All Primary Schools in england will reopen at the beginning of next month. Greece announces plans to restart tourism from the middle ofjune, with International Flights operating from onejuly. And captain tom moore the World War Two veteran whos raised more than 30 Million Pounds for the nhs is awarded a knighthood. Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. Borisjohnson says that theres growing confidence the uk will have a world class system to test people who have contracted coronavirus and trace those, they may have infected, by the beginning ofjune. The uk Prime Minister said, there would be 25,000 contact tracers, able to track up to ten thousand cases as day. The nhs Contact Tracing app, is likely to be rolled out later. Meanwhile, the aircraft engine maker, rolls royce, is cutting 9,000 jobs worldwide, as a result of the pandemic, most of them in the uk. Union leaders say, its
Also those who are coming in from around the states. Im joined today with a couple of outstanding leaders from the National Guard to serves as chief from the joint chief of staff out of washington dc and is with us today and was here about 40 years ago with a call for Natural Disaster when we had flooding but it is good to welcome him back here. Im especially pleased and i can tell you if there is one consistent thing every time the governors get on the phone whether the president and Vice President and the National Governors association the one thing that every governor that we have a lot to do with the leadership with the quality of the guardsmen and the soldiers around the country. And they are very familiar to see the National Guard with that Tremendous Service and in difficult circumstances. But this Public Health emergency is different than what we saw before we saw our fair share of floods and hurricanes and tornadoes. But this pandemic with the coronavirus is very different. We
Their cultures. It is difficult to establish at what point in history medicine appeared, but we have some record of diseases treated in various parts of the world as. Ar back as 2000 years bc throughout centuries, navigation developed, and epidemics of cholera, yellow fever, and plague again to spread. Nations gradually realized there was a need to fight these diseases together. 1851, the First International Health Conference was held in paris. In 1919, a new strain of influenza struck more victims in the first few months than had been killed in the first world war. The Second World War a United Nations conference drew up a plan for an International Health body. In september 1947, when cholera broke out in egypt, the World Health Organization sprang into action. It couldnt afford to await for its formal constitution, which was signed april 7, 1948. The day since has been celebrated as world health day. In june 1948, the First World Health assembly opened in geneva with 53 countries rep
Capital thats closed the airport and come to Mass Evacuations. Set out to have been protests across iran for a 2nd day creasing pressure on its leaders off the mid the military extent he shot down a Ukrainian Airliner but there have also been rallies against the u. K. By those who say the government is trying to stir up chaos on the diplomatic front cuts as a mere arrived in tehran pushing for talks to try to resolve the crisis with the United States those who jabari as this report. An important ally on an important mission. The 1st official visit to iran by the emir of qatar chef Tamim Ben Hamad all funny comes at a critical time for the region at the invitation of president Hassan Rouhani the 2 leaders discussed increasing economic and political cooperation. Rajoy. How many yet considering the importance of Regional Security especially in the waterways in the persian gulf and the strait of hormuz and a sea of a man who decided to have more talks and corporation for the security of th
Stories. We begin with the elections in taiwan. The president won a landslide majority, seen as a rejection of beijings push for one country, two systems. Joining me from taipei is stephen engle. Walk us through the significance of the vote over the weekend. Stephen it was quite significant. Now that she has that landslide victory and the mandate for another four years, theres three big questions. How will china handle another four years of a thorn in their side, the policies of taiwan and her proindependence minded policies that really resonated with the electorate . More than 8 million votes, a record here in taiwan. The hong kong protests really resonated with the electorate, of ahat led to a rebuffing push for closer economic ties. The question is what is the future of the Opposition Party that got routed . Theyve lost four of the last six president ial elections, and they need a you voice for the longer eat for the younger electorate. Finally, the economy. Tot also propelled tsai