Will also look at a u. K. Report bringing into focus the severe impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on many young and vulnerable minds. Almost 500000000000. 00 in extra Financial Aid has been approved by the u. S. Senate to help businesses and hospitals struggling under the coronavirus pandemic the house of representatives will vote on this on thursday it would be the 4th such package adding up to about 3 trillion dollars in all will start with the support from my counter in washington d. C. With many senators working from home the boat with take them by voice all in favor say aye. Pose no yes appear to have it this follows intense negotiation between the white house and congress in recent days. At the core of our agreement is 320000000000 more for the Paycheck Protection Program which is already saving millions of Small Business jobs and helping americans get paychecks instead of potentially. Democrats successfully 4 to include 75000000000. 00 for hospitals and 25000000000. 00 f
Sanctions on iran to help it fight the virus. And players with the Spanish Football Team real madrid are in self quarantine now its not legal suspends or matches. Its just gone for 300 hours g. M. T. Thursday afternoon across europe where the coronavirus pandemic is forcing authorities to urgently decide just what to do to protect the public arent in norway they are now shutting schools finland is warning people against large public gatherings the Czech Republic has declared a 30 day state of emergency affection rights are also jumping in spain germany and the netherlands poland has reported its 1st step so much happening there we start with a look at europe through the virus tracker from Johns Hopkins university in the United States youre familiar with this one it gives us the best snap. Short of covert 19 infections at any one point and the main snapshot right now if it works is that one headline number of 127863 people infected all over the world now have a look at europe and i know
Month new cases of the virus have been reported there but theyre doing this out of an abundance of caution if you go to ohio state in the midwest fairly big state the governor there says the one percent of the population has the virus if that is the case thats around 117000 people with this and if you look at the number of positive tests just 5 if you come closer to maryland there the governor has again declared a state of emergency he said that there will be no schools for the next 2 weeks lot of american schools will be looking at spring break but for the next 2 weeks no one will be in class and hes called up the National Guard what theyre going to do not entirely sure but clearly this is a fluid situation. And the top u. S. Official who deals with Infectious Diseases says the government is failing to account for what could be thousands of infections because of ongoing problems but testing anthony made the comments to members of congress the system does not is not really geared to wh
Im for welcome to the Program Police in iran have denied firing live ammunition of protesters during the 3rd day of demonstrations across the capital tehran public out because growing up to the government admitted that it did accidentally shoot down a ukrainian passenger jet last week killing 176 people on board had initially denied military involvement claiming the crash had been caused by mechanical fault protesters now accuse the government of a coverup. Shouting and chaos as onlookers helped people shot and bleeding on the streets of tehran. The video was taken near a saudi square where crowds have gathered out right at the perceived cover up after iran shot down a ukrainian passenger plane. Video shows tear gas being fired into the crowd they disperse leaving a trail of blood as they flee. In signs of increasing defiance images of irans heroes of being desecrated. Ordinary iranians speaking critically about the crash that even talking about it makes my heart beat faster and makes
Follow good evening youre watching r. T. International now our top story this hour present donald trump has approved a fresh package of sanctions against iran following the latest escalation in the region the american leaders says that they will only be lifted when iran complies with the us to matins theyre losing a tremendous amount they getting heard very badly by the sanctions can in very quickly but as to whether or not they want thats up to them not up to me its totally up to them so we have the United States slapping more sanctions on the Islamic Republic of iran saying that these sanctions will continue unless the Islamic Republic complies with the demands of the United States iran has responded warning that the recent missile attacks are not the only kind of revenge theyre capable of in response to the killing of qassam solomonic its also interesting to note that in his remarks u. S. President donald trump indicated that he might be open or interested in the possibility of expa