The claims that china has made in those waters that this really needed to be resolved at u. N. Backed arbitration so this is a complete departure from that standpoint the u. S. Secretary of state in his statement as well as tweets as you mentioned coming out very strong cues in china of bullying accusing china of being completely unlawful of its claims and making clear that the United States is now standing with its Southeast Asian partners in terms of moving forward that they have been concerned for some time about what they call chinas increasing assertiveness and have completely rejected the claims now and again this is something that we had expected but what we see is this kind of tit for tat that has been going on for days we heard from the National Security adviser Robert Obrian as late as late last week saying that we could expect tough action towards china its clear that this is the intention of the administration to send a very strong message restrictions on being imposed on c
Be put on pause. Reporter but listen to how only yes, mayor london breed was paging a positive picture of the covid situation in San Francisco. Praising people for Wearing Masks. It is why we are seeing lower numbers here in San Francisco for the number of cases, and as we see, the numbers increase in the state of california. We still see San Francisco doing okay. Reporter so what happened in the past 24 hours to change her mind . What changed overnight . Well, what changed overnight, sadly, we got 100 new cases. When you look at the data, there has never been a time where weve seen that level of a surge since march. Reporter according to the health department, the city reported 103 new cases yesterday. More concerning to its director is the rate of new cases. It has nearly doubled since june 14. So weve always talked about the curve, right . Right now in terms of new cases, we are in a very steep curve. That curve is not flat like it te medai d t b data and science. Businesses like th
Why the return of tourism threatens to cause more pain and trauma to the elephants in thailand. The top u. S. Infectious diseases expert has warned the next few weeks will be critical in controlling a disturbing surge in corona virus cases dr anthony found she also testified in congress that he and others had not been told to slow down testing despite claims to the contrary by President Trump was in jordan reports. Saturday night in tulsa no masks required donald trump used his 1st Campaign Rally since the start of the kobe 1000 pandemic to talk about a spike in cases in the south and the west when you do testing to the extent you can to find more people you go to find more cases so i said to my people slow that testing down. And even though several Trump Campaign workers and 2 secret Service Agents tested positive for covert 19 the president stuck to his call while heading to his next Campaign Rally on tuesday. Every hour we. Get. I dont get let me tell you let me make it clear we hav
Samis a band this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. The u. N. Secretary general calls on israel to drop its controversial plan to annex parts of the occupied west bank. And easing restrictions on a Fragile Health System threatened to worsen the spread of covert 19 in iraq. North korea has announced Spending Plans for military action against the south state media says the decision was made during a meeting of the ruling Partys Central Military Commission overseen by leader kim jong un sister kim yo jong who is in charge of relations with the south warned of possible military action recent tensions had seen an end to all of fishel dialogue in a joint lies an office was blown up south korea says it believes the meeting was very unusual and its paying close attention said it would keep working to stop provocative acts including sending propaganda over the border from young i said. That is behind recent actions. We saw the report from the north and we are reviewing it in a close
A spike in cases in the south and the west when you do testing to the extent you can find more people you go to find more cases so i said to my people slow detesting down. And even though several Trump Campaign workers and 2 secret Service Agents tested positive for covert 19 the president stuck to his call while heading to his next Campaign Rally on tuesday. Every hour we. Get. I dont get let me tell you let me make it clear we have got the greatest Testing Program anywhere in the world we have better than anybody in the world our best the best in the world and we have the most of them by having more than we find more. Less than an hour later on capitol hill a hearing about the white house response members of Trumps Coronavirus Task force said there could be a viable back scene by the end of this year but they disagree with the president s view on testing knowledge i know for sure but so my knowledge none of us have ever been told to slow down on testing that just is a fact in fact we