Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Technology to adapt to a new pandemic reality. Parts of europe are introducing more stringent restrictions as the continent struggles with a surge in covert 19 infections france will go into its 2nd nationwide blocked out friday president Emanuel Mccall on that the rise in cases could be more deadly than the 1st. Reports from paris the cd in a so the t. V. Address french president emanuel macro said a new lockdown was necessary because frances Health Situation had deteriorated rapidly. Because of what we learned in the spring down will be adapted schools will stay open where it can continue will be permitted to Retirement Homes but i think its been you can only leave home to work for a medical visit to help someone for essential shopping. Exercise in the home of. The number of new cases is rising fast in france with more than 50000 on some days more than half of the countrys intensive care unit beds are occupied by kovi patients this talk to says that Health Workers had one for months
Frontline workers in venezuela said it curve it 19 patients are being left to die. Parts of europe are introducing more stringent restrictions as the continent struggles with a surge in covert 19 infections france will go into its 2nd nationwide locked out on friday president a medical mccraw warned that the rise in cases could be more deadly than the 1st which is there as the tasha butler reports now from paris the cd in a soviet t. V. Address french president emmanuel macro said a new lockdown was necessary because frances Health Situation had deteriorated rapidly. Even monopod because of what we bring down will be adapted schools will stay open where can continue will be permitted to Retirement Homes but i think its been you can only leave home to work for a medical. Help someone for essential shopping or exercise in a home of. The number of new cases is rising fast in france with more than 50000 on some days more than half of the countrys intensive care unit beds are occupied by ko
Plus the Champions League group stage gets underway on tuesday evening and put to sleep the leaders like city post turkish champion sebastian shakier the german side will be keen to make home advantage count against the club from istanbul. Im sorry kelly walked into the program at the number of confirmed corona virus cases worldwide has passed 40000000 with well over 1000000 deaths the u. S. Brazil and india are reporting the highest numbers europe also facing a surge in cope with 19 infections with record daily highs in many countries heres a look at how the situation has evolved here on march 1st this year Health Departments across europe registered for hug. And one new cases testing of course was limited so actual numbers could have been much higher but you can see a clear trend of rising infections here in the spring peaking at the end of april early may by then most of europe was in lockdown and you can see the impact of that with new infections dropping to a low point in made jul
Harsh measures experienced earlier in the year. Theyre going to have you know its like the 1st time its catastrophic we would just have to try and survive weve had some state aid and that something its better than nothing but well see. But belgian Officials Say the measures are absolutely necessary the countrys Health Minister says the Health System could soon be overwhelmed by infections and warned of a coming through nami of cases many doctors share his concerns. The sky is more or less blue but we can see a huge wave is about to arrive its inevitable authorities hope the drastic set of measures will have a quick impact they say theyll review the results in 2 weeks time. And for more lets bring in our very own they are mattis who is joining us from brussels they are why has belgium been hit so hard. Well sarah a big issue here is of course the book mortality rate the 3rd highest in the world but to explain that you need to understand the broad criteria that belgium uses to get to the