I gwen this is al jazeera alive from dough house to coming up. You guys knew Prime Minister least trustee is due to announced plans to cut Household Energy bills and a winter. Oh, from a military bu rides, to political rallies, brazils president jaya, both in our uses, Independence Day celebrations, to campaign, to support his the ne, ukrainian city of concave has been hit by missiles and it strikes it comes as ukraine says, its making advances in its counter offensive in the northeast and south of the country he claims is its forces have repelled counter attacks by russian units in concave, after taking back several villages ukrainians. And now holding the city of the United Nation says this credible evidence that moscow is forcibly taking unaccompanied ukrainian children to russia to be adopted. Ukraine says thousands of its children are missing. The us says so called filtration operations. Amount to a war crime. Diplomatic editor james space has more from the un. This Security Counc
Hopes will be a post pandemic economy. Hello. Were covering all the latest developments here in britain and globally. So to start, lets just set out the Main Development which we will focus on in this bulletin. Officials at Public Health england say an Antibody Test for coronavirus has been evaluated and positive development. The test, to establish whether people have already had the virus and may have some immunity, was assessed at british governments porton down laboratories last week. They say it is the first to offer serious potential. The World Health Organization has warned the coronavirus may never go away, and that humanity needs to brace itself for a long battle. The United Nations is urging countries to make Mental Health support a key part of their response to the pandemic which it says is causing widespread psychological distress. Qatar airways is to cut about 20 per cent of its Global Workforce thats about 9,000 jobs. Like other airlines, its seen a huge fall in demand for
Distancing or wearing a mask in public. Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. The global coronavirus pandemic has changed pretty much everything for almost everybody. It is of course a Public Health emergency, but it also is having massive economic social and cultural impacts. This very building usually houses our hardtalk studio. Now, that is currently out of commission. But thanks to the wonders of modern technology, the show can go on, and my guest today is the much acclaimed british actor brian cox who is currently in the smash hit hbo tv drama succession. Now, he is living in self isolation in upstate new york, but im happy to say he is able to talk to me. Brian cox in new york state, welcome to hardtalk. Welcome. Thank you, stephen. Well, thank you for inviting us into your home so to speak via your laptop. You have been living in brooklyn, now youre in a cabin in new york state. New york state of course is at the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic
Hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. Were covering all the latest coronavirus developments here in britain and globally. First. Public Health England says an Antibody Test for coronavirus has been evaluated and is a very positive development. The product was assessed at its porton down laboratories last week. Sources say it is the first such test to offer serious potential. A top official at the World Health Organisation has issued a warning that the coronavirus may never go away, and that the Global Community needed to brace itself for a long battle. The chilean government has ordered a mandatory total quarantine for the capital sa ntiagos seven Million People after authorities reported a 60 spike in infections in the last 2a hours. And the white house has set a target of having 300 million vaccine doses by the end of 2020 even though currently no vaccine for this pathogen has been approved. Were the places that provide homes for the vulnerable and elderly re