Resonate within its. The mind and the music. Token 1st 2019 from september 6th to september 29th. This is the news asia coming up on the program monsoon rains hit southwest india with a fury floods and mudslides leaves schools dead and forcing hundreds of thousands of people into emergency camps always in depth hoping with a disaster well get an update on the rescue and relief efforts also coming up. Hong kong after all canceled flights as protesters staged a lost city and against Police Brutality this after more just gassed and fired into the west even underground in the citys subway. And
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On sunday, 97 people in china died from the coronavirus. Thats the highest number in a single day since the crisis began. In a single day since the death toll is now over 900. In a single day since across china, more than 40,000 people are infected, and over 180,000 are under medical observation. The only better news is that the number of newly infected People Per Day has stabilised. Heres president xi at a prevention and control centre in beijing. Hes having his temperature checked like many people have done. The president says hes working to prevent large scale job losses because of the virus. But that looks harder to avoid as each day goes by. For more on how the government has been reacting to this crisis heres kerry allen from bbc monitoring. This was just really striking footage in general anyway, given that we were talking about this coronavirus back injanuary. It was very apparent that he was very much not in the public eye and very publicly, he appointed his deputy to be the k
Full interview in a little bit. But first we start with the news that has dominated the week, a story that republicans have reintroduced by design. On friday House Speaker john boehner picked seven republicans to sit on the new select committee that will spearhead a new roundinvestigations into the attack and aftermath of attack that killed four americans in benghazi, libya, september 11, 2012. None were elected before 2006 and they include a mix of establishment and tea party republicans. Boehners choice to chair the committee, trey gowdy of south carolina. It was day before boehner made his appointments to set up the Benghazi Special committee. Still up in the air is this question. Will the democrats take the five seats the republicans are offering them on the panel or will they boycott the whole thing altogether. It was on this show last weekend that House Democratic leader nancy pelosi first responded to the news that republicans planned to create the select committee. Pelosi told
Together for this cause. They may agree on very little in general, but they are more unified on this subject than anything that ive seen them unified on in my career. So as president obama described last week when he spoke directly to the American People, we do have a Clear Strategy to degrade, defeat and destroy isil. Its not ins at infancy. It has been well thought through and carefully articulated and now is being built in these Coalition Efforts thategan with the meeting in jeddah and moved to paris and will move to the United Nations this week when i chair a u. N. Security Council Meeting on friday. The United States will not go it alone. That has been a fundamental principle on which president obama has sought to organize this effort. And that is why were building a coalition. A Global Coalition. There are more than 50 countries that already have agreed or are now doing something. Not every country will decide their role is to have some kind of military engagement but every count
All come together for this cause. They may agree on very little but they are more unified on this subject than anything ive seen them unified on in my career. So as president obama described last week when he spoke directly to the American People, we do have a clearer strategy to degrade, defeat and destroy isil. And its not in its infancy. It has been well thought through and carefully articulated. And now is be being built in these Coalition Efforts that began with a meeting in jeda and moved to paris and will move to the United Nations this week when i chair the u. N. Security Council Meeting on friday. The United States will not go it alone. That has been a fundamental principle on which president obama has sought to organize this effort. And that is why were building the coalition, a Global Coalition. There are more than 50 countries that already have agreed or are now doing something. Not every country will decide that their role is to have some kind of military engagement. But e