Remains the worst affected country in the world its all more than 1100 new deaths on thursday alone and florida is one of the worst hit states reporting a record increase in the number of daily deaths on thursday and the gallagher is in miami with more on the strain the States Health system is facing. The intensive care units across the state are getting very very full indeed in fact i had a long conversation with a doctor the other day who just done a stint in i. C. U. And he said that it was it was terrible it was really bad theyre running short on medicine theyre running short on beds the mental strain on the. Line staff is really incredible and yet we have a governor here Rhonda Santas whos at the white house meeting with President Trump saying that he will not talk about rolling back closures airlines have been told they should urgently inspect the type of boeing jets its over fears planes park during the pandemic could suffer engine failure the u. S. Civil aviation watchdog says
A result of the pandemic claims of espionage and state secrecy the diplomatic dispute between the u. S. And china intensifies in. The 1st friday prayers at Istanbuls Hagia Sophia after its controversial change of status from a museum to a mosque. In School Football 100 students of friends after a 4 month break caused by coronavirus a limited number of fans were allowed into the stadium. In the french cup final. Welcome to the news hour more than 6 months since the corona virus was 1st detected in china the pandemic is still ripping through the world that record rates more than 284000 new infections have been reported in the last 24 hours thats a record rise according to the World Health Organization nearly 10000. 00 people have died in that same period the biggest spike since the end if april across the planet the virus has killed more than 635000 people more than a 5th of those fatalities are in the us the worlds worst hit country a new hot spots in the south and west have pushed the
A looming election join me Steve Clemons in conversation with leading voices on the bottom line your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society on aljazeera. We have over 10000 new cases. 102000 photos tested positive 14000 hospitalized. The frontline battle is in the health care system. A deadly pandemic has cut a swathe through americas biggest cities and filipino nurses are in the hospital battle filipino nurses they are very friendly you are very carrying 150000 nurses from the philippines make up the largest foreign contingent of Health Care Workers in the united states. But for some the American Dream has become more like a nightmare its like youre going to the wires dont have the time you work and the pandemic is just the latest challenge to facing false promises of where the work force promises of being paid prevailing wage. False promises of working conditions one of one east meets the filipinos save american lives. 8 so eerie because nobody goes out now so the streets are so w
The country weve just started this process and frankly we have no choice but to get involved democratic mazza 15 cities have condemned the move as author and terry and in a letter to the attorney general but the mayor of chicago has since indicated she is willing to cooperate 100. 00 has more. At the president s News Conference he was talking about Something Like 200 officers i am told here on the ground as of yesterday the number that federal officials here were told was more like a 110 whatever the number is these are going to be people who are going to be investigating existing crimes theyre not going to be boots on the ground theyre not to be armed and out on the street and that is one of the things that has apparently changed the mayors mind here in chicago what the president is doing here is we just have to say it as it is i mean its political. He has been very critical of all of these protests in the democratic cities all of the ones resounding people of democratic mayors and he
A back seat will the president ial candidates ever hit the road and so their brand of politics to americans before the vote follow the u. S. Election on a just. Hello and welcome to rewind im come on santa maria over the last 10 or so years here at Al Jazeera English weve built up an Incredible Library all Award Winning documentaries and on rewind were taking another look at some of the best of them and seeing whats happened in the years since they were 1st shown this week were going back to 2012 and a remarkable film from africas oldest republic the west african country of liberia and its capital monrovia where less than half the population can read and write and 64 percent live below the poverty line so with many of those people cut off from normal news sources one man decided to tackle the problem using just a bit of chalk and a large blackboard called the daily talk blackboard lists all the latest news in a simple language used by monrovias disadvantaged poor from the witness serie