Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us in thailand the government has convened a special session of parliament to deal with ongoing prodemocracy rallies Prime Minister has labeled the protests illegal members of the opposition say he should step down echoing one of the main demands of the people on the streets. Amounts of protests to carry her off for a 550 just that 31 of bangkoks busiest streets with a clear message these protesters have 3 key to months the p. M. s resignation a more democratic constitution and reforms to the monarchy. Even a group of drag queens got in on the act we are just the wind of freedom to talk about you to talk to talk about anything yeah just more nike and you know how to share thailand how to develop thailand to live up to help decide the. Basis is the man they want to get rid of prior to. Lead a military coup in 2014 parliament held a special session to address the concerns. We dont want to see clashes or riots in the country the g
Longer afford her own medication luckily a Charity Organization has stepped in almost 8000000 people in south africa live with the hiv virus. Many are now struggling to get any medicine at all. Because of the covert 1000 pandemic Global Supply chains have collapsed and are only getting back on track very slowly. Issues of the supply line people not being able to get air for us we are anticipating and were very concerned that were going to. Stick infections in south africa we worry particularly around me as we have. In our country corona virus has also worsened worldwide tuberculosis control with 1400000 victims to bring this was the deadliest Infectious Disease in 21000 topping even hiv aids here we see some tuberculosis bacteria under the microscope. The w. H. O. Fears that up 2400000 more people could dive to particular losses this year worst affected are india followed by indonesia china the philippines pakistan nigeria. And south africa 2 thirds of all tuberculosis patients worldwi
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Officials in india are looking for more than a 1000 people who attended an event that may have exposed them to covered 19. And as a german city makes people west surgical masks in public we examine just how effective this strategy is. The head of the International Olympic Committee Says next to his games in you will be a light at the end of the total and we get our 1st look at the breathing aids patients being developed with the help of formula one engine is. Now spain has recorded its west single day death toll so far with 849 fatalities just in the past 24 hours its now the 4th day that the countrys announced the deaths of more than 800. 00 people this brings the total to more than 8100. 00 spain is the 2nd last hit country in europe off to italy. Joins me from the spanish capital madrid looking at these new figures and i know we speak every day about the trajectory of this but is there any kind of a sense of where the peak might actually be in spain. Well in the session we were serv
Remembering the victims across it and watching those live pictures there from that moment of silence being observed in rome well lets get more on whats happening around the country our correspondent francesco jumper tony is in milan for us francesco yet another sobering moment today but at the same time i see some potential optimism i see some Health Experts are predicting that italy could now reach its infection peak in a week or so. Where were they thats thats where. The latest on official forecasts based on different researchers are saying that the daily could reach the peak in 7 to 10 days and see the new cases hitting 0 in the 1st 2 weeks of may but of course this is not sure yet what is sure is dead 812 people died yesterday bring in the total death toll to over 11500 and the confirmed positive cases are more than 100000 but the growth appears much slower than last week did ailing crees is now costs unduly under the 8 percent and the recoveries never been so many so there is yes