A look at how europeans are coping with more cities going under quarantine. Volatility has gripping the worlds major stock markets as the coronavirus pandemics and share values plummeting tokyos nikkei index closed on friday down by 6 percent recovering some of its earlier losses the same 2 for hong kongs market losing just one percent there now all that follows wall streets biggest drop on thursday which was the worst since the crash of 1987 theres another concern in the u. S. To a delay in testing for the virus a Top Health Official says the Current Situation is failing but that more testing kits will be available in the coming week in europe schools across much of the continent have been closed for towns in spain have gone into lockdown and the country is really. Economic Protection Measures lets take a look at the Johns Hopkins university tracker for the global picture you can see it there total confirmed cases 128343. 00 total deaths heading towards 5004720 total number of people
Including the implications of changing its drug schedule listing and the potential of Cannabis Research. Witnesses from the food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement agency testify on current marijuana policy, the Health Effects of cannabis, and what steps congress can take to allow for more research of cannabis compounds and products. The subcommittee on health will now come to order. Welcome to everyone thats here in the hearing room. The chair now recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. According to the department of health and Human Services National Survey on drug use, 44 million americans reported using cannabis in the last year. 33 states now allow the medicinal use of cannabis and 11 states and the District Of Columbia have legalized cannabis for adult use. But state laws and federal policy are a thousand miles apart. As more states allow cannabis, the federal government still strictly controls and prohibits it even restricting legitimate medic
Lower turnout had mass protests dominate algerias disputed president ial election we are expecting results shortly and a risky operation in new zealand a 6 moved bodies of recovered from mondays the eruption and im we are hearty with all your sports tiger woods as u. S. Team fights back in golfs president s cup but the International Still hold a healthy lead. It is the biggest victory for the conservative party in decades and the election thats been called the u. K. s most important vote in a generation in the coming hour last johnson is expected to head to Buckingham Palace where Queen Elizabeth will invite him to form the next government his conservative party is confirmed with 364 of the 6 huh. Or than 50 seats in the parliament where johnson says this shows a clear mandate to get bricks it done labor leader Jeremy Coleman plans to step down after his partys worst defeat in more than 80 years and the calls for a 2nd referendum on Scottish Independence are getting louder after the Sc
Hello there there was some sunshine and showers around at the end of the week. That they will continue into the weekend. It will still be quite chilly out there. The showers could bring us snow over the hills, perhaps as far south as mid wales. The strong winds will continue to affect many parts of england and wales, in particular, right the way through the week. It is a very messy weather chart for saturday. We have still got those fairly brisk showery winds and low pressure sitting to the north of scotland. We see a band of showers pushing eastward through the morning across england and wales. Then it turns drier and sunnier in the afternoon, but still windy. Showers may be easing of the afternoon for Northern Ireland but continuing in scotland, particularly in the west. It will feel quite chilly as well. 4 5d in scotland, Northern Ireland, the high temperatures in the far south west of england, it turns wet and windy through the evening. Is that bad of wet weather moves into england
Sports the Calgary Flames hockey team denying best stalling a racism investigation at coach bill pate is accused of virtually abusing a player and issuing a misleading apology. Top story informal talks have resumed between the Afghan Taliban and u. S. Officials the taliban has told al jazeera that some preliminary meetings have taken place here in doha and could pave the way for the resumption of formal peace talks President Trump canceled negotiations in september following the death of a u. S. Soldier but on the a short trip to afghanistan he told american troops that he believed the taliban was willing to strike a deal Stephanie Decker has more. It was a surprise visit and is often the case with president donald trump. Rising announcement taliban wants to make a deal and were meeting with them and were saying it has to be a cease fire they want to do a cease fire but now they do want to do is use fire i believe it probably work and there were times admission their meeting with the t