A lot of people very angry. Top u. K. Government adviser Dominic Cummings denies breaking lockdown rules and the curious is the media of whipping up the political storm around him. Indias domestic flights take off again but infections are still on the rise with the biggest day be increase yes. And israels Prime Minister says he wont miss an opportunity to annex more of the occupied west bank calling it one of his governments top tasks. We are going straight now to a press conference which is being held in London Boris Johnson there the british Prime Minister about to speak its the daily Coronavirus Briefing we also expect now to talk about Dominic Cummings lets listen in 2634 tests for Creative Arts have not been carried out in the u. K. Including simply 3726 tests carried out yesterday. 261184 people have tested positive and thats an increase of 1625 cases since yesterday 8834 people are in hospital with coded 19 in the u. K. Thats down to 0 percent from 10092 this time last week and
Denounce beijings proposed security bill. And under the shadow of coronavirus subdued celebrations for muslims marking one of their most important holidays. Lets begin with breaking news out of libya where russian mercenaries have been fighting in support of war highly for half the are leaving the country the mayor of the town of bani walid has confirmed that theyre evacuating through the airport there after withdrawing from the capital tripoli it follows a series of setbacks for have the us forces have been fighting to take territory from libyas internationally recognized government the way it is following developments from tripoli. The mayor of benny will lead the city that south of the city of god who now just stated that 3 flights left from but he will lead the airport loaded with it the russian mercenaries who have been fighting along with have to his forces over the past year in southern tripoli we do not know for certain where they were heading maybe to burn of ozzy to bimini an
Sent 266000 pieces of protective equipment to china. But i wont get into details to and fro on the sunday times story more details will be not so really simple. Yes why not going to get into the u. K. To foreign help did issue a statement later that day and every some eyebrows because its actually sounded like downing street spin offering a play by play reporter at the sunday times because one particularly interesting tidbit states that the equipment they provided to china was not from the pandemic stockpile and that china has since reciprocated our donation many times over between april 2nd of april 15th we received over 12000000 pieces of p. P. In the u. K. From china p. V. Becoming increasingly crucial to the whole Coronavirus Response here may be we dont have the real figures here maybe 20000 have died from grown over it why the briefing from downing street which has been there over the past few weeks against. It is a coming from Dominic Cummings well it does kind of seem like advi
Meant to the societies that it is ravage and especially to britain its a crime i want to get to their world in a moment but over here the queen the Prime Minister the government theyre all praising the National Health service in fact. Every aspect of this is as he including the media is praising the National Health service what evidence no mention of privatisation in the media here not even that the new labor leader is top adviser used to work in private Health Care Law being what evidence do you have that privatisation is even an important context in which to understand britains response to coronavirus well of course they should praise it its its its beloved in britain and when it began in 1948 it was set up as a niren been made clear to give the british people and i quote freedom from fear isnt that ironic we now have a state of fear due to this virus and the National Health service was set up to give a few of the People Freedom from fear its not the the Health Services not the peopl
Has managed to spread through modern developed societies especially britain is a crime you know in 2016. A drill cold exercise sickness and that was a drill to practice for a pandemic happened in london and the very the whole the whole drill was was laid out to be the result of but was but the Health Service was overwhelmed there werent enough beds. There werent enough i. C. U. Beds there werent enough ventilators. There there werent enough clinicians in the right place the whole system which had been the Health Service which had been battered by cuts and privatized sation for years failed and the chief medical officer then in 2016 asked the government to heed the warning of walked played demonstrated very clearly and yet the department of health in london suppressed the documents which had the conclusions of this drill they kept them from going public now that is only 4 years ago. So they knew the whole preparedness for this short of being in place but of course they knew they couldnt