeks. Well the pandemic has caused tens of thousands of afghans to cross the border from iran thats the regi
Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. So welcome. The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Look into that subject eventually, but the point of the book, entitled seven pillars, and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply at the drivers of instability in the middle east. From yemen to syria to iraq, and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and the expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is, its been absolute failure, if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a countries success or failure of the people who live there, but the catastrophe in todays middle east raises questions
Populations of extreme poverty so norland detroit and so i think were starting to see in yet another dimension to this epidemic which is these this virus as a Health Disparity particularly among people of color i think africanamerican populations who live in poverty and have dont have the ability to practice social distancing because of the crowded conditions that they live i think theyre going to be vulnerable in the fact that they are many populations of underlying rates of the high rates of diabetes and hypertension so the Health Disparity component is particularly troubling for for me in places like new orleans and detroit and here at the number of new deaths a surge in spain to more than 4000 and is climbing in italy. China is banning most foreigners from entering as it tries to prevent a 2nd wave of Infections Health officials reported the 1st locally transmitted infection in 3 days you know you has more from beijing. We dont know how many foreigners exactly this is going to affe
You know building numerous hospitals and medical centers. Throughout certain areas in new york its at the Convention Center the javits Convention Center. Were doing 4 hospitals and were doing throughout the state for medical centers theyre somewhat different i want you to know that i am doing everything in my power to help the city pull through this challenge and working very hard in new york its really by far our biggest problem maybe it will be maybe it wont be but theres a lot of good capable people working on it with us well send this as a wrangling over a 2 trillion dollar package to help fight the virus the phones are aimed at keeping the worlds biggest economy afloat and helping frontline medical weapons mike hanna has more from washington. Late last night there was an apparent agreement with the white house and members of congress that led to a swelling of optimism saw a massive rise in the stock market for example but all of that has faded in the course of the day over a group
The scheduling of this book and panel is certainly timely given the rising crisis with iran. Will get to the subject eventually, but the point of the book entitled transeven and the discussion is to look more broadly and more deeply of the drivers entitled seven pillars. From yemen to syria iraq and now with iran, the region more than ever seems in a permanent state of turmoil. Its become a land of endless wars. And tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure of billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is too kind. Its been absolute failure. The basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a country success or failure of the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the re