A crackdown by police and federal officers in Portland Oregon. Anger from women and poland as the government expands its conservative social agenda. On the painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens as the greek government renews its called for britain to return its ancient freshets. While we begin with the corona virus pandemic which is spreading further and faster every day it took the world 2 weeks to get from 1000000 to 2000000 cases now its taken just 4 days to make the leap from 15 to 16000000 thats according to the u. S. Based Johns Hopkins university it shows the United States brazil and india are leading the surge in new cases take a look at the scratch that shows the number of new cases added daily the curve is clearly rising with more than a quarter of a 1000000 new infections every day globally almost 650000 people are now known to have died. Well now the British Government has reimposed 2 weeks of self quarantine on people returning from spain following a cor
American how it welcome we begin with another grim chapter in spains Coronavirus Crisis of a 10000 people have now died from complications linked to covet 19 thats off to a record 950 people passed away in the last 24 hours spine is now 2nd only to italy in the number of coronavirus fatalities the pandemic is also hitting the countrys economy hot nearly a 1000000 people have lost their job since mid much meanwhile the countrys Health Care Workers are overwhelmed and lacking critical protective. Stretched to breaking point the wards are philippas hospital the now the county so coronavirus patients lie in the corridors just north of barcelona medics have turned the Hospital Library into an intensive care unit spain is one of the worst hit countries the number of coronavirus day has no jumped to more than 10000 after a record 950 deaths in the space of a day. The Health Workers on the frontline say they are being put in an unthinkable position. Were lacking the staff at the moment and the
Theres been an angry reaction in britain to the resignation of the ambassador to the United States, whos quit under intense criticism from president trump. Britains foreign secretary jeremy hunt, said the resignation is a black day for british diplomacy. His rival in the race to become Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has been criticised for failing to back the ambassador, although its emerged he did phone sir kim on wednesday, praising him. The head of the uks Diplomatic Service says hes not seen a situation like it, in 37 years. Sir kim darroch, 42 years a loyal public servant, the boy from the Council Estate who advised Prime Ministers and, until this morning, her majestys ambassador to the United States. He resigned, he said, because his leaked remarks, critical of donald trump, had made it impossible for him to carry out his role. At westminster, there was anger and support in equal measure. Sir kim has given a lifetime of service to the United Kingdom and we owe him an enormous debt
Some breaking news this hour five boats believed to belong to the Iranian Revolutionary guards have approached a British Oil Tanker in the gulf, asking it to stop in iranian waters but reportedly withdrew, after a british frigate trained its guns on them and warned them over radio. This was in the strait of hormuz, that strategically very important stretch of water between the persian gulf and the gulf of oman, bordered by iran and the united arab emirates. More on this now from our north america correspondent peter bowes. Strategically important piece of water and currently very tense. Yes, extremely sensitive, as we understand it this tanker, this British Heritage tanker was passing through the area, it was just about to cross the strait of hormuz, when it was, at least there was an attempt to intercepted by these five iranian boats who were ordering it to change its direction but the boat, the british warship that was escorting the tanker, then trained its guns on the iranian boats
Some breaking news this hour five boats believed to belong to the Iranian Revolutionary guards have approached a British Oil Tanker in the gulf, asking it to stop in iranian waters but reportedly withdrew after a british frigate trained its guns on them and warned them over radio. The incident happened in the strait of hormuz that strategically very important stretch of water between the persian gulf and the gulf of oman, bordered by iran and the united arab emirates. Peter bowes is watching the situation from the us. As we understand it this tanker, this British Heritage tanker was passing through the area, it was just about to cross the strait of hormuz, when it was, at least there was an attempt to intercept it by these five iranian boats who were ordering it to change its direction but the boat, the british warship that was escorting the tanker, then trained its guns on the iranian boats and ordered them to back off, and they heeded that order, they did indeed back off, no shots we