A sweeping majority for president Maduro Socialist Party in venezuelas Congressional Elections the opposition has called the vote a fraud. Millions of people across the u. S. State of california are preparing for harsh new coronavirus lockdown rules to come into effect in under an hour the stay at home order places restrictions on the opening of restaurants say in stores while also limiting gatherings the measures are being implemented as the state reported its highest ever number of infections more than 30000 in a single day their fears some hospitals could run out of i. C. U. Beds now the virus is now killing more than 2000 americans a day thats 2 people every minute they hope that the food and Drug Administration will approve a vaccine soon but it will still take months for it to be fully rolled out castro has more from washington. New walk downs are being put in place in a number of regions amid the ongoing surge in Infections Health officials are considering ending even Outdoor Di
A decision be made on which to take and what data to trusts also this hour a hong kong prodemocracy activist and media mogul jimmy lie is denied bail as he faces charges of fraud and a different type of exam season half a 1000000 students in south korea tackle the most important day in their academic calendar. And on peoples temple the school says n. B. A. Players get back to training the Houston Rockets trade old stalled home gold Russell Westbrook to the Washington Wizards. Thank you very much for joining as we begin this hour with the coronavirus pandemic in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches since the start of the pandemic theyve been more than sea. 34000000 confirmed cases and nearly 1500000 deaths iran is now the hardest hit country in the middle east and has passed 1000000 confirmed cases over 1000 has killed almost 50000 people there but the Health Minister
Movement. To begin with the Coronavirus Crisis and the global death toll has now passed one and a half 1000000 with a 3rd of them in just the last 2 months many countries are reporting soaring infection rates and deaths as governments struggle to contain a new wave of cases in the worst affected country the United States 2804 deaths were recorded on wednesday america is close to passing 14000000 cases in total italy has hit a new record with 993 deaths in one day thats higher than the peak of fatalities in the 1st wave in the middle east infections of suppost 1000000 in iran the country has reported almost 50000 deaths as governments race to approve vaccines the United Nations and Global Health officials have warned against. Fast tracking the process this after the u. K. Or through eyes use of the pfizer biotech vaccine on wednesday and as fears of vaccine misinformation grow social media giants facebook and instagram say theyll start removing posts with false claims United States cont
About covert 19 vaccines. Fears for reading the refugees who are being moved to an island that aid groups say is dangerous. And people in indian administered kashmir accuse soldiers of widescale abuse which the army turn on is. A National Sport as a bron james signs an 85000000. 00 deal with the l. A. Lakers and finally one driver raymond version or a chance in the bahrain sakit scene of his horrifying crash just 4 days ago. But we begin with the corona virus pandemic now in a new phase with countries racing to approve vaccines but in some parts of the world the picture as you can see is getting worse with cases on the rise as winter approaches and since the start of the pandemic there. The more than 64000000 confirmed cases coming quite close to 65000000 there and nearly one and a half 1000000 people have died from the fire as well the United Nations is currently holding a special session of the General Assembly on covert 19 in his Opening Statements the secretary general antonio caet
With perri klass presenting her new book a good time to be born and their talking with Andrew Solomon and before we start i just want to say a huge thanks to parry, andrew and the team at norton for making this happen and to all of you for showing up. We are not able to host this event in our store space in our community as authors and readers is still here and we are grateful for your support and for the chance to make the space for conversation and connection. Now, just a couple of housekeeping things. In our zoom webinar tonight you can see and hear the speakers but they cannot see or hear you and they can seat you are here though and you can see account of your fellow attendees at the top of your zumba screen. And there are a couple of functions we will be using throughout the event you can find at the bottom of your resume window and one is an icon labeled chat with ones Speech Bubble and youre welcome to post your comments and thoughts in the chat and thats a great way to show yo