West more than 2300000 americans have been infected and about 122000 have to alan fisher is following developments in washington and has more on president trumps response. You remember that donald trump said that he ordered his staff to start slowing down on testing because they were getting too many cases the white house then said it was a joke that wasnt the case donald trump said he never jokes and then we had from the Administration Just on whedons day that they were going to essentially do away with federal testing in many areas no that has provoked a backlash particularly from the 2 senators down in texas who are seeing a huge surge in the number of cases they say that perhaps the Administration Needs to rethink that at the moment donald trump hasnt made any comment on that but its the sort of thing he tends to back away from when he realizes theres a backlash that might actually impact republicans and so that may well be rethought lotty kudlow whos a Senior Advisor to the presid
Grounds a 3rd of its pilots for fake or dubious qualifications. And Liverpool Fans celebrate the clubs 1st English League title win in 30 years. The World Health Organization says europe is facing an upsurge in coronavirus cases as the disease continues to ravage the americas the w. H. O. Warned some European Health systems risk being overwhelmed yet governments continue to lift restrictions in britain thousands of people took the relaxed a little too far cramming a south coast beach on the hottest day of the year the w h os europe chief says the virus is not done with the continent yes. To make the news to accelerate with a Record Number of the new group of those cases reported on sunday with 183000 confirmed in 24 hours last week saw an increase in weekly cases for the 1st time in months still here is caseload compares favorably with that of the u. S. And latin America Brazil has Just Announced almost another 40000 cases and more than a 1000 deaths of just the past 24 hours some u. S
Climb but the real scale of the outbreak is far from clear and spain announces plans to Welcome International tourists just in time for the summer holidays. Hello thank you for joining us we begin the program in libya where the internationally recognized government says its retaken parts of southern tripoli from forces loyal to warlord holly for half that a spokesman for the government of National Accord says theyve taken control of the hamza mork and somebody camillus recaps have terrorism Year Long Campaign to seize tripoli has suffered recent setbacks earlier this week g. N. A. T. Forces took over several towns and then they are base near the newseum border used for air strikes by half taras forces our correspondent movable were hit has more now from tripoli. These 3 military camps recently captured by the gun forces they used to be controlled by have the us forces over the past months and in fact the military camp was used by have to forces as a Central Command to run the battles i
Of libyas capital the internationally recognized government closed back more territory from warlords police have tagged and the spain announces plans to Welcome International tourists just in time for the Summer Holiday season. Brazil has overtaken russia and now has the 2nd highest number of corona virus cases 2nd only to the United States confirmed infections are now above 330000 the death toll is more than 21000 that is based on official figures but experts say the total could be as much as 15 times higher because of lack of testing brazils infections are not expected to peak until next months states and cities are now grappling with whether to loosen restrictions or clamp down even harder the pandemic and the governments response to it is an issue which has polarized the country. My father has coronavirus and psychologically hes very affected and upset the landscape changes very quickly in a hospital one moment one person dies and another is discharged he gets very angry hes very a
A growth target as its economy reels from the coronavirus pandemic. A massive cleanup operation in india and bangladesh after cycling sweeps through the region. Also ahead the skys not to the limits the u. S. Pulls out of a longstanding open skies arms control treaty saying russia violated it. And in sport costa rica become the 1st country in the americas to resume their professional football league. The government in hong kong says it will work with beijing to introduce a new National Security law as soon as is possible we are expecting more details later but its believed to criminalize secession foreign interference and subversion of beijings state power news of the plan has already been met with. Protests in hong kong and leading prodemocracy figures called at the end of one country 2 systems the chinese premier li announced the bill at the opening of the annual National Peoples congress its meeting 3 months late because of the pandemic also coming from the parliament for the 1st ti