At the emirates. Gold rush in the pool for paralympics gb in paris as alice tai wins her first individual title. And record breaking joe root makes history as england continue to dominate the second test against sri lanka. Welcome along, thank you forjoining us the latest on a history making day forjoe root to come we start tonight with football and manchester city who are looking to maintain their hundred percent start to the season. This one finished a short while ago for that 3 1 against west ham for the all scores by holland a week on from his hat trick for the seven goals now in cities first three games league games. Yes, west ham managed to pull one back for the early heartland here making sure that it was job well done for manchester city, back at the top of the premier league with three wins from three or pep guardiola your side. Earlier, last season s runners up, arsenalfailed to make it three wins from three. As did brighton. With both sides sharing the points at the em
Can only help us in that cause. Now to the Us Open Tennis where the wimbledon Champion Barbora Krejcikova is out. She was beaten in the second round by the romanian Qualifier Elena Gabriela ruse, beating the czech player 6 4, 7 5 to reach the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time. Krejcikova who was knocked out of the quarterfinals at the olympics chose not to play any hard Court Warm up events going into the tournament, and withdrew from the tournament in toronto with a thigh injury. In the mens draw, fourth Seed Alexander Zverev is in action in the louis armstrong stadium. Hes taking on Alexandre Muller of france, the two have never met before. Zverev has taken the first two sets the second one a closer affair, went to a tie break. Zverev leads the third set 3 1. While the former semi finalist Grigor Dimitrov is through to the third round, the bulgarian ninth Seed Beat australian rinky Hiji Kata in straight sets. Cricket and England And Sri lanka are making their final prepa
Battle against the virus with the numbers continuing to rise essential workers are putting their lives at risk well tell you all about it all right its time to boost your news i q. U. S. Navy warships are heading to the caribbean and off the coast of venezuela in what could become dangerous new escalation between both countries the u. S. Claims its navy present in the region is to counter narcotics operations meantime the venezuelan government says theyre preparing for any battle r. T. Correspondent john hardy has more from miami. Americas war on drugs is taking aim at venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his socalled cartel of the sons the Trump Administration indicted majeure and several others on Drug Trafficking and narco terrorism charges march 26th an extraordinary announcement that diverted attention at least briefly anyway from another ongoing war the coronavirus war then last week President Trump announced u. S. Navy ships were heading to the caribbean and the coast of vene
Been avoided were going to discuss that and more coming up all right its time to boost your news i q. As covert 1000 cases in the americas doubled just this past week the Pan American Health organization calls for protection and peace supplies for Health Care Workers at the frontlines paho is appealing for cooperation from the private sector in the form of some 94800000. 00 in donations now at least 51. 00 countries and territories in that region are now currently battling this pandemic so joining us now to discuss cooperation and assistance is dr. Hes the director of Health Emergencies at the Pan American Health Organization Dr they thank you so much for being with us so as of april 6th. Well skimming more than 384000 cases are now confirmed at least 51 countries across the region latest numbers double that amount of combat 1000 just in one week so what are the priorities for pa in terms of guidelines training medical personnel is that to access personal protective equipment and also
States interest in interesting lee enough weve learned has officially surpassed china in the number of deaths from the coronavirus pandemic and the u. S. Has agreed to accept medical aid from russia. Now. To how greed may have killed the u. S. A supply of ventilators when americans needed the most our government chose to outsource the manufacturing of as many as 70000 ventilators that we would need right now they did this with a company that was called newport medical now newport medical is a very Small Company all Things Considered but it was perfect because they could mass produce the ventilators which are essentially breathing machines that keep virus patients alive when they cant breathe for themselves and they could do that produce these machines these ventilators at a reasonable price only 3000. 00 thats not a lot of money but along comes another Larger Company this company is called in committee in so committee it is a 26000000000. 00 company multimillion Dollar Company under a