Conversation. The phone lines are open. The death toll is now at 143,000 around the world. Total confirmed cases, 2. 1 one million. Over 675,000 cases in the death toll is over 34,000. We want to introduce you to dr. Peter li from the university of houston. He is an expert on east asian politics and wet markets, which is one of the reasons we invited you one. Thank you for joining us. We appreciate the photos you sent us. You have been to the socalled wet markets, believed to be the source. What are they . They are a small section likee regular marketplace, the Seafood Market. It is a 5 of the business space. Live where you can find chickens on live ducks and they slaughter them for you. It is where you get warm meat. Traditionally, these are everywhere but in the last 40 years, they have been going down. Arisen,w wet market has which is water wet market. In china in the 1980s i never saw these. It is new. , the Seafood Market has a huge marketplace where you can but one corner is call
Joining us from seattle, washington. Officerhief strategy for the Health Initiative and a professor of Global Health at the institute for Health Metrics and evaluation. Dr. Ali mokdad. Thank you for being with us. It is a pleasure. Host as you look at the trends tonight, what do they tell you . Dr. Mokdad we peaked on april 10 and they are coming down for the whole country but there are states that are still going up and others are going down. Host how do you do your study . What is the methodology . Dr. Mokdad we decided to model mortality on a daily basis and death rate and we used experience we have seen in wuhan, italy, and spain. We reversed the mortality how many beds we will need in the hospital and how many ventilators. We know in the United States for every death how many patients were admitted. Host at one point there was an expectation we could have 230,000 deaths and that number has come down, correct . Dr. Mokdad true. Our numbers have always been less than 100,000. First
Move to real madrid. Psgs lost to dortmund this week in the Champions League semi finals. The team face toulouse in ligue un, at the parcs des princes on sunday, which will be mbappe s final home game. It could be a defining weekend in the English Premier League for teams sweating on survival down at the bottom. Sheffield united are already relegated. So now its nottingham forest, luton and burnley in the spotlight. Forest are three points clear of third from bottom luton, so are favourites to stay up. They would have been safe if their appeal against a four point deduction for breaking financial rules was upheld. Its been an eventful season for forest with their owner Evangelos Marinakis outspoken in his criticism of referees. It is not fair what is happened and weve had many decisions and then cost a lot of points and it is something that has been repeated and repeated. But will be expected the Premier League and from the referees is to correct these mistakes and we see that this is
American student was only 17 last august when these incidents first started happening. And because he was a minor when it first started, he hasnt been named by police. We understand though that he is still enrolled here at san jose state. As for the three other students, ken, they have up until 45 days before they will be arraigned in court because these are misdemeanor charges. They have not been arrested as of about two hours ago. They will be self surrendering to authorities in the near future. These are Young College students, len, you know, they should have come under the scrutiny of the ra in that dorm. What was the resident advisor doing . Should that person have known what was going on . Reporter well, ken, we have heard from other students that the resident advisors did know. In fact, students tell us that this flag was visible to people walking in from the hallway in the outside. They apparently did not report this to any higher authorities. They simply told the students to t
And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers the writer and broadcaster dawn foster, and Deputy Editor at city am, andy silvester. Do stay with us for that. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world, and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. As global infections from coronavirus pass 10 million, a leading scientist advising the British Government says the uk is on a knife edge in the pandemic, and he expects a rise in cases in the coming weeks. Professor sirjeremy farrar, whos a member of the governments sage advisory committee, also told the bbc he also expects a second wave of infections in the winter. The latest figures show that in the last 24 hour period, 36 more people died, having contracted the virus in the uk. That takes the total number of deaths to 15,550. It comes as the home secretary, priti patel, says the government is considering imposing a localised lockdown on leicester after a sur