There is no vacation from the pandemic germany is offering the incoming travelers a free coronavirus tempting to guard against a 2nd wave of coping thank you. Im sumi so much kind of good to have you with us the highest sophia has hosted a muslim friday prayers for the 1st time in nearly 90 years the istanbul landmark served as one of christianitys most significant cathedrals a mosque and a museum before it was recently converted back into a muslim place of worship a controversial to create by president rajapaksa to one change the building status. More. Prayers led by a president on a friday that will become unforgettable in turkey thousands of muslims gathered in worship for the 1st time in 86 years was. Oh i see iconic buildings journey through time from Orthodox Christian cathedral to muslim mosque to museum for many here and historic wrong has been righted. But only young and old im not a gun. We have been waiting for higher sophia to open as a mosque for decades for decades we sai
The southwestern city of chengdu retaliation to be ordered closure of chinas consulate in houston. Im phil gayle welcome to the program to the highest the fia has hosted muslim friday prayers for the 1st time in more than 1000 years based on both landmark was built 1500 years ago as a christian cathedral before becoming a mosque and then a museum that 2 weeks ago president urged one issued a controversial decree returning it to use as a mascot of the court after a court a no thats museum status. Prayers led by a president on a friday that will become unforgettable in turkey thousands of muslims gathered in worship for the 1st time in 86 years. Oh the iconic buildings journey through time from Orthodox Christian cathedral to muslim mosque to museum for many here and historic wrong has been righted. But no one is young and dont know im not a town. We have been waiting for higher sophia to open as a mosque for decades for decades we said that the chains will break and highest of here will
Have the latest on president are the ones controversial decision to change the world famous monuments back into a mosque. Im Claire Richards and welcome to the show we begin in the u. S. Where a Government Order forcing the closure of the chinese consulate in Houston Texas has just taken effect a convoy of vehicles was seen outside the building and there are reports that a group of men who appear to be u. S. Officials are forcing open the back door of the u. S. Alleges that chinese agents tried to steal data from medical facilities in texas china calls the claims of malicious slander its responded by ordering the u. S. To close its consulate in the southwestern city of chengdu the escalating diplomatic spat comes as relations between the 2 countries are at their lowest point in decades. It was less a question of if china would retaliate but rather how and the answer is the u. S. Has been told to close its conscience and chain to. Raising the stakes yet further and this diplomatic stand
Politics in geopolitics so 1st mention the geopolitics of the domestic politics of america i will go into that into the next episode of report right now i just want to point out that over the july 4th 4th weekend we saw these protests in washington d. C. And we saw these protesters stomping on a u. S. Flag and then burning it and one thing they said was america was never great now this is our response to of course donald trump saying make America Great again and how did Hillary Clinton respond to that she insisted that america is already great so here we see this radical shift in the mindset of these young people who are knowledgeable for at least 3 of them that america was never great hey young people great well you know its up to them to make it in their own image and the money els and jen say im a believer you know i already had the plum 40 or 50 Year Experience in the United States post world war 2 post Lunar Landing you know booming stock markets never had a work day in my lai. Be
Look at how the outbreak in africa threatens to send malaria related deaths soaring the c. S. And also perhaps. The painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens as the greek government revenues its call for britain to return its ancient trusts. And im santa how much not have all the support a big day for your fantasy the syria leaders have the chance to wrap up a night straight at league title. But we begin this hour with the current virus pandemic which is spreading further and faster every day now it took the wild 2 weeks to get from 1000000. 00 to 2000000. 00 infections its now taken just 4 days to make the leap from 15 to 16000000 days out from the u. S. Based on Hopkins University shows the United States. Brazil and india are leading that savage and take a look at this graph it shows the number of cases that are added daily and that curve is clearly rising with more than a quarter of a 1000000 new infections every 24 hours almost 650000 people wild wide are now known t