Into loan countries money the positions at all of what spain and italy both economies were hit hard by the pandemic they want generous grants from the bloc that dont need to be repaid the german chancellor Angela Merkel and french president to manual mccrone have been trying to broker a compromise by offering e. U. Countries a combination of loans and grants but e. U. Leaders cant agree on how to do this. Community trichomonas sufficient by these compromises and i say this very clearly it will not be made at the cost of european goals not out of principle but will be made because we are facing an Unprecedented Health economic and social crisis and because our countries need it the european unity needs it the mission a fierce argument also erupted between the dutch Prime Minister mark rutte a and his hung garion counterpart viktor orban over whether money. Be withheld from countries that fail to live up to the e. U. s core values in recent years victor obamas governments been accused of
Deep divisions over a virus Recovery Fund. And protest against law changes allowing non muslims to drink alcohol which they consider anti islamic. Thanks for joining us new flare ups are prompting new lock downs as the coronavirus continues to ravage the world restrictions have been reimposed in israel in the philippines as well as more states and india which has now become the 3rd country to record more than a 1000000 confirms kovan 1000. 00 cases the other 2 are take a look brazil which now has more than 2000000. 00 confirmed cases including its president joe youre both so narrow and over 76000 deaths in the us thats where more than 3 and a half 1000000 people have been infected 77000 of them in just the last day and more than 8138000 people have died including 948 reported on thursday the top Infectious Disease expert in the u. S. Has warned the country could reach 100000 new corona virus infections a day if it doesnt embrace stricter containment measures dr anthony felt she says lo
Leaders come back for a 4th day as they debate a massive covert 19 recovery package. The show must go on but it will be a tough year for hollywood as it tries to produce t. V. And films in the midst of a pandemic. Hong kong is tightening coronavirus think restrictions off recording its highest one day increase in cases since the pandemic began the territories leader kerry lamb announced the measures softer more than 100 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says theres no sign of it coming under control aljazeera has adrian brown in hong kong outlines the possible reasons behind the recent spike in cases. Up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks weve had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that its complacency hong kong that its guard down after social distancing rules were relax
Brown in hong kong outlines the possible reasons behind the recent spike in cases. Up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks weve had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that its complacency hong kong that its guard down after social distancing rules were relaxed several weeks ago that meant that people returned enthusiastically to bars restaurants and of course to the beaches medical experts offer a different view they point to hong kongs existing quarantine arrangements which exempt from quarantine people like pilots and crew mariners sailors as well as the drivers of lorries bring essential Food Supplies into hong kong now the Hong Kong Government argues that if they were to place that category of workers into the current quarantine restrictions it would effectively put hong kongs food supply of risk and theyre not prepare
In getting your citizen tree where masks masks are important as part of the physical distance physical distancing is the most important but practically when youre living your life and trying to open up the country youre going to come into contact with people and for that reason we know that masks are really important georgias governor is urging people in his state to weather but he refuses to back down on his ban on local authorities making masks mandatory and public. Many well intentioned and well informed georgians want to mask manda and while we all agree that wearing a mask is effective im confident the georgians dont need a mandate to do the right thing our White House Correspondent Kimberly Halkett has more on why its become such a contentious issue. Well this is a country that is really founded on revolution its also unique system of government its not a federal system but instead its one that has strong states rights so in many ways the United States is like 50 countries all jo