Brazils coronavirus death toll has risen to more than 16,000, with more than 240,000 cases, making it the fourth worst affected country in terms of confirmed infections. On sunday, the mayor of brazils biggest city sao paulo warned the Health System was close to collapse. Earlier we spoke to doctor Marcelo Kalichsztein whos working on coronavirus intensive care wards in rio, and asked him how brazil is coping with the rapid rise in cases. We know that social distancing is important to secure our Health System against the effect of the coronavirus in hospital admission. But brazil is a very poor country and some people need to work on a daily basis to bring money home. Its a very difficult decision to make. Of course, we cooperating with the social distancing. I asked my parents and my patients to stay home, dont go out but we know that for some people and some part of the population it is impossible and brazilian people used to be a happy people but we are changing a lot, the way of li
His fourth day of flatout denying these allegations, and he is threatening to sue the Washington Post for publishing this bombshell report just a month before the Alabama Senate race. Three days ago the Washington Post published another attack on my character and reputation in a desperate to stop my political campaign. They are untrue. Lets start up on capitol hill with my colleague our senior washington correspondent brianna keilar. Starting on the Senate Majority leader here. What are his options for the Alabama Senate race, will he endorse a writein candidate . It is not up to Mitch Mcconnell. He mentioned that, brooke, that theyre looking at this idea of the success the potential success of a writein candidate, but that really is up to the state party to decide. At this point youre seeing Mitch Mcconnell distance himself and hes had days to look at roy moore and see how hes responded to the allegations and Mitch Mcconnell is now of a growing number of republican senators and of cou
If they cannot, the president has threatened to use executive action to fund his border wall. That historic shutdown cost the u. S. Economy at least 6 billion according to a new report bystander ab by standard and poors global ratings. So was the shutdown worth it and where do things go from here . Lawmakers on both sides weighing in this morning. Shutdowns are never good policy, ever. They are never to be used as a means to achieve any kind of goal, no matter how important that goal may seem to be. We cannot have the threat of a Government Shutdown hanging over our people and our economy. We all know that these workers were held hostage by the president. We all know its a strategy the American People abhorred, and thats why the president had to cave, but we also want to make sure it never happens again, whomever is president , whomever is in congress. Lets check in now with cnn correspondent boris sanchez. The Trump Administration not backing down from this threat to get the president
From the people of taiwan. That is, they dont like the idea of being threatened all the time. The royal couple are welcome in canada, but the details of prince harry and meghans new lives are proving tricky. European nations have put iran on notice over its breaches of the 2016 Nuclear Agreement. That deal was supposed to discourage iran from Building Nuclear weapons. The Trump Administration unilaterally withdrew the us from the deal. France, germany, and the uk have been trying to maintain it. But officials in tehran have been lifting limits on enriched uranium production, saying its a reasonable response to us sanctions and rising tensions. European nations disagree, and now an official dispute mechanism has been triggered. Gareth barlow reports. Preventing iran from obtaining Nuclear Weapons has been a long term goal of europe and the us, but the landmark agreement that bound tehran to strict limits is now in full dispute. France, germany and the uk reject irans argument it can wit
For Sergio Aguero. A hat trick in Manchester Citys 6 1 win at aston villa makes him the premier leagues all time leading overseas goalscorer. Hero of the hour Rugby League Legend rob burrow joins us on the sofa after an emotional game following his diagnosis with Motor Neurone Disease. It is the quiet before the storm today with many of us are starting with sunshine. Do not be fooled because storm brendan is on the way, bringing heavy rain and squally winds touching gale force, heading east during the day. More in 15 minutes. Its monday the 13th january. Our top story prince harry will meet the queen at sandringham for talks about his future as a senior royal. Prince charles and Prince William willjoin the discussions, aimed at working out a way forward for the duke and the duchess of sussex. Simonjones has this report. It is being called the sandringham showdown. The queens already there but later today, she will be joined with joined by other senior members of the royal family includ