As a city remains americas kovi 1000 hotspots were now conducting well over 100000 corona virus test per day over at that 100000. 00 test a day and these are accurate tests and theyre moving rapidly which is more than any other country in the world both in terms of the raw number and also on a per capita basis the most the f. D. A. Is also authorized the 1st coronavirus Antibody Test developed a cell execute step that will help identify people who have recovered and to understand their immune response and their immune system. And the economic fallout continues to deepen with an unprecedented 10000000 americans losing their jobs in the past 2 weeks the u. S. Has a quarter of the worlds 1000000 cases of the virus concern about a reserve of infections in the epicenter of the corner Virus Outbreak in china has prompted a warning to people in the city of one to stay indoors sarah clarke has more from hong kong latest figures weve got coming from Chinas Health commission we have 31 new cases
Reached its not expected to hit the city for several more days. Against the backdrop of the most deadly days since the virus hit the u. S. President trump continued his feud with the World Health Organization accusing it top initially minimizing the threat of the virus and responding shop lead to that agencys director general who said that politicizing the virus could lead to more body bags if youre losing more body bags i think we would have done. And he would have been much better serving the people that hes supposed to serve if they gave a correct analysis and everything was a said china centric everything was going to be fine no human to human keep the borders open he wanted me to keep the borders open i close the borders despite him and that was a hard decision to make at the time were all together made a decision against the World Health Organization i cant believe hes talking about politics when you look at the relationship they have to china so china spends 42000000 we spend 45
Saudi arabia arrests the kings brother and all the royals accused of plotting against the crown prince is muhammad bin selman consolidating his power and what are the implications of this latest purge against dissent this is inside story. How and welcome to the program im jonah how saudi arabias crown princes had a controversial rise to power in just 3 years mohamed bin salmond has silenced nearly all voices of dissent at home critics have been jailed or even killed and he appears to be tightening his grip on power even further media reports suggest at least 20 princes officials and Army Officers have been arrested in the kingdoms latest purge they include former crown Prince Mohammed bin nayef here he is on the right after he was removed as to the throne in 2017 but the most high profile arrest is the kings last 4 surviving full brother prince had been up to allows these the royals have been accused of plotting to overthrow the crown prince but the saudi government hasnt officially re
A shift gardy his rival a dollar a separate sarah body to inaugurate himself. With your sports asian World Cup Qualifiers are postponed and tennis his biggest tournament outside the grand slams indian wells is cooled off of a coronavirus. Hello welcome to the news are the spread and fear of coronavirus is starting to have a global major effect on the economy and on the growing human cost us stocks plummeted in the opening minutes in new york even forcing a temporary halt in trading that followed more big drops in asian and european markets earlier in the day one days market shark was triggered by a plunge of 30 percent in oil prices have to saudi arabia increased production christensen is live for us in new york and kristen. Everybody was worried about the knock on effect that this would have once they saw asian and european markets open and it has had that domino effect in the u. S. On monday. Absolutely stocks across all of the major indices are down sharply this morning right now th
This week all up front were tackling 2 big political dramas in the us the battle between Bernie Sanders and joe biden to be the democratic nominee for president and take on donald trump while in malaysia a new Prime Minister taking office in a backroom deal and controversially pushing aside in the process. Super tuesday the biggest day in the u. S. Electoral calendar so far resulted in a big win for former Vice President joe biden and the establishment wing of the Democratic Party that he represents biden carried 10 out of the 14 states in play while independent senator Bernie Sanders who was the front runner going into super tuesday is on track to win the other 4 including the state with the most Democratic Delegates california so with the contest for the democratic nomination now essentially a 2 horse race which of these 2 men has the best chance of defeating donald trump in november to debate this im joined from new york by linda saw saw national surrogate for the Bernie Sanders cam