Organization. For me this is a test a few manatee we are for the most important lesson for us is to rebuild the Health Care System. Hello good evening welcome you watching r. T. International. 10 oclock this saturday evening here in moscow lets start with an update on the figures because across the globe more than 650000 cases of 19 have now been confirmed that is up 20 percent in the last 24 hours alone 139000 have recovered in total but over 30000. 00 people have died from the outbreak. Well the British Government is ramping up its efforts to contain the virus police have been given new powers in the using drones to make sure that citizens do stick to the rules and stay at home. Well heres a video message that was posted by police in the county of darby share in the u. K. It is a people to avoid all nonessential movement and that includes walking the dog in the pay to play district or going for a long walk and instagram as a single dad to their told not to get not to go out of their
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Threshold. Now is not the time, says borisjohnson. Meanwhile the labour party pledges to compensate nearly four million women who lost out when their state pension age rose from 60 to 66. Voters in hong kong turn out in record numbers to cast their ballots in District Council elections. Five teenagers have been arrested after a large brawl at a cinema in birmigham last night which saw a number of Police Officers injured. Good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. Boris johnson has unveiled the conservative manifesto with a speech in which he promised to spend more money on Public Services without raising income taxes. He also pledged repeatedly to get brexit done, and vowed to keep the United Kingdom intact. The headline promise of this manifesto is the conservative pledge not to raise income tax, National Insurance contributions or vat. The so called triple tax lock. They also kept up the pressure on labour over the nhs by promising 50,000 nurses more than double what labour were proposing.
In their case they say by 2025. But they are, theyve pledged 5 billion. This is so much more ambitious plan. Of course, the labour party is saying it will pre National Part of British Telecom as part of that plan and so there is also bubble their and so there is also bubble their and they also say it will be paid for by a new tax on the Tech Companies that will somehow be the ones responsible. So it is how you are structuring it. This key it, because we all expect greater broadband and that is because lives have changed. More and more is done via online, whether a dish shopping, viewing or whatever. Basically, via online, whether a dish shopping, viewing orwhatever. Basically, both parties are saying it. Labour says it in parties are saying it. Labour says itina parties are saying it. Labour says it in a different way and it includes renationalisation of the telecoms but for me the key thing is that we have accepted we need to have broadband and we expected. At the moment only 7 of the