Death tolls from the virus. The death toll from the pandemic reaches record heights in spain. The e health m ministry in madrd says t the outbreak town has coe to over 8000. There is a spectrum of light at the end of the tunnel for italians. A rerecord number r of recoveri. But the battle against the coronavirus isnt over yet. The government extending its emergency measures to cover the easter holiday. Hello and welcome back to the france 24 newsroom. The coronavirus pandemic remains are our top story. Show that theures outbreak has infected over 7000 77,000 people worldwide thehe global death toll standing at more than 37,500. A day after france recorded its worst single data will, president Emmanuel Macron single day death toll, president and man u mccrone is visiting a factory which churns out muchneeded protective masks. The site is now operating 24 ithrs a day to up output medical personnel and d retiremt homes sayaying thatat 40 Million Masks are n needed each week and that does
Was concerned by the call by President Trump pushing for an investigation into Democrat Joe Biden and his son immediately those concerns to a white house lawyer is improper for the president of the United States to demand a Foreign Government investigate a u. S. Citizen and a political opponent a decorated veteran of the war in iraq vidlin has seen his actions in testifying under attack from President Trump supporters who question his loyalty this is america is the country ive served and defended that all of my brothers have served and here right matters. Thank you sir gilbert. One of Vice President might pences aides Jennifer Williams also appeared before the committee saying she had the call and considered it political in nature republicans are insisting the president did nothing wrong and was fully entitled to demand an investigation into biden and his sons business dealings in ukraine as millions of americans are watching throughout the hysteria and frenzied Media Coverage 2 key fa
Of different other entrance is to this campus most notably a fly over behind me where protesters have set up a barricade and there have been fierce exchanges between them and police the Police Firing volleys of tear gas and also things like rubber bullets the protesters responding with more fire bombs and number of different barricades around here many protesters have been getting ready expecting that at some point the police will try to retake this campus. Another sunday another home called street turned into a battle. At the end of a week that seen a marked escalation in the level of violence. Between protesters and Police Students took over several College Campuses Polytechnic University is the last under their control and they seem determined to hold on to it i think. Because. We have of course for the freedom. They say were not behaving like students but we are fighting for a better future. Violence began early sunday when people turned up to clear surrounding streets of bricks an
A complex political problem that can only be solved by negotiations between the israelis and the palestinians pump ailes announcement is the latest in a string of Controversial White House moves designed to support israel recognizing jerusalem as israels official capital moving the u. S. Embassy there from tel aviv in 2018 and forcing the palestinians to close their office in washington leaving them no diplomatic presence in the u. S. Apart from at the United Nations pomp aoe said the policy change had nothing to do with benny gantz as efforts to form a new Israeli Government so the timing of this was not tied to anything that had to do with domestic politics anywhere in israel or otherwise this was about we were done we finished we conducted our review and this was the appropriate time to move forward the current Israeli Government was thrilled. This is a historic day and another great achievement after President Trump recognized jerusalem as the capital of recognize all sovereignty o
Joining us live from hong kong so whats happening there now rob still holed up at the university. Absolutely elizabeth this siege goes into monday evening here we are on the outside of this campus its incomplete police lockdown the records on all of the entrances and exits but there have been activity throughout the day a number of students have come out there have been mass arrests and even into this evening we are getting various developments we noticed in the last half hour that in fact some medical teams have been arriving at this particular exit from the campus and it does seem as though possibly some of the students who were been injured because we do know there have been injuries in all of the intense fighting thats going on in the past couple of days it does look as though potentially one or 2 of them are coming out are getting treatment but would also presumably apart from getting treatment would also be facing arrest because the police are determined that all of the people th