Count against the club from istanbul. Hello im terry martin good to have you with as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide has passed 48000000 with well over a 1000000 deaths the u. S. Brazil and india are reporting the highest numbers europe is also facing a surge in coded 19 infections with record daily highs in many countries let me give you a quick overview of how the situation has developed on march 1st of this year Health Departments across europe registered 401 new cases keep in mind testing was not as widespread as now so actual numbers could have been much higher but you can see a clear trend of rising daily infections peaking at the end of april. Getting it may at by by then most of europe was in lockdown and you can see the effect of that here with the new infections dropping to a low point in mid july but since then the numbers have been creeping up again with new cases rising steadily since august on friday more than 137000 daily cases were registered across
Plus the Champions League group stage gets underway on tuesday evening and put to sleep the leaders like city post turkish champion sebastian shakier the german side will be keen to make home advantage count against the club from istanbul. Im sorry kelly walked into the program at the number of confirmed corona virus cases worldwide has passed 40000000 with well over 1000000 deaths the u. S. Brazil and india are reporting the highest numbers europe also facing a surge in cope with 19 infections with record daily highs in many countries heres a look at how the situation has evolved here on march 1st this year Health Departments across europe registered for hug. And one new cases testing of course was limited so actual numbers could have been much higher but you can see a clear trend of rising infections here in the spring peaking at the end of april early may by then most of europe was in lockdown and you can see the impact of that with new infections dropping to a low point in made jul
Harsh measures experienced earlier in the year. Theyre going to have you know its like the 1st time its catastrophic we would just have to try and survive weve had some state aid and that something its better than nothing but well see. But belgian Officials Say the measures are absolutely necessary the countrys Health Minister says the Health System could soon be overwhelmed by infections and warned of a coming through nami of cases many doctors share his concerns. The sky is more or less blue but we can see a huge wave is about to arrive its inevitable authorities hope the drastic set of measures will have a quick impact they say theyll review the results in 2 weeks time. And for more lets bring in our very own they are mattis who is joining us from brussels they are why has belgium been hit so hard. Well sarah a big issue here is of course the book mortality rate the 3rd highest in the world but to explain that you need to understand the broad criteria that belgium uses to get to the
Doing what it can but also she says that the public may need to temper its expectations this is only the very beginning of what is a deep dive into the origin of the war in a virus and to expect any conclusive finding in the next few weeks is unrealistic this could in fact take he is the new u. S. Secretary of state blinken says if iran returns to full compliance some of the 2050 Nuclear Agreement the u. S. Will also come back to the deal donald trump pulled out of the 3 months and 21000. 00. Lincoln also announced a temporary halt in arms sales to saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Donald Trumps Administration had been doing defense deals down to the wire and trading one for 50 f. 35 fighter jets from Lockheed Martin to the u. A. E. U. S. President joe biden has signed executive orders to address the Climate Crisis that includes cutting fossil fuel subsidies and opposing oil and gas leases on federal land biden says Climate Change that the center of the u. S. National security and foreign
Understand that there has been a suite prepared for him in the hospital where say he starts he will continue to work in coming days so there is as well every indication there will be no further information on his condition in the course of the evening throughout the day most of the information has been given by President Trumps political star rather than his medical although we did have one statement from his doctor explaining for example the antiviral cocktail that had been administered to President Trump and this is probably one of the reasons why President Trump is now being brought to the hospital that is an experimental cocktail which hasnt been fully tested yet very much experimental and this is one of the situations where he will have to remain under close medical observation not only for the progress of the coronavirus but also for the method used to treated at this particular stage so how much sort of transparency then regarding the president s condition should we expect to mi