President donald trump. And right please ready for more protests in hong kong the Legislative Council will soon begin debating a controversial new law. Welcome to aljazeera the World Health Organization is warning of tough days ahead for latin america with the current virus still accelerating across the region and more daily infections than are being reported there than in the u. S. Or even europe brazil registering nearly 17000 new cases in the past 24 hours in a couple of hours a u. S. Ban will come into place on foreign travelers coming into brazil for coming from brazil pardon me where infection numbers and deaths continue to search the white house is hoping to ramp up testing in the United States with plans to buy 100000000 swabs and vials by the end of the year and russias president Vladimir Putin has declared that the country is past the peak of the epidemic despite reporting its. Highest daily death toll truth about begins our coverage with the challenges facing brazil. Away fr
The form of censorship cause were happy that the season is starting up again now but were also worried about a 2nd wave on this that is really difficult not just this year with the many years to come. Also coming up tonight the anger and frustration of the pandemic being taken out on our children a special report about the dangers lurking in the lockdown. This crisis is like nothing for. All. Of us. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day dreaming of a european Summer Vacation 3 months ago as the coronavirus pandemic took hold the world watched stunned as one european country after another closed its borders and shut down its economy. There was no joint European Union plan in those 1st weeks you may remember the criticism as northern italy appeared alone even abandoned as the death toll there skyrocketed well you wont find many loud voices calling for another go it alone approach as june and the Summer Holiday season approach eu
And hong kong activists call for people to rise up against beijings plan to impose National Security laws on the ity. Hello. Brazils Supreme Court has released a video showing president bolsonaro trying to interfere in Law Enforcement appointments to protect his family from investigation. John holman joins us from mexico city. What more do we know about this video and how it came about . This is quite a complicated situation so im just going to try to break it down for you. This all started when severageyow moro, brazils justice minister, a star in his own right, quit. What he alleged is that president bolsonaro try to replace the Regional Police chief of Rio De Janeiro where his son is being investigated for graft. He then went bun level above that and fired the federal police chief. Sergio moro said that was so he could replace him with someone more pliable, who could pass the president information about those cases. Thats what he alleged. The Supreme Court which has just released th
After months of no magic, Shanghai Disney throws open its doors today. We will assess theme parks in the coronavirus era. Mixed we are looking at a , possibly positive start for asia. Lets go over to sophie looking at the markets. Sophie asian stocks setting up for a week delivering more Corporate Updates with about 500 companies on the msci aipac to respond this week. And the impact of lockdowns certainly how look growth will be impacted is going to be in focus. We will look at korean trade for may area so this one is edging lower, may. This one is edging lower. Chicago nikkei futures edging higher. The 10year yield adding seven basis points. Tracking the move we have seen of supplyelds pressures prelooking at the offshore yuan over 7. 09. It will bring us Monthly Economic activity data from china this week. Look at the pboc plans to strengthen Monetary Policy report and Pay Attention to growth and jobs on the mainland. Lets look at commodities this morning, oil edging lower after two
Halston, 12. 5 . San miguel withdrew its tender officer for the company as the timeline ran out. Ayala down. 31 . The overall composite half a percent higher. Lets move things along and get to new york and look at some of the first word news. Global Coronavirus Infections continue to rise and now top 4 million with jess at about 280,000. The u. S. Has by far the most cases and fatalities with 1. 3 Million People infected and almost 79,000 having died. The virus was first reported in china and beijing has confirmed about 83,000 cases with just over 4600 fatalities. Saudi arabia says it is planning to cut spending and triple vat to 15 as it looks to offset the impact of the virus. The finance minister says the pandemic combined with Falling Oil Prices has cut revenue input and president and pressure on the public purse. The kingdom reported its biggest surge of new cases sunday, rising to almost 39,000 confirmed infections. To apply more powerful stimulus. The pboc were released a quarte